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Starting NOW!

Don’t miss The Water Remembers, featuring Amy Bowers Cordalis in conversation with @grist’s Anita Hofschneider.

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here:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85453825749

The event is supported by Meyer Memorial Trust.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse.

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#Disaster #Hurricane #Climate #Science
No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse
An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”
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November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies.

What one doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

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#Arizona #AZ #Health #Fever #PublicHealth
In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies
What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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‘We are not here for theater’: Can the ‘most Indigenous COP’ live up to the hype?

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#COP #Brazil #Brasil #Climate #Indigenous
'We are not here for theater': Can the 'most Indigenous COP' live up to the hype?
Brazil’s push to spotlight Indigenous voices at COP30 could redefine what inclusion looks like — or expose how shallow it’s been.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Flatwater Free Press and Grist hire Anila Yoganathan to cover climate change in Nebraska.

Yoganathan will report local stories, which will be available to republish for free.

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#Media #News #Nebraska #Climate #Press
Flatwater Free Press and Grist hire Anila Yoganathan to cover climate change in Nebraska
Yoganathan will report local stories, which will be available to republish for free.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?

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#Nature #Science #Parasites #Health
Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
Climate change is affecting parasites, but not in the way you might expect.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions.

Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.

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#Food #Indigenous #Tribes
The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions.
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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In our latest newsletter, @grist.org senior staff writer @zteirstein.bsky.social shares about the "Vital Signs" series about how climate change is threatening human health.

Read the full newsletter here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...
Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS Public health has improved over the past few decades in almost every country on Earth, thanks largely to better access to antibiotics, vaccines, and other interventions that keep diseases at bay. Well-being, life expectancy, maternal health, and other metrics of progress have gotten better. So why is the World Health Organization warning that humanity is on the precipice of a health crisis? The answer is that our public health innovations are predicated on the assumption that our environment will continue to function largely as it has since the end of the last Ice Age. But this fails to account for a century-plus of rampant fossil fuel use. I’m Zoya Teirstein, senior staff writer at Grist, where we recently launched an ambitious new series called “Vital Signs.” Over the next seven months, we'll take readers around the world to explore how climate change is threatening human health in ways that transcend borders. These changes, building slowly for decades, have only begun to spill into plain view: record outbreaks of dengue fever in Latin America last year, widespread drought-driven malnutrition in the Horn of Africa, wildfire smoke and impaired cognitive development in Australia, deadly waterborne bacteria moving up our own Atlantic Coast. We have tools to tackle these problems. The question is: Will humanity acknowledge the baseline shift in time to deploy them?
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn’t.

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#Hurricane #Insurance #Finance #Homes #Economics
They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn't.
Hurricane Ida revealed a fragile insurance industry ill-prepared for the consequences of climate change. More than four years later, what's changed?
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November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The ocean has been hoarding heat. Now it is building up a massive ‘burp.’

When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.

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#Oceans #Climate #Seas #MarineLife
The ocean has been hoarding heat. Now it is building up a massive 'burp.'
Even if humans cut emissions enough to reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Flatwater Free Press and Grist hire Anila Yoganathan to cover climate change in Nebraska.

Yoganathan will report local stories, which will be available to republish for free.

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#Media #News #Nebraska #Climate #Press
Flatwater Free Press and Grist hire Anila Yoganathan to cover climate change in Nebraska
Yoganathan will report local stories, which will be available to republish for free.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Read this short fiction story today!

Mousedeer Versus the Ghost Ships

When automated ships threaten their recovering ecosystem, it falls to Ah Ma and the crew of the Mousedeer to fight back.

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#Fiction #CliFi #SciFi #Solarpunk
Mousedeer Versus the Ghost Ships
Climate fiction: When automated ships threaten their recovering ecosystem, it falls to Ah Ma and the crew of the Mousedeer to fight back.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Heard from some family in Jamaica yesterday. It was the first time we were able to speak via phone. Power and water has been restored to their area so the kids were able to return to school Thursday.
One of the first things our cousin uttered about the strength of Melissa: climate change.
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No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse.

An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”

grist.org/climate/no-d...

#Hurricane #Weather #Climate
No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse
An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”
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November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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In 2024, the largest dam removal in U.S. history restored the Klamath River.

Join Grist's Anita Hofschneider and Amy Bowers Cordalis for The Water Remembers, a conversation on Indigenous environmental justice.

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#Dams #Indigenous #Nature #Environment #Water #Dams
The Water Remembers: A conversation with Amy Bowers Cordalis · Zoom · Luma
In 2024, the largest dam removal project in U.S. history was completed on the Klamath River—a moment decades in the making, led by Indigenous communities…
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November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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With SNAP in crisis, America’s epic food waste problem has become a lifeline.

The U.S. throws away enough food to help tackle its hunger problem. The government shutdown is proving it.

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#Hunger #SNAP #Food #Waste
With SNAP in crisis, America's epic food waste problem has become a lifeline
The U.S. throws away enough food to help tackle its hunger problem. The government shutdown is proving it.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car.

The president hates EVs. But his policies are making gas cars more expensive, too.

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#Car #Cars #EV #Transportation #Politics
Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car
The president hates EVs. But his policies are making gas cars more expensive too.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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In Georgia, power bills beat out party politics.

Will the new Democratic public service commissioners advance clean energy and shake up next year’s midterms?

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#GA #Georgia #Politics #Energy #Bills
In Georgia, power bills beat out party politics
Will the new Democratic public service commissioners advance clean energy and shake up next year’s midterms?
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November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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‘We are not here for theater’: Can the ‘most Indigenous COP’ live up to the hype?

Brazil’s push to spotlight Indigenous voices at COP30 could redefine what inclusion looks like — or expose how shallow it’s been

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#Indigenous #COP #Climate #Brazil #Brasil
'We are not here for theater': Can the 'most Indigenous COP' live up to the hype?
Brazil’s push to spotlight Indigenous voices at COP30 could redefine what inclusion looks like — or expose how shallow it’s been.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Are we all living in Florida now? The rise of ‘don’t say climate’ politics.

Talking about climate change may be politically radioactive, but adjusting to its effects is no longer optional.

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#Climate #Language #Politics #Florida
Are we all living in Florida now? The rise of 'don't say climate' politics.
Talking about climate change may be politically radioactive, but adjusting to its effects is no longer optional.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions.

Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.

grist.org/indigenous/t...

#Food #Indigenous #Tribes
The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions.
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
grist.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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With SNAP in crisis, America’s epic food waste problem has become a lifeline.

The U.S. throws away enough food to help tackle its hunger problem. The government shutdown is proving it.

grist.org/food-and-agr...

#Hunger #SNAP #Food #Waste
With SNAP in crisis, America's epic food waste problem has become a lifeline
The U.S. throws away enough food to help tackle its hunger problem. The government shutdown is proving it.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The EV battery tech that’s worth the hype, according to experts.

Major battery breakthroughs seemingly happen every day, but only some of that tech ever leaves the lab. WIRED breaks down what’s actually going to change EVs and what’s just a dream.

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#EV #Batteries #Energy
The EV battery tech that’s worth the hype, according to experts
Major battery breakthroughs seemingly happen every day, but only some of that tech ever leaves the lab. WIRED breaks down what’s actually going to change EVs and what’s just a dream.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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A $150 million “catastrophe bond” will help the island recover, but experts hope for more investment in adaptation. @grist.org
Hurricane Melissa Recovery Puts Jamaica’s Climate Resilience Plan to the Test
A $150 million “catastrophe bond” will help the island recover, but experts hope for more investment in adaptation.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The ocean has been hoarding heat. Now it is building up a massive ‘burp.’

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#Ocean #Heat #Climate #Nature
The ocean has been hoarding heat. Now it is building up a massive 'burp.'
Even if humans cut emissions enough to reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Here's your weekend climate fiction read. Save it and read it over the weekend!

The Case of the Missing Lake

Lake Ballona goes missing, and only the mushrooms can help.

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#Fiction #ClimateFiction #Library #Solarpunk
The Case of the Missing Lake
Climate fiction: Lake Ballona goes missing, and only the mushrooms can help.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM