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Justine Calma
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Senior reporter, environment & energy @theverge.com / Host of Hell or High Water: When disaster hits home, a podcast from Vox Media and Audible. “Después de la tormenta siempre llega la Calma” ❤️‍🩹
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Justine Calma @justcalma.bsky.social · Sep 18
Some happy news! won a @coveringclimatenow.org award for my reporting on how to bring a forest back to life in a warming world for @theverge.com. Thank you @icfjorg.bsky.social & Punto y Aparte, I couldn’t have reported this on the ground without your support
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The 2025 CCNow Journalism Awards — Covering Climate Now
Covering Climate Now is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 CCNow Journalism Awards. Our awards program, now in its fifth year, honors excellent reporting on many critical dimensions of the c...
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steventender.com
Excellent reporting and another reason why I subscribe to @theverge.com
scottmeslow.bsky.social Scott Meslow @scottmeslow.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks so much to everyone who has checked in about what it’s like in Minneapolis right now. This should answer most of your questions:
It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
www.theverge.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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“The speed, the scope and the severity of the attacks on science are beyond anything we’ve ever seen,” says @gretchentg.bsky.social.

My @nature.com story on the human toll of the 2nd Trump presidency.

Thx to @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com & others.
‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
www.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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Another year, another round of layoffs at Vox Media. In solidarity with our laid-off colleagues, here is our full statement:
Today, Friday, January 16, 2026, the Vox Media Union received news from management about more layoffs at the company: three in-unit workers from PopSugar, two from The Verge, and three from Eater — not including a number of out-of-unit employees — some of whom were on parental and other types of company-approved leave. Beyond this, the company announced that it will no longer have a centralized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI+) team, redistributing that work across the People team and leadership, and keeping Employee Resource Groups as simply Slack spaces without formal lead roles or any standalone budgets. There is almost no further room to be shocked at these developments, as the company has laid off workers at an average of once per quarter in the last year, but we continue to be disgusted by the fact that leadership seems to have developed no real learning or commitment to workforce sustainability and retention. Those at the top remain safe in their positions while mercilessly cutting off those who work day in and day out (and then some) to make sure that essential, business-critical work is done. Our indispensable colleagues are now in extra vulnerable positions, having to navigate workplace bureaucracy alongside a volatile job market and relentless threats to the integrity of journalism as a whole. This union is proud to have rallied in multiple rounds of contract bargaining to ensure more equitable worker rights and protections in the face of management incompetence. As always, we, along with our Guild reps, will continue to demand that members are treated fairly in the aftermath of layoffs. Details on how you can support laid-off workers at Vox Media will be forthcoming. Please follow the Vox Media Union on Instagram (@voxmediaunion) and Bluesky (@voxunion.bsky.social). Solidarity forever. The Vox Media Union Committees Writers Guild of America East, AFL-CIO
January 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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theverge.com
Wildfires are becoming too big a threat for any single homeowner, neighborhood, or even firefighting squad to just play defense. The fight is now collective and starts from the ground up, when homes are built.

Read more from @justcalma.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/features/861...
Verge headline: How to fireproof a city by Justine Calma Photo shows an aerial view of two neighboring towns divided by a road. The right side has houses full of green grass and trees, the left side is more stripped down, full of dirt yards as part of fireproofing
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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theverge.com
RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid could be a disaster for the environment — if Americans actually pay any attention to it
RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid could be a disaster for the environment — if Americans actually pay any attention to it
Beef tallow is making a comeback, along with carbon emissions.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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"Trump wants Venezuela’s oil, Greenland’s minerals, and above all — control." Uprooter @justcalma.bsky.social for @theverge.com

www.theverge.com/report/85797...
America’s new era of energy imperialism is about more than oil
“Make the resources in your country available to us on our terms or you are subject to invasion.”
www.theverge.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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even if you’re not directly in Trump’s crosshairs, people around the world will grapple with the political and environmental ripple effects of whatever global game of chicken he plays next.
www.theverge.com/report/85797...
America’s new era of energy imperialism is about more than oil
“Make the resources in your country available to us on our terms or you are subject to invasion.”
www.theverge.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
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December 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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theverge.com
The US wants to bring back domestic chipmaking. But America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured unsafe manufacturing conditions and never got answers about kids born with birth defects.

Read more from @justcalma.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/features/611...
Verge headline: The women who made America's microchips and the children who paid for it by Justine Calma Photo depicts a darkened doorway leading into a partial view of a man sitting on a bed
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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theverge.com
Grassroots groups, voters, and local lawmakers have managed to block or stall tens of billions of dollars’ worth of potential investment in proposed data centers. And they’re not letting up.

This report from @justcalma.bsky.social is free to read for today only: www.theverge.com/science/8411...
Verge Headline: Communities are rising up against data centers -- and winning by Justine Calma 2025 Year in Review Photo illustration of a series of servers
December 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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One more unexpected story for a ridiculous year
www.theverge.com/report/84820...
Don’t expect Trump Media’s nuclear fusion power plant to generate electricity soon
Scientists have been chasing the ‘Holy Grail’ of clean energy for decades.
www.theverge.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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theverge.com
Communities are rising up against data centers — and winning
Communities are rising up against data centers — and winning
Opposition against data centers came to a head in 2025.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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theverge.com
Next-generation nuclear reactors could get a boost from the National Defense Authorization Act
Next-generation nuclear reactors could get a boost from the National Defense Authorization Act  
Congress passed energy provisions in the annual defense bill that could help spur the development of advanced nuclear reactors.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
justcalma.bsky.social
looks like AI could already be using more water than researchers expected it to in 2027 www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
It’s guzzling up even more water than expected.
www.theverge.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs
Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs 
They expect answers by January.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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What could go wrong www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... via @elissawelle.bsky.social
Billionaires want data centers everywhere, including space
Guess what scientists think?
www.theverge.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Why can't we just upgrade old data centers instead of building new ones? The latest AI tech is getting too damn heavy www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Racks of AI chips are too damn heavy
Too great a weight.
www.theverge.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Killer @justcalma.bsky.social piece on the mad scramble solar installers are facing to get systems installed before the end of the year… and the deep uncertainty about what comes next. (Inside baseball: got this story idea from the installers at my house last week!) www.theverge.com/science/8448...
The ‘mad rush’ to install solar panels before tax credits run out
There will be winners and losers.
www.theverge.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social team is working hard to provide updates on the record flooding happening across western Washington. I'm reporting on the tribal impacts.

Live updates here: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Live: Historic flooding in Skagit, Snohomish rivers force road closures, evacuations
Washington is under a state of emergency due to historic flooding. See the latest weather forecasts, road closures, evacuations, shelters and news.
www.seattletimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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theverge.com
Data center construction moratorium is gaining steam
Data center construction moratorium is gaining steam
The US needs a moratorium on data centers, health and environmental groups tell Congress.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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"Dems must pivot to energy affordability and also embrace nuclear power" is a take I've read several times just today, and not a single time did the author pause to contemplate the dissonance.
December 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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got an important COP30 story out for @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social about climate migrants and the advocates keeping them front and center at these international negotiations

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Millions have fled weather disasters, but they had few champions at COP30 » Yale Climate Connections
Advocates are working to ensure that world leaders don’t ignore people displaced by climate change.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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theverge.com
Trump embraces gas guzzlers and air pollution by weakening fuel economy standards
Trump embraces gas guzzlers and air pollution by weakening fuel economy standards
It wasn’t enforcing them anyway. 
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December 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
justcalma.bsky.social
“We’re like a flea on David’s head fighting Goliath…challenging the might of some of the world’s most powerful and highly capitalized companies.” I talked w/ workers, AZ residents, labor/enviro groups, & industry about the resurgence of chip manufacturing in the US www.theverge.com/features/825...
We visited the heart of America’s chipmaking boom
Phoenix is the new Silicon Valley.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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great headline by @justcalma.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM