@jamesNESW

Reporting on Earth from NYC; writing book about deep Earth for @VikingBooks. Signal @jamesnesw.44. Newsletter: https://xitter.cf/t.co/k7oYuwqtKN

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New essay out in @aeonmag in which I consider the deepest ways in which humans have changed the planet (hint: it’s not that super deep hole in Russia). aeon.co/essays/how-does-the-…

How does the deep Earth see humanity? | Aeon Essays

We need a new imagination for the whole Earth, linking the power of the deep planet with the vitality of the surface

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For @sciam I wrote about how powerful new x-rays and lasers are revealing an “explosion” of new minerals from Earth‘s mantle trapped in super-deep diamonds.🧪⚒️ scientificamerican.com/artic…

Deep-Earth diamonds reveal trove of never-before-seen minerals

Flecks of minerals captured in diamonds show hidden connections between Earth’s surface and its deep interior

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Holly Pretsky@hollypretApr 23
We figured out who’s on the NYC council’s informal but powerful Budget Negotiating Team and we tried to ask them about it yesterday - to no avail! With ⁦@Annie_McDonough⁩
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Holly Pretsky@hollypretApr 15
I say “symbolic” because it’s a way of taxing a subset of the rich (many of whom conveniently live elsewhere) without pissing too many rich people off. 🧵
Anna Bahr@anna_bahrApr 15
In what universe is $500m in new annual revenue a “symbolic concession” ? It’s a first win. Mayor said Tax the Rich. The Rich are being Taxed.
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The martian atmosphere is currently 200 times thinner than that of Earth. A 3 billion-year-old sandstorm recorded in the rocks could be the first direct evidence that wasn't always so. My latest for @ScienceMagazine. #NASA #mars science.org/content/article/…

Relics of an ancient sandstorm on Mars point to Earth-like winds

Curiosity rover finds what may be the first direct evidence that Mars once had a thick atmosphere

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Original paper: Steven Banham @imperialcollege et al. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa…
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A billion years of missing time continues to confound geologists. For @ScienceMagazine, I covered a new find in northern China that complicates debates on the source of the Great Unconformity:🧪⚒️ science.org/content/article/…

Ancient rocks point to an early start for the Great Unconformity—the biggest gap in Earth’s rock...

Two-billion-year-old rocks in China suggest mountain building from Earth’s first supercontinent led to a planetwide burst of erosion

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Here's the original paper in @PNASNews: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…

Tectonism rather than “snowball Earth” glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity | PNAS

The Great Unconformity (GUn)—a widely recognized discontinuity and associated gap in the rock record between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks—represe...

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Seismologists played a key role in establishing bans on underground nuclear blasts — those bans may be starting to break down. Read all about it in my here newsletter: 🧪northeastsouthwest.substack.…
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Researchers "overjoyed" #NASA is going to move forward with two new $355 million Earth science satellites. One watching stratosphere, one watching ice/forests. My latest for @ScienceMagazine: science.org/content/article/…

NASA greenlights two earth science missions, to researchers’ relief

Orbiting satellites will monitor changes in the stratosphere and on the planet’s surface

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New story in @ScienceMagazine . Evidence for two huge Triassic supereruptions found on Tibetan Plateau. 🧪#geology science.org/content/article/…

Traces of ancient seafloor cataclysms turn up in the Himalayas

Vast undersea eruptions may be undercounted source of extinctions through Earth’s history

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My latest for @ScienceMagazine: the plume of hot rock beneath Hawaii may have split in two deep in the mantle. Tens of millions of years from now this could lead to parallel island tracks above the hotspot.🌋 science.org/content/article/…

Mysterious difference between Hawaiian volcanoes may reflect divide deep within Earth

Hot mantle plume could be split in two, might eventually produce separate island chains

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Seismologists use 5000+ earthquakes to detect sunken slabs of ancient tectonic plates flowing along the edge of Earth's core. My latest from #AGU2025 for @ScienceMagazine 🧪: science.org/content/article/…

Ancient tectonic plates are oozing along Earth’s core

Thousands of earthquakes yield best picture yet of core-mantle boundary, shedding light on deep flows of viscous rock

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Some debate takeaways from @SahalieD, @Annie_McDonough and me: cityandstateny.com/politics/…

Key moments in the final NYC mayoral debate of 2025

Andrew Cuomo gets his night to shine – then bolts to Madison Square Garden.

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Can fuel made from aluminum scraps supply the clean heat industry needs? For @techreview, I got a sneak peak of Found Energy's largest aluminum-water reactor to date. technologyreview.com/2025/10…

This startup is about to conduct the biggest real-world test of aluminum as a zero-carbon fuel

We got a sneak peek inside Found Energy’s lab, just as it gears up to supply heat and hydrogen to its first customer.

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What do climate scientists really think about solar geoengineering? For @newscientist, @tinymaddie and I surveyed 120 IPCC authors about their attitudes towards solar geoengineering given failure to slash emissions on time. The results were surprising: newscientist.com/article/249…

Exclusive: Climate scientists expect attempts to dim the sun by 2100 | New Scientist

An exclusive New Scientist survey of leading scientists reveals widespread concern that schemes to tweak Earth’s atmosphere could launch within decades in a risky bid to cool the planet

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She had zero campaign experience before she masterminded Mamdani's June victory. Now everyone wants to get in touch with Chief Adviser Elle Bisgaard-Church. cityandstateny.com/personali…

How Elle Bisgaard-Church became Zohran Mamdani’s most trusted adviser

The first-time campaign manager steered him to victory in June. Now she’s focused on the likely next administration.

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Over the past two years, the land carbon sink appears to have weakened dramatically, driving the largest one year jump in atmospheric CO2 on record in 2024. Is this the end of the land carbon sink? I asked around for @newscientist: newscientist.com/article/249…

One of Earth’s most vital carbon sinks is faltering. Can we save it? | New Scientist

For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we emit each year – but this climate buffer may be collapsing far sooner than...

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Scary news for West Coast friends in my latest for @ScienceMagazine. Disturbed ocean sediments off California suggest big earthquakes on the Cascadia fault can trigger big quakes on the San Andreas. The "Big One" could well become the "Big Two"... science.org/content/article/…

Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch

Cascadia and San Andreas fault zones appear to generate synchronized earthquakes

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