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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 7h

"FORGET AMAZON...Support your community. Don’t go back to the big corporations who have sold out America. We all have to give up something to save America from the Corporate Control Age it is entering."

neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/artic... #amazon #dobetter #neilyoung #shopsmall #takeamericaback

Neil Young Archives

NYA contains the complete archives of Neil Young. The site is designed for a chronological exploration of artist output including music, books, films, & videos. Music is streamed in high-res with Xstr...

neilyoungarchives.com

BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 7h

Tour de Keys, tourdekeys.donordrive.com/home #bikeride #charity #florida #floridakeys #fun #gulfofamerica #gulfofmexico #keylargo #keywest #keys #marathon #paradise #supercool

I’m Pedaling for a Purpose!

The Tour de Keys brings riders together to support AH Monroe and MARC—two organizations building a healthier, more inclusive Florida Keys. Help me reach my goal with a donation today!

tourdekeys.donordrive.com

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 7h

"90% of the extra heat trapped by the atmosphere due to fossil-fuel pollution has gone into the ocean. “As the ocean warms, food webs will change and will be less productive,"

www.kuow.org/stories/retu... #blob #governmentshutdown2025 #heatwave #lanina #notgood #oceanwarming #pacificocean

Return of The Blob: Heat wave spans Pacific Ocean

A massive heat wave is hitting the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to California.

www.kuow.org

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 7h

Shameless is such a fitting descriptor for the orange one.

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 2d

As President Theodore Roosevelt said on May 3, 1903 while pleading for the protection of the Grand Canyon; “Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it."

www.jsonline.com/story/opinio... #beauty #boundarywaters #copper #coppermine #minnesota #protect #superiornationalforest #twinmetalsminnesota

Boundary Waters sacred to Midwesterners. Mine would be devastating to wilderness | Opinion

A proposed copper mine, backed by Chilean mining conglomerate, is slated for public lands immediately upstream of Boundary Waters. Danger is real.

www.jsonline.com

BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 3d

financialpost.com/pmn/business... #biodiversity #highseas #india #indianocean #jacquescousteau #ocean #oceanbiodiversity #oceanexploration #oceanx #raydalio #singapore

Dalio's Billions to Help Map Oceans as Deep-Sea Race Advances

Billionaire Ray Dalio’s philanthropic arm is backing new research in the Indian Ocean to bolster marine protection after nations pledged to curb exploitation of the…

financialpost.com

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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 4d

Jane Goodall was the best of us.

Her last public words didn’t disappoint.

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 4d

Brilliant lady.

BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 4d

Very nice.

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 4d

But with Merrimack Station shutting down, there will no longer be coal burned in New England to power the grid.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025... #bownh #coal #graniteshorepower #lastcoalplant #merrimackstation #newengland #newhampshire #smart

New England’s last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners

Merrimack Station has been winding down its operations for years. But in September, they announced they would cease operations of their coal-fired generators.

www.nhpr.org

BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 5d

MAGA, you paying attention?

nbcnews.com/politics/don... #andrewschulz #dumbasastump #JoeRogan #KidRock #MAGA #stupidisasstupiddoes #theovon

Pod man out: Trump's support among influential podcasters is waning

Some of the podcasters who hosted Trump ahead of last year's election are breaking with him now on key issues like deportations and the war in Gaza.

nbcnews.com

BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 5d

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-c...

Trump considers massive bailout of at least $10 billion for American farmers hurt by his trade war

American farmers are having a tough year, in no small part because of President Donald Trump’s trade war. Now, the White House is gearing up to extend them a multi-billion-dollar bailout, sources tell...

finance.yahoo.com

BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 6d

"Of the 9 planetary boundaries, this (ocean acidification) is the 7th that’s been breached."

grist.org/oceans/the-o... #acidifcation #climatechange #foodweb #healthcheck #ocean #oceanacidification #ominous #phytoplankton #planetaryboundaries #potsdaminstitute #serious #wtf

The oceans just hit an ominous milestone

A new report sounds the alarm on mounting ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries."

grist.org

BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 6d

www.latimes.com/environment/...

#blob #california #californiacoast #dolphins #domoicacid #leptospirosis #marineheatwave #noaa #ocean #pacificocean #sealions #seals #seaotters #toxicalgalblooms #whaleentanglements #whales

Marine mammals are dying in record numbers along the California coast

It's been a doozy of a year for marine mammals, who have been dying in record numbers along the California coast. Volunteer rescue crews are traumatized and fatigued, but refuse to give up.

www.latimes.com

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone who thinks tariffs are effective / strong economic policy, you need to wtfu.

www.marketwatch.com/story/china-... #Agriculture #Brazil #China #commodity #farmers #farming #soybeans

China has not bought a bushel of soybeans from U.S. farmers this year. What happens to the crop now?

For U.S. farmers, abundant rains to fuel a bumper crop would normally be good news — but it won’t matter how much they produce this year if China, the world’s biggest buyer of soybeans, doesn’t purcha...

www.marketwatch.com

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 6d

www.marketwatch.com/story/china-... #Agriculture #Brazil #China #commodity #farmers #farming #soybeans

China has not bought a bushel of soybeans from U.S. farmers this year. What happens to the crop now?

For U.S. farmers, abundant rains to fuel a bumper crop would normally be good news — but it won’t matter how much they produce this year if China, the world’s biggest buyer of soybeans, doesn’t purcha...

www.marketwatch.com

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 6d

"But just as a carefully constructed sand castle can be kicked down in seconds by a reckless, unsupervised toddler, an entire country’s long-term, sustained investment in science, in space, in fundamental knowledge about the Universe, and in the people who conduct it, can be destroyed entirely"

BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 6d

bigthink.com/starts-with-... #furloughs #irreparabledamage #layoffs #NASA #science #STEM #stupidisasstupiddoes

Thousands of NASA employees to bid farewell to the NASA they knew

As October begins, thousands of longtime NASA employees are leaving the agency. 4000+ will exit by January 9, 2026, changing NASA forever.

bigthink.com

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 7d

"The latest collapse brings the total number of homes lost to the ocean since May 2020 to 20, as the Outer Banks grapples with questions about communities built along the coast on a barrier island"

www.yahoo.com/news/article... #barrierisland #hurricanes #northcarolina #outerbanks #sealevelrise

8 houses collapse over 3 days as hurricanes roar off East Coast

High seas and rough surf from two hurricanes have been blamed for the collapse of eight houses on North Carolina's Outer Banks.

www.yahoo.com

BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 7d

"For more than a decade, the amount of Sargassum has exploded in tropical Atlantic and Caribbean waters."

nautil.us/new-life-for... #atlanticocean #blueeconomy #carribbean #greatatlanticsargassumbelt #northatlantic #sargassum #sargassumbiorefinery #seaweed #tourism #warmingocean

New Life for Rotting Seaweed

New Life for Rotting Seaweed: Problematic piles of Sargassum could serve as useful raw material for a variety of products.

nautil.us

BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 9d

""Marine resource depletion" is a globally pervasive problem historically attributed to overfishing, but research identified another insidious potential culprit"

yahoo.com/news/article... #marineresourcedepletion #MBARI #microplastics #nanoplastics #NOAA #ocean #overfishing

Experts sound off on invisible issue plaguing the fishing industry: 'I've been saying it for years'

Efforts to reduce this issue are ongoing.

yahoo.com

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 9d

"I've seen the absolute devastation of our coast during my lifetime," said shrimper Eric Verdin. "Miles and miles of marsh are now open waters."

www.yahoo.com/news/article... #climatechange #fishing #gulfofmexico #louisiana #NOAA #oilandgasindustry #sealevelrise #shrimp #shrimper

Fisherman sounds alarm on 'Ground Zero' crisis along US coast: 'Absolute devastation'

"We need to do something."

www.yahoo.com

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 9d

Wave energy, oregoncapitalchronicle.com/briefs/bpa-w... #bpa #ceoas #doe #oregon #pacificocean #pacwave #renewableenergy

BPA will get power of wave energy harnessed at Oregon State University test site • Oregon Capital Chronicle

The region’s largest power distributor will be the lone customer for PacWave’s experimental and emissions-free energy.

oregoncapitalchronicle.com

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BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 11d

"The benefits of restoring river health go beyond helping ecosystems. A study published in the Water Security journal found that heavily polluted rivers reduce economic growth in downstream regions by as much as 2.5%."

BeachNecessities.com @beachnecessities.bsky.social · 11d

www.yahoo.com/news/article... #alleghenyriver #cleanwater #freshwater #freshwatermussels #goodforbusiness #liversoftheriver #mussels #ohioriver #rivers #worldriversday

Researchers stunned after uncovering 'livers of the river' thought to be near extinct: 'It's a race against time'

Officials have reintroduced nearly 40,000 of them into waterways since 2016.

www.yahoo.com

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