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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 16h

To help slow climate change, researchers are trying to redirect the microbes' appetite to the hundreds of millions of tons of methane emitted each year from oil and gas sites, livestock, and wetlands. Similar work is being done on CO2. But it's complicated: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c... (gift). 🌎

The Very Hungry Microbes That Could, Just Maybe, Cool the Planet

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 16h

Researchers have discovered methane-eating microbes, or methanotrophs, that feast on the potent greenhouse gas. Globally, all of the methanotrophs on the planet are consuming many times the amount of methane that humans are releasing into the atmosphere.

You know where this is going...

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 16h

...opening more land to coal mining to spark a turnaround for coal.

In contrast, wind and solar energy and battery storage, which Trump actively opposes, are less expensive, more reliable, and far better for the climate: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o... (gift).

Do we go back or forward? 🌎

Opinion | Trump’s Coal Plan Is Doomed

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 16h

Coal plants are the dirtiest source of energy. Their technology is from 1882. They're unreliable and inefficient on the modern grid and expensive to run. Nonetheless, Trump is forcing coal plants to stay open, offering $625 million to upgrade plants, cutting pollution limits, and...

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 21h

And the sounds of the Amazon: severe droughts threaten to disrupt the thunderous symphonies of macaws. Listen: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/c... (gift).

Are the Earth and its wildlife screaming for our help? 🌎 #birds

Listen to the Sounds of Climate Change

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 21h

The sound of climate change isn't silent. Hear the Arctic’s "underwater jungle": as ice shrinks and new predators (including humans) are introduced, the sounds in Arctic waters get louder and stormier. A melting glacier: as glaciers melt, ancient air bubbles create sounds like wailing synthesizers.

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 21h

Ember (an energy think tank) report: ember-energy.org/latest-insig....

International Energy Agency report: www.iea.org/reports/rene....

Trump trying--and obviously failing--to turn the rest of the world against renewables in UN speech: www.cfr.org/expert-brief.... 🌎

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 21h

International Energy Agency report: lowered its forecast for US renewable energy growth over the next 5 years by almost 50%.

Much more data summarized here: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/c... (gift).

Trump is destroying our public lands, waters, and wildlife for oil/gas/coal--and for what? 🌎

Early Signs of a ‘Turning Point’ as Renewables Edge Out Coal

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 21h

As the US moves away from addressing climate change, renewables are making big gains in the rest of the world. 2 new reports tell strikingly different stories. Ember report: in the first 6 months of the year, renewables (solar, wind, etc.) generated more electricity than coal for the first time. 🌎

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 2d

Eggs are being laid and adorable fluffy white chicks hatching now in the Southern Hemisphere. Follow @skh4birdies.bsky.social for a Peregrine nest on a skyscraper Melbourne and another in a water tower in NSW; a nest of gorgeous White-bellied Sea Eagles in Sydney; and more. #raptors

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 2d

Video by @skh4birdies.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TCV.... Jackie typically lays eggs in January--followed by amazing displays of fortitude in protecting the eggs during BBV's raging winter storms. #birds #raptors #eagles

FOBBVCAM Eagles🦅Jackie & Shadow Visit 3 Favorite Perches🌲 for Date Night 🌟2025 Oct 4

YouTube video by SK Hideaways

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 2d

Big Bear Valley (BBV) Bald Eagles: After Sunny and Gizmo dispersed, Jackie and Shadow took a 3-month break and are now back in BBV. They've surveyed the damage to the nest, but nestorations are put off for another day as they enjoy each other's company.

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 2d

It really does take minutes. If you think your comments will be ignored...they won't. They'll be used in court and be critical to the lawsuit brought by Earthjustice and other environmental law firms. Thank you!

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 2d

You point out one of the great dangers for birds and reasons that migratory bird populations are declining: their stopover sites along the migration path no longer exist (human development) or no longer have food and/or water. Climate change playing a big part in this.

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 2d

Since the start of fall migration, I've noticed that migration has been heaviest along the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways (that is not a scientific observation just my opinion). Birds can sense and avoid storms, but they can't sense prior to arrival that a stopover site no longer has food/water.

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 2d

@earthjustice.org and partners successfully pushed the EPA to restore public access to the important chemical hazard data, without needing to file a lawsuit. Access the tool: www.epa.gov/rmp/accessin.... 🌎

Accessing RMP Data | US EPA

Is Risk Management Plan (RMP) data available to the public and, if so, where can it be found? Risk Management Plans (RMPs) prepared and submitted pursuant to CAA section 112(r) are, by statute, availa...

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 2d

Good news (it happens occasionally, embrace it): Earlier this year, the EPA quietly removed the Risk Management Program (RMP) Public Data Tool from its website. The tool informs communities about toxic threats from nearby industrial facilities (clearly something Trump doesn't want you to know).

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 3d

...by offering $625M to upgrade existing plants & by repealing air/water pollution regulations. Those actions will increase air & water pollution + raise energy prices. Coal is also the largest contributor to climate change worldwide: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/c... (gift). MAGA! 🌎

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 3d

Rather than fostering energy innovation, Trump wants to return the U.S. to its dirty coal past. Coal use has declined sharply in U.S. since 2005, often displaced by cheaper/cleaner natural gas, wind & solar power. Trump plans to revive coal by opening 13.1M acres of federal land for coal mining...

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, 15 years. I noticed the typo after I posted, but I couldn't fix it because it had already been reposted several times. (Broken wrist...typing with one hand...expect typos.)

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 3d

And if it does, it's likely a cheeky chickadee...

Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 4d

Find out what @abcbirds.bsky.social and partners are doing--and what you can do--to bring these birds back in a free webinar on Oct. 23 @ 4 pm ET. Register: act.abcbirds.org/a/northern-b...? (If you can't make the live event, a recording will be sent out.) #birds 🌎

RSVP to Learn All About Northern Bobwhites!

Bringing Back Bobwhite

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 4d

The Northern Bobwhite's whistling call was once common across its range in the grasslands, forest edges, and even suburbs of the eastern U.S., Gulf Coast, and Mexico. Habitat loss and fragmentation + threats such as pesticides have driven its numbers down by a staggering 85%.

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 4d

Public opposition shut down a previous BP proposal. We can do it again. @earthjustice.org makes it fast/easy with a letter to BOEM you can customize if you'd like; Earthjustice will send it for you: earthjustice.org/action/stop-...? If you can, please take action soon. Thank you! 🌎

Stop this ultra-deepwater drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico

If approved, this project will be BP’s first completely new oilfield development in the Gulf of Mexico since the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 4d

5 years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon--the most destructive oil spill in US history--the same company is asking the U.S. government to approve a new, larger, deeper, and riskier offshore drilling operation in the Gulf. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is considering BP’s proposal now.

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