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Sarah Sax

@sarahlsax.bsky.social
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Current researcher @climaterights.bsky.social investigating human rights and climate change. Award-winning journalist and video producer. Past @vice @highcountrynews. Follow me for climate/environment news (and rants). Opinions + typos all mine

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Forests Forever @forestsforever.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic. Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. Exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity. Includes a quote by @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social
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The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic
Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. As the new field of environmental neuroscience proves, exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No thanks, dystopian future. 🫥
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You just lived through the planet's hottest summer on record (along with 2024)
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
www.levernews.com/the-ai-boom-...
levernews.com
Big Tech’s AI Boom Runs On Toxic Air
Big Tech is building AI infrastructure in the world’s most polluting oil field, where Americans face mounting exposure to toxic emissions and regulators struggle to keep watch.
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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
ICYMI yesterday: @lesleyclark.bsky.social and I unpacked Trump's threat to open a suspension and debarment investigation into the National Academies over its involvement in a project aimed at educating federal judges about the climate science. Here's what it all means: www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
eenews.net
Trump threatens National Academies with debarment. Here's what it is.
The president invoked an obscure process to review the institution's federal grants over what he says is "climate fraud."
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
As the country hits heat records this summer Republicans in Congress are working on a bill to block OSHA from creating a heat standard to protect American workers jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
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House Republicans Attempt to Kill OSHA Heat Standard - Confined Space
Republicans will mark up a bill tomorrow that would prohibit OSHA from issuing an effective workplace heat standard.
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In the US, we're contending with a parasite causing severe gastrointestinal illness. In the EU, they appear to be dealing with one that dissolves the spines of elected officials...
bloomberg.com
EU Recommends Three-Year Delay to Methane Regulation Penalties
The European Union recommended that member states delay by three years penalties on energy importers that fail to comply with the bloc’s controversial methane emissions rules.
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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truthout.org
Trump Under Fire for Diverting Disaster Relief Workers to Immigration Policing
Trump administration officials were notably absent from a House hearing on reforming FEMA this week.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
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The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
We have a beautiful, beautiful piece from Hassan Abo Qamar up at @thenation.com right now, about how people in Gaza have pushed through every obstacle to revel in the collective joy of watching the World Cup. A must-read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
thenation.com
The Joy of Watching the World Cup in Gaza
For 90 minutes, the World Cup gives us something the genocide has tried to take away: a sense of community, a sense of normality, and a moment of pure celebration.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/06/2026
Perfect article place in Norwegian media. It's almost impressive how these two things are basically just held as completely separate and never explicitly linked, in our media landscape.
quinor will move forward
ith disputed oil field
pain:
ver 200 deaths linked to
eatwave
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/06/2026
NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social
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Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It's a good day to be working on climate litigation today! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
City of Paris achieves partial victory over TotalEnergies in climate risks case
French capital hails ‘landmark decision’ against oil firm relating to disclosure of emissions from oil and gas products
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Cutting methane emissions is one of the fastest, cheapest and most effective opportunities to slow global warming in the near term while delivering cleaner air, stronger crop yields, improved health and major economic benefits. www.un.org/en/climatech...
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Secretary-General's Call to Action on Methane | United Nations
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Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Some of the most important things companies could do to address climate change are not recognized or rewarded by net-zero or carbon accounting frameworks. Some of the most meaningless things they can do are. Several recent critiques argue for a new paradigm. heatmap.news/sustainabili...
heatmap.news
Are We Too Obsessed With Carbon Accounting?
A new Searchlight Institute report joins a growing chorus arguing that corporate climate targets do more harm than good.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/06/2026
Billions of gallons of toxic oil field wastewater are injected below Oklahoma each year. Some of it is spreading uncontrollably and blasting out of old wells. Our new film with @readfrontier.bsky.social exposes what regulators knew — and how they did little about the risks.
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Why Oil Field Wastewater Is Bubbling Up All Over This State | ProPublica Docs
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 12/06/2026
The US has been the single biggest driver of global gas power growth since 2015. It accounted for nearly a THIRD of global gas generation growth between 2015 and 2025. ember-energy.org/lat...
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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Electrify daily life’, urges Cop31 host
A third of world’s energy needs should come from electricity by 2035, says Turkish minister Murat Kurum, as he sets out priorities priority for this year’s UN climate summit
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I am among the more than 350 signatories who have put their names to support the “roadmap for eradicating poverty beyond growth”. Read the opinion piece: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.
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ICE will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from custody
The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Some cautiously optimistic news out of Amsterdam on the Et/Greenpeace SLAPP suit www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/c...
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Unusual Greenpeace Lawsuit May Proceed, Dutch Court Says
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Chewbacula @jason1749.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Rest In Power
Panels from Persepolis where the morality police stop her for running and say it makes her behind look “obscene” and she screams “WELL THEN DON’T LOOK AT MY ASS”
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The first-ever Scientific American Summer Reading Challenge is here! 📚☀️ All summer long, we’re reading nonfiction deep dives, page-turning thrillers, and fiction that sparks scientific curiosity. (1/2) #SciAmReading #SciAmSummerReading
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Join the Scientific American Summer Reading Challenge
Fill your bingo card with fascinating science stories, discoveries and ideas all summer long for a chance to win prizes
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026
Wrote about the only consistent principal among SCOTUS conservatives in voting cases is "we should disenfranchise Black voters at every opportunity." Without that single understanding, their actions over just the last few months (let alone years) makes no sense. But with it, it's very clear.
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Devastating account of the intersections of extreme heat+pregnancy+homelessness in Delhi www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
Life under a Delhi flyover: how one homeless family endures the city’s extreme heat
Soaring summer temperatures bring many challenges to the Indian capital, but for the city’s homeless, particularly women, they can be a threat to life
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Climate change is also an education emergency.
nytimes.com
As Climate Change Extends Europe’s Heat Season, Schools Bake
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Devastating account of the intersections of extreme heat+pregnancy+homelessness in Delhi www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
Life under a Delhi flyover: how one homeless family endures the city’s extreme heat
Soaring summer temperatures bring many challenges to the Indian capital, but for the city’s homeless, particularly women, they can be a threat to life
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The idea that public opinion is static, or that people's feelings aren't influenced by political communication, is perhaps the dumbest part of the "Democrats shouldn't mention climate change" argument.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The planet is around 1.4C warmer than in preindustrial times, defined as 1850-1900. By comparison, Europe is around 2.4C hotter than the preindustrial era, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. (RTÉ News)
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Why is Europe the world's fastest warming continent?
Europe, which is in the throes of a record-smashing heatwave this week, is the world's fastest-warming continent and stretches into an even more rapidly heating Arctic.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/05/2026
As private prisons and local sheriffs make millions from ICE contracts, Oklahomans are still reeling from the loss of parents, children, and friends.
motherjones.com
The Oklahoma Communities Gutted by ICE
As private prisons and local sheriffs make millions from ICE contracts, Oklahomans are still reeling from the loss of parents, children, and friends.
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Honored to be leading a Q&A with director Marianna Brennand about her new film "Manas," a devastating but necessary story about the sexual exploitation of girls in the Amazon. Protecting young women from abuse is a human rights issue. It's time we treated it like one. filmforum.org/events/event...
filmforum.org
Film Forum · MANAS Q&A with Filmmaker Marianna Brennand
MANAS Q&A with Filmmaker Marianna Brennand: Friday, May 22, 7:40 show
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Each limiting clause in the resolution was inserted by countries who fear being called out for causing global warming and serious harms to people hit by rising sea levels, massive storms and flooding, or the extreme heat that is killing people all over the world.” cri.org/un-flawed-re...
cri.org
UN: Flawed Resolution Affirms Landmark ICJ Climate Opinion
The United Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA) adoption today of a resolution recognizing the landmark advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on states’ obligations in respect of c...
