Richard Conniff

Trump hated the idea of a golf course for more or less average Americans, so he is destroying it and planning to rebuild it for the very rich. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/23/m...

All night people woke up from their bad dreams to ask, “Where’s the damned coral snake?” We tried tying the bag to the handle over the passenger door. But the person in that seat found the direct eye contact at a distance of three inches disconcerting. richardconniff.substack.com/p/snake-on-a...

Why do people so often do such crazy stuff with snakes? richardconniff.substack.com/p/snake-on-a...

Why do people so often do such crazy stuff with snakes? richardconniff.substack.com/p/snake-on-a...

How Trump spawns mini-fascists: A county attorney stripped ambulances (!) of their "Stop the Bleed" kits for use by the personal SWAT team he had created answerable only to him. www.ems1.com/legal/former...

A vote for Ken Paxton is a vote for Texas to surrender its seat in the U.S. Senate to the Senator from Elon Musk. See the bio pic, in theaters now, before making your choice: www.fandango.com/musk-2026-24...

Gotta love it when a natural history museum pays attention to the smallest details. In this case, the focus is on the Cretaceous. So what's the target in the urinal? A brachiopod. richardconniff.substack.com/p/dinosaur-m...

Today! Find the "No Kings/Defend the Vote" Protest near you. www.nokings.org#map

Worried about soaring electric rates, Florida. It's what happens when utility regulators spend 3 days in a $500/night resort, and industry pays the bill. www.tampabay.com/news/environ...

The birthplace of our dinosaur obsessions is straight down the New Jersey Turnpike. A new museum makes it worth the trip. richardconniff.substack.com/p/dinosaur-m...

The fault lies with tax cuts for the rich and the systematic dismantling of public education by the Republican party. richardconniff.substack.com/p/another-na...

The fault lies with tax cuts for the rich and the systematic dismantling of public education by the Republican party. richardconniff.substack.com/p/another-na...

First we pay with our wallets, & later with our lives. richardconniff.substack.com/p/the-deadly...

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Oh, yeah, it's definitely energy from the sun that's undependable. Oil & Gas be so clean, cheap, & there when you need it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/b...

U.S. Government "aesthetically terrified" by a painting of "a picnic in a park with flowers and some lesbians." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/a...

Shutting down the oldest natural history museum in North America? It feels like Drexel University just decided to join Trump's war on science. richardconniff.substack.com/p/a-great-na...

If Drexel cannot maintain the current museum, how does it plan to raise $25 million to relocate and properly store the collection of 19 million specifimens? richardconniff.substack.com/p/a-great-na...

You have less than a month to visit one of North America's great nature museum. richardconniff.substack.com/p/a-great-na...

Good summary from a local newspaper: Traffic Calming Measures that work (and which ones don't) lymeline.com/2026/08/talk...

My Very Bad Day Being Quoted by Trump richardconniff.substack.com/p/my-terribl...

A column I wrote in 2007 that's only become more relevant to our world. richardconniff.substack.com/p/the-rich-a...

If you are trying to stop putting money in Jeff Bezos's wallet, cancel Audible. (You can borrow plenty of audiobooks from your local library.) thestreamable.com/how-to-cance...

How Elon Musk is self-dealing his way back to trillionaire status. www.wsj.com/business/see...

The truth is that even Paris is not doing nearly enough to restore streets for pedestrian use, and it’s the pedestrians, not the drivers, who should be furious. richardconniff.substack.com/p/city-stree...

East coast ospreys are in decline. They are resilient and will survive. What happens to the many other *unseen* wildlife that depend on abundant menhaden is of greatest concern. We need more adaptive management of forage fish that accounts for localized depletion along the entire coast.

Time for American cities to redesign their streets as if people matter. richardconniff.substack.com/p/city-stree...

I'm hoping osprey lovers and striped bass fishermen will band together on behalf of the menhaden, before Omega Protein turns this fish into the next passenger pigeon. richardconniff.substack.com/p/a-great-wi...

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

What a fascinating substack post by @richardconniff.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/richardc...

The difference between Madison Grant & Donald Trump? Grant at least accomplished some good in his life, as a wildlife conservationist, before turning utterly bad. open.substack.com/pub/richardc...

You can travel 10,000 miles for a good wildlife story. But sometimes it just turns up in your living room. (Story by Richard Conniff, Photo by Joel Sartore) richardconniff.substack.com/p/how-a-flyi...

At the #KennedyCenter, down comes the "D," the beginning of the end for Donald Trump's pathetic celebration of himself. (Photo: Cliff Owen/Associated Press)

"Intelligent machines and their hulking data centers seem to be everywhere, taking our jobs, our electricity, our water supply, and our world down a giant suckhole into whatever grim future they imagine for us" richardconniff.substack.com/p/what-the-l...

Such a weird Kobe Bryant + “Kill Bill” + black mamba story that I had to add it as an update here. richardconniff.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

Everything in James Dwight Dana's life, including his friendship with Darwin, prepared him to become an evolutionist, except his religion. richardconniff.substack.com/p/dana-and-t...

Lessons from the Death of Our Last Outdoor Cat open.substack.com/pub/richardc...

Selfies with sloths implicate you in the deaths of these splendid animals. richardconniff.substack.com/p/what-we-do...

Backyard chickens are the key to stop people from eating their way down the wildlife food chain. open.substack.com/pub/richardc...

Trump economics: His IRS budget cuts reduce federal spending by an estimated $46 billion over 10 years--but, oops, cost $643 billion in lost revenue. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...