Sarah Trent

Journalist reporting where climate + everyday meet: Conservation, recreation, food & ag, etc. In @highcountrynews @outsidemagazine @TheAtlantic @nytimes @WSJ

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

See this blue on radar.

These are birds stuck in the eye of Hurricane Milton!

[Sarah Trent @sftrent]

@ce_tracey Not the most serious one, but "Birds Aren't Real" might qualify.

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

We are witnessing a genuinely extraordinary, and regionally quite deadly and destructive, period for extreme #weather in the United States. And, quite frankly, the fingerprints of #ClimateChange are all over what has transpired in recent weeks and may yet occur in coming days.

[Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein]

The last time I saw John talk about a storm like this, he was begging Puerto Ricans to get out of the way of a Category 4 named Maria. https://t.co/uZkaNSTd6v

[Jennifer Sahn 🌻 @throwin_shadows]

Opportunity knocks! @highcountrynews is hiring three editorial fellows: a Virginia Spencer Davis fellow (to cover rural communities and agriculture), an Indigenous affairs fellow & a science and climate fellow. Learn more an apply by going here: https://t.co/HdrZMt4aJF. Pls RT.

[Jennifer Sahn 🌻 @throwin_shadows]

The September issue of @highcountrynews is another winner, if I may say so. Exceptional work by @Tanvim @SavannaStrott @IsobelWhitcomb B. "Toastie" Oaster @anthonyjwallace @Land_Desk @ben_a_goldfarb @sftrent @cwahmanholm @TheTinaVasquez @mileswgriffis. Do not miss this one.

[Sarah Sax, MESc. @sarahl_sax]

Honestly his article should have just been titled "Why climate action needs local journalism" https://t.co/UuMILyFadO

[joe spring @joespring]

Beautiful photos and important story here from Anne Readel—about new discoveries that may aid the conservation of the rusty patched bumblebee. @UWMadison @USFWS @USDA @xercessociety @WDNR https://t.co/wJGPTiaThE

[Jennifer Sahn 🌻 @throwin_shadows]

PSA to inform you that our August issue is 🔥, with new stories by @sftrent, Toastie Oaster, Laureli Ivanoff, @thatsMohrlikeit, @ben_a_goldfarb, Ruxandra Guidi, Chris La Tray, @nijhuism, @siisiikostagner, @Land_Desk, @susan_shain, Arthur Sze, and @erinxy. Read & subscribe.

[Erin Stone (she/her) @Erstone7]

Increasingly extreme heat is contributing to more deaths in California, but getting data on how many is slow

https://t.co/nXFgHJFrYt

[Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein]

Across the US, a scrappy, unelected brigade of "heat officers" are tasked with the gargantuan task of protecting the public from the deadly effects of extreme heat. The officers could save lives, there's just one problem: they don't have any authority. https://t.co/5v6nTj8IMX

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

Big farmers in California's Central Valley typically have the resources to recover after climate-fueled floods. Small farmers, though, are often left devastated — with little government help: https://t.co/9Hjh1aUrlF

[High Country News @highcountrynews]

When 17 back-to-back storms hit California's Central Coast in 2023, hundreds of small farms were devastated. More than a year after the storms, they're still fighting — and struggling — to recover.

https://t.co/0J8zRiIAVw

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

Big series from @latimes today on why reviving local journalism is so important. Starting with a story on Richmond, CA, and what happened when all the newspapers went out of business and Chevron became the city's main news source: https://t.co/SVMtX9OTJJ via @jvgarrison

[Sarah Trent @sftrent]

💔

[Serena Renner @serena_renner]

I'm devastated to share the news that @hakaimagazine—a dream publication to work and write for, not to mention read—will stop publishing at the end of 2024.

But the team is working hard to keep our coastal journalism alive! Sign up for newsletter updates: https://t.co/BWYa74ZmAe

[Kylie Mohr @thatsMohrlikeit]

tired: promoting gross unnecessary consumerism on Amazon prime day

wired: subscribing to your local newspaper/independent magazine/public radio station/@highcountrynews instead

[Ben Goldfarb @ben_a_goldfarb]

This is becoming a fun exercise: What are the century's best, say, 25 enviro books? Votes in comments for:

—BRAIDING SWEETGRASS, Kimmerer
—HOME PLACE, Lanham
—WILD SOULS, Marris
—WILD NEW WORLD, Flores
—IMMENSE WORLD, Yong
—UNDERLAND, Macfarlane
—DREAMT LAND, Arax

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[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

"Phoenix knows more about heat than you"

That's the headline I pitched for this one.

Because it's true & I'm weary of Arizona being portrayed elsewhere as a bunch of melting, helpless, #climate-clueless morons.

THIS is the frontier of #heat mitigation:
https://t.co/001vNa29tJ

[Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger]

A person incarcerated in Illinois died last week partly due to excessive heat. https://t.co/tyI89juLGY Remembering this intense, claustrophobic @highcountrynews @sarahl_sax investigation into what happened in prisons during a heatwave in Washington https://t.co/2nDtkIQQ2B

[Kylie Mohr @thatsMohrlikeit]

Extreme heat makes outdoor recreation dangerous. It also makes you harder to rescue. My latest for @TheAtlantic: https://t.co/Fi9mgNHIgz