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Focusing on efforts to maintain a healthy sustainable planet where people and governments work together to protect our environment and life support systems for ourselves and future generations.
This is not a Democracy, this is a kleptocracy where a few at the top get most of the wealth. Who's doing this - Trump and his GOP MAGA Cult. Time to vote these GOP scoundals out of office.
You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This is not a Democracy, this is a kleptocracy where a few at the top get most of the wealth. Who's doing this - Trump and his GOP MAGA Cult. Time to vote these GOP scoundals out of office.
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Good morning Bluesky. Dawn Redwood. Edwards Gardens, Toronto, Ontario.
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Good morning Bluesky. Dawn Redwood. Edwards Gardens, Toronto, Ontario.
Who supports this kind of cruelty? Please commit to help vote the real problem people here out of office - the GOP MAGA Cult of Wanna Be Dictator Trump.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Who supports this kind of cruelty? Please commit to help vote the real problem people here out of office - the GOP MAGA Cult of Wanna Be Dictator Trump.
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What was lost with recent federal defunding of 3 out of 9 regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs), written by leaders/staff from Northeast, South Central and Pacific Islands CASCs.
We haven't given up on getting their funding restored, along with other cuts to the rest of the network.
We haven't given up on getting their funding restored, along with other cuts to the rest of the network.
From invasive species tracking to water security – what’s lost with federal funding cuts at US Climate Adaptation Science Centers
The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing climate.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
What was lost with recent federal defunding of 3 out of 9 regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs), written by leaders/staff from Northeast, South Central and Pacific Islands CASCs.
We haven't given up on getting their funding restored, along with other cuts to the rest of the network.
We haven't given up on getting their funding restored, along with other cuts to the rest of the network.
Trees help create healthy neighborhoods by removing pollution from the air, reducing stormwater runoff, reducing heat island impacts, providing wildlife habitat, and promoting mental and physical health by encouraging people to get out and walk in their neighborhoods.
Cities like Paris are showing that urban greening thru street & place transformation is just COMMON SENSE, for cooling cities that are getting hotter due to the #ClimateCrisis, and for reducing emissions, cleaning the air, and improving quality-of-life!
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Trees help create healthy neighborhoods by removing pollution from the air, reducing stormwater runoff, reducing heat island impacts, providing wildlife habitat, and promoting mental and physical health by encouraging people to get out and walk in their neighborhoods.
Camellia blooming in November
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Camellia blooming in November
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🦠 Wastewater testing can act as an early warning of disease outbreaks,“By sampling what communities flush away, scientists can detect traces of disease weeks before patients reach clinics.”
The same approach can apply elsewhere, e.g. detecting measles to identify where there may be community spread
The same approach can apply elsewhere, e.g. detecting measles to identify where there may be community spread
“South Africa is also casting an even wider net, looking for Mpox, MTB, hepatitis A and E, rubella, mpox and influenza viruses in the water, as well as other vaccine-preventable disease” www.nature.com/articles/d44...
Wastewater surveillance reveals disease trends in South Africa
From COVID-19 to measles, scientists are showing how wastewater surveillance can expose underreported infections and strengthen national health monitoring.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
🦠 Wastewater testing can act as an early warning of disease outbreaks,“By sampling what communities flush away, scientists can detect traces of disease weeks before patients reach clinics.”
The same approach can apply elsewhere, e.g. detecting measles to identify where there may be community spread
The same approach can apply elsewhere, e.g. detecting measles to identify where there may be community spread
Definitely going backward. We are one world and all in this together.
Meet the 2025 Future Perfect 25.
As we began thinking of how to organize the 2025 list, we realized the most urgent story in our wheelhouse is the squeeze on foreign aid and on global health and development, which threatens to reverse some of the most important progress humanity has ever made.
As we began thinking of how to organize the 2025 list, we realized the most urgent story in our wheelhouse is the squeeze on foreign aid and on global health and development, which threatens to reverse some of the most important progress humanity has ever made.
The 2025 Future Perfect 25
Meet the heroes keeping global progress alive.
www.vox.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Definitely going backward. We are one world and all in this together.
Trump is making buying and operating a car more expensive while also increasing climate pollution. Definitely going backward and not great for our health and country.
Trump thinks cutting regulations will save you money. Nope.
@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4672...
@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4672...
Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car
The president hates EVs. But his policies are making gas cars more expensive too.
www.vox.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Trump is making buying and operating a car more expensive while also increasing climate pollution. Definitely going backward and not great for our health and country.
A great loss for United States research and development needed in many areas for addressing needs of a growing population, loss of nature and knowledge needed for maintaining a healthy sustainable life amid climate change, resource exploitation, depletion, and threats to survival of life on earth.
"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.
For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
A great loss for United States research and development needed in many areas for addressing needs of a growing population, loss of nature and knowledge needed for maintaining a healthy sustainable life amid climate change, resource exploitation, depletion, and threats to survival of life on earth.
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Vaccines didn’t just save lives—they shaped society! From ancient variolation to mRNA, discover key breakthroughs, hidden heroes, and why vaccine innovation matters more than ever. Are you ready for the next chapter?
👉 scienceagenda.net/blog/vaccine-discovery-process-history-challenges-milestones/
👉 scienceagenda.net/blog/vaccine-discovery-process-history-challenges-milestones/
The Vaccine Discovery Process: History and Milestones
Explore the vaccine discovery process from ancient practices to mRNA vaccines. Learn how scientists overcame challenges to save lives.
scienceagenda.net
October 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Vaccines didn’t just save lives—they shaped society! From ancient variolation to mRNA, discover key breakthroughs, hidden heroes, and why vaccine innovation matters more than ever. Are you ready for the next chapter?
👉 scienceagenda.net/blog/vaccine-discovery-process-history-challenges-milestones/
👉 scienceagenda.net/blog/vaccine-discovery-process-history-challenges-milestones/
Attempts to silence dissent of nonprofits grows under Trump’s MAGA world.
Trump keeps turning to the right-wing Capital Research Center for nonprofits to attack. These are the environmental organizations in its crosshairs.
Their alleged violation? Supporting civil disobedience. 1/
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A Trump Target List of Environmental Organizations
Every month, I assemble a round-up of stories I’m following and issues I’m covering, with palate cleansers at the end. Please consider a paid subscription so I can keep up my independent reporting.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Attempts to silence dissent of nonprofits grows under Trump’s MAGA world.
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Jane Goodall’s Final, Urgent, Message
“Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”
BENJI JONES
Environmental Correspondent at Vox
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”
BENJI JONES
Environmental Correspondent at Vox
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message
"Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”
www.motherjones.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
October 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
Fall colors on display at the Seattle Arboretum.
October 29, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Fall colors on display at the Seattle Arboretum.
July 2025 - "SB 5184, which was adopted by a wide majority in both houses, exempts all homes smaller than 1,200 square feet from parking mandates. “The average new apartment in the United States is 904 square feet, and even the typical two-bedroom averages only 1,097 square feet."
Washington flips the switch on parking reform
State legislation takes a new approach to removing parking mandates—one that is far more comprehensive.
www.cnu.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
July 2025 - "SB 5184, which was adopted by a wide majority in both houses, exempts all homes smaller than 1,200 square feet from parking mandates. “The average new apartment in the United States is 904 square feet, and even the typical two-bedroom averages only 1,097 square feet."
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UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UN assessment of 60 countries' submitted plans for climate action show only a 10% cut in greenhouse gas emissions
Nowhere near what is required for sticking to 1.5C
As climate change-fuelled hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica you wonder what could shift the dial
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nowhere near what is required for sticking to 1.5C
As climate change-fuelled hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica you wonder what could shift the dial
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows
Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
UN assessment of 60 countries' submitted plans for climate action show only a 10% cut in greenhouse gas emissions
Nowhere near what is required for sticking to 1.5C
As climate change-fuelled hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica you wonder what could shift the dial
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nowhere near what is required for sticking to 1.5C
As climate change-fuelled hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica you wonder what could shift the dial
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“Eighty to ninety percent of issues urban trees face,” Erwin told me, “come from problems in the growing place.”
S6E3: The Tree Is the New Sewer System with Erwin van Herwijnen of New Urban Standard
Why most city trees die young, why soils matter more than species, how stormwater makes or breaks survival, and how spreadsheets can save urban forests — with Erwin van Herwijnen.
internetofnature.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“Eighty to ninety percent of issues urban trees face,” Erwin told me, “come from problems in the growing place.”
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New Yorker. By Paul Noth.
October 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
New Yorker. By Paul Noth.
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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A timelapse showing the incredible movement of a growing vine, exhibiting both nastic movement to find, and then a thigmotropic response to grasp and hold.
Credit: Roger P Hangarter
Credit: Roger P Hangarter
October 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A timelapse showing the incredible movement of a growing vine, exhibiting both nastic movement to find, and then a thigmotropic response to grasp and hold.
Credit: Roger P Hangarter
Credit: Roger P Hangarter
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This week:
-Three more universities rejected Trump's extortion compact
-Over a dozen airports refused to play Kristi Noem's propaganda video
-30+ press outlets refused to comply with Pete Hegseth's new restrictions
The only way to rebuke Trump's authoritarianism is solidarity.
-Three more universities rejected Trump's extortion compact
-Over a dozen airports refused to play Kristi Noem's propaganda video
-30+ press outlets refused to comply with Pete Hegseth's new restrictions
The only way to rebuke Trump's authoritarianism is solidarity.
October 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This week:
-Three more universities rejected Trump's extortion compact
-Over a dozen airports refused to play Kristi Noem's propaganda video
-30+ press outlets refused to comply with Pete Hegseth's new restrictions
The only way to rebuke Trump's authoritarianism is solidarity.
-Three more universities rejected Trump's extortion compact
-Over a dozen airports refused to play Kristi Noem's propaganda video
-30+ press outlets refused to comply with Pete Hegseth's new restrictions
The only way to rebuke Trump's authoritarianism is solidarity.
Going backward - not forward, in addressing climate change. Trump is stuck in the early previous century & before when coal was burned, now rightly viewed by as a significant source of carbon pollution. It's all about the money, not the future of our planet. Lost in the past. Not great! Pathetic!
"The White House will open 13.1 MILLION acres (5.3m hectares) of public land to coal mining"
What hope for us is there - honestly?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What hope for us is there - honestly?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration spending $625m to revive dying coal industry
White House allocating 13.1m acres of public land to coal mining, which has been on rapid decline over past 30 years
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Going backward - not forward, in addressing climate change. Trump is stuck in the early previous century & before when coal was burned, now rightly viewed by as a significant source of carbon pollution. It's all about the money, not the future of our planet. Lost in the past. Not great! Pathetic!
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Old-growth western larch (tamarack) is among the rarest forests in North America.
Once scattered across Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and into BC, nearly all were logged for their durable wood. What remains are scattered relics.
Once scattered across Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and into BC, nearly all were logged for their durable wood. What remains are scattered relics.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Old-growth western larch (tamarack) is among the rarest forests in North America.
Once scattered across Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and into BC, nearly all were logged for their durable wood. What remains are scattered relics.
Once scattered across Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and into BC, nearly all were logged for their durable wood. What remains are scattered relics.