Zoë Schlanger
Reporter covering chemicals, climate, cool plants. Author of THE LIGHT EATERS, a plant book, out from Harper Books. I'm zoeschlanger.99 on Signal
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- love this company. this shelf can hang
- Reposted by Zoë SchlangerProud to have been cited in this piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social- one of the best there is. Back when Quartz was still around, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social and I got an internal document from a DHS insider, showing Border Patrol and CBP officers getting arrested at a higher rate than any other cops
- Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë SchlangerNEW: 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...
- The environment flows through our bodies, altering our trajectories in ways medicine is just starting to see. "Your 'environment' could be the refinery a town over, the lead in the paint of your mother’s home, the plastic sheath of a Hot Pocket you microwaved in 1996." www.wired.com/story/scient...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- The @coveringclimatenow.org awards are always such an impressive array of global journalism- congrats to all the 2025 winners, this is a truly killer reading list: coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- I just got the Taiwanese edition of The Light Eaters in the mail. This is just elite book design
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Excellent reporting from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on post-disaster contractor scams grist.org/extreme-weat... "More than a third of people impacted by a disaster report experiencing fraud...contractor fraud has become a lucrative business."
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- DHS is barring disaster-relief orgs that receive FEMA money from offering assistance to undocumented people. Shelters, food assistance, search and rescue. A lot of these groups are faith-based, which "could create constitutional concerns." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- I wrote about how the the brain drain of emergency managers from FEMA and HUD is flowing directly into disaster consulting companies. It's probably time to talk about the privatization of American disaster response. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Who wants this? I can't imagine Republican voters want this. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
- In the early weeks of this administration I thought PFAS was a rare environmental issue it miiight take seriously, based on Lee Zeldin's time as a NY rep. I was wrong! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- "It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area." This is wild. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
- "The U.S. government is now holding a massive fire sale for mosquito nets, water towers, printers, iPads, chairs, generators, defibrillators, textbooks, agricultural equipment, motorbikes, mobile health clinics, and more." by @hana-kiros.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Your dental fillings? Plastic. Your aligners? Plastic. Your floss, your toothbrush, your night guard?? Anyway the dentists are talking about it now so thought I'd mention it too (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë SchlangerFour journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Every quote from Greco in here is just wild. Wild! www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Comment period is open for the EPA's plan to rescind the endangerment finding. This will be an interesting public record for future generations. Part of the Mistaken Period when leadership was doing absolutely ridiculous things in the face of absurdly obvious countervailing evidence
- Man I really hate this. As usual @cwarzel.bsky.social hits the shitty reality button www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
- "workers are not allowed to wear masks on the front line, even if they want to" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë SchlangerIncreasing temperatures from climate change have led to a 40% reduction in blue whale “songs” in just the past 6 years alone. “It’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” said John Ryan, a biological oceanographer. The world's oceans absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from climate change
- The world's highest court declared greenhouse gas emissions a human rights violation. A week later, the EPA said it plans to rescind the government's legal assertion that GHGs endanger the public. America's most catastrophic form of exceptionalism. A gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- The big banks are walking back from public net-zero commitments. But they've also shrunk their financing of oil and gas projects by 25% from the previous year www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- I got to write about my favorite sea slug, can you even believe this thing www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- I said what I said 😤 nymag.com/strategist/a...
- "liquid in glass jars showed the highest levels," likely due to a "polyester-based paint on the glass bottles’ metal caps" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- well then
- incredible timing www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]
- No one asked for this www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
- In a warehouse in Dubai, 500 tons of high-energy biscuits for starving children were allowed to approach their expiration date. They're about to be incinerated. Important scoop from @hana-kiros.bsky.social. What are we doing here. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
- looking forward to reading this one
- Reposted by Zoë Schlanger[Not loaded yet]