Hannah Fairfield
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Climate editor @ The New York Times. Alaska. North Dakota. New York. D.C.
Joined March 2009
Around the U.S., cities and towns are increasingly turning to treated wastewater to augment their drinking water supply. "It is now necessary for us to consider options that would, in previous generations, be considered unthinkable," one expert said.
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What are your questions about climate change? New York Times reporters want to hear from you.
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There is no question too basic, or too big. Your suggestions will be used to help guide the Times’s climate coverage.
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The South Asian monsoon is changing, in ways that will make life more difficult for the region's 1.8 billion people. I traveled to India to better understand why. It has a lot to do with climate change. 1/6
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A recent @nytimes article highlights a 2010 study detailing the devastating effects climate change has had on San Francisco's emblematic fog, which has decreased by 33% since the middle of the 20th century. Learn more here: https://t.co/04CLSGejET
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It’s a life force, with an uncertain future.
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I'm supposed to be an objective journalist. But I'm going to admit my feelings about the subject of today's story. I like fog. A lot. My infatuation led to this project (more of an experience, really, thanks to @nytclimate) and, now, this 🧵
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Its ebb and flow has long defined life along the California coast. Now, some scientists fear climate change is causing an ethereal companion to fade away.
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For every headline you read, a lot are thrown out. Here are the top five rejected headlines from this article: Need Fertilizer? Urine Luck.
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A shortage of chemical fertilizer, worsened by the war in Ukraine, has growers desperate. It just so happens that human urine has the very nutrients that crops need.
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Great lede: “vegan leather,” a marketing masterstroke meant to suggest environmental virtue:
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An influential system overseen by retailers and clothing makers ranks petroleum-based synthetics like “vegan leather” as more environmentally sound than natural fibers.
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The New York Times is bringing its Climate Forward team to London for three days of events (30 June - 2 July) @SominiSengupta
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@hfairfield All details here... https://t.co/AdnVmVOTzH
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Did you know, the “recycling” ♻️ symbol doesn’t mean something’s actually recyclable? Play our trashy garbage game, then read how recycling got to be such a mess (and what to do about it). By @WinstonC_S @HirokoTabuchi + @rinee_s
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We're thrilled to welcome @manuelaandreoni to @nytclimate's Climate Forward newsletter.
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We are very happy to announce that Manuela Andreoni will be joining the Climate Forward newsletter team as a writer working alongside Somini Sengupta, who hosts the signature New York Times climate…
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Tremendous reporting by the @NYTimes laying bare Manchin’s self-interest in blocking any move away from the dirtiest energy sources:
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At every step of his political career, Joe Manchin helped a West Virginia power plant that is the sole customer of his private coal business. Along the way, he blocked ambitious climate action.
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The language in the C.I.A. memo was unequivocal:
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A Soviet-era pipeline, opposed by the president but supported by the oil and gas industry, set up the dependency that today helps fund the Russian assault on Ukraine.
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Take a look at California:
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New maps provide a valuable tool to officials and scientists scrambling to protect threatened species.
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Paul Farmer, a physician who worked to bring high-quality health care to some of the world’s poorest people, is dead at 62. https://t.co/xhBahz75FI
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As a medical student, Dr. Farmer decided to build a clinic in Haiti. It grew into a vast network serving some of the world’s poorest communities.
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🚨 PERSONAL NEWS: Thrilled to announce that I’m taking on a new role at the New York Times covering climate change, and specifically the nexus between government and the private sector. It’s the biggest story in the world. 🌎
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As the climate crisis continues to grow, affecting all aspects of society and our natural world, New York Times climate coverage is expanding in parallel. We are building on our already strong…
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Wolves will regain federal protection across 44 of the lower 48 states after a judge overturned a Trump-era decision that removed them from the Endangered Species List.
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A federal judge has overturned the Trump-era decision that removed the predators from the endangered species list.
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Thanks for all your good wishes. If you subscribe to @nytclimate newsletter, you know the stellar work of my colleagues. If you don't subscribe yet, please sign up. I promise you, I'll try to show you how climate change matters -- to all our lives, in all kinds of ways.
We're thrilled to announce that @SominiSengupta is taking on an exciting new role as the anchor for our Climate Fwd newsletter.
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The hunt for Shackleton's ship Endurance
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Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice in 1915. Now, a team of researchers is heading to the Weddell Sea where it went down.
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The Biden administration has canceled two mining leases that would have allowed a copper mine to be built near an area of pristine wilderness in Minnesota. The Interior Department said the Trump administration improperly reinstated the leases in 2019.
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The leases, reinstated during the Trump years, would have allowed a Chilean mining conglomerate to dig for copper and nickel near the Boundary Waters wilderness in Minnesota.
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