Lisa Song
@lisalsong.bsky.social
Climate/environment reporter at ProPublica. Cartoon me by Laila Milevski. Pro-cats, anti-carrots. Contact: lisasong.42 on Signal
I made a whole "Just Cause" cake for this. Please share and sign our petition to help us get a fair contract asap -- And so I never have to repeat the experience of positioning fish-shaped sprinkles with tweezers. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I made a whole "Just Cause" cake for this. Please share and sign our petition to help us get a fair contract asap -- And so I never have to repeat the experience of positioning fish-shaped sprinkles with tweezers. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Understatement of the year: there's a lot happening with science and the environment...
Here's how I plan to cover these issues. Contact me if you have a story idea.
Here's how I plan to cover these issues. Contact me if you have a story idea.
February 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Understatement of the year: there's a lot happening with science and the environment...
Here's how I plan to cover these issues. Contact me if you have a story idea.
Here's how I plan to cover these issues. Contact me if you have a story idea.
This is the best “I voted” sticker I’ve ever gotten
October 31, 2024 at 2:15 PM
This is the best “I voted” sticker I’ve ever gotten
6/ Mass balance is a kind of mathematical sleight of hand. With it, companies can label products as containing more recycled, or “circular” content, than they physically have.
Europe has started to regulate mass balance; the U.S. hasn’t.
Europe has started to regulate mass balance; the U.S. hasn’t.
June 20, 2024 at 3:38 PM
6/ Mass balance is a kind of mathematical sleight of hand. With it, companies can label products as containing more recycled, or “circular” content, than they physically have.
Europe has started to regulate mass balance; the U.S. hasn’t.
Europe has started to regulate mass balance; the U.S. hasn’t.
4/ First, pyrolysis is inefficient. Most of the plastic that goes into pyrolysis doesn’t actually end up as new plastic.
Only 15% - 20% of the plastic waste you feed into the process is turned into new plastic. (It could go higher or lower depending on certain factors.)
Only 15% - 20% of the plastic waste you feed into the process is turned into new plastic. (It could go higher or lower depending on certain factors.)
June 20, 2024 at 3:20 PM
4/ First, pyrolysis is inefficient. Most of the plastic that goes into pyrolysis doesn’t actually end up as new plastic.
Only 15% - 20% of the plastic waste you feed into the process is turned into new plastic. (It could go higher or lower depending on certain factors.)
Only 15% - 20% of the plastic waste you feed into the process is turned into new plastic. (It could go higher or lower depending on certain factors.)
I got whiplash from seeing so many pro-plastic ads right outside the meeting venue, then interviewing people who were the most affected by plastic's toxic footprint. I also saw activists with posters protesting industry conflict of interest at the conference:
May 10, 2024 at 3:47 PM
I got whiplash from seeing so many pro-plastic ads right outside the meeting venue, then interviewing people who were the most affected by plastic's toxic footprint. I also saw activists with posters protesting industry conflict of interest at the conference:
I’m at INC-4 in Ottawa, reporting on the Plastics Treaty. The conference itself is plastic-free (food sold at the venue is wrapped in paper), but these ads are plastered in the hotel next door where events are being held
April 24, 2024 at 4:40 PM
I’m at INC-4 in Ottawa, reporting on the Plastics Treaty. The conference itself is plastic-free (food sold at the venue is wrapped in paper), but these ads are plastered in the hotel next door where events are being held
Obligatory snow leopard photo:
April 10, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Obligatory snow leopard photo:
Back from vacation in Syracuse, where I spent Monday at the zoo, hoping to see animals do weird stuff during the eclipse. Alas, the colobus monkeys I stood next to were pretty chill before, during and after totality.
April 10, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Back from vacation in Syracuse, where I spent Monday at the zoo, hoping to see animals do weird stuff during the eclipse. Alas, the colobus monkeys I stood next to were pretty chill before, during and after totality.
Residents described other impacts near the mine owned by Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée: wells that ran dry; agricultural lands seized without adequate payment; explosions that cracked the walls of their homes. (📸 by @KFlynnNola) 10/
December 2, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Residents described other impacts near the mine owned by Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée: wells that ran dry; agricultural lands seized without adequate payment; explosions that cracked the walls of their homes. (📸 by @KFlynnNola) 10/
The companies predicted their mines would lead to the deaths of 73 – 243 chimps. The deaths would occur over time—as female chimps stop reproducing due to stress, and males injure or kill one another fighting over shrinking territory. (📸courtesy of Maegan Fitzgerald) 4/
December 2, 2024 at 10:15 PM
The companies predicted their mines would lead to the deaths of 73 – 243 chimps. The deaths would occur over time—as female chimps stop reproducing due to stress, and males injure or kill one another fighting over shrinking territory. (📸courtesy of Maegan Fitzgerald) 4/
After years of reporting on carbon offsets, I got a tip on biodiversity offsets.
The story took me to Guinea, where a World Bank Group-funded project left a trail of hunger, displaced families, decimated ecosystems and conditions ripe for infectious outbreaks. (📸@KFlynnNola) 1/
The story took me to Guinea, where a World Bank Group-funded project left a trail of hunger, displaced families, decimated ecosystems and conditions ripe for infectious outbreaks. (📸@KFlynnNola) 1/
December 2, 2024 at 10:00 PM
After years of reporting on carbon offsets, I got a tip on biodiversity offsets.
