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Fascinating. We need penguins for their poo!

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Congress just used an obscure law to gut California climate rules grist.org/regulation/s...

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#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers. Story by @virginiagewin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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We are about to learn about all the ways that our government workers make our daily lives possible.

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We can't solve the biodiversity crisis if we're not informed about it. And we can't be informed about it if the publications that cover science and nature keep shuttering or shrinking. Your donation supports boots-on-the-ground journalism, thoughtful editing, and gorgeous photography.

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One of the world's biggest data center booms is quietly underway just outside of Reno. Some projects have been covered, but few outlets have recognized the full scope of the plans. The developments will require gigawatts of new electricity generation & could consume billions of gallons of water.

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Squeeee!

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Newsom Pushes to Fast-Track $20 Billion Delta Tunnel for California Water “This approach threatens the livelihood of our local communities and undermines the sustainability of our regional economy,” Asm. Lori Wilson @kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social www.kqed.org/science/1996...

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Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans. P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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Make yourself happy with this incredibly charming story about jumping spider personalities, featuring Diego, @betsymason.bsky.social 's neighbor. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/05/12/t...

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I met Annyse Balkwill, engineer and communicator extraordinaire, at Blue Tech Forum in 2022. So I was thrilled to chat on her new podcast, Meaningful Conversations, about "Water Always Wins", the Army Corps' Engineering with Nature effort, and what I'm working on now. Listen here - bit.ly/3EzOs3V

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Got a great story you'd like to report on biodiversity in British Columbia? Apply for this C$10,000 grant! I got one in 2023 and found them great to work with. I was able to report in a remote area and get a story I wouldn't have otherwise. Deadline Aug 31. www.messengersofbiodiversity.org

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🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Efficiency First California's Charley Cormany on "some main challenges that I see contractors face, and why participation in rebate programs promoting heat pumps is lower than hoped." efficiencyfirstca.org/blog/policym... cc: @energysmartwv.bsky.social 🔌💡

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If you prefer hearing books to reading them, my audiobook is 50% OFF through May 11, Sunday -- Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

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Trump and the GOP are purging, deleting, censoring, moving, and hiding hundreds of government webpages, documents, and assessments that report on environmental and climate-change threats to U.S. national security and the military. I've documented some examples here: www.gleick.com/blog/censors...

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It's looking more and more like someone at @noaa.gov is going through the datasets that can confirm how extraordinary our weather has become due to climate change and deleting them one by one.

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NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

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The stories I have written for bioGraphic are among my favorites, including Persian leopard conservation in Iraq, restoration of Indigenous Hawaiian fishponds, and traditional water management in South India. It's a fantastic publication, worthy of your support.

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A case like EnergyStar establishes as fact that this administration is committed to destroying all government value

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"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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Press freedom is the First Amendment to the Constitution, a critical part of democracy that provides information and accountability. We serve the people. I signed this petition, and you can too, before tomorrow. pressfreedom.ac-page.com/home

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🚨 The Liberal Party will lead Canada's next government. CBC just called it; too early to know if it'll be a majority or minority government. "A stunning reversal," says the CBC: Conservatives led by huge margins throughout 2024, but Trump's arrival was a big factor in changing everything.

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“Swampbuster is the last thumb in the dike preventing total destruction of our natural ecosystems.” Nothing is sacred. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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For nearly 15 years the US Dept of Interior's Climate Adaptation* Science Centers have supported hundreds of scientists studying how ecosystems respond to climate change & pollution, invasive species, sustainable wildlife & wild lands management, and more. Now the admin wants to cancel them all.

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#50501 #sanfrancisco My father escaped the Nazis. We are NOT doing this again. Fascism isn’t us.

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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Okay, it's genuinely good news that they're resisting, but I can't believe the NYT has Harvard at the top of the page and not "Trump defies Supreme Court" or "Trump plans to send Americans to foreign gulags"

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National forests are on the chopping block. Trump’s order to expand U.S. timber production includes all of California’s national forests. @hayleysmith.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Just your regular reminder ALL this crap would stop almost completely if literally a handful of Republican senators or representatives joined the democrats. But they're ALL complicit right now in the destruction of US democracy, science, education, economy, and respect.

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