Lela Nargi

The use of medically important antibiotics is spiking in the poultry + livestock industries, leading to 2.8M resistant infections + 35K deaths every year in the U.S. Turns out, resistance is turning up in wildlife, too. My latest for Offrange ambrook.com/offrange/liv...

“If it was our choice we wouldn’t have had the ban pass,” a 3rd-gen farmer told me about laws in NY and VT that put an end to neonic-treated seeds—despite the fact that trials of un-coated seeds show virtually no difference on yield. So why all the hullaboo? ambrook.com/offrange/leg...

1B acres of the world's forests are degraded + NY's Adirondack Park is getting chewed up, too, by invasive insect pests. How do you manage such a vast space when a state law prevents you from cutting down trees? Find out in my latest for Offrange ambrook.com/offrange/env...

Climate change is threatening C. finmarchicus, a fatty copepod that props up life in the cold northern ocean + is essential food for endangered right whales, who suck it up like spaghetti. My latest for @knowablemag.bsky.social bit.ly/472XNvP

Scientists are urging consumers to boycott products made from krill, tiny crustaceans that are a critical food source for marine birds and mammals, including endangered whales, as Teresa Tomassoni reports for @insideclimatenews.org. /1 insideclimatenews.org/news/0710202...

🐳 Colder oceans are full of animals that need to fatten up to survive, but a key source of lipids — a tiny, oil-stuffed critter called a copepod — is feeling the heat, affecting a vital food web. ✍️ @lelanargi.bsky.social: knowmag.org/3TMThhW

Climate change is threatening C. finmarchicus, a fatty copepod that props up life in the cold northern ocean + is essential food for endangered right whales, who suck it up like spaghetti. My latest for @knowablemag.bsky.social bit.ly/472XNvP

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

PERSONAL NEWS: Wednesday was my last day at @sciam.bsky.social. I was laid off during another round of restructuring and my department shuttered. If you are looking for a skilled editor, project manager and people manager, I'm your hire. Thanks. #lookingforwork

Cornell police edited Jane Doe's statement. Are we in pitchforks and torches territory yet? I think we are close. "As we now know, Cornell police also condensed down Doe's statement, omitting crucial details including the fact that she said she was 100 percent confident she’d been raped."

"By the time she was released from a Louisiana immigrant detention center, a Nashville mother of two could no longer breastfeed her young daughters. Her milk had dried up." tennesseelookout.com/2026/10/01/n...

i did a little Climate Week postmortem on data centers: co2 emissions are far & away the most alarming part of the buildout. but there hasn't been much of a reckoning beyond climate spaces kind of wondering when it'll enter the larger convo, if at all, and what that may look like

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

City-backed nonprofit grocery stores have come to Newark, with 30% discounts gothamist.com/news/city-su...

Ughhhh

You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules @hurwitz.bsky.social reports for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You might've heard about the Save Our Bacon Act. Turns out that the main group lobbying for it--Natl. Pork Producers Council--has taken $66M from a farmer fund intended to promote pork, & which legally cannot be used for lobbying. 40% of the $66M hasn't been previously reported. (Gift link below.)

A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.

Edmonton adopted a harsh policy of removing encampments a few years ago, while Calgary did not. A study of the first year following that shift found a five-fold increase in emergency amputations in Edmonton over previous years with no change in Calgary's rate.

SCOOP: After the Census Bureau issued a highly unusual report tied to a President Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau’s parent agency, the Commerce Department, cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...

I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com

Trump’s attacks on the press have led to an immeasurable chilling effect on journalists, especially freelancers without lawyers and resources. So why are publishers making it worse with oppressive freelance contract terms that don’t even protect them?

With restrictive covenants, supermarket chains have made food deserts out of untold numbers of communities. But states and municipalities are starting to pass bans on the practice + there's interest in moving the needle federally. Read more in my latest for @theguardian.com

If you are having a hard time keeping up with the ever-changing SNAP participation data, I hear you. I would also like the number of people losing SNAP to stop getting bigger with each additional month of data!

🥵 If you’ve struggled through this summer’s heatwaves, spare a thought for the millions of farmworkers harvesting our food. ⚠️ Dangerous heat is now the leading health threat facing farmworkers. Coming soon: our report on labour exploitation in food systems. #ClimateChange #Farmworkers

"Government censorship is deeply un-American." So begins ABC's new federal lawsuit to stop Trump's FCC attack dog Brendan Carr from challenging its broadcast licenses.

DON'T GET ALL EXCITED AND ASSUME GOOD WILL. This is an effort to rebrand already appropriated dollars and already developed programs before the midterms so they have something they can use against being called anti-science. THIS IS NOT NEW INVESTMENT. THESE ARE NOT NEW DOLLARS FOR SCIENCE.

This is a damning story on the erosion of food safety protections under the Trump administration.

Important New York Times story is out today on our investigation: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

As the US looks to produce new protein-packed meat alternatives in combat zones #vegan options get a shout (despite Hegseth's phony manly-man rhetoric) @lelanargi.bsky.social reports Still, “The intent of the MRE is to eat the entire thing & if people don’t like what’s in them, they ratfuck them.”

‘Death sentence’: Trump’s EPA to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Deplorable.

Anyone with book-loving kids looking to fill an hour on July 14, please (virtually) join me at the NYPL for a reading of Miss Betti: What Is This?, along with a fun craft and a chance to ask me questions. Hope to see you there! globallib.nypl.org/blog/2026/07...

Janae Walls lost access to food stamps, and her kids have noticed: They ask her, “Why don’t we have a bunch of food in the house like we used to?” Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is at fault: https://bit.ly/4f3FI45

"If we continue to allow the fossil fuel industry to profitably poison us to death, this will be the coolest summer for the rest of our lives" coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-stor... @coveringclimatenow.org @patrickgaley.bsky.social

The UN on Friday called for stronger independent oversight of the United States immigration detention system and investigations into all deaths in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. 18 people died while in ICE detention in the first five months of this year.

Anyone who writes about agriculture in the U.S. has butted their head up against farmers who won't say the words "climate change." In my latest for @foodprintorg.bsky.social, political ecologist Margiana Petersen-Rockney explains why foodprint.org/blog/margian...

Today is the last day of Prime Day... which means... it's a ✨prime✨ day to think about supporting science journalism the world desperately needs, instead of putting more money in Jeff Bezo's pocket 💫 Perhaps consider donating to @knowablemag.bsky.social? 🤗 👇

NEW: The US is about to deport a 78-year-old retired and sick pastor to Uganda - a country near the center of the Ebola crisis, where the CDC has recommended against travel. This is horrific, plain and simple. read @telliotter.bsky.social

"cuts to research funding and federal agencies like NOAA have already undermined the federal government’s essential role in monitoring, responding to, and understanding harmful algal blooms...just as climate change helps them proliferate."