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D @wildfirediva.bsky.social · 7d

Just released: Provisional Initial Assessments (PIAs) for eight 2025 summer fires. USGS EROS and the USDA Forest Service Field Services & Innovation Center - Geospatial Office team up to map burn severity for fires across the United States. Get the data: ow.ly/FYWw50X3AOk

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Profolus @profolus.com · 1h

Did you know? Freshwater accounts for a mere 3 percent of the entire water on Earth. About two-thirds of freshwater are tucked in inaccessible underground reservoirs and frozen glaciers.

Causes of Water Scarcity and Water Stress - Profolus

Understanding the causes of water scarcity and water stress is crucial in promoting sustainable water consumption.

www.profolus.com

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D @wildfirediva.bsky.social · 1h

Love a good rainy day at home until you discover a leak. Where there is one there is usually more and it takes this much rain to discover them. #AZWx #PHX

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Julia Leggs📎I'm🏳️‍⚧️&🇬🇧.I support🇺🇦NATO🇺🇳💙 I'm in the UK🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.🇬🇧Veteran @julialeggs.bsky.social · 1h

BBC News - Mexico floods leave at least 27 dead and more missing
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Mexico floods leave at least 27 dead and more missing

Heavy rainfall has caused river banks to burst and triggered landslides, carrying away homes and cars.

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D @wildfirediva.bsky.social · 1h

Inside the scramble to save lives as heat menaces two Southwestern counties

Maricopa County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada, offer a cautionary tale about what it takes to keep people alive in extreme temperatures.
www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

Deadly summers: Inside the scramble to save lives as heat menaces two Southwestern counties

Maricopa County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada, offer a cautionary tale about what it takes to keep people alive in extreme temperatures.

www.nbcnews.com

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Mark Shapiro @mhshapiro2.bsky.social · 1h

🧪 #ClimateChange has real, deadly consequences.
www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

Deadly summers: Inside the scramble to save lives as heat menaces two Southwestern counties

Maricopa County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada, offer a cautionary tale about what it takes to keep people alive in extreme temperatures.

www.nbcnews.com

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D @wildfirediva.bsky.social · 8h

If it's paid for keep it and go when it comes around. If you want to sell it later cool. It is ok to invest in your future self regardless of present idiocracy.

D @wildfirediva.bsky.social · 9h

Interior is not on their list just yet.

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D @wildfirediva.bsky.social · 12h

Who are his advisors and where are they getting the images they are showing him? Likely AI generated.

D @wildfirediva.bsky.social · 12h

I've not tried either? Do you have a preference?

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Julia Leggs📎I'm🏳️‍⚧️&🇬🇧.I support🇺🇦NATO🇺🇳💙 I'm in the UK🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.🇬🇧Veteran @julialeggs.bsky.social · 15h

BBC News - Spain battered by heavy rain, floods as Storm Alice prompts red alert - BBC Weather
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Spain battered by heavy rain, floods as Storm Alice prompts red alert

Red weather warnings are in place across south-eastern Spain as Storm Alice hits.

www.bbc.co.uk

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D @wildfirediva.bsky.social · 15h

Johnson says House will remain closed until shutdown ends
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D @wildfirediva.bsky.social · 15h

#NMWx #SantaFe

Natalie @secretagent39.bsky.social · 18h

Whoa! Santa Fe! Just got this email.

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Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · 18h

Valuable reporting, I want to mention; I’m struggling to believe we have 32,000 workers now.

I think that figure included workers on payroll thru 9/30 who resigned (DRP).

~10,000 are pro firefighters (assuming few left).

What’s left is like asking a small town to run a nation’s lands 😳

wildlifesteward.bsky.social @wildlifesteward.bsky.social · 18h

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Shutdown leaves public lands open but underserved - Center for Western Priorities share.google/MjGjUcjhjYeq...

Shutdown leaves public lands open but underserved - Center for Western Priorities

While the Trump administration leaves national parks open and understaffed during the government shutdown, millions of acres of other public land also technically remain open, but visitors should expe...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18h

US moves to cancel one of the world’s largest solar farms on.ft.com/4h5nC2c

US moves to cancel one of the world’s largest solar farms

Trump administration scraps approval for 6.2 gigawatt Nevada project

on.ft.com

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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 18h

It looks as if Governor Newsom opted not to sign SB326: www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...

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Sue Stone @knittingknots.bsky.social · 18h

Trump kills major project backed by company donating millions to his White House ballroom - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/trump-solar/

Trump kills major project backed by company donating millions to his White House ballroom

A firm that cut millions of dollars in donations to President Donald Trump's plan for a massive new ballroom wing of the White House has suddenly found one of its flagship energy projects canceled by ...

www.rawstory.com

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Wildfire Science & Technology Commons @wildfirecommons.bsky.social · 18h

Join us October 17 at 12 pm PDT to hear from Marissa Christiansen, CWI’s Executive Director, as she explores how FireLines will help agency, nonprofit, and funding partners align their resources for maximum impact.

Register for the webinar at: ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Wildfire Commons Webinar: FireLines - Mapping Networks and Gaps in Wildfire Resilience. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joini...

FireLines, developed by the Climate & Wildfire Institute (CWI), is a first-of-its-kind network mapping platform that visualizes the wildfire resilience ecosystem. Using graph-based data, machine learn...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19h

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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guidegroup.bsky.social @guidegroup.bsky.social · 19h

They're only half way through their plan. The rest is in writing; you can see it for yourself. The're not screwing around; they really intend to do these things. Stand up! Fight back! Resist!

Repsych @repsych.bsky.social · 19h

If Project 2025 is further enacted, it threatens to:

@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 21h

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Sue Stone @knittingknots.bsky.social · 20h

'Never felt more betrayed': MAGA rebels over Trump's 'treasonous' Qatar base in Idaho - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/trump-qatar-...

'Never felt more betrayed': MAGA rebels over Trump's 'treasonous' Qatar base in Idaho

After years of advocating "America First," President Donald Trump's administration, the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday, "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acce...

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Ignacio Villaverde @wildlandfirefig.bsky.social · 20h

Bolivia sigue ardiendo un día más, especialmente el departamento de Santa Cruz:

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 20h

Oh I missed that Trump tanked the markets again with tariff threats

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 22h

AFGE, the largest union representing federal employees, calls the RIFs during the government shutdown "illegal" and points out that this has never happened before during a shutdown

AFGE President Everett Kelley Condemns Trump Administration Illegal Mass firings
Largest federal employee union demands Congress end the government shutdown immediately

WASHINGTON – Today, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing more than 800,000 federal and D.C. government employees condemned the Trump administration’s decision to illegally fire thousands of federal employees during the government shutdown.

AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement:

“It is disgraceful that the Trump administration has used the government shutdown as an excuse to illegally fire thousands of workers who provide critical services to communities across the country.

“These workers show up every day to serve the American people, and for the past nine months have been met with nothing but cruelty and viciousness from President Trump. Every single American citizen should be outraged.

“Federal workers are tired of being used as pawns for the political and personal gains of the elected and un-elected leaders. It’s time for Congress to do their jobs and negotiate an end to this shutdown immediately.

“In AFGE’s 93 years of existence under several presidential administrations – including during Trump’s first term – no president has ever decided to fire thousands of furloughed workers during a government shutdown.

“AFGE is currently challenging President Trump’s illegal, unprecedented, abuse of power and we will not stop fighting until every reduction-in-force notice is rescinded.”

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 23h

"The frog will guard the guards themselves" 🐸😄

Portland metamorphosis

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