David Abel
@davabel.bsky.social
Environment reporter @BostonGlobe.com | Professor @COMatBU | Director of www.inthewhalefilm.com, www.inundationdistrict.com, www.entangled-film.com, www.lobsterwar.com, www.gladesmenfilm.com, etc. | Former fellow @Niemanfdn | More: www.davidsabel.com.
"All indications are that the weakening of the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf will continue to accelerate."
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The Doomsday Glacier Is Getting Closer and Closer to Irreversible Collapse
An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"All indications are that the weakening of the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf will continue to accelerate."
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“If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
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December 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
“If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
NASA Scientists Zoomed In on the Ocean — Then Spotted a Tiny Red Creature That Keeps Whales Alive indiandefencereview.com/nasa-zoomed-...
NASA Scientists Zoomed In on the Ocean — Then Spotted a Tiny Red Creature That Keeps Whales Alive
Off the New England coast, critically endangered whales are feeding on invisible swarms of red plankton—now suddenly visible from hundreds of miles above.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
NASA Scientists Zoomed In on the Ocean — Then Spotted a Tiny Red Creature That Keeps Whales Alive indiandefencereview.com/nasa-zoomed-...
For those who can't access the online story through the paywall, here's the piece about our efforts to retrace Thoreau's footsteps on Cape cod's National Seashore.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
For those who can't access the online story through the paywall, here's the piece about our efforts to retrace Thoreau's footsteps on Cape cod's National Seashore.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/19/l...
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MWRA’s solution to sewer overflows stirs outrage
We fought for a clean Boston Harbor. The Charles and Mystic are next.
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We fought for a clean Boston Harbor. The Charles and Mystic are next.
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MWRA’s solution to sewer overflows stirs outrage - The Boston Globe
We fought for a clean Boston Harbor. The Charles and Mystic are next.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
MWRA’s solution to sewer overflows stirs outrage
We fought for a clean Boston Harbor. The Charles and Mystic are next.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/20/o...
We fought for a clean Boston Harbor. The Charles and Mystic are next.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/20/o...
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The story of an epic walk retracing Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod, with seals, surf and solitude: We arrived just as the first glimmers of dawn seeped over the horizon ...
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Seals, surf, and solitude: Walking in Thoreau’s footsteps on Cape Cod - The Boston Globe
We headed out on a modern, exhausting, and exhilarating 24-mile adventure.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The story of an epic walk retracing Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod, with seals, surf and solitude: We arrived just as the first glimmers of dawn seeped over the horizon ...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/19/l...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whale breath
By using drones to collect exhaled breath from the blow holes of some of the world’s largest whales, scientists hope to monitor their health www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
By using drones to collect exhaled breath from the blow holes of some of the world’s largest whales, scientists hope to monitor their health www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whale breath
By using drones to collect exhaled breath from the blow holes of some of the world’s largest whales, scientists hope to monitor their health
www.thetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whale breath
By using drones to collect exhaled breath from the blow holes of some of the world’s largest whales, scientists hope to monitor their health www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
By using drones to collect exhaled breath from the blow holes of some of the world’s largest whales, scientists hope to monitor their health www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
The story of an epic walk retracing Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod, with seals, surf and solitude: We arrived just as the first glimmers of dawn seeped over the horizon ...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/19/l...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/19/l...
Seals, surf, and solitude: Walking in Thoreau’s footsteps on Cape Cod - The Boston Globe
We headed out on a modern, exhausting, and exhilarating 24-mile adventure.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The story of an epic walk retracing Thoreau's footsteps on Cape Cod, with seals, surf and solitude: We arrived just as the first glimmers of dawn seeped over the horizon ...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/19/l...
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Rebutting a Trump report, study shows U.S. sea-level rise is accelerating. “It’s not politics. That’s what the data say,” said the study’s author, who examined 70 tide gauges around the country.
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Rebutting a Trump report, study shows U.S. sea-level rise is accelerating
“It’s not politics. That’s what the data say,” said the study’s author, who examined 70 tide gauges around the country.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Rebutting a Trump report, study shows U.S. sea-level rise is accelerating. “It’s not politics. That’s what the data say,” said the study’s author, who examined 70 tide gauges around the country.
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‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement
The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurable
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The North is breaking up
From shrinking sea ice to wetter weather, the latest Arctic Report Card catalogues a year of rapid-fire climate change – and the world’s lagging efforts to slow it down.
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From shrinking sea ice to wetter weather, the latest Arctic Report Card catalogues a year of rapid-fire climate change – and the world’s lagging efforts to slow it down.
