Kea Krause
@keakrause.bsky.social
Writer & Pacific Northwesterner At Large / Work in Orion, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Wired, The Believer, Best American & More. Non-Profit News Award Finalist. Mother / Mainer / Seed enthusiast
https://www.keakrause.com/
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https://www.keakrause.com/
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Remembering this 2022 study that found that universal health care in the US could have saved 330,000 lives in the early days of covid.
It could also have saved us $105 billion -- ON TOP of the annual $438 billion we could save in non-pandemic years.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/univ...
It could also have saved us $105 billion -- ON TOP of the annual $438 billion we could save in non-pandemic years.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/univ...
Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID
The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone, a new study says
www.scientificamerican.com
December 7, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Remembering this 2022 study that found that universal health care in the US could have saved 330,000 lives in the early days of covid.
It could also have saved us $105 billion -- ON TOP of the annual $438 billion we could save in non-pandemic years.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/univ...
It could also have saved us $105 billion -- ON TOP of the annual $438 billion we could save in non-pandemic years.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/univ...
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Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now.
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now.
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine
Spent the summer in the woods writing this feature for @bowdoincollege.bsky.social Magazine about some of Maine’s oldest trees and how to care for a forest over time. Just your neighborhood ocean gal lost in the trees:
www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/11...
www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/11...
Letting in the Light
www.bowdoin.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Spent the summer in the woods writing this feature for @bowdoincollege.bsky.social Magazine about some of Maine’s oldest trees and how to care for a forest over time. Just your neighborhood ocean gal lost in the trees:
www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/11...
www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/11...
Took a break from my fisheries beat to write about mycoremediation and specifically fungi that are first responders to wild fire burn areas. My latest for @reasonstobecheerful.world:
reasonstobecheerful.world/fungi-first-...
reasonstobecheerful.world/fungi-first-...
Fungi Are Becoming Invaluable First Responders in Eco-Crises
When environmental disasters occur, live fungi are helping to quickly clean up everything from oil spills to toxic runoff.
reasonstobecheerful.world
October 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Took a break from my fisheries beat to write about mycoremediation and specifically fungi that are first responders to wild fire burn areas. My latest for @reasonstobecheerful.world:
reasonstobecheerful.world/fungi-first-...
reasonstobecheerful.world/fungi-first-...
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A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
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"There are only seven full-time book critics left in the United States...The rest of us are freelancers—and according to the Freelance Solidarity Project, nearly one-third of freelance book critics make less than the federal minimum wage for their reviews." worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan
What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.
worldliteraturetoday.org
August 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"There are only seven full-time book critics left in the United States...The rest of us are freelancers—and according to the Freelance Solidarity Project, nearly one-third of freelance book critics make less than the federal minimum wage for their reviews." worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
I got to do my favorite thing ever--talk about the weather--in my latest for @sierraclub.org:
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/windy...
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/windy...
Windy Work
Some of the worst weather in the world is offering up some of the most innovative solutions to weather technology
www.sierraclub.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I got to do my favorite thing ever--talk about the weather--in my latest for @sierraclub.org:
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/windy...
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/windy...
I’m thrilled to be teaching a workshop this fall over at Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance! Things are bad bad bad right now, I know, but perhaps a slow down and some time spent marveling and writing about the natural world with me is a good antidote:
www.mainewriters.org/calendar/bra...
www.mainewriters.org/calendar/bra...
Generating the Braided Nature Essay — Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
A 5-Week Nonfiction Workshop
www.mainewriters.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I’m thrilled to be teaching a workshop this fall over at Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance! Things are bad bad bad right now, I know, but perhaps a slow down and some time spent marveling and writing about the natural world with me is a good antidote:
www.mainewriters.org/calendar/bra...
www.mainewriters.org/calendar/bra...
It seems so simple but getting locally caught fish into school lunch rooms direct from the fishers both nourishes children and helps to fix local supply chains. My latest for @reasonstobecheerful.world:
reasonstobecheerful.world/sea-to-schoo...
reasonstobecheerful.world/sea-to-schoo...
How Fresh Fish From Monterey Bay Reaches School Lunch Trays
With Sea-to-School programs, the cafeteria is an extension of the classroom, where kids can learn to love sustainable local seafood.
reasonstobecheerful.world
August 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It seems so simple but getting locally caught fish into school lunch rooms direct from the fishers both nourishes children and helps to fix local supply chains. My latest for @reasonstobecheerful.world:
reasonstobecheerful.world/sea-to-schoo...
reasonstobecheerful.world/sea-to-schoo...
