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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Special thx to my editors for giving me the time (many months!) to write about David Stevenson, a fascinating person political operative who led America’s anti-offshore wind campaign. Yes, good journalism still takes time. @danmccarthy.bsky.social @lisahymas.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am honored to be a winner of this year’s @coveringclimatenow.org awards. But even more honored to be among @sammyroth.bsky.social’s favorites. Thanks, pal! ❤️

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When I was diagnosed with cancer this year I stepped back from my work as a climate reporter to undergo chemo. I know that for some people journalism is just a job. For me, it’s a calling. It’s public service. It’s being part of democracy, really. I miss it.

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SciComm Excellence @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org · 23/07/2026

2024 #scicomm award winners @cbo.bsky.social, @fieseler.bsky.social, @zacksavitsky.bsky.social, and @joelbervell.bsky.social show how science communication can build trust through transparency and empower all of us to keep learning by sharing the process of discovery. #medialiteracy #trustinscience

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Vital article. If even an experienced science journalist can fall afoul of the institutional misogyny threaded through medicine, what chance do the rest of us have? This is about the U.S, but the issues around “women’s complaints“, of course, apply internationally.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I’ve been quiet. Here’s why: At my 20-year college reunion in May, dozens of old friends arrived at our campus and started snapping photos on Georgetown’s front lawn. I, too, was on campus, but on the back side, at the university hospital, laid out on a gurney in the emergency room’s trauma suite…

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Alexandra Talty @alexandratalty.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is a must-read on the status of women’s health in America. Thank you to @fieseler.bsky.social for this personal reportage. Sending you all the positive healing vibes ❤️ sciencepolitics.org/2026/06/16/w...

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What We Don’t Know About Women’s Health Can Kill Us - Science Politics

My symptoms weren’t just perimenopause. They were signs of cancer — and better care might save others from delayed diagnoses.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I was on the “Tiny Matters” podcast talking about one of my favorite things…. offshore wind power! Listen here👇

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I was on the “Tiny Matters” podcast talking about one of my favorite things…. offshore wind power! Listen here👇

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

*NEW* The dead whale found on a remote VA beach was the 2023 calf of the well-known whale “Porcia" #3293. According to NOAA, it marks the 43rd mortality in the ongoing "Unusual Mortality Event" impacting the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

*NEW* The freshly dead whale is a 3 year old female. What a loss. This species has less than 100 breeding females remaining. It's now washed up on a barrier island managed by The Nature Conservancy in VA. NOAA and other groups are attempting a necropsy to determine cause of death.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I'm getting reports that another critically endangered North Atlantic Right whale was just spotted dead. Carcass spotted off VA coast. This marks the 2nd death in just three weeks for a species w/ about 400 individuals remaining. Last month's fatality, a male, died from fishing gear entanglement👇

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Right whale 'Division' is found dead after entanglement in Georgia

A North Atlantic Right Whale, previously found entangled in a rope off of south Georgia, has been discovered dead off the coast of North Carolina

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

BREAKING: Trump directs Pentagon to buy whale oil to revive whaling industry

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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Check out "Ocean Empire," a column on entanglements between the US, "an empire of political and cultural influence" and another empire, "the global ocean, which makes up 70 percent of our planet" - by the brilliant ecologist and journalist @fieseler.bsky.social. sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

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Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

My 6 year old said one of the kids in her class rolled in late to class this morning and when the teacher asked why he was tardy he just said “I blame Bad Bunny.”

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

There it is. The very last BOOK WORLD. I’m still in shock that Jeff Bezos, the man who is everything he is today because of selling books, would abandon readers like this. I grieve for The Washington Post and everything that has been stripped from it.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Please correct this headline @apnews.com. All humans are primates. That’s a biology. What Trump posted was a depiction of the first Black U.S. president and First Lady as chimpanzees. That’s racist. (Please repost to get an AP editor’s attention on this.)

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Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates

President Donald Trump has used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Ob...

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🌊I have a new gig. 🌊 Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social. We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.

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Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

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Emily Mendenhall @emendenhall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

@fieseler.bsky.social has a new column in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social! Ocean Empire will bring an essay a month. "The U.S. — this ocean nation I call home — is an empire of political and cultural influence whose reach, at times, seems unlimited." sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/05/o...

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Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Marty Weil is a legend. He was the last reporter remaining from the Watergate era at the Post. Just an phenomenal old-school metro reporter. They axed him too. Please read this story to honor his tenure at the Post. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

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He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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Ocean Empire - Science Politics

Introducing a new column breaking down seismic shifts in ocean policy and explaining why they matter.

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Rod Schoonover-Rey @rodschoonover.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The Post cutting its climate team is a textbook example of oligarchy hollowing out public institutions. You can suppress inconvenient truths, but physics, biology, and their consequences cast the final verdict. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

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Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team

Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I really love reading the Post’s Books section in their Sunday print edition at my kitchen table every Sunday. I relish the reviews. Discover new books. It is a pure delight, completely void of the uppity tone of the NYT Book Review. The Post’s Books section has now been “Eliminated.”

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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I'm sad to hear this, but looking forward to what Clare does next. I find good energy journalists to be surprisingly rare. Especially ones that have good judgement and write meaningful stories, instead of chasing sensationalism.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

✨PERSONAL NEWS✨ I was let go from my staff reporter role at @canarymedia.com. Sadly the philanthropic funds supporting my beat came to an end. I love the staff there and will continue to root for them. Please support nonprofit journalism! Meanwhile, my ocean reporting found a new home. Stay tuned.

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The Washington Post gave me my first newsroom job. And I’ve been a daily print subscriber for 8 years. Every morning, I open the door and reach down for the Post. My husband and kid read the headlines over oatmeal. Its reporting is intertwined with our daily lives. This feels like a gut punch.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Praying and singing in below freezing weather. Mostly clergy. A protest against ICE’s violence at the Minnesota airport.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Deep-sea mining CEOs testifying on Capitol Hill right now saying U.S. needs to mine the high seas now before China does. It's not true. China is waiting for an international frameworks to take shape. America is the one going rogue. And that's driving U.S. allies closer to China. My reporting 👇

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Trump’s push to mine deep-sea battery metals draws ire from allies

At U.N. talks in Jamaica, allies blasted the U.S. bid to unilaterally mine the high seas. Some made an unusual move to side with America’s economic foe:…

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Rep. Huffman: “I think there is a very tight connection between NOAA and your company right now … and I don’t think there is any effective oversight by NOAA. I think you guys are in bed together to go out here and mine in the high seas.” The Metals Company CEO: "I refute that sir." #deepseamining

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

No commercial deep-sea mining exists anywhere because international legal frameworks don't yet allow it. But The Metals Company CEO is here saying "it is our plan to be in commercial production by the end of next year 2027.” Rep. Huffman barks back "because the U.S. a potential loophole" for you.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Lots of chatter by two deep-sea mining CEOs on this panel about the urgency to mine seabed for stock piling & natural security purposes. Then @drandrewthaler.bsky.social comes in with.... "... and the cheapest place to stockpile a polymetallic nodule is to leave it on the seafloor.” 💥

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm watching @drandrewthaler.bsky.social testify now in front of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources. "While I have significant concerns about the long-term environmental harms that can result from mining the deep seafloor, I am not an absolutist against all forms of deep-sea mining."

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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I wrote about the deluge of AI slop that is gushing into scientific discourse www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

Peer review has met its match.

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Rachel Ramirez @rachelreports.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The Trump administration issued a new rule to fast-track deep sea mining in international waters, consolidating a two-step permitting process—one for exploration and another for commercial recovery—into a single review. This reduces environmental oversight. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

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Trump to speed permits for deep-sea mining in international waters

The Trump administration is pressing ahead on Wednesday with an effort to encourage U.S. exploration of the deep sea by accelerating permitting for companies hunting for critical minerals in internati...

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

My new parenting hack is just collapsing face down on the ground and saying in a loud robot voice things like: “Warning! Mom de-activated. Warning! Mom de-activated. To reactivate Mom, do the thing she just asked you to do 34 times.” They break the sound barrier putting on those shoes. 🤖

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Trump is winning his bizarre war on “windmills.” But multiple experts have told me it’s inaccurate to call America’s offshore wind dreams “dead.” At least one described the state of affairs as a kind of hibernation — and as a key time for learning. Here are those lessons. My latest👇

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Offshore wind had a terrible 2025. What can be learned?

A new study highlights hard-won wisdom for the industry, and a year of Trump 2.0 offers more lessons still for how a renewables sector could make a…

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I love writing the same story twice in a less than four months span like please let me keep doing this, legal system

How Trump's Case Against Revolution
Wind Fell Apart
The administration argued in the name of national defense - but Orsted had receipts.
JAEL HOLZMAN
• SEPTEMBER 26, 2025

How Trump's Case
Against Revolution Wind
Fell Apart (Again)
A federal court has once again allowed Orsted to resume construction on its offshore wind project.
JAEL HOLZMAN • JANUARY 12, 2026

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

NEW: Trump’s war on “windmills” just lost another court battle. Looks like this judge isn‘t buying the administration‘s latest justification for stopping Revolution Wind — “classified information” about national security. Construction is back on. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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US judge rules Orsted can continue work on Rhode Island offshore wind project

A federal judge on Monday cleared Danish offshore wind developer Orsted to resume work on its nearly finished Revolution Wind project, which U.S. President Donald Trump's administration halted along w...

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

NEW: I obtained internal emails from the Department of Energy's climate working group. They show the group plotting to produce a second misleading climate report, DOE officials avoiding public disclosure laws, DOE peer reviewers stating they weren't qualified: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

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DOE sees bigger role for climate contrarians, records show

A small team of researchers who dispute mainstream climate science may play an outsize role in the next National Climate Assessment.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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Offshore wind had a terrible 2025. What can be learned?

A new study highlights hard-won wisdom for the industry, and a year of Trump 2.0 offers more lessons still for how a renewables sector could make a…

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I once came to blows with a comms director for a billion dollar company after I wrote a negative article. I worked for months repairing the relationship. He just called today to tell me that, of all the reporters he works with, I am his favorite. A good reminder to be both dogged — and kind. ❤️

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