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Record Arctic warmth meets retreating climate action, leaving the North exposed
From shrinking sea ice to wetter weather, the latest report card catalogues a year of rapid-fire change
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December 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The North is breaking up
From shrinking sea ice to wetter weather, the latest Arctic Report Card catalogues a year of rapid-fire climate change – and the world’s lagging efforts to slow it down.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...
From shrinking sea ice to wetter weather, the latest Arctic Report Card catalogues a year of rapid-fire climate change – and the world’s lagging efforts to slow it down.
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Reposted by David Abel
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
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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.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
“For almost 10 years, residents have seen patterns and recognized that this could only be through exposure. We know what we see.”
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Kidney cancer cases spiked in a New Hampshire town. Will residents find out why? - The Boston Globe
Merrimack residents fear that PFAS contamination is to blame. But with federal dollars in flux, the researchers may not get the millions they need to pin down a cause.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
“For almost 10 years, residents have seen patterns and recognized that this could only be through exposure. We know what we see.”
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Entanglements and vessel strikes are the leading causes of right whale deaths.
Both can be improved, ships need to SLOW DOWN.
@seascapescience.bsky.social is working on a prediction tool to know where the whales will be swimming. It will save lives.
#cruiseships #vesselstrikes #rightwhales
Both can be improved, ships need to SLOW DOWN.
@seascapescience.bsky.social is working on a prediction tool to know where the whales will be swimming. It will save lives.
#cruiseships #vesselstrikes #rightwhales
The health of an endangered whale known as Division, which was recently found entangled in fishing gear off the coast of Georgia, is declining. Part of the rope is still deeply embedded in its head.
"Division's entanglement is significant and life-threatening."
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"Division's entanglement is significant and life-threatening."
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Critically endangered right whale often seen in New England waters may not survive severe entanglement
A right whale that's regularly seen in the waters off New England and Canada may not survive a severe entanglement, scientists say.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Entanglements and vessel strikes are the leading causes of right whale deaths.
Both can be improved, ships need to SLOW DOWN.
@seascapescience.bsky.social is working on a prediction tool to know where the whales will be swimming. It will save lives.
#cruiseships #vesselstrikes #rightwhales
Both can be improved, ships need to SLOW DOWN.
@seascapescience.bsky.social is working on a prediction tool to know where the whales will be swimming. It will save lives.
#cruiseships #vesselstrikes #rightwhales
The health of an endangered whale known as Division, which was recently found entangled in fishing gear off the coast of Georgia, is declining. Part of the rope is still deeply embedded in its head.
"Division's entanglement is significant and life-threatening."
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"Division's entanglement is significant and life-threatening."
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Critically endangered right whale often seen in New England waters may not survive severe entanglement
A right whale that's regularly seen in the waters off New England and Canada may not survive a severe entanglement, scientists say.
www.cbsnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The health of an endangered whale known as Division, which was recently found entangled in fishing gear off the coast of Georgia, is declining. Part of the rope is still deeply embedded in its head.
"Division's entanglement is significant and life-threatening."
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
"Division's entanglement is significant and life-threatening."
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
A federal judge just struck down Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
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Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy - The Boston Globe
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell hailed the ruling as a victory for green jobs and renewable energy.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A federal judge just struck down Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
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"Thinking, like strength, develops through resistance. The more we delegate our mental strain to machines, the more we lose the capacity to think at all."
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"Thinking, like strength, develops through resistance. The more we delegate our mental strain to machines, the more we lose the capacity to think at all."
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"In all, the team removed more than 300 feet of rope from Division. Thompson said it was clear the gear wasn’t from the Southeast. That rope will be examined further to determine its exact origin."
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In two-day effort at sea, team partially frees whale of fishing gear off Georgia coast - The Current
A team from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources disentangled a four-year-old male North Atlantic right whale, nicknamed Division, from commercial fishing gear after two days of exhausting and ...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"In all, the team removed more than 300 feet of rope from Division. Thompson said it was clear the gear wasn’t from the Southeast. That rope will be examined further to determine its exact origin."
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This morning's cold supermoon over Boston.
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This morning's cold supermoon over Boston.
Blooms of yellowish-brown seaweed along the Equator are breaking records and defiling beaches, while a centuries-old patch farther north is disappearing.
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Shifting Climate Alters Pattern of Atlantic’s Giant Seaweed Blobs
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December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Blooms of yellowish-brown seaweed along the Equator are breaking records and defiling beaches, while a centuries-old patch farther north is disappearing.
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Are harp seals responsible for the stalled recovery of Atlantic cod?
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Are harp seals responsible for the stalled recovery of Atlantic cod?
Since Atlantic cod fisheries collapsed in the early 1990s, ecosystems have been less productive and have struggled to recover.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Are harp seals responsible for the stalled recovery of Atlantic cod?
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