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Revealing the tension between university sustainability commitments and university hunger to hop on the AI hype train.

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Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment, U.S. Food Waste Pact report shows major food retailers and foodservice providers making progress toward the national goal of cutting food waste 50% by 2030, with initiatives reducing unsold food by 30% since 2019 🌎 www.waste360.com/organic-wast...

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“This result aligns with the association between purring and vocal communication as strategies for seeking attention or support…” “Cats also purr when they are severely injured, so some researchers have proposed purring could be a healing mechanism too.” www.sciencealert.com/the-genetic-... 🧪 🐈 🦊

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Nature reports on how live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, and how scientists lack support to study the risks these markets pose. #medsky 🧪

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Composer weaves climate crisis themes into new choral work - ‘Missa Laudato Si’’ incorporates the late Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ encyclical and other environmental texts in a musical reflection on climate change. yaleclimateconnectio... and youtu.be/G45a99yZhkM...

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"Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest – the size of about 381 million soccer fields – was destroyed every year between 2010 and 2020." 🌏 theconversation.com/africa-has-t...

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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

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Smoke from Canadian wildfires, as seen yesterday from a million miles from Earth. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15438...

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Wow! 🌎

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Not only are parks profitable, they inject billions to local economies and welcome 300+ million people a year. This is yet more wealth extraction to private interests not just from all of us as a nation but hundreds of communities and small businesses.

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It’s increasingly important to get outside and into nature.

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"Species’ historical niches are becoming increasingly mismatched with contemporary climates, even in highly mobile taxa, raising concerns about the ability of wildlife to persist in a warmer world." 🌎 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Niagara Falls. The first state park in the United States. 75,750 gallons of water per second flows over the American and Bridal Veil Falls and 681,750 gallons per second over the Horseshoe Falls.

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Urban #rewilding - what if cities could become part of the solution - places to actively restore #biodiversity rather than just areas of loss? 🌍 theconversation.com/urban-rewild...

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The Bounceback program is one of Australia‘s most successful landscape-scale conservation programs. Three decades of cooperation between government, landholders, & land-managers has firmed up threatened species & allowed reintroductions of locally extinct ones 🌏 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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“This important measure to reduce discarded plastic will help protect Maryland’s natural wonders like the Chesapeake Bay while also delivering tangible benefits for businesses and consumers around the state” ♻️ 🌎 www.packagingdive.com/news/marylan...

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Despite world leaders’ pledge to end deforestation by 2030, tropical forest loss reached record highs in 2024. Fires were the main cause, overtaking land clearances from agriculture for the first time on record. See more from my colleagues’ analysis here: 🧪

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“This achievement made Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to increase its tiger population.” 🐅 🌎 www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

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"The dragon’s blood tree -- a species found only on the Yemeni island of Socotra -- is now struggling to survive the intensifying threats from climate change...'When you lose these trees, you lose everything — the soil, the water, the entire ecosystem.'” 🌏 www.yahoo.com/news/trees-e...

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Study finds that Irish oyster farms remove 228% more nutrients than they produce, provide coastal cleanup to the value of $2 million, and lock away tons of carbon in their shells. 🌎🧪 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/05/more...

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How are the bees doing where you live? 🐝 Should we conserve or restore? Check out this tool: www.atkinson.cornell.edu/wildbees/wil... #insect #bee 🌎🧪

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Pollinators boost the reproduction of 75% of global crops, contributing up to 8% of total food production 🐝 A study on 24 crops found that higher pollinator abundance increases yields, with stronger effects in temperate regions & conventional farms 🌍🧪 🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70042

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“It’s now time to turn this year’s increase into a lasting trend with an all-hands approach where governments, landowners, conservationists, and citizens continue to safeguard critical habitats along the monarch’s North American migratory route.” 🌎 www.csmonitor.com/World/Points...

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The forbidden fifth season of an abandoned pool: Skateboarding 📸Tony Alva by Owens

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A Navajo plant researcher is working to revive a desert peach. Learn more at: www.sciencefriday.com/peach

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"We're spending a lot of money to try to understand other planets, maybe planets outside of our solar system. And yet right here on our own planet, we know so little of what's going on in this area that covers about two-thirds of our planet” 🌎 🧪 www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n...

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"If you’re a resident, get out there. Start small: plant something native, or set up a swing (where safe to do so). By engaging with the green spaces already around you, you might help create your own slice of urban paradise – no land purchase required." #urbanism #urbanNature

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“On farms where soils were tilled infrequently, or not at all, and where farmers also practiced non-invasive management methods like cover cropping with grasses and legumes, the soil functionality was higher and therefore healthier.” 🌎🧪 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/05/the-...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/c... "in the summer of 2020, Mr. Pike watched the sky turn orange as the Bush fire burned 193,000 acres, killing roughly 80,000 saguaros." Included was the study site where I worked for my Master's degree. I haven't had the chance to go back to see the damage. 🌎 #ecology

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Bees in the US are emerging 10.4 days earlier in the spring than they did 130 years ago. A biologist explains how a timing mismatch with flowering plants is worsening pollinator decline and reducing food production. buff.ly/pG5fXgA #climatechange 🌎#climatesky

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A newly published study has found that nearly 75% of bird species in North America are sharply declining across their ranges, and 8/10 plummeting in the areas where they’re thought to be thriving and plentiful.

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#SciArt Job Alert! The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is offering an opportunity for an illustrator to join the Bartels Science Illustration Program for a visiting artist residency. This is a full-time, paid temporary appointment that lasts up to one year. cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cornel...

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What happens when sun power gets SO CHEAP that places with 1/60th of US per capita GDP don't need subsidies to afford it? Pakistan.

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Lots of people on my feed are concerned about the destruction of NOAA by the Trump administration and Elon Musk, but much of what I’ve seen people post about is the national weather service. That’s vital, but NOAA does so much more than that! My latest, for @ucsusa.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑🐠

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HBO doc explores Ohio’s #HB6, called the “worst energy bill of the 21st century,” now known as the largest bribery scandal in Ohio history. And the people are still paying for it. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/04...

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‘Well-managed solar parks have been shown to host more bird species and individuals per hectare than surrounding farmland’ 🌍🌐 #ornithology #biodiverdity www.warpnews.org/green-tech/s...

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Scientists discover world's first fossil #pangolin trackway in South Africa with help from Indigenous Master Trackers. 🌍🦴 theconversation.com/first-fossil... #Fossils #ScienceAndTech

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Why do birds help predict bee richness beyond land covers? Birds complement satellites by indicating small habitat features like flowering shrubs and land management practices. Together with land covers, they add insight to wild bee conservation science. 🐤+🛰️=🐝 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🦉🧪🌎🌐

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Spotted lanterfly watch

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Anderson Cooper joins WWF Mexico on a trip to see the monarch butterfly migration to the winter habitat in Michoacán. 🌎 www.cbsnews.com/news/monarch...

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Very cool eco-archaeology

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The surface zone of ponds, and water surface tension. for my forthcoming book "Ponds: An Illustrated Guide," Yale University Press, early 2026. 🧪🌿🌎 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #neuston #ponds #wetlands

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Microsoft is part of a new collaboration to recover and recycle rare earth elements from discarded hard disk drives collected from its data centres. #DigitalEmissions #ChiefSustainabilityOfficer @microsoft.com www.csofutures.com/news/microso...

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Earth Day and every day we need to work together to tackle the challenges facing the Planet. Check out these examples of how WWF works with companies like Macy’s, HP, and P&G to advance sustainability and conservation. 🌎 www.worldwildlife.org/blogs/sustai...

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Ten years ago, Pope Francis published “Laudato Si.’” This is a good day to reread it and hear his call to save our planet. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/w...

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