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NYT: the last days of fire spotters?
Dear friends, Can a human on a mountaintop really be better at spotting wildfires than a camera and software? That was the question I kept getting when…
Sep 12
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July 2023
NYT: the mightiest river you will never see
Dear friends, “IT’S ONE OF THE MIGHTIEST RIVERS you will never see, carrying some 30 times more water than all the world’s freshwater rivers combined…
Jul 27
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NYT: the heat beneath our feet
Dear friends, Read too much about scorching heat and floods lately? Try taking a few minutes to ponder another kind of climate change, one unfolding…
Jul 13
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June 2023
NYT: earth's wandering axis
Dear friends, Most stories on the climate beat, I learn a lot while writing them. But there’s the occasional story that really melts my brain, that…
Jun 29
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NYT: i lost it at the Grand Canyon
Dear friends, When a group of scientists offered me the last spot on their raft for an eight-day river trip they were taking through the Grand Canyon…
Jun 7
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December 2022
NYT: this could be the end of an epoch
Dear friends, For more than a decade, a panel of scientists has been deliberating on whether the official record of geologic time should be updated to…
Dec 19, 2022
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October 2022
NYT: 'there is nothing natural about the Netherlands'
Dear friends, The Dutch have spent centuries devising ways of keeping water out of their low-lying, perpetually waterlogged country. As Europe…
Oct 11, 2022
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August 2022
NYT: the coming California megastorm
Dear friends, For California, a state where scarcity of water has long been the central fact of existence, global warming is not just worsening droughts…
Aug 15, 2022
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June 2022
NYT: our bodies in a hotter world
Dear friends, My story in Tuesday’s NYT looks at some of the latest research into how extreme heat affects human bodies. Scientists have been studying…
Jun 15, 2022
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May 2022
NYT: it's getting harder to fight fire with fire
Dear friends, It’s a double bind: As the planet warms, wildfire seasons in the U.S. are getting longer, which is making one of our best tools for…
May 6, 2022
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March 2022
NYT: air pollution and racist housing policy
Dear friends, In the wake of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the U.S. government rated neighborhoods in hundreds of cities as part of efforts to…
Mar 11, 2022
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NYT: scientists on strike
Dear friends, Three climate scientists jolted their colleagues recently with a modest proposal: Put down your pencils, close your laptops. No more…
Mar 1, 2022
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