Adam Welz
@adamwelz.bsky.social
Author THE END OF EDEN: WILD NATURE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE BREAKDOWN (Bloomsbury) - avail. globally
Writer, conservationist, naturalist. Takes photos
Posts mainly wildlife conservation, climate change, civil liberties & nature photos
Cape Town, S Africa
Writer, conservationist, naturalist. Takes photos
Posts mainly wildlife conservation, climate change, civil liberties & nature photos
Cape Town, S Africa
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Metal scaffolding is more solid, leads to less worker deaths, and obviously isn't flammable, but bamboo is dirt cheap and light, and I think many here have a nostalgic preference for it.
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Metal scaffolding is more solid, leads to less worker deaths, and obviously isn't flammable, but bamboo is dirt cheap and light, and I think many here have a nostalgic preference for it.
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A disastrous residential fire in Hong Kong tonight.
These concrete buildings are normally very fire resistant, but when they renovate here, they cover the buildings completely in bamboo scaffolding, turning them into literal smoke and fire traps from the outside.
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/26/h...
These concrete buildings are normally very fire resistant, but when they renovate here, they cover the buildings completely in bamboo scaffolding, turning them into literal smoke and fire traps from the outside.
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/26/h...
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A disastrous residential fire in Hong Kong tonight.
These concrete buildings are normally very fire resistant, but when they renovate here, they cover the buildings completely in bamboo scaffolding, turning them into literal smoke and fire traps from the outside.
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/26/h...
These concrete buildings are normally very fire resistant, but when they renovate here, they cover the buildings completely in bamboo scaffolding, turning them into literal smoke and fire traps from the outside.
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/26/h...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Why is Gavin Newsom blocking rooftop #solar in #California?
(from July)
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
(from July)
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Why is Gov. Gavin Newsom blocking rooftop solar in California?
Follow the money.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Why is Gavin Newsom blocking rooftop #solar in #California?
(from July)
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
(from July)
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Africa's spectacular hornbills are in trouble -- they're being shot and trapped to become pets or decor items and for voodoo ceremonies -- but all is not lost
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
Please share! #birds #conservation #hornbills
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
Please share! #birds #conservation #hornbills
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
A Troubling Rise in the Grisly Trade of a Spectacular African Bird
Researchers are finding a disturbing uptick in the trade of African hornbills and their body parts in West African voodoo markets and globally on the internet. Conservationists want international prot...
e360.yale.edu
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Africa's spectacular hornbills are in trouble -- they're being shot and trapped to become pets or decor items and for voodoo ceremonies -- but all is not lost
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
Please share! #birds #conservation #hornbills
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
Please share! #birds #conservation #hornbills
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
Interesting article on the mathematics of ecological tipping points
#climate
www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-...
#climate
www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-...
The Math of Climate Change Tipping Points | Quanta Magazine
Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?
www.quantamagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Interesting article on the mathematics of ecological tipping points
#climate
www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-...
#climate
www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-...
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We knew Ningaloo’s coral bleaching was severe. But what we found 6 months later was still a shock
We knew Ningaloo’s coral bleaching was severe. But what we found 6 months later was still a shock
Mounting evidence shows the state of coral reefs is worsening despite concerted local conservation. The answer is public pressure for meaningful climate action.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We knew Ningaloo’s coral bleaching was severe. But what we found 6 months later was still a shock
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Communities along Cambodia’s O’Ta Bouk River are experiencing severe water contamination, skin ailments and the collapse of fish stocks, which they blame on an unregulated gold mine operating upstream inside Virachey National Park.
Toxic runoff from politically linked gold mine poisons Cambodian rivers, communities
*Sources have requested pseudonyms be used to protect their identity out of fear of retaliation from the government or mining companies BANGKOK, Thailand/RATANAKIRI, Cambodia — “When you touch the…
news.mongabay.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Communities along Cambodia’s O’Ta Bouk River are experiencing severe water contamination, skin ailments and the collapse of fish stocks, which they blame on an unregulated gold mine operating upstream inside Virachey National Park.
