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Diane Pataki
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Chief Scientist, National Wildlife Federation; Professor of Sustainability, Arizona State University. Ecology | Conservation | Nature | Environmental science. All opinions my own.
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Save Oak Flat from a giant copper mine‼️🚨
Tell Congress to #ProtectOakFlat from destructive copper mining that would destroy wildlife 🐾habitat & decimate lands that are sacred for Indigenous communities. 🌄
📢 Take action today: https://ow.ly/AU5O50XNePU
📹 Video: Coati in Oak Flat
January 14, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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We are now accepting grant applications to fund ecological research and outreach worldwide.

⏰Apply before 10 March 2026!

Find out what grants you can apply to 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/cucxadvxjq

🧪🌍
January 14, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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The U.S.'s decision to withdraw from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change will leave the country less prepared for the impacts of climate change and weaken our competitiveness in the global clean energy race.

Read more:📲 https://ow.ly/2TjL50XTyJc
January 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Nominations for @agu.org AGU awards are now being accepted!

Please nominate a deserving colleague. Many qualified people do not win awards because no one nominates them. Also, for many AGU awards, you can self-nominate.

www.agu.org/honors
January 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Registration is now open for experts interested in reviewing the first draft of the IPCC Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcers!

Register here 🔗 https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/slcf/ until midnight CET on 13 February 2026.

Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/SLCFfod
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Tell Congress to #ProtectOakFlat from destructive copper mining that would destroy wildlife habitat & decimate lands that are sacred for Indigenous communities.
Take action today 📢: https://ow.ly/vaRI50XNePR
Video 📹: Mountain lions in Oak Flat
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
You’ve been meaning to submit your comments on the proposed gutting of the Endangered Species Act, right? Here’s a quick and easy link:
Don't let Canada lynx fade away! 🐾
There are only a few hundred Canada lynx left in the lower 48 states. New proposals would weaken Endangered Species Act protections, putting threatened and endangered species at greater risk of extinction.
Take action: https://ow.ly/F0Fu50XL23p
December 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🚨 Calling all geoscientists 🚨 If you or anyone you know is attending #AGU25, please join us and spread the word to #SaveNCAR.

More info at: wclivestream.com/ncar_at_agu/
December 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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@ucs.org has released a letter you can write to your Congressperson to save @ncar-ucar.bsky.social

Share your voice on the significant value of this bedrock climate and weather insitution. Your story matters!

secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote...
Protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Write today and urge your members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration's plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR.) Your message to Congress will help protect NC...
secure.ucs.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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On Jan 8th, join NWF and the #CleanEconomyCoalitionofColor at a virtual roundtable discussion on what the recent growth in AI data centers means for your communities’ health and local resources.
RSVP today:📲 https://ow.ly/Tjzy50XHBz2
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The destruction of the U.S. National Science Foundation continues….
www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
www.science.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Take action for #manatees! 📣
Manatees are just one of thousands of #wildlife species in our country being directly harmed by EPA cuts.

📲 Tell Congress to intervene and save crucial #EPA programs that protect and save manatees:
https://ow.ly/Oxw350XFQVa
December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s draft rule narrowing the scope of the Clean Water Act will protect fewer streams and wetlands from pollution and destruction than at any point since the law’s passage in 1972.

Read the press release 📲: https://ow.ly/wHEq50XtGe2
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Feeling powerless about threats to conservation science programs? Wondering what you can do to help protect our nation’s biodiversity?

Join us IN PERSON for the Voices for Conservation Rally and #StandUpForWildlife on Wednesday, October 22 in Washington DC #ConservationinCrisis mobilize.us/s/Iss6D3
Voices for Conservation Rally · National Wildlife Federation
Together, we have raised our voices urging the federal government to protect conservation science. **Now, we ask you to stand with us in Washington, DC.** The sound science and public programs that ...
mobilize.us
October 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Feeling powerless about threats to conservation science programs? Wondering what you can do to help protect our nation’s biodiversity?

Join us IN PERSON for the Voices for Conservation Rally and #StandUpForWildlife on Wednesday, October 22 in Washington DC #ConservationinCrisis mobilize.us/s/Iss6D3
Voices for Conservation Rally · National Wildlife Federation
Together, we have raised our voices urging the federal government to protect conservation science. **Now, we ask you to stand with us in Washington, DC.** The sound science and public programs that ...
mobilize.us
October 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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📣 Attention: Early-career researchers from developing countries & countries in transition!

Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?

Apply by 18 Oct 2025

🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Over recent weeks, many news agencies highlighted this review of DOE Climate Working Group Report. Now with doi.

Dessler, A.E. and R.E. Kopp (Ed.). (2025). Climate Experts’ Review of the DOE Climate Working Group Report. doi.org/10.22541/ess...
@andrewdessler.com @bobkopp.net et al.
Climate Experts’ Review of the DOE Climate Working Group Report
In response to the Department of Energy's recent climate report, more than 85 scientists came together to submit a detailed rebuttal. Our motivation was simple: the DOE report misrepresents the state ...
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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2 DAYS LEFT to speak out to save the Roadless Rule! ⌛🌲
Help us reach our goal of 20k comments to protect black bears, elk, salmon, trout, and other #wildlife from roadbuilding and development. #RoadlessRule

Take action today 📲: ow.ly/TCFz50WXGRX
Help protect wildlife from roadbuilding and development
Fish and wildlife depend on roadless areas for their survival. For more than two decades, the Roadless Rule has helped safeguard wildlife species while limiting roadbuilding and other industrial devel...
ow.ly
September 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Climate scientists - sign on by Sept. 18 to oppose EPA's overturning of the endangerment finding.
Deadline extended to 18 Sept!

The Trump administration has proposed overturning the EPA’s endangerment finding, the science-based determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.

Join 650+ of your peers who have signed AGU’s letter to defend climate science.

➡️ buff.ly/lLPmLZe
September 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Vast, wild, public lands for #wildlife are at risk. 🦅🌄🐺🦌🐾
Tell your senators to oppose efforts to revoke responsible land stewardship plans for millions of acres of #publiclands. #CongressionalReviewAct #Alaska #Montana #NorthDakota

📲 support.nwfactionfund.org/page/87935/a...
Speak out for bald eagles and public lands
Bald eagles, along with hundreds of other wildlife species, depend on the vast wild spaces that are stewarded by the federal Bureau of Land Management. But the U.S. House of Representatives just voted...
support.nwfactionfund.org
September 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Have you been meaning to comment on EPA’s proposal to overturn the endangerment finding, but haven’t gotten around to it? Here’s an easy and quick way to submit your comment:
September 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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🚨 Only one week left to speak out and defend federal #climateaction!

Send a message to the EPA and tell them to honor decades of sound science and uphold their responsibility to protect people and wildlife from #climate pollution.
📲 ow.ly/OJIQ50WRkGi
Defend climate policy for the welfare of our wildlife and communities
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to abandon its duties to protect our communities and environment from pollution and climate change. Send in a comment today urging them not to go back ...
ow.ly
September 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I’ll be part of this panel along with several amazing colleagues and leaders - please join us!
September 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The federal government is about to abandon its duty to keep our air clean and our #wildlife and communities safe from a changing #climate. 🌳🐾

Tell the EPA NOT to go back on decades of #science & federal climate policy 📲: ow.ly/WQkq50WMizk
Defend climate policy for the welfare of our wildlife and communities
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to abandon its duties to protect our communities and environment from pollution and climate change. Send in a comment today urging them not to go back on decades of climate science and federal policy!
ow.ly
August 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM