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Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. #eriecanal #NY #upstateNY #ushistory #commerce #nativeamericandisplacement #environmentaldegradation #clearcuts #forestdestruction #invasivespeces #fisheries #nativespeciesextinction #fish #zebramussels #alewives #lamprey
200 years ago, the Erie Canal changed trade and the environment forever
Today, the Erie Canal remains vulnerable to invasive plants and animals.
www.fastcompany.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. #eriecanal #NY #upstateNY #ushistory #commerce #nativeamericandisplacement #environmentaldegradation #clearcuts #forestdestruction #invasivespeces #fisheries #nativespeciesextinction #fish #zebramussels #alewives #lamprey
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Science's 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy.
Sample factoid: In 2024, China installed wind & solar electrical generation capacity roughly equivalent to what would be produced by 100 nuclear power plants.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
Sample factoid: In 2024, China installed wind & solar electrical generation capacity roughly equivalent to what would be produced by 100 nuclear power plants.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
www.science.org
December 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Science's 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy.
Sample factoid: In 2024, China installed wind & solar electrical generation capacity roughly equivalent to what would be produced by 100 nuclear power plants.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
Sample factoid: In 2024, China installed wind & solar electrical generation capacity roughly equivalent to what would be produced by 100 nuclear power plants.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
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Tree-counting contest... GO!
#nature #love #majestic #scape #landscape #eastcoastkin #photography #nokings #zen #WA #mountains #goodmorning #bluesky #PNW #hiking #trees #EvergreenState
#nature #love #majestic #scape #landscape #eastcoastkin #photography #nokings #zen #WA #mountains #goodmorning #bluesky #PNW #hiking #trees #EvergreenState
December 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Tree-counting contest... GO!
#nature #love #majestic #scape #landscape #eastcoastkin #photography #nokings #zen #WA #mountains #goodmorning #bluesky #PNW #hiking #trees #EvergreenState
#nature #love #majestic #scape #landscape #eastcoastkin #photography #nokings #zen #WA #mountains #goodmorning #bluesky #PNW #hiking #trees #EvergreenState
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Some species declared extinct this year were last seen in the 1800s. Others vanished decades ago. Extinction usually happens quietly, earlier, & out of sight. We don’t lose species suddenly. We lose them invisibly.
Dark extinctions are the rule, not the exception.
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Dark extinctions are the rule, not the exception.
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the...
news.mongabay.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Some species declared extinct this year were last seen in the 1800s. Others vanished decades ago. Extinction usually happens quietly, earlier, & out of sight. We don’t lose species suddenly. We lose them invisibly.
Dark extinctions are the rule, not the exception.
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Dark extinctions are the rule, not the exception.
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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Here's a shot I got in May of a Cliff Swallow colony on the central coast. There were so many nests I lost count and I can't wait to get back there in 2026!
#Birds #Photography #Nature
#Birds #Photography #Nature
December 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Here's a shot I got in May of a Cliff Swallow colony on the central coast. There were so many nests I lost count and I can't wait to get back there in 2026!
#Birds #Photography #Nature
#Birds #Photography #Nature
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🦇 There are things you can do all year round to help bats, even in winter when they are hibernating: buff.ly/2HkKSuq . The lovely image below is from our 'Stars of the Night' leaflet which you can download for free here: buff.ly/40yR5f3
December 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🦇 There are things you can do all year round to help bats, even in winter when they are hibernating: buff.ly/2HkKSuq . The lovely image below is from our 'Stars of the Night' leaflet which you can download for free here: buff.ly/40yR5f3
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From 2004–2011, ~62,000 African Penguin died near Cape Town because of sardine collapse caused by climate change and overfishing. That’s ~95% of the breeding penguins! In 2024, African Penguins were uplisted to Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
High adult mortality of African Penguins Spheniscus demersus in South Africa after 2004 was likely caused by starvation
From 2004–2011, following the collapse of sardine Sardinops sagax, a main food for African Penguins Spheniscus demersus, to < 25% of its maximum recorded abundance, survival of penguins breeding at...
www.tandfonline.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
From 2004–2011, ~62,000 African Penguin died near Cape Town because of sardine collapse caused by climate change and overfishing. That’s ~95% of the breeding penguins! In 2024, African Penguins were uplisted to Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
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"As technology distracts, polarizes and automates, people are still finding refuge on analog islands in the digital sea." A great article on those of us who like everything from vinyl records, to paper books, to art you can touch. #AnalogActivist #VinylSky #Books #Records #Analog #RealLife
'The past gives comfort': Finding refuge on analog islands amid deepening digital seas
As technology distracts, polarizes and automates, people are still finding refuge on analog islands in the digital sea.
apnews.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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52 years ago, the ESA was signed into law. It has prevented extinction for 99% of protected species, including wolves. Now, proposed rollbacks threaten to dismantle the ESA and erase decades of conservation progress. Protect the law that protects wildlife.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ayxdh4
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ayxdh4
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
52 years ago, the ESA was signed into law. It has prevented extinction for 99% of protected species, including wolves. Now, proposed rollbacks threaten to dismantle the ESA and erase decades of conservation progress. Protect the law that protects wildlife.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ayxdh4
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ayxdh4
and what's worse, instead of admitting and working together to address the issue - we deny it and festoon the countryside with more pesticides, which aren't usually even a short-term solution when immunity builds up - or GMOs, which aren't a solution AT ALL. #banGMOs #banpesticides #protectnature
Climate change doesn’t just stress crops.
It rewires entire food webs: pests, pathogens, timing, and thresholds……faster than agriculture can adapt.
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It rewires entire food webs: pests, pathogens, timing, and thresholds……faster than agriculture can adapt.
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‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis — Guardian US
Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable
apple.news
December 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
and what's worse, instead of admitting and working together to address the issue - we deny it and festoon the countryside with more pesticides, which aren't usually even a short-term solution when immunity builds up - or GMOs, which aren't a solution AT ALL. #banGMOs #banpesticides #protectnature
and, mark my words (and that of many others) between their electricity and water greed, there's going to be a reckoning. What do you want - forests and food or stupid computer "answers" to why you don't have any? Choose wisely. #greed #bandatacenters #corporatedoublespeak #corporateaccountability
"The acquisition, announced Monday, is intended to give Alphabet’s Google access to more electricity for its data centers as aging US grids struggle to meet power demand that’s booming for the first time in decades thanks in part to artificial intelligence."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Alphabet to Buy Data Center Partner Intersect for $4.75 Billion
Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus existing debt, marking one of the largest deals by the tech giant to dramatically expand its ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
and, mark my words (and that of many others) between their electricity and water greed, there's going to be a reckoning. What do you want - forests and food or stupid computer "answers" to why you don't have any? Choose wisely. #greed #bandatacenters #corporatedoublespeak #corporateaccountability
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When rivers turn orange and glaciers destabilize entire watersheds, it’s tempting to call it “rapid change.”
Ecologically speaking, it’s debt coming due.
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Ecologically speaking, it’s debt coming due.
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Orange rivers and melting glaciers: federal report shows rapid change in the Arctic — NPR
This year's Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the northernmost part of the Earth is warming faster than the global average, leading to melting glac...
apple.news
December 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
When rivers turn orange and glaciers destabilize entire watersheds, it’s tempting to call it “rapid change.”
Ecologically speaking, it’s debt coming due.
apple.news/AdhN6h9q8She...
Ecologically speaking, it’s debt coming due.
apple.news/AdhN6h9q8She...
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We treat littering like a character flaw. That framing was engineered.
If litter is your fault, no one asks why everything is designed to be thrown away.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
If litter is your fault, no one asks why everything is designed to be thrown away.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
How Corporations Convinced America that Litter is Our Fault
The "Keep America Beautiful" campaign urged Americans to pick up their trash—so that companies could keep producing it.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We treat littering like a character flaw. That framing was engineered.
If litter is your fault, no one asks why everything is designed to be thrown away.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
If litter is your fault, no one asks why everything is designed to be thrown away.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
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I found the comments on the last post about bird names in other languages fascinating! Today pictures of long-tailed tits - there must be some good names for these little, charismatic, unstoppable, insect-guzzling miniature forces of nature! #Birds #UKWildlife #WildlifePhotography
December 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I found the comments on the last post about bird names in other languages fascinating! Today pictures of long-tailed tits - there must be some good names for these little, charismatic, unstoppable, insect-guzzling miniature forces of nature! #Birds #UKWildlife #WildlifePhotography
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This year, stakeholders at local, state, federal, and international levels made significant progress in reducing food waste, even as critical programs and funding are under threat.
