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Matt Simon

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Senior Writer at Grist

@mrmattsimon.bsky.social Senior writer @grist. Formerly @wired. Book on microplastics: https://t.co/TMwRuuZp5j. [email protected]

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Articles

  • 6 days ago | grist.org | Matt Simon

    Cities sit unmoving on the landscape — a sprawling collection of roads, sidewalks, and buildings designed to last for generations. But across the United States, urban areas are silently shifting: The land beneath them is sinking, a process known as subsidence, largely because people are using too much groundwater and aquifers are collapsing. The sheer weight of a metropolis, too, compacts the underlying soil.

  • 6 days ago | yahoo.com | Matt Simon

    Cities sit unmoving on the landscape — a sprawling collection of roads, sidewalks, and buildings designed to last for generations. But across the United States, urban areas are silently shifting: The land beneath them is sinking, a process known as subsidence, largely because people are using too much groundwater and aquifers are collapsing. The sheer weight of a metropolis, too, compacts the underlying soil.

  • 1 week ago | goodgoodgood.co | Matt Simon

    This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. ‍The United States has never really cared much about tackling climate change, at least at the federal level.

  • 1 week ago | grist.org | Matt Simon

    With less than a month to go until summer, weather forecasters have been dropping some troubling news about what might be in store. AccuWeather had already predicted an especially active season — which begins June 1 — with up to 10 hurricanes out at sea, and its meteorologists are now forecasting a hotter-than-normal summer on land.

  • 1 week ago | grist.org | Matt Simon

    With less than a month to go until summer, weather forecasters have been dropping some troubling news about what might be in store. AccuWeather had already predicted an especially active season — which begins June 1 — with up to 10 hurricanes out at sea, and its meteorologists are now forecasting a hotter-than-normal summer on land.

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RT @caitharr: I’m so grateful to all the workers who trusted me to tell their stories @WIRED these past few years. It’s been an honor and a…