Stephanie Ebbs

We got them DENSE BRAINS baby

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

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In rural America, public radio saves lives In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?

In rural America, public radio saves lives

They retired from the government. Now they’re back, protecting forests Trump abandoned. The U.S. Forest Service lost thousands of workers under Trump. Volunteers and retirees are trying to help — but things are breaking.

Beautiful reporting wapo.st/4r4727z

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨

They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us

Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏

This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free. The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.

Something beautiful for your Friday www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

PBS News is not going anywhere.

We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.

We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

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Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects As the Trump administration's “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.

As the Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the United States, China continues huge investments in wind and solar power. See images of the scale of China’s solar-power projects:

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

An error message reads: Safari can't find the server "nca2023.globalchange.gov"

BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S.

This is what you get when you try to access them online

We want to get frontline communities their $3 billion back When the EPA created the Environmental and Climate Justice Block grant programs in 2022, advocates described it as an “unprecedented” and “long overdue” decision.   Now, $3 billion that was supposed t...

Yesterday, we sued the Trump administration for unlawfully terminating $3 billion in environmental and climate justice grants.

Access to clean air, water, and affordable, clean energy should not depend on your zip code, race, or income: www.selc.org/news/we-want...

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content

Scoop: NOAA's climate portal, climate.gov, will soon no longer publish new content after its staff were recently dismissed.

Former staff fear that the website may become a mouthpiece for the administration's anti-science views.

My latest for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

I thought I'd be able to listen to this in the background of work today but it's actually too interesting

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWR...

This program helps 6 million families pay their energy bills. Here’s what’s at risk if it’s cut. For low income households, the initiative's funding has been a 'lifesaver.'

I wrote about a program that has long enjoyed bipartisan support for the simple fact that it keeps Americans alive and safe from extreme temperatures in their homes.

Like so many other programs that help the poorest in the country, its funding is up for debate.

19thnews.org/2025/05/lihe...

Climate and weather scientists are joining the anti-Trump resistance in the most ‘scientist-iest’ way | CNN In the face of steep funding cuts for climate and weather research and forecasting, scientists have found a new way of engaging the public.

Weather and climate scientists determined to resist funding and program cuts in the geekiest way possible - with a 100-hour livestream of science presentations www.cnn.com/scientists-r...

WEBINAR: Join us and @grist.org for a star panel of climate experts and their take on how federal funding freezes and terminations will impact our future.

REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/e/funding-th...

A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes radars are ‘weather weapons’ and is trying to destroy them | CNN National Weather Service offices around the country are on guard after recent threats to agency infrastructure — specifically Doppler weather radars — from a violent militia-style group, emails from t...

NOAA is warning of a group that views Doppler Radars as "weather weapons" and poses a potential threat to US weather infrastructure & personnel. www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/w...

Judge Asks Trump Administration for More Evidence That Funding Freeze Is Constitutional - Inside Climate News The litigation was brought on behalf of 13 nonprofits and six municipalities across the country, which claim their projects have been upended by the spending freeze.

In a case brought by nonprofits and municipalities affected by the Trump administration’s spending freeze, a federal judge requests more evidence from the administration that the freeze is constitutional.

Environmental groups say Trump administration violated their free-speech rights A lawsuit alleges the Trump administration violated the free-speech rights of nonprofits and municipalities that have had federal funding for climate and environmental projects frozen or cancelled.

It's a big day for our @selc.bsky.social team in federal court, great piece on the focus of this case by @michaelcopley1.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...

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NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance.

By @lisalsong.bsky.social

President Trump moves to silence American public’s voice with environmental rulemaking orders  - Southern Environmental Law Center WASHINGTON D.C. – President Trump signed an order Wednesday night that attempts to rob Americans of their voice on important federal rules that protect their communities. Another order this week attem...

President Trump signed an order Wednesday night that attempts to rob Americans of their voice on important federal rules that protect their communities: www.selc.org/press-releas...

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

It's a crazy time for the news cycle but a good time to think about fine tuning your media relations skills. I'm participating in an "Ask a Journalist" panel through Story and Reach Communications on March 20 - bring your questions!

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I love this sentiment, my list would also include Ferngully, Dune, the Ents in Two Towers, and a picture book about ocean animals (shout out to the Portuguese Man O'War which blew my mind as a kid)

As I explore D&D I've been really curious about the potential to use this kind of storytelling to explore our relationship to our environment and climate change. Excited to check this out!