It was 12:16pm in South Africa when I Googled "cet now", as in Central European Time now. Look what Google's AI Overview (which I didn't ask for) spewed up... 😂
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It was 12:16pm in South Africa when I Googled "cet now", as in Central European Time now. Look what Google's AI Overview (which I didn't ask for) spewed up... 😂
BBC corrupting itself
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
BBC corrupting itself
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
"Some of our most damaging #invasive species are #plants, but they don't capture public imagination the way animals do"
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
What half a million tweets reveal about invasive species
A study analyzing over 500,000 tweets from 2006 to 2021 found that public discourse on invasive species heavily favors charismatic animals over ecologically harmful plants.
phys.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"Some of our most damaging #invasive species are #plants, but they don't capture public imagination the way animals do"
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Common Dolphins in the Atlantic are having their lives cut short by the fishing industry
#bycatch #conservation
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
#bycatch #conservation
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Atlantic dolphins are dying much younger. Scientists sound the alarm
Common dolphins in the North Atlantic are living significantly shorter lives, with female longevity dropping seven years since the 1990s. Researchers found this decline by analyzing stranded dolphins,...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Common Dolphins in the Atlantic are having their lives cut short by the fishing industry
#bycatch #conservation
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
#bycatch #conservation
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Researchers are finding a disturbing uptick in the trade of African hornbills and their body parts in West African voodoo markets and globally on the internet. Conservationists want international protections for these birds, which play a key role in Africa’s forest ecosystems. #IllegalWildlifeTrade
A Troubling Rise in the Grisly Trade of a Spectacular African Bird
Researchers are finding a disturbing uptick in the trade of African hornbills and their body parts in West African voodoo markets and globally on the internet. Conservationists want international prot...
e360.yale.edu
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Researchers are finding a disturbing uptick in the trade of African hornbills and their body parts in West African voodoo markets and globally on the internet. Conservationists want international protections for these birds, which play a key role in Africa’s forest ecosystems. #IllegalWildlifeTrade
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.
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If you want free or more affordable books, don't steal them - advocate for universal basic income so authors can write the damn things without having to work a day job 8-10 hours a day or subsist on Venmo money.
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you want free or more affordable books, don't steal them - advocate for universal basic income so authors can write the damn things without having to work a day job 8-10 hours a day or subsist on Venmo money.
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NOW, FOR SOME GOOD NEWS
In '23, a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune proclaimed: “One Night. One Building. 1,000 #Birds Dead.” The skyscraper applied dots to its windows -- and it's working!
#Nature #Wildlife #Architecture
Free gift article from The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...
In '23, a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune proclaimed: “One Night. One Building. 1,000 #Birds Dead.” The skyscraper applied dots to its windows -- and it's working!
#Nature #Wildlife #Architecture
Free gift article from The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...
An Illinois Building Was a Bird Killer. A Simple Change Made a World of Difference.
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
NOW, FOR SOME GOOD NEWS
In '23, a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune proclaimed: “One Night. One Building. 1,000 #Birds Dead.” The skyscraper applied dots to its windows -- and it's working!
#Nature #Wildlife #Architecture
Free gift article from The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...
In '23, a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune proclaimed: “One Night. One Building. 1,000 #Birds Dead.” The skyscraper applied dots to its windows -- and it's working!
#Nature #Wildlife #Architecture
Free gift article from The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...
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Young #coatimundi caught on #cameratrap. Galiuro Mountains, a rare Sky Island in the #SonoranDesert.
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Young #coatimundi caught on #cameratrap. Galiuro Mountains, a rare Sky Island in the #SonoranDesert.
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Africa's hornbills are in serious trouble, but all is not lost
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
#birds #conservation #Africa
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
#birds #conservation #Africa
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
A Troubling Rise in the Grisly Trade of a Spectacular African Bird
Researchers are finding a disturbing uptick in the trade of African hornbills and their body parts in West African voodoo markets and globally on the internet. Conservationists want international prot...
e360.yale.edu
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Africa's hornbills are in serious trouble, but all is not lost
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
#birds #conservation #Africa
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
#birds #conservation #Africa
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
Africa's hornbills are in serious trouble, but all is not lost
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
#birds #conservation #Africa
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
#birds #conservation #Africa
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
A Troubling Rise in the Grisly Trade of a Spectacular African Bird
Researchers are finding a disturbing uptick in the trade of African hornbills and their body parts in West African voodoo markets and globally on the internet. Conservationists want international prot...
e360.yale.edu
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Africa's hornbills are in serious trouble, but all is not lost
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
#birds #conservation #Africa
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
#birds #conservation #Africa
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...