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Audrey Gray

@audreygray.bsky.social

Writing about our climate, courage, and protection. https://www.audreygray.nyc

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The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

Gusty winds, hot temperatures and dry air have raised the risk of wildfires to critical levels in parts of California through at least Saturday. The most worrisome weather was expected in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, but red flag warnings were in effect across the state.

Gusty Winds, Hot Temperatures and Dry Air Raise Wildfire Risk in California

Red flag warnings were in effect across the state, but the most worrisome weather conditions were expected in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.

nyti.ms

Audrey Gray@audreygray.bsky.social · 4w ago

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.

Audrey Gray@audreygray.bsky.social · last mo.

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!

Jeff Goodell@jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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