The story took me to Guinea, where a World Bank Group-funded project left a trail of hunger, displaced families, decimated ecosystems and conditions ripe for infectious outbreaks. (📸@KFlynnNola) 1/
The story took me to Guinea, where a World Bank Group-funded project left a trail of hunger, displaced families, decimated ecosystems and conditions ripe for infectious outbreaks. (📸@KFlynnNola) 1/
Just got my first shot, so this is me, all day.
December 2, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Just got my first shot, so this is me, all day.
The adrenaline rush after an unexpected, great interview 🤩
Never gets old. I probably shouldn't be drinking coffee right now, but oh well
Never gets old. I probably shouldn't be drinking coffee right now, but oh well
December 2, 2024 at 11:56 PM
The adrenaline rush after an unexpected, great interview 🤩
Never gets old. I probably shouldn't be drinking coffee right now, but oh well
Never gets old. I probably shouldn't be drinking coffee right now, but oh well
The details are horrifying: @jbsapien @js_kaplan interviewed 19 current and former officers about 1/6 and how failures of leadership and communication put Capitol cops at risk...
December 3, 2024 at 12:01 AM
The details are horrifying: @jbsapien @js_kaplan interviewed 19 current and former officers about 1/6 and how failures of leadership and communication put Capitol cops at risk...
How @CarolineYLChen makes my brain go 😱 in a few sentences:
aka what you need to know about coronavirus variants, and why opening restaurants is exactly what the virus wants us to...
aka what you need to know about coronavirus variants, and why opening restaurants is exactly what the virus wants us to...
December 3, 2024 at 12:11 AM
How @CarolineYLChen makes my brain go 😱 in a few sentences:
aka what you need to know about coronavirus variants, and why opening restaurants is exactly what the virus wants us to...
aka what you need to know about coronavirus variants, and why opening restaurants is exactly what the virus wants us to...
"She became known at the Vatican as the Map Lady."
What a great story. Using geographic data to help the Catholic Church fight climate change (and hold them accountable in general) is such a unique, compelling angle....
What a great story. Using geographic data to help the Catholic Church fight climate change (and hold them accountable in general) is such a unique, compelling angle....
December 3, 2024 at 12:11 AM
"She became known at the Vatican as the Map Lady."
What a great story. Using geographic data to help the Catholic Church fight climate change (and hold them accountable in general) is such a unique, compelling angle....
What a great story. Using geographic data to help the Catholic Church fight climate change (and hold them accountable in general) is such a unique, compelling angle....
The "media still seems unwilling or unable to reform itself. There have been no major efforts as an industry to systematically examine the role we played in America’s journey to the brink."
I wish more people with power would listen to @KarenAttiah...
I wish more people with power would listen to @KarenAttiah...
December 3, 2024 at 12:21 AM
The "media still seems unwilling or unable to reform itself. There have been no major efforts as an industry to systematically examine the role we played in America’s journey to the brink."
I wish more people with power would listen to @KarenAttiah...
I wish more people with power would listen to @KarenAttiah...
Inside the Fall of the CDC:
This is so enraging, I had to take breaks while reading it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#1004665
This is so enraging, I had to take breaks while reading it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#1004665
December 3, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Inside the Fall of the CDC:
This is so enraging, I had to take breaks while reading it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#1004665
This is so enraging, I had to take breaks while reading it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#1004665
"With climate change, though, both the summer and fall fire seasons have grown longer, and are melting into each other, overlapping in time and space."
@A_L @lizweil on how climate affects "fire weather" in CA. Features my new fav word,...
@A_L @lizweil on how climate affects "fire weather" in CA. Features my new fav word,...
December 3, 2024 at 2:52 AM
"With climate change, though, both the summer and fall fire seasons have grown longer, and are melting into each other, overlapping in time and space."
@A_L @lizweil on how climate affects "fire weather" in CA. Features my new fav word,...
@A_L @lizweil on how climate affects "fire weather" in CA. Features my new fav word,...
December 3, 2024 at 3:57 AM
I wrote this in June, and it's sadly, repeatedly relevant: tear gas is more dangerous than police say it is, especially during a respiratory pandemic:...
December 3, 2024 at 4:02 AM
I wrote this in June, and it's sadly, repeatedly relevant: tear gas is more dangerous than police say it is, especially during a respiratory pandemic:...
Yet "another example of why we need to worry more" is not what I wanted to hear about climate change, thanks.
Hotter temperatures could release more carbon from tropical...
Hotter temperatures could release more carbon from tropical...
December 3, 2024 at 4:22 AM
Yet "another example of why we need to worry more" is not what I wanted to hear about climate change, thanks.
Hotter temperatures could release more carbon from tropical...
Hotter temperatures could release more carbon from tropical...
This is both a) an incredible quote and b) terrifying. Very glad I haven't needed/experienced this kind of coronavirus testing yet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/health/fast-coronavirus-tests.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/health/fast-coronavirus-tests.html
December 3, 2024 at 4:32 AM
This is both a) an incredible quote and b) terrifying. Very glad I haven't needed/experienced this kind of coronavirus testing yet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/health/fast-coronavirus-tests.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/health/fast-coronavirus-tests.html
Health experts are demoralized about repeatedly shouting evidence-based advice into a political void, re coronavirus.
“It feels like writing ‘Bad things are about to happen’ on a napkin and then setting the napkin on...
“It feels like writing ‘Bad things are about to happen’ on a napkin and then setting the napkin on...
December 3, 2024 at 4:53 AM
Health experts are demoralized about repeatedly shouting evidence-based advice into a political void, re coronavirus.
“It feels like writing ‘Bad things are about to happen’ on a napkin and then setting the napkin on...
“It feels like writing ‘Bad things are about to happen’ on a napkin and then setting the napkin on...