Brooke Jarvis

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Fishing for supplements also decimates forage fish, starving out animals higher on the food chain.

The largest heat wave of the 1960s reached ~6% of the planet, lasting 46 days over the Atlantic and adjacent areas. The largest heat wave of the 2020s hit ~85% of the globe, lasted 367 days, touching virtually everyone. Calling these “heat storms" instead of “heat waves” seems like a good invention.

Today in messing with stuff we don't understand www.sciencealert.com/a-deep-sea-m...

This is out in print today, in the Voyages issue of the NYT Magazine

it is time

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

Today in criminal activity.

Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

From @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social Survivors of the 2023 Maui wildfires had high amounts of toxins in their urine for as long as 18 months after the fire. Another study found that lead concentrations in the Eaton Fire smoke were up to 250x higher than normal. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

what a lovely, transporting piece of writing about a different place, different pace, and different perspective

My piece for the Voyages issue of NYTM, in which much idyllicness ensues www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/m...

“People don’t have a lot of qualms about paying for their sewage treatment plants,” @greeningscience.bsky.social told me, yet urban trees and green space function as living infrastructure and need proportionate investment to deliver public health and economic benefits 👇

I'm stunned by the news of Helen Branswell's passing. She was a force in science journalism. Gone too soon. 💔https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/helen-branswell-stat-reporter-obituary/

Three-year-old nephew confidently using logic: "If you eat NO food, you will grow down and become a baby."

Coming up at the Supreme Court tomorrow:

“I don’t think any of us, in our wildest dreams, expected this many fish this quickly to repatriate that area" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/c...

Thanks to @highcountrynews.org for running this harrowing story on the drought-fueled Bearpocalypse that’s driving ursids into conflicts across the West. Bear issues have become nightly here in Salida; I just wrote to city council begging for better waste disposal. www.hcn.org/articles/as-...

Heads up re: this fellowship for early-career science journalists! I've been a mentor in the past, it's a great program www.theopennotebook.com/early-career...

I loved this from Sam Anderson www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

Beef production has been the largest driver of deforestation this century. Over the last two decades, around 128 million hectares of forest have been cleared to make way for agriculture and forest plantations. That’s an area five times the size of the United Kingdom.

Very relieved to have bioGraphic still in the world!

Bad news for those of us who prefer a liveable biosphere

The world’s in hot water

This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.

"We are accustomed to thinking of mountains...as fixed, timeless, immovable, permanent. [But] the speed with which humans are warming the world is pulling them apart at the seams." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/o...

truly like waking up on Christmas morning

The Nepal disaster is unsettlingly similar to the scenario that researchers warned @natashabulowski.bsky.social and I about for Resolute Bay, Nunavut: permafrost giving way, creating a landslide and a deadly wave.

An estimated 15 million people around the world are threatened by floods from glacial lakes, and the danger is growing as Earth heats up due to our continued burning of fossil fuels. Check out this report from @rhersher.bsky.social and colleagues at @npr.org from a few years ago.

the kicker

A high-altitude landslide and a collapsed glacier. Scientists now estimate that 400 million metric tons of rock and ice came down the mountain. That's like having a million 747s crashing down at the same time. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...

A tragic, gothic, and deeply American tale of guns, abuse, and the NRA www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...