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What Technology Can, and Can't, Do to Boost Flood Warning Awareness and Safety

🎶 My Heavy Metal Days

After Reporting on Global Warming from the Burning Amazon to the Thawing North Pole, I Discovered the Scariest Science...

From Texas to Jakarta, Warnings About Flood Warnings

Closing the Deadly "Last-Mile" Gap Between Weather Warnings and Those Most in Harm's Way

Why this Sustain What Project is Framed as a Question

The Texas Flash Floods

BalancedWx Special: Tragic flash flooding in the Texas Hill Country

A Top Tornado-Focused Meteorologist Issues a Stark Warning About Trump's Weather-Research Cuts

Why a substack on energy, electrification and the material economy? Why now? and What? for Whom ?

Rubio Announces the New "America First" Rebrand of U.S. Aid After Killing USAID

How to Feed 9 Billion People Without Trashing and Overheating Earth

In 1950 a Republican Senator from Maine Stood up to Homegrown Fascism. So Much for a Repeat...

Eating the Earth with Michael Grunwald

Resurrect George Washington to Defy Wannabe King Trump a Third Term?

The Cup is Already Broken, The Laptop is Already Wiped

A Song of Remembrance and Commitment

From Grief to Grit: Reclaiming Purpose in the Aftermath of USAID

New York orders its first new nuclear plant in four decades

Persian Gulf Ship Traffic is Threatened by More than Iran's Mines and Missiles

Asbestos, the Magic Mineral, Is Back!

A Day for Showing Your Climate Stripes, and Trying Other Ways to Make Data Matter

Meet Kate Marvel, the NASA Climate Scientist Who's Written a "Biography of Earth in Nine Emotions"

Meet climate scientist Kate Marvel - a biographer of "Earth in nine emotions"

A Visual Tour of American Character(s)

How to Disagree Constructively - on Everything from Gaza to MAGA

The Senate Just Dropped a Sledgehammer on Clean Energy

World Bank nuclear ban, RIP

Some GOP Lawmakers Claim to be Fighting to Sustain Clean-Energy Progress, But When it Comes to Voting, Not so Much...

After an X-cruciating Post, ABC's Terry Moran is Launching his Substack Journey

After an X-cruciating Post, ABC's Terry Moran is Launching his Substack Journey

What Social Scientists Say About Violent and Peaceful Resistance to Tyrannical Takeovers

With Media Focused on Rocks and Rubber Bullets, Can Peaceful Resistance to Trump Work?

Trump's Whiplash Effect on a U.S. Weather Data Pipeline

Who Knew that Otters 🦦🦦 Would Make Such a Useful AI and Climate Explanatory Tool...

In 1950 a Republican Senator from Maine Stood up to Homegrown Fascism. So Much for a Repeat...

Welcoming Nuclear Policy Expert Jessica Lovering to Substack

A Promising Geothermal Update via a Fine Energy Reporter

From Communities to Corporations - How to Cut Vulnerabilities that Turn Hazards into Disasters

🎺 Where Will They Go When There's No More Room in Arlington?

Like a Storm-Toppled "Phoenix" Tree, U.S. Democracy is Knocked Down, but Can Bloom Again

13 takeaways from Trump's executive orders on nuclear power

As Trump Shreds Science Budgets and Agencies, a Baby Saved with CRISPR Shows Their Value

Vital Lessons Emerge from Hurricane Helene's Deadly Inland Torrents in Spots Unreached by Warnings

A Poet and a Picker Explore Everything from Romania's Election to How Steve Martin Learned Banjo

Sunday Evening Sanity with a Poet Provocateur and Banjo Wizard

Want To Save This Cute Species? Go Visit.

Spurred by a 1995 Warning from Carl Sagan, a Sanity Chat with a Pediatrician Fighting Trumpism

China's CO2 Flow Drops Despite Growing Electricity Demand

A Professional Climate-Policy Pugilist and a Journalist Meet in a Podcast on Messaging

🎼 Weekend Song Break: Skeptic in Heaven

Trump's Whiplash Effect on a U.S. Weather Data Pipeline

How Newsrooms Can Take Creators More Seriously

Keep Your Climate Goals in Your Pocket While Pursuing a U-Turn from Trump's Lock on Power

🎼 Trump and Obama run for President in 2044 (Sasha and Barron... and it's Okay... Really...)

A Climate Villain and a Climate Hero: Marc Morano and Andy Revkin - ABT Kindred Spirits Group #15

🎼 Skip the Pundits for Some Sunday Sanity

All Living Weather Service Directors Unite Against Trump's Dangerous Blunt-Force Cuts

As Trump Slashes Funding for State Disaster Planning and Response, the Bull's Eye in Danger Zones Keeps Growing

A Teaching Framework Helping Students (or Others!) Tackle Complex Challenges With Impact in Mind

A Maine Teacher and a Former Student Show How to Turn Classroom Inquiry into Societal Impact

Saving babies lives with solar power

How to Define Nuclear Success

Fake newspapers are flooding America

When Science and Values Met - at the Vatican

To Save the Republic, Pledge Now to Register as a Republican Ahead of the Midterms? I asked Grok.

A Chill Falls on the Climate Community

Facing Trump Attacks, a Funding Implosion and Too Much More, Here's What Journalism is For - and How to Sustain it

Amid Autocrats' Attacks, Imploding Revenue and a Flood of Distraction and Fakery, What is Journalism For?

A 1994 Song About the Interrogation of an Illegal Immigrant Fisherman Sadly Gains Fresh Attention

Advice for Aspiring Scientists Amid a Spasm of Anti-Science Doge Demolition

Yes, Climate and Democracy Progress is Possible Despite Trump's Demolition Derby

Explore how to Sustain Democracy and Climate Action Amid Trump Attacks with Illinois Rep. Sean Casten

Trump and His Homeland Security Chief Noem Boost Insecurity in Disaster-Prone Communities

Bird by bird, step by step, problem by problem

Abusing Presidential "National Emergencies" for Power and Profit

"We Shall Not Be Moved"

Voices from the Nationwide "Hands Off" Anti-Autocracy Protests

Hidden Amid the Vast Depths of the Indian Ocean, Rogue Fishing Imperils a Rare and Vital Shallow Ecosystem

Nearly 2,000 Scientists, and One Republican Senator, Warn of Grave Dangers in Cutting U.S. Science Support

Catastrophic M7.7 earthquake caused by rupture of Sagaing Fault in Myanmar

Government Efficiency, "Abundance" and More Explored by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson with Lex Fridman

Kennedy orders his old NGO to take down a fake "CDC" vaccine / autism website after it is exposed by Substack's InfoEpi Lab

I am not DOGE

When Will We Ever Learn? Calls for a U.S. Disaster Safety Board Keep Piling Up

Electrify Everything for Sure - But Start with Those With Hardly Any Energy

You've Marched for Science. What Next?

America is Trapped in a Burning Tesla

Assessing the Dangerous Trump / Musk Effect on Aviation and Highway Safety

A Close Look at Transportation Risk Under Trump

♪♫♬ Honoring Ukraine's Sacrifice and Musicality in a Mad World

The Dangerous Trump Purge of Weather and Climate Expertise

More New Science Undercuts the Hot and Chilly Narrative Around a Looming Atlantic Current Collapse

U.S. Doctor Who Had Ebola Rails Against Elon Musk's White House USAID Claim

I watched the MMPA ESA hearings so you don't have to

As Trump Floods All Zones With Fakery, It's Vital to Spread Propaganda Literacy

Danger Signs Flash as the Trump - Musk "Cultural Revolution" Hits Escape Velocity

The war against electric vehicles

Tactics for Constraining Catastrophe When a Superpower Goes Rogue - Russia in 2022, Now the U.S. Under Trump?

Skip the Pundits for Some 🎶 Sunday Sanity

All Hail the New York Post for Reminding Trump Who's a Dictator and Who's a U.S. Ally

A Wired Journalist Shows How to Avoid Boosting Musk's and Trump's Dodgy "DOGE" Propaganda

Something Trump Can Do to Help Americans Withstand Extreme Temperatures - Cold and Hot

A Scientist Warns About Hazards Attending Trump's Greenland Ambitions

Your Freedoms Under Siege

A Dose of Sunday Sanity and Advice for Staying Open to the World at Age 94

Essential Insights from a Top Climate Researcher Who Warns Against "Climatism"

With U.S. Aid for Lifesaving Overseas Programs Still a Tangle, "People are Dying"

Ground Truthing African Harms from Trump's Assault on USAID

Amid the Worst Surge Toward Autocracy in a Century, Here's How U-Turns Toward Democracy Can Happen

With Autocracy Surging, It's Worth Exploring a Paper Charting "U-Turn" Reversals to Democratization

Try a Dose of Music Instead of Dueling Pundits

Music for Trump Time - 🎶 Save Dreams for Sleeping, It's Time to Get Real

Before Trump Takes it Down, Here's USAID Explaining Its Support of Journalism in Repressive Places

Caught in the Trump & Musk Flood Zone? Narrative Analyst Randy Olson Has Some Advice

Wealth Management with Human and Planetary Progress in Mind

It's Much More than "Shock & Awe"

A Vision for Philanthropic Funding of a 21st-Century Renaissance

My Advice to Pundits on the Tragic Midair Collision: Shut Up and Wait for the NTSB to Do Its Vital Work

A Call for a Communication Solution to Trump's Climate Information Pollution

The Up-and-Down Road Beyond 1.5 °C

How Agencies and Communities Facing Wildfire and Other Climate-Linked Hazards Can Collaborate to Cut Risk Now

Michael Shellenberger's (Wind) Power Trip

The Price of Speaking Up in Trump's America

Michael Liebreich on How A.I. Giants Can Help (or Hurt) the Grid and the Prospect of Sensible Discourse with Trump's Energy Secretary

A Michael Liebreich Reality Check on "Net Zero," Trump's "Energy Emergency" and more

An Adaptive Path to Effective Journalism on Earth's Threatened Tropical Frontiers

Lessons for L.A. from San Francisco's 1906 Quake and Inferno, and from Outliers

Music Aside: Where Will You Be When You've Won?

Amid Firestorms of Fakery, How to Seek Reality (and Spread that Capacity)

Building Forward Safer Where Communities Grow Into Wildfire Danger Zones

Causes and Potential Solutions to the LA Wildfire Disaster

A Wildfire Risk Watchword - "Grandfathered"

"Wild" Fire is Inevitable; Urban Home Ignitions Are Not

With Trump's Victory Certified, Here's Why January 7 Should be a U.S. National Holiday

With gratitude

Democracy - What's Cartooning Got to Do With It?