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Rocky Kistner

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Independent environmental journalist; SEJ board member; Oceanites advisory board; Mizzou J School grad; website: https://t.co/pBvxVhR37I

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“When you listen, the land speaks.” A sacred Indian mound site to return to the Osage Nation in St. Louis: “we are still alive and we still care about that area because thousands of our ancestors are buried there” @thegabhour @NewsHour pbs.org/newshour/natio…


Great reporting. How the fossil fuel industry covered up the true economic costs of climate change: “the industry cherry-picked what it liked from economics and sought to make some ideas radioactive to policymakers.” @WeAreDrilled search.app/uq8zG2RCGmfHZP…


.@Bluesky is exploding. Is this finally the alternative platform to @X people have been dreaming about? “It’s a throwback to a rawer, lower-stakes era of social media, before elections and economies hinged on what happened there.” @kevinroose @nytimes search.app/9EoCu3X4jYzwik…


Great piece on the rapidly changing #media landscape that has TV journalists freaking out: “I feel like I have to talk about my own demise here, but that’s what it is...People are not watching TV anymore.”cjr.org/the_media_toda… via @cjr @Jon_Allsop


As the world burns, a UN global conference in oil-rich Baku falls far short of climate goals: "There is no deal to come out of Baku that will not leave a bad taste in everyone's mouth" @Ben_Geman @afreedma @axios axios.com/2024/11/22/cop… #axiosgenerate


Study shows plastic pollution cuts krill’s ocean carbon storage: “we have evidence that plastic pollution could be reducing the ability of krill feces to transport and store carbon in the deep ocean by over a quarter—this is huge!” @bas_news @physorg_com phys.org/news/2024-11-p…


Hundreds of scientists warn of growing Antarctic threat: "Runaway ice loss causing rapid and catastrophic sea level rise is possible within our lifetime” ⁦@JonoGibson⁩ ⁦@abcnewsabc.net.au/news/2024-11-2…


Report reveals a river of unregulated plastics plant pollution: “most plants have no limits on the amounts of total nitrogen, phosphorus, 1,4-dioxane, dioxins, and other harmful pollutants they are allowed to release.” @re_ari @oil_watch news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/plastics-…


This year’s snowfall prediction: deja vu all over again as melting temps will take a toll on snow days. “We’re like frogs in a pot of boiling water, and we don’t jump out until it’s too late.” ⁦@BenNollWeather⁩ ⁦@Harry_Stevens@washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…


Growing #climate threat: tiny organisms key to ocean life are disappearing from warming seas. “If the small things disappear, the food disappears — for the small fish, and then for the bigger fish, for the marine mammals and for us” @dino_grandoni washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…


Check out EJ TransitionWatch! Environmental Journalism TransitionWatch is a new, limited-run weekly report from SEJournal, published through Inauguration Day 2025. @sejorg sej.org/publications/e…

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Journalists move to ⁦BlueSky as Twitter becomes a bastion for disinformation. But will they abandon @X altogether? “…the big question is whether journalists will actually leave X, or divide their attention between both platforms.” @grevy_sarah @CJR search.app/QZPBYG4xcFMKnD…


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Our report on the men, women & children in Malaysia whose health is being wrecked by toxic pollution from recycling, burning & dumping of plastic waste, often exported illegally from countries like the UK. 🧵1/2


"The size of the Star-Spangled Banner and its six-week timeline for completion would have necessitated many people working on the flag, including Mary Pickersgill's three nieces and Grace Wisher. The household also had an enslaved person, whose name we do not know."

Grace Wisher, an enslaved black girl at just 13 years old, helped create the American flag which inspired the national anthem. She is often overlooked in the storytelling of the nation’s most prominent visual emblem. —Two hundred years ago, an African American girl made…

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Grace Wisher, an enslaved black girl at just 13 years old, helped create the American flag which inspired the national anthem. She is often overlooked in the storytelling of the nation’s most prominent visual emblem. —Two hundred years ago, an African American girl made…

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Critics claim a plastics industry coverup: “It’s hard to imagine a clearer example of greenwashing…The oil and gas industry – which is pretty much the same thing as the plastics industry – has been at this for decades.” ⁦@sandralaville@guardian search.app/T8fHecTjW8tb4b…


Dictator for a day? "Trump told House Republicans he addressed on Capitol Hill last week that he might need their help to bypass the Constitution to allow him to run for a third term." wapo.st/48Vcbq1 @Reinlwapo @jdawsey1 @byaaroncdavis @washingtonpost


Study: warming waters fueling more dangerous hurricanes. “We’ve known for a long time that we will see more intense hurricanes if we continue to burn fossil fuels…we can quantify it and we have confidence in the numbers” ⁦@afreedma@axios axios.com/2024/11/20/hur…


Smart piece: how Trump EV policies could help ⁦@Tesla⁩ and hurt its EV competition. “Take away the subsidies,” Musk wrote on X in July. “It will only help Tesla.” ⁦@russ1mitchell⁩ ⁦@latimeslatimes.com/environment/st…


There’s a new sheriff in town. Elon Musk moves his hi-tech operations to rural Texas and transforms a community: “it’s like a flying saucer landed…and a bunch of people got out” ⁦@jessicakmathews⁩ ⁦@FortuneMagazinefortune.com/2024/11/18/elo…


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