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North American bird populations are shrinking most rapidly in the very areas where they are still most abundant, according to a 2025 study in Science.

The findings reveal both urgent threats and potential opportunities for targeted conservation and recovery. https://scim.ag/4qwOLyM #NationalBirdDay
North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant
Efforts to address declines of North American birds have been constrained by limited availability of fine-scale information about population change. By using participatory science data from eBird, we ...
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January 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Got some footage of the @kingtides.bsky.social overtopping the outer berm at Santa Venetia Marsh. There is a known population of @thesaltymouse.bsky.social here. Winter #KingTides are likely the deadliest time of the year for SMHM. Luckily the weather was pretty mild during these tides.
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Santa Venetia Marsh - King Tide January 4, 2026 Time Lapse
YouTube video by Katie Smith
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January 5, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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Sadness arrives uninvited. Joy demands more—it requires us to search, to kindle, to protect the flame against every wind. When we choose joy despite everything that argues against it, we don't just save ourselves—we illuminate the way for everyone around us.
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Federal fisheries officials on Monday rejected a bid to designate West Coast Chinook salmon as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The Center for Biological Diversity, says it is considering a legal challenge. #cawater www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
NOAA’s denial of endangered status for salmon sparks talk of legal challenge
NOAA’s decision not to list west coast chinook as endangered draws pushback from advocates who say vulnerable salmon remain at serious risk.
www.sacbee.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Reclamation on Thursday updated the long-term operations plan for the Central Valley Project to allow increased exports from the Delta, a move that potentially shifts more of the water burden onto the state and threatens the Delta’s ecosystem and water quality #cawater www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
New federal plan for Delta water pumping conflicts with California requirements
Federal plan to boost Delta exports could shift burden to California and worsen conditions for already struggling salmon populations.
www.sacbee.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Look, we don't like officially being more trustworthy than the CDC at this point. That's not really our bag, y'know?

But please, for the love of real science, continue to vaccinate your children.

Pay no heed to the wormbrain man.
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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In AGU's Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Dr. Dennis Baldocchi recounts the path to developing the global network of #eddy covariance measurement sites that provide direct measurements of #CarbonDioxide, water vapor, and energy fluxes.

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#AGUPubs #GreenhouseGases
December 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component:
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Research paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator
www.newscientist.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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A new website called San Francisco Bay State of the Birds presents bird monitoring results, recommended actions, and success stories from around the San Francisco Bay. #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/10/29/p...
PRESS RELEASE: San Francisco Bay State of the Birds Website Offers Insight into Health of the Bay
New dynamic report updates 2011 version, presents recommended conservation actions, success stories The San Francisco Bay Joint Venture and Point Blue Conservation Science have launched a new website ...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program published data in September showing that restored tidal marshes nearly quadrupled from 2000 to 2020.
Rising Tides Drive a Bay Area Push to Bring Back Vanished Marshlands | KQED
The region has restored nearly 58,000 acres of tidal wetlands, bringing new life to the Bay’s edge and fresh hope for flood protection.
www.kqed.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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15 million people could be kicked off health care, thousands of federal workers are working without pay, and working-class folks are at risk of losing critical food assistance.

But the ballroom is the President's top priority.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
October 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
August 25, 2025
This morning, President Donald J.
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August 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Thank You Gov.Hochul 👏🏻✊🏻.I am so proud of my Governor & my state New York for joining this fight.This country is under siege & WE ARE AT WAR! It’s time for the gloves to come off.This moment calls all of us to fight for what is right, & for the greater good.We have to be the Heroes of this generation
August 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
July 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Solving the puzzle: How synthesis informs Delta ecosystem management: Presentation highlights the importance of synthesis in addressing the Delta's complex ecological challenges #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/07/14/d...
DELTA COUNCIL: Solving the puzzle: How synthesis informs Delta ecosystem management
Synthesis is central to the Delta Science Program‘s mission, as outlined in the Delta Reform Act, which mandates providing unbiased science to guide water and environmental decisions in the Delta. To ...
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July 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Given unfortunate topical relevance to numerous recent events, I'm sharing an excerpt from our 2025 review paper on "hydroclimate whiplash" that summarizes the body of research pointing to preferential intensification of the *very most extreme* rain events in a warming climate.
July 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Timeline cleanser
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July 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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They don’t have the right to dictate my life.
June 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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San Diego. Minneapolis. The urgency is showing and I’ve never been this confident that the people will win. I’ve never been this proud to be an American. From the bottom-up is how we fix this. We walk in fear but we walk together. Thank you. We have a role to play where we can. We all get to choose.
June 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM