Eric Roston

Eric Roston

@eroston.bsky.social

Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. He/him. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine. "The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders. Signal: eroston.87 Bloomberg Green

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Eric Roston
@eroston.bsky.social

The Mill was a small NYC Korean restaurant two blocks from Columbia University. It closed in August 2021. For more than 60 years it quietly stood for the best of the United States. If I had to guess, I would say very very very few people know this story. Thinking about the Mill this week. 🧵

Eric Roston
@eroston.bsky.social

Wim Wender couldn't make "Wings of Desire" today, because when the angel peers into everyone's minds on the subway, he'd just hear tiktoks, video games noises, and woke or anti-woke podcasts.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley
@amandakhurley.bsky.social

"We have been fighting against the environment." On Brazil's Amazon frontier, where many people have cleared patches of rainforest to farm them, one town aims to give Bolsonaro 90% of its votes on Sunday. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comBolsonaro Embraced by Amazon Town Rebelling Against Green PoliciesIn Brazil’s Novo Progresso, where many people farm land that used to be part of the rainforest, support for the conservative candidate is overwhelming.
Eric Roston
@eroston.bsky.social

Maybe schedule your bucket-list snorkeling and diving trips sooner rather than later.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

In the coming century, there will be very few people who have seen a coral reef or a glacier.

theguardian.comAlmost every shallow-water coral reef on the planet faces ecosystem collapse by 2075, UN advisors sayAssessment finds global heating is endangering 96% of coral reefs across 80 countries – a figure scientists say should serve as a ‘wake-up call’

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Amanda Kolson Hurley
@amandakhurley.bsky.social

Grimly fascinating story on Russian disinfo in 2026. Operative tactics include "bombarding fact-checking organizations with emails urging them to investigate the fake posts in an apparent bid to generate media coverage" www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.comRussia Is Using an Army of Bots to Push Fake US Election VideosState-backed Matryoshka campaign targeting Democrats inflates view counts of fabricated stories, creating illusion of popularity.
Eric Roston
@eroston.bsky.social

Oof, terrible time for Malibu... (2/2) bsky.app/profile/ianj...

Ian James@ianjames.bsky.social

Crews are battling a fire in Malibu as the Santa Ana winds bring hazardous conditions in Southern California www.latimes.com/california/s... @latimes.com

latimes.comCrews battle Malibu fire as SoCal braces for another day of Santa Ana windsThe Bryson fire sparked evacuation orders for the Encinal Canyon area near Trancas Canyon. A larger swath of Malibu was under an evacuation warning.

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Nadja Popovich
@popovichn.bsky.social

I dug into EIA data and found a growing divide between electricity prices at investor-owned utilities and public power providers. Then @michellema.bsky.social and I visited two towns that show what that divide means for customers on the ground. Read our story here! www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.comOne Home’s Power Bill Is $500. A Half-Mile Away, It’s 70% LowerThe stark difference reflects a growing national divide between investor-owned utilities and public power providers

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Todd Woody
@toddwoody.bsky.social

New: AI data centers’ indirect water use - water consumed by power plants to generate electricity for power-hungry server farms - is magnitudes larger than the facilities’ onsite water consumption and is largely undisclosed. Free link. With @mchediak.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comAI's Water Strain Includes Surging Demand From Electricity UseIt takes a lot of water to generate the power consumed by server farms.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley
@amandakhurley.bsky.social

Brazilian prosecutors are suing Shell over the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods. It’s the first time globally that a national public prosecutor has sued an oil major for climate damages. www.afp.com/en/brazil-pr...

afp.comBrazil prosecutors sue Shell for $108 mn over deadly 2024 floodsBrazilian prosecutors on Friday filed an unprecedented lawsuit against oil giant Shell's subsidiary in the country, demanding $108 million in...

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Milton Keynes, a government-planned New Town once derided as bland, is getting recognition for its culture. But its economic success has long made it a humble model for city-building. Read more: bloom.bg/3VZvOdX 📷: Chunip Wong/iStockphoto

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Karen Yourish
@karenyourish.bsky.social

NEW: President Trump has cast doubt on U.S. elections at least once on 440 days of his second term, nearly three-quarters of his days in office. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.comAll the Ways Trump Has Attacked Elections In His Second Term (Gift Article)President Trump has attacked the integrity of U.S. elections on more than 70 percent of the days since he returned to office, repeatedly making false claims. Here’s how he does it.

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David Ho
@davidho.bsky.social

Joe Romm gave one of the most memorable talks I’ve ever heard at Columbia many years ago. Among other things, he said, “Sustainable development is like teenage sex. Everybody says they're doing it, very few people actually are, and those who are doing it are doing it badly.” RIP legend.

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social

It is with tremendous sadness and sense of loss that we regretfully share the news that @penncssm.bsky.social senior research fellow, and my close personal friend Joseph Romm has passed away unexpectedly. He will be sorely missed here. web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news/r...

web.sas.upenn.eduRemembering Dr. Joe RommIt is with great sadness that the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media shares news of the passing of PCSSM Senior Research Fellow Dr. Joe Romm. Please find below an obituary prepared ...
Eric Roston
@eroston.bsky.social

Shocking and sad news. Joe Romm single-handedly powered US climate debates through the aughts and into the teens.

