Sabrina Shankman
@shankman.bsky.social
Reporting on climate change at The Boston Globe. Chasing my kids around southern Maine. Let’s talk about running, skiing and saving the planet. She/her.
Find me on Signal @ shankman.03
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Northern Lights peaking now in Mass! Get out there folks and look north!
#mawx #riwx #nhwx #boston @bostonglobe.com
#mawx #riwx #nhwx #boston @bostonglobe.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Northern Lights peaking now in Mass! Get out there folks and look north!
#mawx #riwx #nhwx #boston @bostonglobe.com
#mawx #riwx #nhwx #boston @bostonglobe.com
For 6 years, Boston and FEMA have been working on a plan to protect the Fort Point neighborhood from flooding.
Now, FEMA has rejected the grant application, blaming Boston, saying the city failed to send the right documents. Are they being gaslit?
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/s...
Now, FEMA has rejected the grant application, blaming Boston, saying the city failed to send the right documents. Are they being gaslit?
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/s...
Boston officials flummoxed by Trump administration’s rejection of federal funding for flood protections - The Boston Globe
A plan to prevent flooding in Fort Point is in limbo after FEMA denied Boston’s $10 million grant for a flood wall following six years of collaborative planning.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
For 6 years, Boston and FEMA have been working on a plan to protect the Fort Point neighborhood from flooding.
Now, FEMA has rejected the grant application, blaming Boston, saying the city failed to send the right documents. Are they being gaslit?
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/s...
Now, FEMA has rejected the grant application, blaming Boston, saying the city failed to send the right documents. Are they being gaslit?
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/s...
New proposal would allow sewage and rainwater to be released into the Charles in perpetuity.
It's "like it’s the 1700s and we don’t understand modern sanitary management," @emnorton.bsky.social told me.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/30/s...
It's "like it’s the 1700s and we don’t understand modern sanitary management," @emnorton.bsky.social told me.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/30/s...
Dirty water, indeed: New proposal would allow continued sewage in the Charles - The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority has proposed reclassifying the Charles River to allow for continued releases of sewage.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
New proposal would allow sewage and rainwater to be released into the Charles in perpetuity.
It's "like it’s the 1700s and we don’t understand modern sanitary management," @emnorton.bsky.social told me.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/30/s...
It's "like it’s the 1700s and we don’t understand modern sanitary management," @emnorton.bsky.social told me.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/30/s...
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“For hundreds of years we’ve been bending water to our will,” my colleague @shankman.bsky.social told me for today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point about the threat that flooding poses to Massachusetts. Now “the water is pushing back.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/28/n...
‘The water is pushing back’: A Globe reporter on how rising seas and heavy rains threaten Mass. communities - The Boston Globe
Climate change is bringing about a wetter New England. In some Boston neighborhoods and Massachusetts towns, that future is already here.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“For hundreds of years we’ve been bending water to our will,” my colleague @shankman.bsky.social told me for today’s @bostonglobe.com Starting Point about the threat that flooding poses to Massachusetts. Now “the water is pushing back.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/28/n...
The floods are coming; the floods are here. I spoke with @ianprasad.bsky.social for today's Starting Point newsletter about a new project from @bostonglobe.com, "When the floods come," that's out today.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/28/n...
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‘The water is pushing back’: A Globe reporter on how rising seas and heavy rains threaten Mass. communities - The Boston Globe
Climate change is bringing about a wetter New England. In some Boston neighborhoods and Massachusetts towns, that future is already here.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The floods are coming; the floods are here. I spoke with @ianprasad.bsky.social for today's Starting Point newsletter about a new project from @bostonglobe.com, "When the floods come," that's out today.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/28/n...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/28/n...
The numbers here are insane. A potential for three feet of rain. 165 mph winds. 10-12 feet of storm surge. And millions of people in harm's way. Just unfathomably scary.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/27/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/27/m...