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
ICYMI: I wrote about birth control, plants and women's traditional medicine for @orionmagazine.bsky.social. Come for the crazy world of birth control over the past 5,000 years and stay for my simmering rage!
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Democracy of Wild Carrot - Orion Magazine
Lessons on birth control from the ubiquity of plants
orionmagazine.org
July 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
ICYMI: I wrote about birth control, plants and women's traditional medicine for @orionmagazine.bsky.social. Come for the crazy world of birth control over the past 5,000 years and stay for my simmering rage!
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
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This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.
NYT reports that a mysterious, *$984 million* transfer from a Pentagon"black box" account might be paying for the renovation of Trump's "free" Qatari jet.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.
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Earlier this year I traveled to Australia to report on a unique, localized geoengineering effort: Scientists are investigating whether they can help save the Great Barrier Reef by changing the weather, generating fog and brightening clouds
@nytimes.com Magazine 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/m...
@nytimes.com Magazine 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/m...
The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Earlier this year I traveled to Australia to report on a unique, localized geoengineering effort: Scientists are investigating whether they can help save the Great Barrier Reef by changing the weather, generating fog and brightening clouds
@nytimes.com Magazine 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/m...
@nytimes.com Magazine 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/m...
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For @orionmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about plants and birth control, and what we can learn from plants *about* birth control:
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Democracy of Wild Carrot - Orion Magazine
Lessons on birth control from the ubiquity of plants
orionmagazine.org
July 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
For @orionmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about plants and birth control, and what we can learn from plants *about* birth control:
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
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beautiful, elegant, wise new essay from @keakrause.bsky.social, we're so lucky orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Democracy of Wild Carrot - Orion Magazine
Lessons on birth control from the ubiquity of plants
orionmagazine.org
July 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
beautiful, elegant, wise new essay from @keakrause.bsky.social, we're so lucky orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
For @orionmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about plants and birth control, and what we can learn from plants *about* birth control:
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Democracy of Wild Carrot - Orion Magazine
Lessons on birth control from the ubiquity of plants
orionmagazine.org
July 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
For @orionmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about plants and birth control, and what we can learn from plants *about* birth control:
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
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Service Journalism - News you can use.
The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!
The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!
July 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Service Journalism - News you can use.
The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!
The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!
Once upon a time, I wrote a piece for @orionmagazine.bsky.social about seed saving and the end of the world, a feeling which I once hoped would be a passing phase:
A few years ago, we partnered with our friends at @thefern.org to report on seed saving. What could we learn, we asked together, from seeds and their impact on the world? Here, an answer and a fascinating journey into a tiny world of enormous importance.
What Seed-Saving Can Teach Us About the End of the World - Orion Magazine
Interest in the ancient practice spiked during the pandemic. But as climate change bears down, why we save seeds may matter as much as the act of saving them.
orionmagazine.org
July 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Once upon a time, I wrote a piece for @orionmagazine.bsky.social about seed saving and the end of the world, a feeling which I once hoped would be a passing phase:
Can't not wait to get this book in my hot little hands!!
Beyond thrilled to share that I'm writing my next book, AT HOME IN THE STARS. It's about the human expansion into space and space as a human environment. Think Carl Sagan meets Robert Macfarlane. 🪐✨🧑🚀🌱 If you want updates / news when the book is (someday) out: jaimealyse.behiiv.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Can't not wait to get this book in my hot little hands!!
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Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
July 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
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I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op
a point I make over and over re: climate change is that there’s no point at which it’s time to throw up your hands and give up, because each tenth of a degree you can prevent is worth it
2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth
2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth
New from me: An exclusive interview with David Suzuki, who talked about reaching the conclusion that humanity has failed in the fight against climate change, and why communities should start preparing for more destructive natural disasters #cdnpoli #cdnenviro
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
July 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op
FOUR TIMES
An astonishing figure in this piece:
Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.
This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.
That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.
This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.
That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.
newrepublic.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
FOUR TIMES
GO SEE LAURA!!!
I would love to see you as I launch Strata this summer! Please mark your calendars if you live in any of these places, and please spread the word. I'm so looking forward to being in conversation with these wonderful humans.
Some of the events require tickets, find details here: laurapoppick.com
Some of the events require tickets, find details here: laurapoppick.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
GO SEE LAURA!!!
Future-Stealers. Every last one of them.
July 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Future-Stealers. Every last one of them.
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The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
June 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.