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Recent Briefings
Today in The Fair Wind Gazette: A key deep-ocean monitoring network is being dismantled, raising alarms among climate scientists. The Pacific Kelvin wave we've been tracking now signals a potential 'S…
Today's briefing covers the apparent collapse of the 'anti-weaponization fund,' as the coordinated judicial and Republican pushback we've been tracking forces the administration's hand. We also cover …
As the legal and political battles over the 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' we've been tracking continue to escalate, today's briefing also covers a series of conservation stories, from the successful reint…
Today in The Fair Wind Gazette: A theme of reversal and re-evaluation runs through today's briefing, from a historical look at the American Revolution's global impact to the discovery of a 476,000-yea…
Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: the courts and the Constitution face a critical test, the Arctic Ocean sends a sobering signal, and a trans-Tasman fleet heads into heavy weather. We've also got good n…
Tipping points — chemical, constitutional, and climatic — run through today's edition of The Fair Wind Gazette. From a newly documented regime shift in the Arctic Ocean to a federal judge's final dism…
Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: new climate science clarifies how ice sheets cross thresholds that can't be uncrossed, a bipartisan coalition of retired judges challenges a $1.776 billion executive sl…
Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: paleoclimate records sharpen our picture of Antarctic ice-sheet vulnerability, a pipeline rupture sends crude into the LA River, and a federal panel pushes back on Alab…
Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: Europe sets May heat records while scientists map how warming oceans are reshuffling marine life across continental shelves. A solo teen sailor reaches Honolulu, the sa…
Water runs through today's edition of The Fair Wind Gazette — from the carbon footprint of tropical cyclones to a landmark Southern California water strategy, from dying gray whales off Washington to …