These maps detail Hurricane Melissa’s catastrophic flooding, wind risks for Jamaica - The Boston Globe
This rare late-season Category 5 major hurricane is set to make landfall on Jamaica before impacting Cuba and Haiti in the coming days.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The numbers here are insane. A potential for three feet of rain. 165 mph winds. 10-12 feet of storm surge. And millions of people in harm's way. Just unfathomably scary.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/27/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/27/m...
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For only the second time in recorded history, an Atlantic season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes... the previous year was 2005. This puts 2025 in an elite class of hurricane seasons. It also means that nearly 7% of all known Category 5 hurricanes have occurred just in this year.
#Melissa
#Melissa
Melissa becomes third Category 5 hurricane of the extraordinary 2025 season
Updates and summaries on tropical Atlantic activity... including easterly waves, tropical storms, subtropical storms, and hurricanes.
bmcnoldy.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
For only the second time in recorded history, an Atlantic season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes... the previous year was 2005. This puts 2025 in an elite class of hurricane seasons. It also means that nearly 7% of all known Category 5 hurricanes have occurred just in this year.
#Melissa
#Melissa
Journalism is great but if anyone wants to team up and do jewel heists lmk.
(Don't tell the cops I said this)
(Don't tell the cops I said this)
October 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Journalism is great but if anyone wants to team up and do jewel heists lmk.
(Don't tell the cops I said this)
(Don't tell the cops I said this)
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Pleased to contribute data analysis and graphics to this Nicholas Kusnetz story for @insideclimatenews.org on the coal-fired power plant fleet it has helped build and finance beyond its own borders — notably in Indonesia.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202...
China Helped Indonesia Build One of the World’s Biggest, Youngest Coal Fleets. It’s Still Growing. - Inside Climate News
Indonesia is one of the few countries still building new coal power plants, the most polluting sources of power. Chinese companies are playing a large role despite a pledge by Beijing to halt such sup...
insideclimatenews.org
October 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Pleased to contribute data analysis and graphics to this Nicholas Kusnetz story for @insideclimatenews.org on the coal-fired power plant fleet it has helped build and finance beyond its own borders — notably in Indonesia.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202...
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Today, the IUCN has officially declared the slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) extinct 😞
This is the 1st known extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species, whose range included Europe, North Africa & West Asia
The last confirmed sighting was 30+ years ago
This is the 1st known extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species, whose range included Europe, North Africa & West Asia
The last confirmed sighting was 30+ years ago
October 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Today, the IUCN has officially declared the slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) extinct 😞
This is the 1st known extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species, whose range included Europe, North Africa & West Asia
The last confirmed sighting was 30+ years ago
This is the 1st known extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species, whose range included Europe, North Africa & West Asia
The last confirmed sighting was 30+ years ago
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The entire city of Kotzebue, Alaska, is being evacuated for potential record coastal flooding. Kotzebue is the "hub" community for northwest Alaska. @alaskawx.bsky.social
kotzebue, alaska declared a mandatory evacuation order
October 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The entire city of Kotzebue, Alaska, is being evacuated for potential record coastal flooding. Kotzebue is the "hub" community for northwest Alaska. @alaskawx.bsky.social
In the midst of an unbearably shitty series of events, my family was faced with a choice: hunker down, or lean into the chaos.
We chose chaos, and her name is Gigi.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...
We chose chaos, and her name is Gigi.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...
Life is chaotic. Sometimes, chaos is an adorable dachshund. - The Boston Globe
Out tiny puppy is wreaking havoc on our family in just the way we need.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In the midst of an unbearably shitty series of events, my family was faced with a choice: hunker down, or lean into the chaos.
We chose chaos, and her name is Gigi.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...
We chose chaos, and her name is Gigi.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...
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NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
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As firings, delays in funding, and threats to eliminate the FEMA have erupted over the last several months, the director of the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency said he has been cautioning his staff and Governor Dan McKee to remain steady despite the political noise in Washington, D.C.
