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Mandy Rude
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Legal advisor- #Environment crime. Tweets- Intl environment policy, #conservation, #IWT, etc. Some politics too. Hoping to broaden background to climate, security, & human geography & the interconnected crises we face.
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#Sumatra
Donations to help can be made to PanEco.ch choosing flood disaster.

All the people in these photos are my friends and people my family lived beside during my work with #orangutans.

They have lost everything and I am doing all I can to raise awareness and funds for them.
Every bit helps
December 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Sumatran flood disaster may have wiped out key Tapanuli orangutan population

https://www.newsbeep.com/nz/180554/

As many as 35 critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans — 4% of the species’ total population — may…
Sumatran flood disaster may have wiped out key Tapanuli orangutan population - New Zealand News Beep
See All Key Ideas
www.newsbeep.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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NO WAR WITH VENEZUELA
December 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Call your reps and tell them we don’t want to go to war with Venezuela!
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Not just China
Norway too is a major player in the obliteration of krill in Antarctica
Like China Norway is now proposing to double krill harvests
China and Norway are saying let the penguins and whales starve and world does nothing news.mongabay.com/2025/10/norw...
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed as humans take all their food and leave them to starve

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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This is the world’s wheat belt, which feeds billions. Above 30C wheat yield drops by as much as 44%. Wars, lack of water and soil degradation bring us to the end game even faster. But hey, we have data centres and AI slop
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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26/11 2025

#Israel lays siege to occupied West Bank’s Tubas, displaces tens of families

... Israel shuts large parts of the governorate from the rest of the West Bank.

#Palestine #WestBank #Tubas #eupol #dkpol

aje.io/wv5t74
Israel lays siege to occupied West Bank’s Tubas, displaces tens of families
Governor says new assault aims to impose 'new realities' as Israel shuts parts of Tubas from rest of occupied West Bank.
aje.io
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Newly uncovered documents show Exxon funded a network of “think tanks” across Latin America to spread climate denial and derail UN climate talks.

This is what we’re up against.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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China has just achieved a breakthrough that could change global energy forever.

Scientists have successfully turned thorium into uranium inside a reactor—creating what they call an “almost endless” power supply.
www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
China reaches energy independence milestone by ‘breeding’ uranium from thorium
Chinese research institute confirms success of fission-based innovation that is poised to reshape clean, sustainable nuclear power.
www.scmp.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Johan Rockström a team of researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre will attend COP30 in Belém – to engage in dialogues and highlight new scientific insights - including the flagship report: “Resilience Science Must-Knows”.
Read more: www.stockholmresilience.org/news--events...
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Ro Khanna calls for Schumer‘ ouster
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Israel Is Still Starving Gaza

They’re using bureaucratic red tape and arbitrary restrictions to put as much inertia on the effort to rush aid into Gaza as possible.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-is-...
Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Trump sets sights on Pacific seafloor near the Marianas Trench #Climate
Trump sets sights on Pacific seafloor near the Marianas Trench
Efforts to expand deep-sea mining are alarming scientists and Indigenous leaders, who worry mining risks fisheries and food security.
grist.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian industrial and agricultural facilities in Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank, causing large fires and injuring several people.
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Shift Key Classic: Have China’s Carbon Emissions Peaked? #Climate
Shift Key Classic: Have China’s Carbon Emissions Peaked?
heatmap.news
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced an all-female team of co-chairs for his transition team. https://cnn.it/4oMWmbE
November 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Haymarket Books are amazing, 80% off is such a bargain, please go browse
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Canvassing with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Today is only the beginning.

Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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🇸🇩 UN: Civilians Trapped as Violence Escalates in Sudan

The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator, Denise Brown, warns of intensifying atrocities in and around El Fasher, after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized North Darfur’s capital last week. The UN reports summary executions, sexual violence, and...
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM