Lovely to receive the first copies of my new book, "Life on a Little-Known Planet." Thanks to www.evangaffneydesign.com for the great cover design.

Fortunate that @climatecentral.org is keeping the billion-dollar climate-related disaster list going, as the first half of 2025 was a doozy. You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

From the rally today in front of the American Embassy in Berlin:

I’m thrilled to share that my new collection, "Life on a Little‑Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World," will be released on November 4th. It’s now available for preorder in hardcover, eBook, and audiobook formats.

So sad that this country does not have a functional rail system.

It's now well-documented that biofuels don't reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So, of course, they're getting an even bigger handout from the Senate budget bill.

The list of provisions in the big, bloated bill currently being debated in the Senate includes this little-remarked-on doozy:

I don't know why anyone bothers to write dystopian novels these days when you can just read the homepage of the New York Times.

Thrilled to see my book "H Is for Hope" on the longlist for the Massachusetts Book Award!

Spring is here and it's toad mating time at the local pond!

Apparently at his confirmation hearing today, Brandon Williams, Trump's nominee to head the National Nuclear Security Administration, said he wouldn't recommend reviving underground nuclear testing. This is what counts as good news these days.

This is from the American Enterprise Institute. Think about that for a minute.

Actual bureaucratic problem, which DOGE surely won't solve. To get a Real ID, you need to prove your SSN. I brought a 1099, which according to the MA RMV's website, counts as proof. But 1099s say "taxpayer id number," not SSN, so RMV won't accept.

Finally, some good news to report: the peepers are peeping!

We are really in hot water, to coin a phrase.

A phrase you are going to hear a lot from now on: “We’re entering uncharted territories.”