Erik Hoffner
@erikhoffner.bsky.social
Editor, photojournalist & award-winning podcast producer for nonprofit news outlet @Mongabay. Member of Society of Envi Journalists & Vermont Center for Photography
Love to see aurora over water
January 20, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Love to see aurora over water
Clear here and the aurora is starting to click into higher gear
Bonus was seeing a huge fireball style meteor just now
Bonus was seeing a huge fireball style meteor just now
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Clear here and the aurora is starting to click into higher gear
Bonus was seeing a huge fireball style meteor just now
Bonus was seeing a huge fireball style meteor just now
Reposted by Erik Hoffner
People can make of all this what they will. But teaching kids the true course of events is *never* a bad idea.
Personally, I don't think knowing what actually happened automatically makes you "hate America." Maybe it's revealing that Musk apparently does.
Personally, I don't think knowing what actually happened automatically makes you "hate America." Maybe it's revealing that Musk apparently does.
January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
People can make of all this what they will. But teaching kids the true course of events is *never* a bad idea.
Personally, I don't think knowing what actually happened automatically makes you "hate America." Maybe it's revealing that Musk apparently does.
Personally, I don't think knowing what actually happened automatically makes you "hate America." Maybe it's revealing that Musk apparently does.
My desk at @mongabay.com has also published abt rubber #agroforestry before: news.mongabay.com/2024/07/agro...
Even #palmoil can be grown sustainably like this ~ here a researcher told me about higher yields on demonstration farms w/ more kgs of fruit per palm vs deforestation-driving monocultures:
Even #palmoil can be grown sustainably like this ~ here a researcher told me about higher yields on demonstration farms w/ more kgs of fruit per palm vs deforestation-driving monocultures:
Can palm oil be grown sustainably? Agroforestry research suggests it can, and without chemicals
A recent investigation by Mongabay demonstrated that oil palm plantations in the Amazon do not appear to be ‘green’ as the Brazilian government terms them, but rather are associated with deforestation...
news.mongabay.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:30 PM
My desk at @mongabay.com has also published abt rubber #agroforestry before: news.mongabay.com/2024/07/agro...
Even #palmoil can be grown sustainably like this ~ here a researcher told me about higher yields on demonstration farms w/ more kgs of fruit per palm vs deforestation-driving monocultures:
Even #palmoil can be grown sustainably like this ~ here a researcher told me about higher yields on demonstration farms w/ more kgs of fruit per palm vs deforestation-driving monocultures: