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Rocky Kistner@therockyfiles.bsky.social |
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Independent enviro journalist; SEJ board member; former Center for Investigative Reporting, ABC News; PBS Frontline; Marketplace radio; OnEarth, HuffPost contributor, Mizzou J School alum. Based near DC.
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Experts say data shows an alarming and inexplicable rise in cancers in younger generations: “it really is an undeniable fact that we’re seeing cancer rise in younger people.” @laurenjyoung617 @sciam #cancer
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Fires consume the lungs of the world, taking animals, forests and wetlands with them: “Every year is worse, and I am afraid...The animals and plants and the land are dying, from the bees to the jaguars." theguardian.com/environment/ar… @Harrietmbarber @guardianwww.theguardian.com/environment/...al
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Good reporting: is Bitcoin noise pollution causing illnesses in Texas? “These people here, they’re good country folks, and Bitcoin, to them, is almost a foreign alien thing… [the noise] is detrimental to their health and anxiety.” @andrewrchow @time
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Alaska’s new killing grounds: "the new rules permit: the killing of wolf and coyote pups in dens; the use of artificial light or dogs to draw bears or wolves and their young out of caves; and using motorboats to kill swimming caribou.” @PomTerkins @guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Scientists see a growing threat: “For the rich…it’s an expensive inconvenience. For the poor it’s suffering. In the future the amount of wealth you have to have to merely be inconvenienced will increase until most people are suffering.” @borenbears @AP
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Why the future of renewable energy is now: "for some portion of almost every day, a combination of solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower has been producing more than a hundred per cent of the state’s demand for electricity.” @billmckibben @newyorker
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Global #plastic production is expected to triple by 2050. Experts say most will end up in the environment and the food we eat: 'I can tell you, I can't give this away. There's no one that would even take it if I paid them to take it.'" @CBCNews www.cbc.ca/documentarie...
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The inhaler conundrum: “climate-damaging gasses released from traditional inhalers is the equivalent of driving half a million gas-powered cars for a year….And as pollution damages more people’s lungs, the need for inhalers increases.” @RevYearwood inequality.org/research/pub...
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Tesla mojo is back as the demise of EVs has been greatly exaggerated. "GM’s EV deliveries rose 40 percent from a year earlier...EV and hybrid sales also fueled success for Toyota...a 63 percent year-over-year increase." @hannahzziegler @washingtonpost
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Scientists: massive storms fueled by climate change may require a new Category 6. "For each 1°C of warming…we observe a roughly 12% increase in peak wind speeds, which corresponds to a roughly 40% increase in peak intensity…” @MichaelEMann @MatthewRozsa
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In Grenada, total devastation: “There is literally no vegetation left anywhere on the island of Carriacou, the mangroves are totally destroyed” @nytimes
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Good to see this reporting: “There is a strong, well-documented link between the effects of human-induced climate change and the development of stronger, wetter storms that are more prone to rapidly intensify.” @MatthewCappucci
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Great reporting: sex, lies and the transformation of an environmental hero: “You pull the Bobby thread, the Kennedy myth all comes apart.” @joehagansays @VanityFair
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Skeeters. A reason to fight climate change.
Warming temps fuel a disease-spreading mosquito invasion. “The ongoing explosion of cases presages a future in which dengue becomes one of the dominant mosquito-borne threats to humanity” @sarahkaplan48 @bylenasun
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In St Louis, the site of a notorious slave prison torn down to build a baseball stadium deserves a memorial: “This is hallowed ground with people’s souls…it needs to be acknowledged publicly that their lives mattered.” @stltoday
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Meanwhile in the Atlantic a monster may be forming. @weatherchannel
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Report: the plastics industry used tobacco tactics to cover up health threats. “We’re in the midst of a population-scale human experiment on the impacts of multigenerational toxic exposures…Plastics are at the epicenter of that.” @dharnanoor @guardian
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Think journalism is a tough career? Wait til AI is done with it.
Can’t beat em then join em? “More major news companies are opting to forge partnerships with OpenAI rather than pursue litigation” @sarafischer @axios
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California burning: a massive early wildfire season has experts worried what’s to come. "…wildfires had burned almost 90,000 acres in California compared with only 5,863 acres by the same point last year" @grace_2e @latimes www.latimes.com/environment/...
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California burning: a massive early wildfire season has experts worried what’s to come. "…wildfires had burned almost 90,000 acres in California compared with only 5,863 acres by the same point last year" @grace_2e @latimes
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Melting towards a dangerous tipping point: “With every tenth of a degree of ocean warming, we get closer and closer to passing this tipping point, and each tenth of a degree is linked to the amount of climate change that takes place” @dpcarrington @guardian
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Study: global extreme wildfires are growing rapidly. “When we have these hot, highly energetic fires, those are the sort of fires that are very difficult for fire suppression to have the ability to control and stop.” @sarahmraza @washingtonpost
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Climate experts say we know what to do: “the only way we can prevent this from getting worse is to address the problem at its source; the ongoing …fossil fuel burning and other activities that generate carbon pollution." @MichaelEMann @MatthewRozsa www.salon.com/2024/06/21/h...
