Brooke Jarvis
@brookejarvis.bsky.social
contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, writer for The New Yorker, Wired, and elsewhere, slowly writing a book
Tennessean on the Puget Sound, a pal and a confidant
https://brookejarvis.net
Tennessean on the Puget Sound, a pal and a confidant
https://brookejarvis.net
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Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
The world will soon be losing 3000 glaciers every year
Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
www.newscientist.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
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Efforts by the USACE and facilitated by accurate NWS forecasts appear to have significantly reduced impacts from record flooding on the Skagit River in WA last week. A look at how that worked and why we have to protect the foundations of our fed science/water agencies. tinyurl.com/bdebat4m
A look at a successful real-time effort to reduce flooding in western Washington last week
Looking at how federal science and water agencies work together in flood events. Also - flood risk continue in the Pacific Northwest while the rest of the country warms up.
tinyurl.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Efforts by the USACE and facilitated by accurate NWS forecasts appear to have significantly reduced impacts from record flooding on the Skagit River in WA last week. A look at how that worked and why we have to protect the foundations of our fed science/water agencies. tinyurl.com/bdebat4m
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
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The 2025 #Arctic Report Card is out! #AGU25 🧪🌊🦑🐻❄️
Check out the executive summary by the editors M.L. Drunkenmiller, R.L. Thoman, and T.A. Moon. @alaskawx.bsky.social
arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
Check out the executive summary by the editors M.L. Drunkenmiller, R.L. Thoman, and T.A. Moon. @alaskawx.bsky.social
arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
Executive Summary - NOAA Arctic
DOI: 10.25923/nrzf-j897 M. L. Druckenmiller1, R. L. Thoman2,3, and T. A. Moon1 1National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado ...
arctic.noaa.gov
December 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The 2025 #Arctic Report Card is out! #AGU25 🧪🌊🦑🐻❄️
Check out the executive summary by the editors M.L. Drunkenmiller, R.L. Thoman, and T.A. Moon. @alaskawx.bsky.social
arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
Check out the executive summary by the editors M.L. Drunkenmiller, R.L. Thoman, and T.A. Moon. @alaskawx.bsky.social
arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
We've gotten absolutely pummeled with rain in the PNW, but all that water is running right out again (through houses and farms and towns...).
What we really need is snow, to hold the moisture in place and get us through our dry summers, but that will get more and more rare as the climate warms.
What we really need is snow, to hold the moisture in place and get us through our dry summers, but that will get more and more rare as the climate warms.
Snowpack off to a terrible start across the Western U.S. with no relief in sight.
December 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We've gotten absolutely pummeled with rain in the PNW, but all that water is running right out again (through houses and farms and towns...).
What we really need is snow, to hold the moisture in place and get us through our dry summers, but that will get more and more rare as the climate warms.
What we really need is snow, to hold the moisture in place and get us through our dry summers, but that will get more and more rare as the climate warms.
Millions of gallons of toxic waste dumped and oil spilled in the rainforest, and now restitution is ordered to be paid... to the oil company insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million - Inside Climate News
Indigenous and other Ecuadorians have lived with millions of gallons of toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades. Now, those victims’ tax dollars will go to Chevron, which acquired Texaco ...
insideclimatenews.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Millions of gallons of toxic waste dumped and oil spilled in the rainforest, and now restitution is ordered to be paid... to the oil company insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
A question for the biologists—with our western Washington streams and rivers turned into intense firehoses of water right now, what will happen to the salmon eggs that were just laid? To all the fish and invertebrates etc? Seems like there's very little way to hide from getting scoured right out.
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A question for the biologists—with our western Washington streams and rivers turned into intense firehoses of water right now, what will happen to the salmon eggs that were just laid? To all the fish and invertebrates etc? Seems like there's very little way to hide from getting scoured right out.
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I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot:
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
We are being poisoned every day, so why do we keep voting for more pollution? Ask a lobbyist | George Monbiot
The dirty industries that dominate politics deceive us into accepting dangerous pollutants such as ammonia as part of life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot:
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
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Writers and editors, don't forget to nominate work for The Best American Science and Nature Writing! Deadline is 12/20 (for anything published by then). Info and submission form here: jaimegreen.net/basn
The Best American Science and Nature Writing — Jaime Green
jaimegreen.net
December 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Writers and editors, don't forget to nominate work for The Best American Science and Nature Writing! Deadline is 12/20 (for anything published by then). Info and submission form here: jaimegreen.net/basn
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Impacts of an industrial deep-sea mining trial on macrofaunal biodiversity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Impacts of an industrial deep-sea mining trial on macrofaunal biodiversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A species-level dataset of sediment-dwelling macrofauna, sampled 2 years before and 2 months after a test of a commercial deep-sea mining machine, reveals losses of macrofaunal density and species ric...
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Impacts of an industrial deep-sea mining trial on macrofaunal biodiversity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy Thanksgiving! Please enjoy this recipe for whiskey cake that I found in an otherwise normal community cookbook I found at my mother-in-law's house
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Please enjoy this recipe for whiskey cake that I found in an otherwise normal community cookbook I found at my mother-in-law's house
Flashes of an overextended Milo Minderbinder trying to get everybody to eat cotton dipped in chocolate
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Flashes of an overextended Milo Minderbinder trying to get everybody to eat cotton dipped in chocolate
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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The Trump Administration seems to be handpicking deportees to test a new approach to mass deportation: sending people to nations where they had no ties, and to places that were not safe, and where they are subject to indefinite detention abroad. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YAjCKA
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Trump Administration seems to be handpicking deportees to test a new approach to mass deportation: sending people to nations where they had no ties, and to places that were not safe, and where they are subject to indefinite detention abroad. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YAjCKA
I've brought up this wildly fascinating Larissa MacFarquhar article to basically every person I've spent time with during the past month. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.
www.newyorker.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I've brought up this wildly fascinating Larissa MacFarquhar article to basically every person I've spent time with during the past month. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
I wrote this week's Screenland column about the houses collapsing in the Outer Banks, an unusually visible example of a problem--the potentially rapid collapse of assets in a quickly changing world--that's much bigger www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/m...
Houses Collapsing Into the Sea? It’s Not as Baffling as It Looks.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I wrote this week's Screenland column about the houses collapsing in the Outer Banks, an unusually visible example of a problem--the potentially rapid collapse of assets in a quickly changing world--that's much bigger www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/m...
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You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires
James Van Der Beek Auctioning Off Dawson’s Creek Items Amid Cancer Journey
James Van Der Beek has put several Dawson’s Creek and Varsity Blues items up for auction as he continues to battle stage 3 colon cancer.
www.eonline.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
I've posted before about how much I enjoy the random and detailed pedantry of fact-checking. Just off a call that required watching YouTube clips to parse the correctness of a simile involving the way Imperial Walkers fall over in Star Wars.
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I've posted before about how much I enjoy the random and detailed pedantry of fact-checking. Just off a call that required watching YouTube clips to parse the correctness of a simile involving the way Imperial Walkers fall over in Star Wars.
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During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals.
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient
Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals.
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
you just haven't seen any of them for the last 15 years because they go to another school
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
you just haven't seen any of them for the last 15 years because they go to another school