Twilight Greenaway
@twyspy.bsky.social
Journalist and editor focused on climate, water, agriculture, and the natural world. Currently a senior reporter @civilbeat.bsky.social. Personal newsletter: https://windowofopportunity.substack.com/
#OldTrailsFire in Spokane now appears to be most destructive wildfire in WA State history by wide margin (650+ structures lost), w/additional TBD losses nearby. Other PacNW fires actively burning, though less destructive, are far larger & could burn for weeks amid severe drought.
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
One of my views in Katmai National Park last week. Count the bears! The salmon are coming in and the bears are hungry!
“Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative.” Ah, yeah. Some days it feel so clearly like we're moving backwards. www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
404media.co
This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City. This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.
So, you see, smoke travels in both directions and every other direction What matters is that we help each other and tackle climate change as humankind www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Smoke from U.S. wildfires affecting air quality in B.C.
Wildfires south of the border are responsible for “much” of the smoke that has prompted an air quality warning in one region of B.C., according to officials.
ctvnews.ca
A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.
US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
theguardian.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
“[Carbon storage] is loved by the industry because it’s a subsidy for whatever they’re already doing.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies
Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risks
theguardian.com
Just did an interview for TRT World on Europe's worst heatwave on record. The heat has killed thousands. We've crossing 1.5°C, & there's no dropping back below. This is the baseline now. We must cut emissions far faster, & protect people from the heat already here. Both, together. Part 1:
Why don't most Europeans have air conditioning? Dumb? Woke? No - WE DID NOT NEED IT UNTIL FOSSIL FUEL BURNING CAUSED THE CLIMATE CRISIS More info 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...
Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief explains why AC rates in parts of Europe are relatively low and clarifies some of the misleading claims about the technology.
carbonbrief.org
“Either the state owns the vast majority of the system … or somewhere in the last few decades, the state gave away an asset that Mahi Pono claims is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.” I wrote about an important battle taking place over water, or wai, in Hawaii. civilbeat.org/2026/06/publ...
Public Or Private? The Future Of East Maui's Water Is At Stake
The East Maui Water Authority says it wants to work with Mahi Pono to preserve and protect the water system as rainfall becomes less predictable. But the farm has its own plan.
civilbeat.org
A large number of people are dying prematurely due to record heat in Europe. New research indicates “the record-breaking heat and humidity in Europe this past week would not have been possible without climate change” apple.news/A2z1lH-DpTMS...
France records around 1,000 additional deaths as extreme heat breaks European records — The Associated Press
France has reported around 1,000 additional deaths during last week’s record-breaking heat wave. Extreme temperatures also sparked wildfires in Germany and Berlin police used water cannons to cool dow...
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"For days, officials across France have scrambled to cope with the searing heat, shutting down three nuclear reactors after the surrounding cooling waters became too hot..." So much for nuclear as a climate solution.....
UK and Switzerland record hottest ever June day as health emergencies surge in Europe
Temperatures linked to third child’s death in France, where three-quarters of country is under extreme heat alert
theguardian.com
Hard to overstate how dramatic this European heatwave is. And then you zoom into other areas around the globe, and you realize there may, just may be something going on that links all these weather extremes around the world. @climatecentral.org's CSI: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
You couldn't make this up. In the middle of an unprecedented heatwave that scientific analysis shows couldn't have reached these levels without anthropogenic warming, idiot councillors voted to deny that there is a problem. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sunderland Council rescinds climate emergency declaration
Reform councillor Bill Blackett says polar bears are not extinct and the Maldives has not sunk.
bbc.co.uk
Beautiful story on Glen Canyon's reslience by @jbrookelarsen.bsky.social @waterdesk.bsky.social waterdesk.org/2026/06/as-l...
As Lake Powell drops, a thriving ecosystem is emerging
“We’re entering beaver land!” Zanna Stutz yelled joyfully. Stepping lightly over slick, wobbly mud and splashing through ankle-deep water, she approached a small dam created by nature’s engineers. A W...
waterdesk.org
"Democrats have scaled back mentions of climate change and recently shifted the focus to energy affordability." You know what's really not affordable? insideclimatenews.org/news/2406202...
Elected Democrats Have Embraced ‘Climate Hushing.’ Are They Making a Mistake as the Midterms Loom? - Inside Climate News
An Inside Climate News analysis of congressional press releases shows that Democrats have scaled back mentions of climate change and recently shifted the focus to energy affordability.
insideclimatenews.org
El Niño is here, which means it's time for me to dust off and refine my old collection of ENSO-related climate visualizations. Check out how much sea surface temperatures have already warmed this year across the equatorial tropical Pacific. Wow! Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
I found a (somewhat battered) print of one of David Hockney's swimming pool paintings and hung it over my bed during one of the hardest times of my life and, I swear, seeing that blue every day helped me survive. RIP.
Mark Cowan, Caiman in the Amazon butterflies & bees sometimes drink tears from reptiles where salt is scarce
The earthquake that hit Hawaii on Saturday morning did a real number to the water catchment tanks in several the rural parts of the Big Island and hundreds of farmers and other residents are now without reliable access to water. My story: www.civilbeat.org/2026/05/kona...
Kona Earthquake Caused Catastrophic Water Supply Damage
In Kona's coffee belt, up to 500 farmers and others have lost their primary sources of water — and will be relying on trips to county spigots for the foreseeable future.
civilbeat.org
My 1st story for @civilbeat.bsky.social is about EPA removing the teeth from a haze plan that required Hawaiian Electric to shutter 2 of it's oldest, dirtiest power plants. The precedent it sets is concerning for @earthjustice.org @cleanaircatf.bsky.social, etc. www.civilbeat.org/2026/05/epa-...
EPA Just Walked Back Plan To Retire Dirty Hawaiʻi Power Plants.
By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say HECO can sidestep rules years in the making.
civilbeat.org
By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say HECO can sidestep rules years in the making.
EPA Just Walked Back Hawaiʻi’s Plan To Retire Its Dinosaur Power Plants
By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say HECO can sidestep rules years in the making.
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Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.
How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past >> Companies have staked claims for more than 100 lithium-mine projects. Tribes are among the most affected. insideclimatenews.org/news/0305202...