As R.I. navigates delays and cuts to FEMA money, uncertainty remains - The Boston Globe
“You know what’s concerning is, what’s going to happen next year? I just don’t know,” said Marc R. Pappas, the state’s emergency director.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
As firings, delays in funding, and threats to eliminate the FEMA have erupted over the last several months, the director of the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency said he has been cautioning his staff and Governor Dan McKee to remain steady despite the political noise in Washington, D.C.
I spent some time with @billmckibben.bsky.social talking about solar energy and walked away with a feeling that I almost had forgotten about: hope.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...
Bill McKibben has been writing about climate change for decades. He thinks solar can save us. - The Boston Globe
In a new book, the legendary activist makes the case for optimism — if we work fast.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I spent some time with @billmckibben.bsky.social talking about solar energy and walked away with a feeling that I almost had forgotten about: hope.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...
The saga of Massachusetts v third party competitive suppliers continues, this time featuring some questionable mailers, rates that just keep rising, and a proposed $5 million fine.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/s...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/s...
Fed up with ‘deceptive’ low energy price offers, Mass. threatens heavy fines on outside energy supplier - The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts DPU proposes fining CleanChoice $5.1 million and revoking its license to sell electricity in the state.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The saga of Massachusetts v third party competitive suppliers continues, this time featuring some questionable mailers, rates that just keep rising, and a proposed $5 million fine.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/s...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/s...
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The Trump administration, from the CDC to EPA to NOAA, is going to war with established climate science.
I, along w/@blkahn.bsky.social @eroston.bsky.social, try to capture the big picture of what's already happened & what's at stake.
Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
I, along w/@blkahn.bsky.social @eroston.bsky.social, try to capture the big picture of what's already happened & what's at stake.
Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace
The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.
www.bloomberg.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The Trump administration, from the CDC to EPA to NOAA, is going to war with established climate science.
I, along w/@blkahn.bsky.social @eroston.bsky.social, try to capture the big picture of what's already happened & what's at stake.
Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
I, along w/@blkahn.bsky.social @eroston.bsky.social, try to capture the big picture of what's already happened & what's at stake.
Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City.
Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.
Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.
September 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City.
Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.
Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.
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Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.
Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built
The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy.
nyti.ms
August 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.
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August 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Great journalism needs great readers.
Want to stay sharp on climate, justice, and solutions? Follow our reporters directly here on Bluesky — and be sure to follow us too.
✨ Support our reporting by hitting “follow” — it matters.
#Climate #Politics #Conservation #GreenSky
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Want to stay sharp on climate, justice, and solutions? Follow our reporters directly here on Bluesky — and be sure to follow us too.
✨ Support our reporting by hitting “follow” — it matters.
#Climate #Politics #Conservation #GreenSky
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Hey scientists, especially those who work in the Gulf of Maine ... any thoughts on this crab? I've been hanging with some oyster farmers for a story and they say they keep catching green crabs with blue claws like this one.
They're wondering: Could these be hybrids?
They're wondering: Could these be hybrids?
August 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Hey scientists, especially those who work in the Gulf of Maine ... any thoughts on this crab? I've been hanging with some oyster farmers for a story and they say they keep catching green crabs with blue claws like this one.
They're wondering: Could these be hybrids?
They're wondering: Could these be hybrids?
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Hurricane Erin achieved something most storms do not this weekend. "Extreme Rapid Intensification". Did climate change play a part? Science says, yes.
In 12 hours winds increased by ~65 mph. Only 3 other storms have done that and Erin was the earliest & only August storm to do so.
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In 12 hours winds increased by ~65 mph. Only 3 other storms have done that and Erin was the earliest & only August storm to do so.
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August 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Hurricane Erin achieved something most storms do not this weekend. "Extreme Rapid Intensification". Did climate change play a part? Science says, yes.
In 12 hours winds increased by ~65 mph. Only 3 other storms have done that and Erin was the earliest & only August storm to do so.
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In 12 hours winds increased by ~65 mph. Only 3 other storms have done that and Erin was the earliest & only August storm to do so.
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