Emily Turner
@emilyturner2000.bsky.social
Health & environment editor at Island Press, Princeton University Press
@islandpress.bsky.social books are part of this 50% off sale!
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur 50% Off Sale starts now! 🎉 Enjoy 50% off books (including ebooks and audiobooks) sitewide, with code SPRING50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu Some exclusions apply. What's first on your #TBR list? 📚
You're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but in this case, I think it's appropriate. Beautiful cover, beautiful writing!
Civil Eats@civileats.com · 6mo agoIn a Q&A with Civil Eats, agroecologist and UCSB professor Liz Carlisle discusses her latest book, “Living Roots," a collection of guest essays that makes the case for more diverse crops on our farms and on our plates.
🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social is hiring an Agriculture/Environmental Reporter to produce coverage of agricultural and environmental issues affecting central Illinois with audio-rich stories accompanied by digital content. jobs.pmja.org/job/agricult...
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DUE NEXT WEEK: Are you an early-career journalist who is pursuing - or do you have a strong interest in pursuing - a career in science, health and/or environmental reporting? Apply for a National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowship by December 19. Learn more:
National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships
The SHERF fellowships are made to support early-career journalists who are pursuing careers in science, health or environmental reporting.
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I love to see best-of book lists that reach outside the Big 4: lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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For $6.99, you might get 2-3 items at the grocery store. For the same amount, you can learn why our food system is the way it is and how it can be better. Check out @islandpress.bsky.social ebooks like Barn Gothic, Bet the Farm, Healing Grounds, and many others! islandpress.org/books/barn-g...
Barn Gothic
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The Georgia public utility commissioner election may be a bell weather, but it's also important in its own right. These candidates made the connection between renewable energy and lower bills, and Georgia voters responded. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
In an Upset, Democrats Oust Two Republicans on Georgia’s Utility Board
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Thanks to @kennytorrella.bsky.social for a positive news story: www.vox.com/future-perfe... I can't look at these faces without thinking about my sweet pup and the horror of her living in a cage like this.
The biggest victory against animal cruelty of the 21st century, explained in one chart
Global fur production has collapsed. Here’s how it happened.
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There is still time to read the great selections on the summer reading list from @sightline.org including Arbitrary Lines by @mnolangray.bsky.social and Bet the Farm by Beth Hoffman @islandpress.bsky.social @emilyturner2000.bsky.social
Two beautiful and challenging (in the best sense of the word) lines by poet Andrea Gibson (8/13/1975 - 7/14/2025): "Everyone knows what you're against; show them what you're for." "Why did I go so long believing I owed the world my disappointment?"
Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine. It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions. The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.
Join me in one week at @politicsprose.bsky.social at The Wharf for a discussion about my book and forever chemicals #BookSky #GreenSky #PFAS politics-prose.com/rachel-frazin
Rachel Frazin — Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America - with Miranda Willson — at The Wharf
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The #DOD used firefighting foam with toxic #PFAS for decades, knowing it contaminated water and was linked to serious health issues. New book by @rachelfrazin.bsky.social and @sharonudasin.bsky.social -- #PoisoningTheWell: How #ForeverChemicals Contaminated America. thehill.com/policy/energ...
Great book out Tuesday that was my pleasure to participate in. Poisoning the Well, an exposé of #PFAS coverup & firsthand look at the communities suffering. Superman’s not coming: see how people are fighting back. By journalists @sharonudasin & @RachelFrazin bookshop.org/p/books/pois...
Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America
How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America
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A wonderful review for @schwartzstein.bsky.social “The Heat and the Fury is an extraordinary work that advances the scholarship on climate security in a text that is as accessible to newcomers as it is enriching for academic specialists.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Environment and Resources
The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate ViolencePeter Schwartzstein. Washington DC: Island Press, 2024. $32.00. 328 pp.Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming WorldR. Jisung Park. Prin...
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The Center for a Livable Future (CLF) is pleased to announce its request for applications for the 2025 cohort of the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists. More details: clf.jhsph.edu/education/fo...
Tom Henry @sejorg.bsky.social calls The Heat and Fury by @schwartzstein.bsky.social "bold, ambitious, incredibly researched and deftly written." www.sej.org/publications...
With Climate, an Undercurrent of Violence
In his ambitious first book, “The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence,” journalist Peter Schwartzstein explores how climate change explains conflict, even war. BookShelf editor To...
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I know I just said I prefer paper books, but if a book I want is $4.99, I will definitely read on screen! That's the case for books from Island Press until 3/2, so charge up your tablet and learn how to protect our threatened world: www.islandpress.org/bestseller-499
Best Selling ebooks Just $4.99!
Grab this deal, ebooks are $4.99!
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Well-deserved praise!
Sharon Udasin@sharonudasin.bsky.social · last yr.Incredibly honored to share that our upcoming #PFAS book, Poisoning the Well, received a STARRED @ala-booklist.bsky.social review, describing the book as "an eye-opening chronicle of a pervasive chemical disaster" CC @rachelfrazin.bsky.social @islandpress.bsky.social
After fighting with my tablet all week, I realize another reason that, for me, paper will always be the better technology: it never runs out of power.
@jmingle.bsky.social is on a roll with the awards - as he should be! www.southernenvironment.org/news/celebra...
Congrats, @jmingle.bsky.social!
Jaime Jennings@jaimejennings.bsky.social · last yr.Congrats to @jmingle.bsky.social on being named a 2025 NYPL's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism finalist for his fantastic book GASLIGHT. A great book to read in this moment of how grassroots activism can win against a powerful company. www.nypl.org/about/awards...
I'm honored to be @foodandwater.bsky.social 's Book of the Year 🥳 Join if yah can tomorrow night. I'll be talking with their Founder & Executive Director Wenonah Hauter about it as well as taking questions.
Barons by Austin Frerick: Author Talk [Livable Future LIVE] · Food & Water Watch
Join Food & Water Watch for a virtual conversation with Austin Frerick, author of *Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry* from 7:00-8:00 pm ET (4:00-5:00 pm PT). Austin...
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WATCH: Rachel Frazin, energy and environment reporter at The Hill and co-author of the upcoming book POISONING THE WELL, joins "NewsNation Prime" to discuss the impact of forever chemicals. www.youtube.com/watc...
Forever chemicals: How to avoid them | NewsNation Prime
Rachel Frazin, energy and environment reporter at NewsNation’s partner The Hill, joins "NewsNation Prime" to discuss the impact of forever chemicals. Read and watch the full special: https://www.newsnationnow.com/prime/pfas-forever-chemicals-sludge-farmers/ "NewsNation Prime" is America’s source fo
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Actor-activist @markruffalo.bsky.social presses Biden to act fast on 'forever chemicals' before Trump takes office #PFAS thehill.com/policy/energ...
Mark Ruffalo presses Biden to act fast on ‘forever chemicals’ before Trump takes office
Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo is urging the Biden administration to take decisive regulatory action on “forever chemicals,” as the return of President-elect Trump to the White House l…
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