2025 Wins in Food Waste and What’s Next in 2026
Food waste programs and systems made significant advances around the country—and even the world. It's important to keep up the momentum in 2026.
www.nrdc.org
December 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This year, stakeholders at local, state, federal, and international levels made significant progress in reducing food waste, even as critical programs and funding are under threat.
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Residents and communities begin the years-long recovery process after a series of back-to-back atmospheric rivers hammered the West Coast with unprecedented flooding and wind damage in early December.
Western Washington faces a long recovery after record-breaking flooding - High Country News
Residents and communities begin the years-long recovery process after a series of back-to-back atmospheric rivers hammered the West Coast with unprecedented flooding and wind damage in early December.
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Residents and communities begin the years-long recovery process after a series of back-to-back atmospheric rivers hammered the West Coast with unprecedented flooding and wind damage in early December.
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Let’s see if I can continue my recent hot streak with today’s bird of the day. A few photos of various Eurasian oystercatchers (haematopus ostralegus) from over the years. As my good friend calls them, “Magpies with carrots on their face”. #Birds #WildlifePhotography #UKWildlife #Oystercatcher
December 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Let’s see if I can continue my recent hot streak with today’s bird of the day. A few photos of various Eurasian oystercatchers (haematopus ostralegus) from over the years. As my good friend calls them, “Magpies with carrots on their face”. #Birds #WildlifePhotography #UKWildlife #Oystercatcher
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🦇🧪🌎Question the Mark: A Review and Assessment of Bat Marking Practices - Loeb - 2026 - Mammal Review - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Question the Mark: A Review and Assessment of Bat Marking Practices
We reviewed a decade of research on bats and conducted a broader systematic review to assess the nature of bat marking practices and the effects and efficacy of marks. Effects of marks on bats, mark ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🦇🧪🌎Question the Mark: A Review and Assessment of Bat Marking Practices - Loeb - 2026 - Mammal Review - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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This isn’t good news. Turning microplastics into nanoplastics likely accelerates its entry into food webs and tissues.
Adaptation ≠ remediation.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Adaptation ≠ remediation.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Fiddler crabs found to hoover up and break down microplastic particles
New research has found that Fiddler crabs are playing an unheralded role when it comes to hoovering up microplastics found in the world’s mangrove forests and salt marshes. Scientists studying a thriv...
news.exeter.ac.uk
December 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This isn’t good news. Turning microplastics into nanoplastics likely accelerates its entry into food webs and tissues.
Adaptation ≠ remediation.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Adaptation ≠ remediation.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Know a City/county/urban planner, architect or policy wonk? BUY them this book! #sustainability #cities #urbandesign #urbancanopy #trees #environment #cleanair #health
Larco and Knudson Write the Handbook on Sustainable Urban Design
The School of Architecture & Environment (SAE), and by extension the College of Design, has a storied history of innovation and expansive sustainability research that includes the design of buildings,...
design.uoregon.edu
December 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Know a City/county/urban planner, architect or policy wonk? BUY them this book! #sustainability #cities #urbandesign #urbancanopy #trees #environment #cleanair #health
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Terminating the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is an act of identity politics gone mad...bat sh-t crazy mad. My colleagues at @ametsoc.org are far too polite to put it in such crass terms, but they surely agree. Read their statement below.
The United States of America Needs the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
www.ametsoc.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Terminating the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is an act of identity politics gone mad...bat sh-t crazy mad. My colleagues at @ametsoc.org are far too polite to put it in such crass terms, but they surely agree. Read their statement below.
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I wish cutting a young tree was the worst thing park visitors did.
Litter, human and dog feces, carved initials, harassed wildlife; all now routine in many parks.
www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/alg...
Litter, human and dog feces, carved initials, harassed wildlife; all now routine in many parks.
www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/alg...
Concerned hiker shares photo of disturbing discovery at campsite: 'This makes me rage'
One national park visitor raised concerns after finding a recently chopped young tree while on their hike.
www.thecooldown.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I wish cutting a young tree was the worst thing park visitors did.
Litter, human and dog feces, carved initials, harassed wildlife; all now routine in many parks.
www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/alg...
Litter, human and dog feces, carved initials, harassed wildlife; all now routine in many parks.
www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/alg...