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but man is a part of nature & his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself-Silent Spring, R.Carson volunteer4🌱🐝🌳🐟🐛🐦🦇lights out 4 migrating birds 11pm-6am, bird friendly windows flap.org birdmonitors.net ahnow.org
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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · Aug 24
Many birds with young migrated through Chicago last night.

At least 100 were found dead in downtown Chicago this morning-& it’s only the beginning. Many bird strikes go unreported.

Keep lights out 11pm-6am to prevent bird deaths
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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 1d
“We just have all of this evidence to show that if you put more roads in there, you’re going to get more fires.” insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...
Proposal to Undo Roadless Rule Would Open Some of Southern California’s Last Wild Forests to Development - Inside Climate News
The Trump administration claims opening protected areas like Cleveland National Forest to road building will aid the timber industry and reduce wildfires. Opponents see a giveaway that will lead to mo...
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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 19h
Emerald ash borers have killed millions of ash trees since they arrived in the US. They made it to Oregon in 2022, British Columbia in 2024 and this year, were detected in Portland. Washington is on alert.

My first story for @columbiainsight.bsky.social :

columbiainsight.org/tree-killing...
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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 29m
www.pbs.org/video/uncove...
tisha schuller: I'm gonna look at everything and see an upside and you're gonna look at everything and see chimpanzees with machine guns? nate hagens: - No, but I think there's a fundamental question here about what we ought to do or what is, and I'm looking at the reality now and we are not valuing nature, and we are running into limits and we're papering them over with more and more debt and short term rule changes and things like that. So my main point is that we're gonna have to prepare for a period, a long period with less material and energy throughput than we've come accustomed to in our generation.
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 18h
“The global economy is a depressing conveyor belt of self-destruction: resources go in, nothing comes out. Everything disappears forever into a black hole of extinction”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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BatTed_1000 🦇 @batted1000.bsky.social · 10d
Hoary #bat “singing”

Volume up!
#hoarybat
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BatTed_1000 🦇 @batted1000.bsky.social · Aug 13
Our findings suggest vision plays an important role in bat-turbine interactions, and with further research, could inform vision-based mitigation strategies to reduce bat fatalities.
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BatTed_1000 🦇 @batted1000.bsky.social · Aug 13
New paper on #bat #windturbine interactions is out:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 6h
youtu.be/ADA6cuWy8Xg?...
America's Great Lost Tree Is Finally Returning
YouTube video by PBS Terra
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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 7h
www.pbs.org/video/uncove...
nate hagens: We are losing insects at one to two percent a year biomass. We've lost 70% of the population of reptiles, birds, fish, animals since 1970. There's a list of environmental problems as long as my arm that are not related to carbon per se. And so, the issue here is there's different layers in this conversation.
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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 7h
www.pbs.org/video/uncove...
nate hagens: Human centric, that's what got us here, is we're so anthropocentric, we put humans at the center of everything. We are part of the web of life. We're part of a living planet, the only planet in the known universe to harbor life, let alone complex lives.
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Nimblenewt @nimblenewt.bsky.social · 1d
"...they watched in astonishment a brown wormlike creature greedily munching through green clumps of algae as if more than 130 years hadn’t passed since its last meal. Equally oblivious, a host of life – water fleas, worms, plankton – danced and spun around it."
#invertebrates #hope
Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront
A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton
www.theguardian.com
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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 7h
stars and trees during bright moon with phone
stars and trees during bright moon with phone
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Tierra Curry @savelifeonearth.bsky.social · 9d
Check out @biologicaldiversity.org's new podcast about saving life on Earth and fighting the extinction crisis. I know a podcast about extinction sounds depressing, but the focus is on turning despair into action. Check it out. www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...
Sounds Wild | iHeart
Sounds Wild is a Center for Biological Diversity podcast focusing on endangered wildlife, the extinction crisis, and saving life on Earth. Hosted by Mike Stark and Vanessa Barchfield, Sounds Wild feat...
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 8h
Saying the climate is too complex for tipping points is like saying your body is too complex to die. Complexity doesn’t prevent collapse…..it just gives you more ways to reach it.
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 2d
Another massive movement of migratory birds underway tonight — nearly 1 Billion Birds! With the full moon, you might be able to see some silhouettes zipping by. You can make your own flow maps here (just hit record): aeroecolab.com/uslights
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 14h
Scientists amazed to discover a bat species that specializes in hunting songbirds migrating at high altitudes

