Holly Kaufman
@hollykaufman.bsky.social
Co-founder & ED, Plastics & Climate Project. Senior Fellow, plastics & climate, World Resources Institute. Founder, Environment & Enterprise Strategies.Seasoned sustainability & climate change professional: consultant, negotiator, thought-leader. Proud mom
Going to NY Climate Week? Meet there? & You're invited to join me +other great speakers to hear re plastics/climate/humanhealth/oceans @ Ocean Hub 9/21, 2-8 pm, panels/reception on tall ship! Lmk what you're going to. Info yet for Climate Leaders reception? pages.plasticodyssey.fund/oceanawakens/
Plastic Odyssey | The Ocean Awakens 2026
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Clean public drinking water systems are needed everywhere that is now dependent on plastic bottled-water. Plastics are made of fossil fuels and petrochemicals. Bad for people, bad for planet. www.outlookbusiness.com/industry/nan...
Nanoplastics In Every Sip: India Is Ignoring An Inconvenient Trade-Off – Outlook Business
India is making a quiet, but consequential trade-off. In stepping away from tap water we do not fully trust, we are leaning on bottled water we have not fully understood. The result is a shift from vi...
outlookbusiness.com
Forest fires burning twice as much forest cover as they did in the early 2000's: www.wri.org/insights/glo...
The Latest Data Confirms: Forest Fires Are Getting Worse
New data shows that forest fires are getting worse, burning more than twice as much tree cover today as they did 20 years ago, largely due to climate change.
wri.org
Plastic. It's everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nanoplastic detection and quantification in high-altitude glacial snow samples from Italy, Switzerland and France - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Nanoplastic detection and quantification in high-altitude glacial snow samples from Italy, Switzerland and France
nature.com
Solar panel misinformation, spread by bots and by neighbors, derailed a project in Cajun Country that promised millions in local tax revenue. The same methods are being employed nationwide (via @thelensnola.bsky.social) https://bit.ly/4ctLRWP
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Last month was the hottest July on record for the world's oceans, an analysis finds. Ocean heat was particularly severe in the Pacific, thanks to an intensifying El Niño.
Last Month Was the Hottest July on Record for the World's Oceans
Oceans globally recorded their hottest July ever last month, according to a new analysis. Western Europe saw intense ocean heat waves as it continued faced soaring temperatures and drought.
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Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly
During the last decade, the rate at which Earth warmed increased substantially After removing the influence of known natural variability factors, the increase of the warming rate is statistically...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
For cattle: Brazil's police raid suspects accused of using chemicals to clear the Amazon rainforest - The Associated Press
Swell. www.sciencealert.com/most-isolate...
'Most Isolated Environments': Microplastics Are Finding Their Way Down to Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
Our planet clearly has a microplastics problem: These tiny synthetic fragments are finding their way into ancient rocks, human bones, and almost every species of animal on Earth.
sciencealert.com
First report of ideologically-based cuts to climate curriciulum in Texas (that I’m aware of) More info, paywalled: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
‘Without us, they are doomed’: volunteers save fish from French rivers drying up in heatwaves - The Guardian
First evidence of nanoplastics in Antarctica soil. "This chemical alteration represents an ecological crisis that demands urgent systemic action at a global scale. Article: www.thedailyscrumnews.com/the-hidden-s... Scientific Reports paper, "First evidence of nanoplastics in Antarctic soil," 7/4/26.
The Hidden Synthetic Cloud Altering Antarctica’s Untouched Valleys - The Daily Scrum News
The best daily source for news, politics, sports and more.
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NY Climate Week? I'm speaking about the undercounted climate impacts of plastics at #Plastic Odyssey's Oceans Awaken event - on a tall ship! Others will discuss accelerating ocean & climate solutions. Fab reception, too! 9/21, 2-8 pm. Info & registration: pages.plasticodyssey.fund/oceanawakens/
Plastic Odyssey Fund | The Ocean Awakens 2026
pages.plasticodyssey.fund
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
climatecoloredgoggles.com
My friend Alice McGown is working on this site that lets you know about any propsed fossil fuel developments anywhere in the world. Use it to fight them! fossilfuelwarnings.org
Know now. Act now.
fossilfuelwarnings.org
Recent paper from Duke University on microplastic's contribution to global heating. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Atmospheric warming contributions from airborne microplastics and nanoplastics - Nature Climate Change
The radiative impact of microplastic and nanoplastic particles in the atmosphere is not well understood. Here the authors quantify their radiative forcing, finding that they can exceed that of black c...
nature.com
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
But we can keep expanding fossil fuels. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Trump says Canada will face tariffs over wildfire smoke, claiming ‘willful negligence’
President Trump threatened on Friday to impose additional tariffs on Canada, accusing the country’s government of “willful negligence” in its handling of massive wildfires that have wafted heavy sm…
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OMG. I guess the wildfire smoke hasn’t penetrated the Oval Office. thehill.com/policy/energ...
US firms sign energy and other deals with Iraq after Trump touts its oil
U.S. firms signed several oil-related and other deals with Iraq on Friday, days after President Trump said the two sides would be “doing a lot of deals” because of the Middle Eastern nation’s oil. …
thehill.com
Democrats have stopped talking about climate. Strategists say that's smart—but they're wrong. Making climate a top priority wins votes, and barely 1 in 10 voters will vote against climate action. Read all about it in my newsletter, "Notes from the Electric Era." electricnotes.news/p/yes-democr...
Yes, Democrats Should Talk About Climate.
Talking about Climate Change is a Political Winner.
electricnotes.news
He Wanted to Track Microplastics in the Sea. The E.P.A. Fired Him. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
He Wanted to Track Microplastics in the Sea. The E.P.A. Fired Him.
nytimes.com
F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry
A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.
nytimes.com
Trump administration OKs California company's plan to pipe water out of the Mojave Desert - Los Angeles Times
