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CBS News just gutted its climate team Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.

CBS News — fresh off its acquisition by Skydance Media and the installation of anti-woke opinion writer Bari Weiss as editor in chief — fired most of the reporters who specialize in covering climate change.

Thanks, Melissa!

It should be on the TED YouTube some time after.

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"These notes describe orphan wells spewing toxic water near homes or into streams, leaving scars of salt residue. A homeowner reported that his grandchildren often play near a purging well. Ranchers have lost calves, which, drawn to the salty water, died after drinking it."

Congrats, Mike! That’s great!

😮 indeed!

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Nature Beat #83 Updates, stories, resources and opportunities

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. It has news, resources, jobs, great stories, and more. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

For those interested in Melanie Winter's @whaddaworld.bsky.social life work to free the LA River, she told me the Huntington Library is taking her archives. So the vast storehouse of local knowledge she amassed won't be lost.

Melanie Winter, who fought for embracing nature along the Los Angeles River, dies Melanie Winter led efforts to embrace nature along the L.A. River, touting the potential for a restored river to heal the city's relationship to water. She was 67.

Melanie Winter @whaddaworld.bsky.social was a visionary, and fierce, with a mind like a microfiche of all the city reports that have ever been. RIP, Melanie, I'm so glad I had a chance to know you. @ianjames.bsky.social, what a lovely obit. www.latimes.com/environment/...

If this is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Right! What does it matter if he's popular or known outside of NYC? He's running for mayor!

US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A 'Secret Weapon' for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.

Great piece about efforts to save and plant seagrass meadows. Two key lines:

"Seagrasses account for an estimated 10% of all the carbon stored by the world’s oceans."

"At current rates... a football field’s worth of seagrasses disappears every second."

Rescued African gray parrots return to DRC forests LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo — Fifty African gray parrots have been released back into the wild in the Democratic Republic of Congo following their rescue from the illegal wildlife trade.…

In early October, 50 African gray parrots were released into the wild by the Lukuru Foundation, after having been rescued from poachers and undergoing rehabilitation for a year at a refuge run by the foundation.

'Another unoccupied house collapsed into the ocean along North Carolina's Outer Banks on Saturday night. It's the 11th house to collapse since mid-September.

In total, 22 homes have collapsed into the ocean in the area since 2020.'

via AccuWeather [X] #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevel

'I have no regrets': Ex-federal officials flock to California California officials are using the government shutdown to recruit more federal workers.

California is protecting environmental expertise by hiring fired federal EPA scientists for key state roles.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Wind damage

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

The judge "acknowledged the Wet’suwet’en hereditary leaders’ decades-long fight to affirm the nation’s rights and title — and the B.C. and Canadian governments’ failure to engage meaningfully in negotiations." This
"directly led to the land defenders blocking access to the pipeline route."

Love me a William Carlos Williams parody!

will do!

FFS. I've been buying my own insurance since 2000 and before Obamacare, it went up every single year, so I'd spend days researching and applying for new plans to try to get a lower rate, and then they'd deny me for preexisting conditions like MIGRAINE or jack the price way up.

Same.

I wrote an entire chapter about them in Water Always Wins! I (heart) beavers.

Thank you Melissa! Boston-area peeps, come check it out.

Wow, handcuffing Lady Liberty now?

The rain was nice enough to mostly hold off! Hope the fungi festival was fab.