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Alec Luhn
@alecluhn.bsky.social
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Pulitzer Center 🌊 reporting fellow | Kavli, Schmidt & Covering Climate Now 🏆 | 2x Emmy nominee | non-beefeater 🐄
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · Nov 14
'Why Are Alaska's Rivers Turning Orange?' won a Kavli 🙌
I'm humbled & thankful to AAAS to be recognized with the oldest US science journalism award.
Covering climate science feels more high-stakes than ever before...
sjawards.aaas.org/news/2024-aa...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
Why Are Alaska's Rivers Turning Orange?
Streams in Alaska are turning orange with iron and sulfuric acid. Scientists are trying to figure out why
www.scientificamerican.com
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 17h
No. Even if we wouldn’t have moved to Bluesky, we’d be fighting a losing battle for impact with trolls, bots & fake blue tick accounts
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?
Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy
www.newstatesman.com
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21h
Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com
Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election
Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...
www.desmog.com
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d
Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.
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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 4d
NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 1d
today in "predicted by 30 Rock"
Edie Falco on 30 Rock: I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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Charlie Westney @charliewestney.bsky.social · 2d
Carbon Offsets have always sounded a bit too good to be true. And it seems they are.
Maybe we should all be asking companies to focus on 'doing good and telling great stories about it' - and they'll have a bigger impact than reaching a hypothetical number on paper.
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Small World Consulting @smallworldconsult.bsky.social · 2d
Has trying to reach 'net zero' driven companies to invest in offsetting, even when they are plagued with problems?

And if nonadditionality, impermanence, leakage, double counting and “gameability” make credits a bad call... what should orgs do instead?

www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/carbon-...
Carbon offsets have failed for 25 years, and most should be phased out - research
Academics at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the most comprehensive review of evidence on the effectiveness on carbon offsetting to date and concluded the pr...
www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 2d
As far as high-profile academics moving out of Trump's America goes, it doesn't get more high-profile than this.

🇺🇸 → 🇨🇭
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Department of Economics @Universität Zürich 🇨🇭 @econ.uzh.ch · 2d
We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 2d
It's ridiculous that most major US news networks are copying Trump's mispronunciation of antifa ("an-TEE-fa"), which obscures the word's origins as short for "anti-fascist," rather than "AN-tee-fa" as most knowledgeable people say: www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Why Trump Is So Obsessed With Antifa
The president strategically invokes the group in his speeches to stoke fear and shift discourse away from systemic racism.
www.theatlantic.com
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 3d
The Reform party seems to have already won the battle on climate by scaring the UK government away from even talking about it.
Starmer is reportedly suppressing his intel agencies' report on climate threats.
Meanwhile some advisers are telling him to skip COP30.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
www.theguardian.com
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 4d
Honestly, when the financial press starts printing diagrams like this, isn't it time for a regulator to step in?
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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 5d
Kendall Roy in a suit and baseball cap
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 5d
It's crazy that Trump invested $35.6m of taxpayer dollars in the company behind the Ambler Road mining project, as Alaska Native tribes & conservation NGOs have long been suing to block it, which would wipe out that investment. Probably won't happen, but still risky alaskabeacon.com/2025/10/06/t...
Trump approves appeal for Ambler Road project, reversing Biden administration's rejection | Alaska Beacon
The proposed road, being developed by Alaska’s state-owned investment bank, would open access to a mining region in northwest Alaska.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d
Researchers across the US and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s attacks are launching their own climate information portals.
Climate scientists raise a middle finger to Trump's censorship efforts
Hundreds are collaborating to make sure accurate data is available to the public.
www.motherjones.com
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6d
Imagine not portraying this as a crime.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 6d
Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 7d
The UK had by my calculations, per capita, twice the number of fatalities as the Republic of Ireland. Ireland wasn’t exactly gold standard. Experts were begging the UK govt & opposition to follow basic science, to no avail. The UK scientific establishment was silent. Only Independent SAGE spoke out
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 6d
If CBS News is biased, making Bari Weiss editor-in-chief will surely just swing it to the opposite extreme www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...
Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.
www.npr.org
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d
BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 7d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.bsky.social · 7d
The Aletsch glacier, the largest in Europe, has now retreated 1.4 miles.
Mountain glaciers in total lost 450 billion tonnes of ice in 2024. Not good for streams & rivers.
Great photos here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 9d
Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...
20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call
Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...
www.newscientist.com
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10d
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10d
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
www.404media.co
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12d
Phang: So, as we can see you have a DHS official—you clearly hear him say on that body cam footage, “I am arresting the mayor. Even though he stepped out, I’m going to put him in cuffs.”

Who told him to do it? He says: the Deputy Attorney General… And who’s that? Todd Blanche.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 12d
Trump administration wants to roll back regulations on HFCs (very potent greenhouse gases) OVER THE OBJECTIONS OF THE APPLIANCE INDUSTRY.
Here’s why one industry is worried about Trump’s latest climate rollback
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it would rewrite a Biden-era rule aimed at limiting hydrofluorocarbons, a potent greenhouse gas.
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