Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to remove transgender service members. The Navy and the Marines have been finding ways to keep them. nyti.ms/3W4lNMJ
Audrey Gray
@audreygray.bsky.social
Writing about our climate, courage, and protection. https://www.audreygray.nyc
I would like to be clear that I left that gold in the forest as an offering to the fey, not at the instigation of any human requestor
Metro North Capital@metronorthcapital.bsky.social · last wk.What?
E.B. White to the NY Times, 1961: "All that I ever hope to say in books is that I love the world. I guess you can find it in there, if you dig around."
Apt walls turned this wild color and I RAN to the roof. (NYC 7:05 pm, pre-storm)
🧵 (1/3) For the past few months, I’ve been working on a big story about climate attribution research. This is the science that purports to link specific oil companies to extreme weather events. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
An Existential Threat to the Oil Industry
Can the energy giants be held responsible for extreme weather?
theatlantic.com
I’m here to tell you, John of John, it hooked me so fast and then did a Shonda and I can’t say any more about plot. On a sentence level, on the tenderness meter, on landscape writing that works without a single cliche. That’s my Booker vote.
Brenda Hillman can melt you…I’m so glad she’s been nominated for National Book Award (poetry). Example: “The Carbon Atoms of Saved Things” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“The Carbon Atoms of Saved Things”
“The carbon atom has six electrons / that move faster than bodies move / from one form to another.”
newyorker.com
I always had an instinctual ick about Annie Dillard's hits, but learning in her obit that she'd taken one of her grad student's stories (THE sexy, bloody one) and adopted it as her opening passage in Tinker Creek (which won '75 Pulitzer for Nonfiction)...whoa. In better news, Eudora had the ick too!
A ’wildlife first responder’ is developing a tool for coexistence. buff.ly/pJhIpX8
How Bozeman is preventing human-wildlife conflicts before they start - High Country News
Noah Starling, a wildlife technician for Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, is helping the city ofBozeman anticipate and prevent conflicts between people and wildlife.
hcn.org
“Kenny said, ‘Part of our assumption about old places is that they stay the same, but that’s not the case at all. . . . They’re all a Ship of Theseus, in some state of being rebuilt.’” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Jonathan Swift Wrote His Own Epitaph. Was It a Joke?
A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s finally cracked it.
newyorker.com
"Also I'd be glad if ANY book is hyped for once." -text from Marlon James on THE review by Dwight Garner(sent to NY Mag "Book Gossip" editor)
“We were a little surprised that this document did not exist already,” Ortiz said. www.whro.org/environment/...
Virginia’s first Climate Assessment highlights how conditions are changing across the state
The report draws from years of scientific studies and data to capture the current state of climate change.
whro.org
“Language writes us, but we, too, have the power to change the world by changing our words.” @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social in intro to her new book, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea 🌊
Gloria’s living room on 73rd St. (Shot by William Abranowicz.) 🙌
Revisiting...https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/01/tolkiens-watercolors/
Tolkien’s Watercolors by The Paris Review
March 1, 2019 – One paintbrush to rule them all.
theparisreview.org
longhand, in pencil, defying any New York scene, righteous kindness www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
nytimes.com
"Microbial ecologists have a saying, Boetius told me: 'Everything is everywhere.'" Ugh, this is condition change, not migration. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes
“Flesh-eating” bacteria are spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?
newyorker.com
A 1981 internal memo written by the director of one of Exxon’s science labs said it was “distinctly possible” that cumulative carbon emissions could eventually ‘produce effects which will indeed be catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the earth’s population).’”
Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 270
Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
theguardian.com
A champion of veteran-tree care has passed. www.ancienttreeforum.org.uk/news-blog/ne...
A Personal Tribute to Neville Fay | Ancient Tree Forum
By Ted Green - Founder President of the ATF The tree care world lost a key figure, and I lost a great friend and ancient tree ally, when Neville Fay died on 17 August 2026 after a short illness. Neville Fay (Credit: ATF) Keith Alexander and I met Nev in March 1994. By then, there
ancienttreeforum.org.uk
I’m writing Section 2, but! Might be too beautiful for the desk: “dinner plate dahlia”
Italian plant pathologists casually throwing down some of the best writing in scientific research: "For romantics, beauty is not closed in perfection: beautiful is any subject where it is possible to read the free flow of nature and history." historictreecare.com/wp-content/u...
historictreecare.com
Steep drop in China's CO2 emissions in July: -power generation from coal&gas -3.5% -coal mine output -10% in July, -3% year-to-date -cement output -12% in July, -9% YTD -crude steel output -4%, -3% -oil refining -16%, -7%
The author of “The English Patient” had been experimenting across forms for decades before the publication of his Booker Prize-winning novel, teaching writers who had crossed borders to arrive in the West to spell out their own liberation. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2-BjwQ
The Glorious Disorder of Michael Ondaatje’s Early Work
Michael Ondaatje had been experimenting across forms for decades before the publication of “The English Patient,” teaching writers who had crossed borders to arrive in the West to spell out their own liberation.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