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social

It is with tremendous sadness and sense of loss that we regretfully share the news that @penncssm.bsky.social senior research fellow, and my close personal friend Joseph Romm has passed away unexpectedly. He will be sorely missed here. web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news/r...

web.sas.upenn.eduRemembering Dr. Joe RommIt is with great sadness that the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media shares news of the passing of PCSSM Senior Research Fellow Dr. Joe Romm. Please find below an obituary prepared ...
Eric Roston
@eroston.bsky.social

If there's one thing about Washington consistent throughout time and party, it's the Friday news dump. Nothing gets past @zhirji.bsky.social tho ⤵️

Zahra Hirji@zhirji.bsky.social

The EPA announced an updated WOTUS rule proposal. “This is a humongous rollback and it’s a bigger rollback than their initial proposal,” said NRDC's Jon Devine. Gift link for my latest @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comFewer US Water Bodies Would Be Protected Under New Trump ProposalThe arid West would be disproportionately affected by the changes.

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Todd Woody
@toddwoody.bsky.social

New: With summer come monsoonal rains in Arizona, but climate-driven drought and wildfires are worsening the destruction from downpours like the deadly deluge that struck the Grand Canyon last weekend, according to experts. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comHow a Convergence of Climate Disasters Ushered the Grand Canyon Flood TragedyIt’s an example of a compound event, when environmental-related catastrophes overlap or occur in quick succession.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley
@amandakhurley.bsky.social

Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. “Nepal must hold its head high internationally and turn this into a matter of justice,” said Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comNepal Seeks Climate Compensation From China, US and IndiaNepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.

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Zahra Hirji
@zhirji.bsky.social

BREAKING: The House Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a stopgap funding bill to fund the government through Dec. 11. Notably, the bill delays any action on the controversial WH proposal to overhaul federal science funding to allow political oversight of grants www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comCongress Sends Funding Bill to Avert US Shutdown to TrumpCongress cleared funding legislation to avert an Oct. 1 government shutdown, sidestepping, at least temporarily, the partisan warfare that led to repeated disruptions over the last year.

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Joel Pinckney
@jpinckney.bsky.social

New one today for @defector.com: in the wake of the most recent declaration of reading's demise, I was curious what booksellers, almost always ignored by the post-literate prognosticators, made of such claims. Here's what they told me:

defector.comWhat Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | DefectorIf you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...

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Corporal von Fartburger
@smurfburger.bsky.social

NICE

New Lines Magazine@newlinesmag.bsky.social

Russia’s increasingly intense wildfires are creeping closer to nuclear waste sites — raising the possibility that radioactive material buried since the Soviet era could be released again.

f.mtr.coolAtomic Wildfires Are Russia’s Looming Compound DisasterWaste from the Soviet nuclear program is stored across the country’s vast interior — the same area most threatened by increasingly intense blazes
Eric Roston
@eroston.bsky.social

What's your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only.) "Please don’t put your life in the hands "Of a Rock ‘n’ Roll band "Who’ll throw it all away.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley
@amandakhurley.bsky.social

Experts urge schools to keep teaching writing in the age of AI, not even because of its importance per se but because it’s essential to developing habits of mind: “Writing is a technology for thinking” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

nytimes.comWhat Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Kate Tuttle
@katekilla.bsky.social

Do you run a book club? Publish a newsletter? I have questions! I want to know everybody's best practices, most helpful resources, things you wish you'd known earlier, etc.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley
@amandakhurley.bsky.social

No emissions disclosures, no net-zero pledges, no sustainability reports: the AI giants are a black box when it comes to their climate impact. Does Wall Street mind? Not really. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.comAI Giants Are Quiet on Climate in Sign of Post-ESG Wall StreetOpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX have revealed little about their greenhouse gas emissions or sustainability plans. There was a time when that would have been unacceptable to many investors.
Eric Roston
@eroston.bsky.social

Wish I saw this study when it pubbed for no reason other than I could write it up and reach out for comment to @nedbeauman.bsky.social , author of Venomous Lumpsucker, which you *really* need to read if you're someone who even partially tolerates my bluesky ramblings: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.comLimitations of carbon markets for biodiversity conservation - Nature Reviews BiodiversityNature-based carbon projects are widely promoted as delivering both climate and biodiversity benefits. However, carbon accounting requirements can diverge from the needs of biodiversity conservation. ...

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Todd Woody
@toddwoody.bsky.social

New: The US is enduring one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, with blazes scorching millions of acres. It’s part of a global pattern of hot, dry conditions that favor fires becoming more common with climate change. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comGlobal Wildfire Surge Hits US, Propelled by Rising TemperaturesBlazes in the Western US and Europe point to a global shift: Climate change is making fire weather more extreme and more widespread.