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Rainforest Conservation, Cacao Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Nature is not your Carbon Sink. Projects in Amazon and Indonesia IG: @conservationcacao

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · Nov 19

Cacao comes originally from the Amazon Basin. It grows under shade trees. Out on agricultural frontiers in the Tropics, where rainforest is being lost, cacao in agroforestry can be a barrier to deforestation. The alternatives, cattle, Oil Palm, mean farmers cutting down all their trees.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 59m

A Chinese coast guard ship used a powerful water cannon on Sunday then rammed and slightly damaged an anchored Philippine government vessel off an island inhabited by Filipinos in the disputed South China Sea, said the Philippine coast guard.

Chinese coast guard rams and damages a Philippine vessel off an island in the South China Sea

A Chinese coast guard ship has used a powerful water cannon and rammed a Philippine government vessel near Thitu Island in the South China Sea.

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 35m

Why are you and main IUCN account active on the Musk site and not here? People will move if everyone moves...

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CIFOR-ICRAF @cifor-icraf.org · 2h

The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) is setting a new benchmark for restoration by ensuring the #RightTreeRightPlace.

This initiative helps projects enhance biodiversity, ecosystems, and communities.

Learn more: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ZuNNap

#IUCNCongress #Trees4Resilience

New Global Biodiversity Standard raises bar for biodiversity-positive restoration - CIFOR-ICRAF Forests News

One of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’s headline commitments is the quest to restore 30% of degraded land by 2030. And there’s significant momentum already towards this goal, with ...

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2h

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 3d

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and they should recall Hyten's warning from
2017: "If you execute an unlawful order, you will go toil. You could go to jail for the rest of your life." Most American military personnel, however, need no reminder of their constitutional duty. But they do need some
reassurance that they have support from their chain of command to resist illegal orders. And the rest of us, whether we're elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to let our fellow Americans in uniform know that if they risk their careers and even their freedom to protect the Constitution, we will stand with them.

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 4h

Pass the word!

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent. There will never be a better day for Chuck Schumer to pass the torch than today.

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Michael DiTullo @d2lo.bsky.social · 7h

We handed out fliers for #nokings on Oct 18th. We were surprised how many young folks didn’t know about it but were really excited to learn! Talking to people IRL & giving them a piece of paper works.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4h

Got the flu & new COVID shots today with the family, but my kids only got the flu shot because there are no pediatric COVID vaccines right now because dangerous anti-science lunatics have taken over the centers of national public health & are sabotaging them

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 16h

🇲🇽 Floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least 28 people in Mexico this week and left behind a trail of destruction, local authorities across the country said.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 17h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 18h

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 16h

Did you not check your 401K yesterday?

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 17h

#Anthropology #Archaeology 🍺

Psychedelic beer may have helped pre-Inca empire in Peru schmooze elite outsiders and consolidate power

The Wari used beer mixed with psychedelics to help build an empire in Peru around 1,200 years ago, a new study suggests.

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

There's no hidden gems anywhere there, just watch the good ones again, he did plenty.

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

Names please! What ICE official? We need all their names, the whole chain of command. They all need to see, just maybe, someday, there will be accountability.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 1d

The Trump administration is attempting to undermine elections. Efforts have included rewriting election rules to burden voters, threatening to prosecute election officials, and supporting election deniers. Keep track and learn more with our new interactive timeline:

Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections

Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado is well deserved. When will the world give her and Venezuelans the backing they need to finally oust Maduro's corrupt dictatorship? Now would be a good time.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

VIDEO: 🇺🇸 Hundreds protest against National Guard deployment in Chicago

US President Donald Trump sent the National Guard to the Democrat-led city to aid ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents as they carry out immigration raids as part of Trump's mass deportation campaign

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

A powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, triggering tsunami warnings in the Asian nation as well as neighbouring Indonesia and Palau

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

Another president falls in Perú. Difficult to know at times if Peruvians despise more their president or their congress. Democracy captured by corruption for years.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

BREAKING Peru lawmakers vote to impeach president Dina Boluarte

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Philippine seismologists say an offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 has hit off a southern province.

7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes offshore from southern Philippines

An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 hit off a southern Philippine province Friday morning, seismologists said.

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

When exactly does it start getting good? I broke down and tried episode one and it was an unremitting slog.

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

That she give a full account of her conversation with Biden when he was going to step aside without immediately endorsing her. What did she say to him? She wants everyone to think the nomination was thrust upon her when that's not what happened.

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

Please report back on what got longest sustained laughter during THE GENERAL.