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Scientist: we still can act to fight climate change. “Doomism is becoming a real threat to action...The idea that we’re in some kind of runaway feedback loop — that’s just not happening” wapo.st/45x4OmS @MichaelEMann @Eugene_Robinson @Washingtonpost
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Shredding the #plastic industry’s latest myth of recycling: “At best, the world could replace 0.2% of new plastic churned out in a year with products made through pyrolysis.” @lisalsong @propublica
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How do you cut global plastic pollution that’s killing wildlife and polluting our bodies? Use less plastic and more recycled paper: “This change avoids 15 billion air pillows a year, Amazon's biggest plastic reduction effort yet.” @businessinsider
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Great piece. Baseball and Big Oil don’t mix: “When Phillips 66 associates itself with an iconic team like the Dodgers, it buys goodwill…it creates this acceptance and legitimacy of them as a responsible corporation that’s part of our community” @Sammy_Roth @latimes www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Youth to the rescue: putting young people to work to help save their future. “More than 20,000 young people are expected to join during the program’s first year” @katemyoder @grist
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Smoke in your lungs. Why wildfires are deadly: “exposure to the tiny particles that make up wildfire smoke is a major health hazard; it kills thousands of people prematurely each year and is linked to a range of maladies.” @zoeschlanger @TheAtlantic www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Oil spill threatens sensitive habitats near Singapore: “in mangrove habitats, if the oil goes in, it’s not going to come out easily.” @straits_times
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Stellar reporting on the dangers of microplastics around us and in our food, spreading chemical contamination linked to health threats: “people inhale or ingest on average 74,000 to 121,000 microplastic particles per year” @Ducroquet @shannonosaka www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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In an increasingly dangerous climate that is battering the Sunshine State, Florida promotes a fossil fuel future: “We don’t want our policy driven by climate ideology.” @bruceritchie @politico www.politico.com/news/2024/06...
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Thanks @stlpublicradio for picking up this story about long-buried St Louis history: “After a push in recent years from advocates and state legislators, the St. Louis Cardinals signaled they're open to placing markers at the Lynch slave pen site.”
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My story today about brutal slave prisons buried and forgotten to make way for building the Cardinal’s Busch Stadium: “This is hallowed ground with people’s souls. It needs to be acknowledged publicly that their lives mattered.” @stltoday
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In West Texas’ fracked oil fields, salty water bubbles up like a poisonous crude: “The salt poisons the ground and nothing will grow after that…There’s not a lot you can do to remediate salt contamination.” @DylanBaddour @insideclimate
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#SEJSpotlight: Meet SEJ member Hadeer Elhadary! Hadeer is a lead journalist at ESG Mena Arabic in Egypt. Previously she was a freelancer focusing on biodiversity, sustainability, climate change risks and solutions for a better future. Learn more and check out her work: www.sej.org/sejspotlight...
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One of many that will be similar victims of sunny day flooding if we ignore what’s happening.
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A growing sunny day problem: a South Carolina coastal community floods 60 times a year. "It's flooding more than we know." @brady_dennis @niko_tinius @_emilywright_ wapo.st/45keoJK @washingtontonpost
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Despite misinformation from fossil fuel industry-funded groups, ice melt in Antarctica continues to grow: “since 2002 Antarctica has been losing an average of 140 billion metric tons of ice mass per year.” @KateYandell @factcheckdotorg www.factcheck.org/2024/06/scic...
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Climate journalists face growing threats: “43% of those threatened “sometimes” or “frequently” were targeted by people engaged in illegal activities such as logging and mining. Some 30%, meanwhile, were threatened with legal action…” @jagonews24
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Heat strokes on the rise: “Officials in Maricopa County were stunned earlier this year when final numbers showed 645 heat-related deaths in Arizona’s largest county, a majority of them in Phoenix.” @asnowreports @AP apnews.com/article/sout...
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Experts: dangerous warming exacerbated by burning fossil fuels is creating a dire global climate that will worsen. “We are playing Russian roulette with our planet…We need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell.” @ssdance @washingtonpost
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Scientists: cut fossil fuel emissions now to reduce dangerous climate impacts. “Things are increasing in temperature and getting worse in sort of exactly the way we predicted.” @borenbears @AP
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The price for killing oceans: “dropping oxygen levels, rising acidification and soaring ocean heat was also seen…about 252m years ago, when Earth experienced the largest known extinction event in its history, known as the Great Dying.” @olliemilman
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Japan’s new high-tech whale-killing machine: “workers will strip away the blubber before cutting up the whale flesh on enormous cutting boards, before vacuum-packing and storing the meat in 40 industrial freezers” @CNN www.cnn.com/2024/05/30/a...
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Why democracy matters. www.brandeis.edu/commencement...
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Drought and heat could cut water to a city of 22 million next month: “The water comes from above. If the Holy Boss gives it to us, we'll have water. If not, we'll be dry, like now.” @KashaPatel @washingtonpost www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Making a stink: coastal septic symptoms threatened by rising seas. “These are ticking time bombs under the ground that, when they fail, will pollute.” @kcrowebasspro @brady_dennis @JohnMuyskens www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Be prepared: experts say record ocean temps will fuel more hurricanes. “This is the highest hurricane season outlook that NOAA has ever issued for its May outlook” @afreedma @axios www.axios.com/2024/05/23/a...
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Permafrost melts and rivers turn orange: “As the climate continues to warm, we would expect permafrost to continue to thaw…there's potential for streams to be turning orange and becoming degraded in terms of water quality." @robynlmwhite www.newsweek.com/alaska-river... #climate #climatechange
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