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Trump cuts to weather data could make forecasts less reliable, warn experts. Use of AI is a valuable tool for weather prediction but only when it’s trained with ample data, experts say. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump cuts to weather data could make forecasts less reliable, warn experts
Use of AI is a valuable tool for weather prediction but only when it’s trained with ample data, experts say
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The independent pan-European commission on climate and health, which was convened by the WHO, concluded the climate crisis was such a worldwide threat to health that the WHO should declare it “a public health emergency of international concern” (Pheic).
theguardian.com
Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO
Exclusive: Commission says alert would trigger coordinated international response that could help avoid millions dying
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Amazing analysis on predatory lending (and borrowing) and the shitstorm that happens when housing (a basic human right) is financialized. One part. disturbing outcome: Israeli pension bonds tied to illegal settlemens in Palestine being linked to rent-stabilized housing in New York
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Indigenous organizations from the Amazon sent a letter to the United Nations warning that organized crime — including illegal mining, drug trafficking and logging — is driving violence and accelerating environmental destruction in rainforest communities. apnews.com/article/amaz...
apnews.com
Indigenous Amazon groups urge the UN to curb organized crime, not militarize territories
Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America have sent a letter to the United Nations warning that organized crime — including illegal mining, drug trafficking and logging — is dr...
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
People > data centers.
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Climate Rights International @climaterights.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Methane is a super-pollutant. Yet, draft guidelines by the European Commission, seen by news agencies, would reportedly grant EU member states’ national authorities the power to exempt companies on energy-security grounds. Weakening methane rules would be a major setback. cri.org/eu-weak-meth...
cri.org
EU: Weak Methane Guidelines Would Accelerate Warming, Endanger Health
A reported draft guidance document from the European Commission that would allow fossil fuel companies to avoid fines for failing to comply with the European Union’s (EU) Methane Regulation would be d...
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Disinformation's best tool is lack of information.... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
The Trump administration is deleting government data. From infant deaths to hunger, here are five ways it’s hurting Americans
This information was used to understand the problems Americans face. The consequences of its erasure, experts warn, could affect generations to come
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Heirs' property and climate change is a quiet but incredibly important climate justice issue that flies under the radar... until a hurricane hits, and suddenly it's everywhere. Great reporting on how this affects Gullah Geechee communities. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
theguardian.com
Gullah Geechee people set out to keep their family land. Unclear titles and surging taxes are pushing them out
Property disputes, predatory development and surging sea levels are putting the historic Black community at risk
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The monthly weather/climate summary for April highlights the the worst April drought conditions in contiguous U.S. history, the 6 billion-dollar U.S. weather disasters so far, and the usual list of global notable temperature extremes. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/apri...
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April 2026: Earth’s fourth-warmest April on record » Yale Climate Connections
Global sea surface temperatures were the second-highest on record for April.
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Who would have thought that the thing to end us is an AI summary of an email I don't even want to read in the first place.. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Microsoft may shelve 2030 clean energy target as AI lifts power use, Bloomberg News reports
Microsoft is considering delaying or abandoning its 2030 goal of matching its entire hourly electricity ​use with renewable energy purchases, Bloomberg News reported on ‌Wednesday, citing people famil...
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Considering methane reductions is THE lowest hanging fruit for reducing global warming and together with the news that the EU might be about to completely de-fang its Methane Regulation, this does not bode well for anyone...
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“No sign” of reductions in global methane emissions in 2025 — IEA - Gas Outlook
A growing number of countries have committed to reducing methane emissions, but emissions plateaued in 2025, the IEA said in a new report.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Microsoft is considering ditching its commitment to match its hourly electricity use with renewable energy purchases by 2030. It's in a race with the other hyperscalers to power up energy-guzzling AI data centers as fast as possible, so apparently a livable climate is no longer a priority.
Bloomberg NEF projections of data centers' fossil gas consumption through 2035.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
No comment. Shell Reports Nearly $7 Billion Profit Amid ‘Unprecedented Disruption’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...
nytimes.com
Shell Reports Nearly $7 Billion Profit Amid ‘Unprecedented Disruption’
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