www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight
Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...
www.science.org
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Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 13h
UPDATE—- time moved to 11:30-1:30pm so the presenter can finish monitoring!
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Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 18h
🚨Join us at on Saturday for one last Bird Collision Monitor Training for fall migration season. As the temperatures drop, we’re seeing millions of birds migrate through Chicago, and they need your help! 💛
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 15h
@natehagens.bsky.social tries the impossible: injecting reality into a PBS discussion on climate and energy. Worth watching.

www.pbs.org/video/uncove...
Energy Switch | Uncoventional Wisdom | Season 7 | Episode 1
Oil companies must lead decarbonization, because solar and wind can’t replace them.
www.pbs.org
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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 12h
from the transcript:
www.pbs.org/video/uncove...
tisha schuller: I'm gonna look at everything and see an upside and you're gonna look at everything and see chimpanzees with machine guns? nate hagens: - No, but I think there's a fundamental question here about what we ought to do or what is, and I'm looking at the reality now and we are not valuing nature, and we are running into limits and we're papering them over with more and more debt and short term rule changes and things like that. So my main point is that we're gonna have to prepare for a period, a long period with less material and energy throughput than we've come accustomed to in our generation. nate hagens: Human centric, that's what got us here, is we're so anthropocentric, we put humans at the center of everything. We are part of the web of life. We're part of a living planet, the only planet in the known universe to harbor life, let alone complex lives. nate hagens: We are losing insects at one to two percent a year biomass. We've lost 70% of the population of reptiles, birds, fish, animals since 1970. There's a list of environmental problems as long as my arm that are not related to carbon per se. And so, the issue here is there's different layers in this conversation. nate hagens: And we are in a period of ecological overshoot. Given our amount of consumption, given our amount of population, given our amount of resources and impact, something's gotta give here. But I do think the anthropocentric, looking at everything from human and human value, is part of the problem.
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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 12h
from the transcript:
www.pbs.org/video/uncove...
tisha schuller: I'm gonna look at everything and see an upside and you're gonna look at everything and see chimpanzees with machine guns? nate hagens: - No, but I think there's a fundamental question here about what we ought to do or what is, and I'm looking at the reality now and we are not valuing nature, and we are running into limits and we're papering them over with more and more debt and short term rule changes and things like that. So my main point is that we're gonna have to prepare for a period, a long period with less material and energy throughput than we've come accustomed to in our generation. nate hagens: Human centric, that's what got us here, is we're so anthropocentric, we put humans at the center of everything. We are part of the web of life. We're part of a living planet, the only planet in the known universe to harbor life, let alone complex lives. nate hagens: We are losing insects at one to two percent a year biomass. We've lost 70% of the population of reptiles, birds, fish, animals since 1970. There's a list of environmental problems as long as my arm that are not related to carbon per se. And so, the issue here is there's different layers in this conversation. nate hagens: And we are in a period of ecological overshoot. Given our amount of consumption, given our amount of population, given our amount of resources and impact, something's gotta give here. But I do think the anthropocentric, looking at everything from human and human value, is part of the problem.
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · May 28
We treat resources like they’re infinite—until they’re gone. Passenger pigeons, old-growth forests, copper—we burn through abundance. A finite planet can’t feed infinite hunger.

www.earth.com/news/amount-...
Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world
The growing global need for copper, and the amount required to power the transition of all nations to clean energy, is not sustainable.
www.earth.com
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 17h
When streaming in 4K resolution we use 80% more energy and emit more CO2 than when watching in 720p HD.

An average text AI query uses more than 95% less energy than generating an average AI image.

3.5 billion humans have never used the Internet. Who are you?

#Jevons #Rebound #energy #climate
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