Jess Gray
@jgray17.bsky.social
Nature and animal lover, book dragon (fantasy, romantasy, YA), and climate activist. Plant-based and always exploring. She/Her
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We have to prepare for life not as normal.
Next year will be unlike anything we have ever seen before.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Next year will be unlike anything we have ever seen before.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching
Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2026 at 9:45 AM
We have to prepare for life not as normal.
Next year will be unlike anything we have ever seen before.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Next year will be unlike anything we have ever seen before.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“We are seeing what it entails to adapt to climate change, and we are seeing that we have an enormous gap…We are really lagging behind. We are not prepared for what’s coming.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/0209202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0209202...
Climate ‘Overshoot’ Is Coming—Are We Ready? - Inside Climate News
If global warming remains above 1.5 degrees Celsius, a new U.N. report says “there are no good outcomes.”
insideclimatenews.org
September 2, 2026 at 10:17 AM
“We are seeing what it entails to adapt to climate change, and we are seeing that we have an enormous gap…We are really lagging behind. We are not prepared for what’s coming.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/0209202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0209202...
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
September 1, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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In Kenya, Indigenous women from Maasai & Ogiek communities are restoring the Mau Forest through sustainable enterprises.
Beyond gaining independent income & family decision-making power, research shows their efforts are leading to better overall conservation outcomes.
Juliet Akoth Ojwang reports.
Beyond gaining independent income & family decision-making power, research shows their efforts are leading to better overall conservation outcomes.
Juliet Akoth Ojwang reports.
Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles
Before dawn breaks over Eor Ewaso, a village in southwestern Kenya, Judy Mukut is already awake. By 6:30 a.m., she has fetched water, milked the family’s cattle, prepared breakfast, cleaned the house…
mongabay.cc
August 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
In Kenya, Indigenous women from Maasai & Ogiek communities are restoring the Mau Forest through sustainable enterprises.
Beyond gaining independent income & family decision-making power, research shows their efforts are leading to better overall conservation outcomes.
Juliet Akoth Ojwang reports.
Beyond gaining independent income & family decision-making power, research shows their efforts are leading to better overall conservation outcomes.
Juliet Akoth Ojwang reports.
Our media is failing us. They need to start treating the climate crisis as a crisis.
In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US.
Number that mentioned climate change: 0.
Number that mentioned climate change: 0.
ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change
From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...
www.mediamatters.org
August 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Our media is failing us. They need to start treating the climate crisis as a crisis.
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We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
heated.world
July 18, 2026 at 2:27 AM
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
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The critical thing to understand about this air conditioning debate is that fossil fuel companies should be held accountable for destroying the planet.
June 30, 2026 at 10:41 PM
The critical thing to understand about this air conditioning debate is that fossil fuel companies should be held accountable for destroying the planet.
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The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.
"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’”
The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Fireworks on Mall likely to cause hazardous air pollution, documents show
Internal modeling shows the July 4th fireworks display will cause hazardous pollution around the Mall and “very unhealthy conditions across central D.C.”
www.washingtonpost.com
July 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM
The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.
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Yes it’s climate change, stop asking
July 2, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Yes it’s climate change, stop asking
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With heat waves shattering temperature records across the globe, leading to needless deaths, let me just say that history will not look fondly on those who put fossil fuel profits above saving the planet.
June 29, 2026 at 10:00 PM
With heat waves shattering temperature records across the globe, leading to needless deaths, let me just say that history will not look fondly on those who put fossil fuel profits above saving the planet.
“…by the end of the decade we need to have decisively broken the political power of the fossil fuel industry, so we can get on with the energy transition, and with building a world that can survive the damage Big Oil has inflicted.” - @billmckibben.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
And so "climate" returns
The next--and most important--cycle in a long-running battle
open.substack.com
June 27, 2026 at 6:47 PM
“…by the end of the decade we need to have decisively broken the political power of the fossil fuel industry, so we can get on with the energy transition, and with building a world that can survive the damage Big Oil has inflicted.” - @billmckibben.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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Folk, the a/c discourse is a trap.
While we’re all arguing about whether Luddite-left Europeans deserve to suffer, no-one is talking about the elite fossil-fuel interests who have knowingly caused #ClimateChange and are still blocking us from halting global heating with their corruption and lies.
While we’re all arguing about whether Luddite-left Europeans deserve to suffer, no-one is talking about the elite fossil-fuel interests who have knowingly caused #ClimateChange and are still blocking us from halting global heating with their corruption and lies.
June 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Folk, the a/c discourse is a trap.
While we’re all arguing about whether Luddite-left Europeans deserve to suffer, no-one is talking about the elite fossil-fuel interests who have knowingly caused #ClimateChange and are still blocking us from halting global heating with their corruption and lies.
While we’re all arguing about whether Luddite-left Europeans deserve to suffer, no-one is talking about the elite fossil-fuel interests who have knowingly caused #ClimateChange and are still blocking us from halting global heating with their corruption and lies.
68% of Americans are concerned about climate change, but only half believe others around them share this concern. @ecoamerica.bsky.social findings show a perception problem, not a concern problem. #VisibleAction can help make the majority seen, shared, and powerful. ecoamerica.org/american-cli...
April 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
68% of Americans are concerned about climate change, but only half believe others around them share this concern. @ecoamerica.bsky.social findings show a perception problem, not a concern problem. #VisibleAction can help make the majority seen, shared, and powerful. ecoamerica.org/american-cli...
🌍 Looking for Earth Month inspiration? Register for the National Faith + Climate Forum on April 25 and listen to remarkable women leading with faith, courage, and climate solutions. Register now: nationalfaithandclimateforum.org
March 30, 2026 at 6:21 PM
🌍 Looking for Earth Month inspiration? Register for the National Faith + Climate Forum on April 25 and listen to remarkable women leading with faith, courage, and climate solutions. Register now: nationalfaithandclimateforum.org
Looking forward to the American Climate Leadership Awards 2026 on Thursday, April 16! Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Inspirational #ClimateLeaders will be recognized for their climate action. Vanessa Hauc & Jerome Foster II will reveal the winners! #ACLA26 @ecoamerica.bsky.social
Inspirational #ClimateLeaders will be recognized for their climate action. Vanessa Hauc & Jerome Foster II will reveal the winners! #ACLA26 @ecoamerica.bsky.social
March 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Looking forward to the American Climate Leadership Awards 2026 on Thursday, April 16! Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Inspirational #ClimateLeaders will be recognized for their climate action. Vanessa Hauc & Jerome Foster II will reveal the winners! #ACLA26 @ecoamerica.bsky.social
Inspirational #ClimateLeaders will be recognized for their climate action. Vanessa Hauc & Jerome Foster II will reveal the winners! #ACLA26 @ecoamerica.bsky.social
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
The military industrial complex is cheering today.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
The military industrial complex is cheering today.
February 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
The military industrial complex is cheering today.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
The military industrial complex is cheering today.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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The president is overruling science to eliminate measures that protect us from pollution and environmental damage, mainly to benefit multinational corporations that have thrown money at his campaign, ballroom, and family.
It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.
It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.
February 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
The president is overruling science to eliminate measures that protect us from pollution and environmental damage, mainly to benefit multinational corporations that have thrown money at his campaign, ballroom, and family.
It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.
It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.
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Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.
I don't know how to do this
But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.
heated.world
January 26, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
January 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
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On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
🧵
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
🧵
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A new, 27-mile section of border wall could deplete springs that sustain animals in one of the last open wildlife corridors between Arizona and Mexico. Read more: buff.ly/G80YpcK
November 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A new, 27-mile section of border wall could deplete springs that sustain animals in one of the last open wildlife corridors between Arizona and Mexico. Read more: buff.ly/G80YpcK
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This is not just funny, it's smart. We need more of this mockery that shows these thugs that we see their despicable fascism and give them the respect that they deserve.
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
October 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is not just funny, it's smart. We need more of this mockery that shows these thugs that we see their despicable fascism and give them the respect that they deserve.
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The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
September 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
Outdoor workers. Older adults. People with chronic illness. These Americans face the highest risks from extreme heat, and many aren’t getting the help they need. See the data from @apha.org and @ecoamerica.bsky.social:
ecoamerica.org/american-cli...
ecoamerica.org/american-cli...
New American Climate Perspectives Survey
New research with APHA explores Americans’ experiences with heat-related illness, top health concerns, at-risk groups, & local heat resources.
ecoamerica.org
August 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Outdoor workers. Older adults. People with chronic illness. These Americans face the highest risks from extreme heat, and many aren’t getting the help they need. See the data from @apha.org and @ecoamerica.bsky.social:
ecoamerica.org/american-cli...
ecoamerica.org/american-cli...