Candidates are riding surge of data center hatred like surfers who catch the tidal wave that barrels 100 miles up the Amazon. Anyone who pairs data center pushback with a "War on Ticks" platform could truly be unstoppable.* (*judging from comments on this piece 👇) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...

Opinion | We’re Living in a Tick Nightmare. It’s Time to Go to War.

With ticks, we’ve barely begun to fight back. The longer we wait, the more territory they will claim across both our geographic and psychic maps.

nytimes.com

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 14h ago

Quite an upset in the #KSGov Dem primary. State Sen. Cindy Holscher, who came out against data centers and the Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal, has defeated state Sen. Ethan Corson, who had a big financial edge and an endorsement from term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly.

"The world’s daily sea surface temperature tied 2024 starting in May and since June it’s been record hot nearly every day."

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · 19h ago

"The fires, heat and extremes that have dominated the summer of 2026 are what scientists have long been warning about from the burning of coal, oil and gas." via @apnews.com

A new report says arcing from electrical equipment owned by the utility sparked the January 2025 fire that killed 19 people and destroyed thousands of homes (via LAist).

Edison equipment caused deadly Eaton Fire, LA County Fire investigators conclude

A new report says arcing from electrical equipment owned by the utility sparked the January 2025 fire that killed 19 people and destroyed thousands of homes.

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Sonam Wangchuk fasted for 26 days to help win gov concessions on education accountability and reforms in India. As I write for @nybooks.com his use of Gandhian nonviolent resistance methods on behalf of his native Ladakh, a livable climate and India's youth is a logical extension of his life's work.

The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 2d ago

Sonam Wangchuk’s fast in Delhi, writes Jonathan Mingle, “was only the most recent in a series of efforts...to make the nation’s leaders and his fellow citizens attend to the precarity of India’s two most precious resources: its climate and its youth.”

40% of SE European nuclear capacity offline amid drought montelnews.com/news/c65ea15...

40% of SE European nuclear capacity offline amid drought

About 40% (2.44 GW) of southeast Europe’s nuclear capacity is offline as Danube drought forces Paks, Cernavoda reductions; governments urge savings amid heatwave.

montelnews.com

Just hear me out: we keep fighting all the wrong Forever Wars. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...

Opinion | We’re Living in a Tick Nightmare. It’s Time to Go to War.

With ticks, we’ve barely begun to fight back. The longer we wait, the more territory they will claim across both our geographic and psychic maps.

nytimes.com

"Antalya on fire..." Yes, this is the Turkish city due to host the next UN climate conference, COP31, this November

Worth noting: the EPA wrote a 37-page letter to the Consumer Product Safety Commission flagging the risks of gas stove use for people with asthma and recommending further investigation. That was in 1985. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.

Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...

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Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

news.com.au

If you're looking for stories about holding oil and gas companies accountable, might I humbly suggest my book GASLIGHT. It's the unlikely tale of ordinary folks in rural Virginia who banded together to fight their utility's massive gas pipeline — until they won. press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Gaslight

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Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · last wk.

Little by little, it’s getting increasingly easier to hold oil and gas companies accountable for their lies and harms Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The odds that we'll see 2 degrees C of warming NEXT YEAR are getting uncomfortably high. The combination of accelerating global warming and Super El Nino is set to shatter temperature records. Should be dominating headlines. Of course it won't. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’

Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.

nature.com

We decided to get out. Not sure whether we would have still made it tomorrow. The main road Lacanau-Bordeaux is already closed. #GlobalHeating #Wildfire

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

nytimes.com

Wow. This image is going to be fierce competition for the Golfing During Wildfire Guys photo when it comes to future historians' choice for best visual encapsulation of the early 21st century. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

The golfers who finished their round while a forest burned

Incredible photos of calm against an inferno emerged this week. Kelly Grovier looks at images of tranquility in the face of chaos.

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Dan Saltzstein@dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 2w ago

This photo from southwest France omg

Well, not that insane. Researchers have known for decades that gas stoves exacerbate asthma. A former CDC epidemiologist told me in 2020 the evidence linking asthma symptoms with gas stoves was so overwhelming that "we ought to get up on the rooftops and shout about it." undark.org/2020/12/02/h...

Amid Covid, the Air Hazards of Gas Appliances Draw New Scrutiny

Covid-19 has drawn new attention to indoor air pollution. Science has long considered gas appliances to be key culprits.

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Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w ago

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...

Reminders for those living in the wildfire plume right now: 🧵 - fine particles inhaled deep into lungs can cross into bloodstream, and can even reach the brain - wildfire smoke is more toxic than other forms of particulates - kids are most vulnerable - N95s and HEPA filters can help lower exposure

Kristin Lewis@kalewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Our Lethal Air" By Jonathan Mingle "Air pollution is a global health emergency" @nybooks.com @jmingle.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/201... www.nybooks.com/articles/201...

Whoops, here's another giant blind spot in climate risk analysis: "Climate tipping will manifest as a period of increasingly dramatic weather volatility...Societies are unprepared, because weather volatility related to tipping points is absent from risk assessments." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized

Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.

nature.com

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w ago

We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.

The future looks bright. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...

How About an E.V. Charge With That Fried Chicken?

Electric vehicle chargers are proliferating in Southern states as fast food restaurants, stores and other businesses try to lure customers.

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The Trump administration has dismantled EPA's in-house science research branch, the Office of Research and Development, which led long-running studies analyzing chemicals and toxic metals like copper and lead in wildfire smoke and studying their health effects. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/c...

Trump Administration’s Cuts Targeted Wildfire Research

Labs at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service have analyzed the effects of wildfires. The administration wants to shutter them.

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As John Holdren warned decades ago, we have three options for dealing with climate change: Mitigation. Adaptation. Suffering. We're in for some of all three. The mix is up to us.

Forbes@forbes.com · 3w ago

Wildfire smoke is dense enough in a handful of states that experts recommend masks for those who can’t stay indoors.

Reminders for those living in the wildfire plume right now: 🧵 - fine particles inhaled deep into lungs can cross into bloodstream, and can even reach the brain - wildfire smoke is more toxic than other forms of particulates - kids are most vulnerable - N95s and HEPA filters can help lower exposure

Kristin Lewis@kalewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Our Lethal Air" By Jonathan Mingle "Air pollution is a global health emergency" @nybooks.com @jmingle.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/201... www.nybooks.com/articles/201...

Even Coal India — the world's biggest coal producer — is going big on solar. www.whalesbook.com/corporate-ne...

Coal India commissions 200 MW solar power capacity in Gujarat

Coal India commissions 200 MW solar power capacity at Khavda, Gujarat, marking a step in its renewable energy expansion. Read more on the impact.

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And it has been for quite a while. This piece 👇 is from 2019 but it is, if anything, even more true today. Orange skies are unsettling. But it's the invisible damage to lungs, heart, brains—especially kids, the most vulnerable to air pollution—unfolding for years after that should really worry us.

Kristin Lewis@kalewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Our Lethal Air" By Jonathan Mingle "Air pollution is a global health emergency" @nybooks.com @jmingle.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/201... www.nybooks.com/articles/201...

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

If you think it's hot where you are, it's 127 degrees Fahrenheit in Iran

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 3w ago

HISTORIC 53C DAY- 38C at NIGHT 52.7C Omidieh IRAN All time record and 2026 World Record MINIMUMS ! 38.3 Delhoran IRAN 33.1 Uchkuduk UZBEKISTAN Next days WORSE 53/54c Middle East 49/50C former USSR 50/52C CHINA NIGHTS up to 40C MOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN WORLD HISTORY

THE TICKS ARE COMING!! Actually they're already here. And they're hungry. With warmer winters and growing deer herds, ticks are expanding both their hunting grounds and hunting season. So how can we fight back? @nytopinion.nytimes.com let me go deep on this one: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...

Opinion | We’re Living in a Tick Nightmare. It’s Time to Go to War.

With ticks, we’ve barely begun to fight back. The longer we wait, the more territory they will claim across both our geographic and psychic maps.

nytimes.com

Judging from the messages I've been getting in response to this piece... 1) people really really really hate ticks 2) fighting back against the ticks could be the next big bipartisan consensus issue, along with stopping data centers and building more housing.

Eliza Barclay @elizabarclay.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Outflanking the tick hordes will also require some creative thinking," writes @jmingle.bsky.social in this masterful essay: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...

THE TICKS ARE COMING!! Actually they're already here. And they're hungry. With warmer winters and growing deer herds, ticks are expanding both their hunting grounds and hunting season. So how can we fight back? @nytopinion.nytimes.com let me go deep on this one: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...

Opinion | We’re Living in a Tick Nightmare. It’s Time to Go to War.

With ticks, we’ve barely begun to fight back. The longer we wait, the more territory they will claim across both our geographic and psychic maps.

nytimes.com

And here's the 250th forecast for DC: "People should 'avoid prolonged exposure' to the pollution around the Mall... In downtown D.C., Arlington, and the Capitol Hill area, where pollution will be 'very unhealthy'... people should 'expect irritation symptoms'" www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Fireworks on Mall likely to cause hazardous air pollution, documents show

Internal modeling shows the July 4th fireworks display will cause hazardous pollution around the Mall and “very unhealthy conditions across central D.C.”

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NOAA@noaa.gov · last mo.

Happy 250th USA! 🎉 Here's your July 4th weekend weather forecast ... Details: noaa.gov/news/happy-2... Via nws.noaa.gov