Why aren’t other news outlets covering this?

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2w ago

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

Special thx to my editors for giving me the time (many months!) to write about David Stevenson, a fascinating person political operative who led America’s anti-offshore wind campaign. Yes, good journalism still takes time. @danmccarthy.bsky.social @lisahymas.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org

I am honored to be a winner of this year’s @coveringclimatenow.org awards. But even more honored to be among @sammyroth.bsky.social’s favorites. Thanks, pal! ❤️

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · last mo.

More info on all the winners, including two of my person favorite projects of the last year, the Carbon Bros podcast by @drilledmedia.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social and "The Man Behind the Fall of Offshore Wind" by @fieseler.bsky.social: coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...

When I was diagnosed with cancer this year I stepped back from my work as a climate reporter to undergo chemo. I know that for some people journalism is just a job. For me, it’s a calling. It’s public service. It’s being part of democracy, really. I miss it.

2024 #scicomm award winners @cbo.bsky.social, @fieseler.bsky.social, @zacksavitsky.bsky.social, and @joelbervell.bsky.social show how science communication can build trust through transparency and empower all of us to keep learning by sharing the process of discovery. #medialiteracy #trustinscience

Vital article. If even an experienced science journalist can fall afoul of the institutional misogyny threaded through medicine, what chance do the rest of us have? This is about the U.S, but the issues around “women’s complaints“, of course, apply internationally.

Clare Fieseler, PhD@fieseler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Read my full story here and why I think women deserve better: sciencepolitics.org/2026/06/16/w... @sciencepolitics.bsky.social

I’ve been quiet. Here’s why: At my 20-year college reunion in May, dozens of old friends arrived at our campus and started snapping photos on Georgetown’s front lawn. I, too, was on campus, but on the back side, at the university hospital, laid out on a gurney in the emergency room’s trauma suite…

This is a must-read on the status of women’s health in America. Thank you to @fieseler.bsky.social for this personal reportage. Sending you all the positive healing vibes ❤️ sciencepolitics.org/2026/06/16/w...

I was on the “Tiny Matters” podcast talking about one of my favorite things…. offshore wind power! Listen here👇

SciComm Excellence@scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · 8mo ago

In the most recent episode of Tiny Matters, two #SciComm awardees, @samjscience.bsky.social and @fieseler.bsky.social, explore the fascinating science and history of wind power. 🌬️ 🎧 Listen here: www.acs.org/pressroom/ti... #WindPower

I was on the “Tiny Matters” podcast talking about one of my favorite things…. offshore wind power! Listen here👇

SciComm Excellence@scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · 8mo ago

In the most recent episode of Tiny Matters, two #SciComm awardees, @samjscience.bsky.social and @fieseler.bsky.social, explore the fascinating science and history of wind power. 🌬️ 🎧 Listen here: www.acs.org/pressroom/ti... #WindPower

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

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*NEW* The dead whale found on a remote VA beach was the 2023 calf of the well-known whale “Porcia" #3293. According to NOAA, it marks the 43rd mortality in the ongoing "Unusual Mortality Event" impacting the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...

*NEW* The dead whale found on a remote VA beach was the 2023 calf of the well-known whale “Porcia" #3293. According to NOAA, it marks the 43rd mortality in the ongoing "Unusual Mortality Event" impacting the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...

*NEW* The freshly dead whale is a 3 year old female. What a loss. This species has less than 100 breeding females remaining. It's now washed up on a barrier island managed by The Nature Conservancy in VA. NOAA and other groups are attempting a necropsy to determine cause of death.

Clare Fieseler, PhD@fieseler.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm getting reports that another critically endangered North Atlantic Right whale was just spotted dead. Carcass spotted off VA coast. This marks the 2nd death in just three weeks for a species w/ about 400 individuals remaining. Last month's fatality, a male, died from fishing gear entanglement👇

I'm getting reports that another critically endangered North Atlantic Right whale was just spotted dead. Carcass spotted off VA coast. This marks the 2nd death in just three weeks for a species w/ about 400 individuals remaining. Last month's fatality, a male, died from fishing gear entanglement👇

Right whale 'Division' is found dead after entanglement in Georgia

A North Atlantic Right Whale, previously found entangled in a rope off of south Georgia, has been discovered dead off the coast of North Carolina

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BREAKING: Trump directs Pentagon to buy whale oil to revive whaling industry

Check out "Ocean Empire," a column on entanglements between the US, "an empire of political and cultural influence" and another empire, "the global ocean, which makes up 70 percent of our planet" - by the brilliant ecologist and journalist @fieseler.bsky.social. sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD@fieseler.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Okay, another thing: If the ocean is not your thing, but outer space is... We've launched a new column for space policy, too! The great @dagomardegroot.bsky.social is at the helm for that one: HORIZONS OF HUMANITY. sciencepolitics.org/2026/01/13/h...

My 6 year old said one of the kids in her class rolled in late to class this morning and when the teacher asked why he was tardy he just said “I blame Bad Bunny.”

There it is. The very last BOOK WORLD. I’m still in shock that Jeff Bezos, the man who is everything he is today because of selling books, would abandon readers like this. I grieve for The Washington Post and everything that has been stripped from it.

Please correct this headline @apnews.com. All humans are primates. That’s a biology. What Trump posted was a depiction of the first Black U.S. president and First Lady as chimpanzees. That’s racist. (Please repost to get an AP editor’s attention on this.)

Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates

President Donald Trump has used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Ob...

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🌊I have a new gig. 🌊 Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social. We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.

Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

sciencepolitics.org

@fieseler.bsky.social has a new column in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social! Ocean Empire will bring an essay a month. "The U.S. — this ocean nation I call home — is an empire of political and cultural influence whose reach, at times, seems unlimited." sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

sciencepolitics.org

Marty Weil is a legend. He was the last reporter remaining from the Watergate era at the Post. Just an phenomenal old-school metro reporter. They axed him too. Please read this story to honor his tenure at the Post. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years

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A column to keep an eye on, folks sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

sciencepolitics.org

Clare Fieseler, PhD@fieseler.bsky.social · 9mo ago

From abandoning treaties to defunding research to high seas attacks to pursuing deep-sea mining, America's offshore actions make headlines. But who is covering this in-depth? No national news outlet has a beat dedicated to the oceans. Maybe that changes. I'm writing OCEAN EMPIRE in the meantime.

🌊I have a new gig. 🌊 Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social. We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.

Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

sciencepolitics.org

The Post cutting its climate team is a textbook example of oligarchy hollowing out public institutions. You can suppress inconvenient truths, but physics, biology, and their consequences cast the final verdict. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team

Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

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I really love reading the Post’s Books section in their Sunday print edition at my kitchen table every Sunday. I relish the reviews. Discover new books. It is a pure delight, completely void of the uppity tone of the NYT Book Review. The Post’s Books section has now been “Eliminated.”

I'm sad to hear this, but looking forward to what Clare does next. I find good energy journalists to be surprisingly rare. Especially ones that have good judgement and write meaningful stories, instead of chasing sensationalism.

Clare Fieseler, PhD@fieseler.bsky.social · 9mo ago

✨PERSONAL NEWS✨ I was let go from my staff reporter role at @canarymedia.com. Sadly the philanthropic funds supporting my beat came to an end. I love the staff there and will continue to root for them. Please support nonprofit journalism! Meanwhile, my ocean reporting found a new home. Stay tuned.

✨PERSONAL NEWS✨ I was let go from my staff reporter role at @canarymedia.com. Sadly the philanthropic funds supporting my beat came to an end. I love the staff there and will continue to root for them. Please support nonprofit journalism! Meanwhile, my ocean reporting found a new home. Stay tuned.

For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share.