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As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat. In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. scim.ag/44cSw3Z

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Developers Propose More Than 100 New Gas Power Plants in Texas New research by @envirointegrity.bsky.social reveals a massive planned expansion of gas-fired electrical generation to power artificial intelligence and other heavy industries insideclimatenews.org/news/1106202...

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Exclusive: I have confirmed that the federal government is still refusing to process permit applications for land-based wind projects almost six months into the Trump administration. Not just offshore. It threatens untold billions of capital investments in the United States. via @heatmap.news

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"The fossil fuel industry has a vested interest in maintaining the cultural status quo: the white-picket fence in the suburbs where the white wife stays home to take care of her white kids and her white husband drives to work in his gas-guzzling car." The brilliant and talented @yessfun.com

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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Incredible research on MAHA illuminating who RFK Jr. hires here: A man who spent years promoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the kind of rabid antisemitism you only see in places (literally) one step from Stormfront.

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"Der Planet hat eine weitere planetare Grenze überschritten: die Versauerung der Ozeane." Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed Findlay et al 2025

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Self-described environmentalist, Dallas-based hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass, is looking to take over 46,000 acre-feet (15 billion gallons) of water per year out of the Carrizo-Wilcox in East Texas www.ketk.com/news/local-n...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

People who follow Tesla closely probably know about the high profile crashes involving Tesla owners Josh Brown and Walter Huang. You should also know about Johna Story, the pedestrian fatally struck in Arizona in 2023. She was 71. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

I have long thought forest carbon offsets were just an incursion of Silicon Valley’s magical thinking in the forestry space, and I was right. This brief in Forest Ecology and Management does a great job at breaking it down. Short 🌲🧵—

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

This a question for all the non agricultural people on here. Should farmers working in the regenerative/sustainable/conservation systems continue to do so if society doesn't value it? At this point it's a net zero increase to profits at best with added risks. Conventional farming systems are easier.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Another casualty of DOGE -- the world's threatened wildlife. How many species will go extinct due to new funding cuts? The impacts will not be insignificant.

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A great thread on the national treasure that is Forest Service research.

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Adam Greenfield has an interesting post & discussion asking about "value – what it is, how it’s formed, how we account for it" - social.coop/@adamgreenfi... -> www.patreon.com/posts/129252... . (yearning to read more deeply, reminds me of a Value & Values convo on Earth Regenerators back in 2021)

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The @wclivestream.bsky.social is going strong and almost to hour 80! I tuned in to find @lnzhang-climate.bsky.social hosting a solid set of talks about carbon cycling including from @biometlab.bsky.social and Gretchen Keppel-Aleks! Watch here: wclivestream.com

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Keynote tomorrow, "From Turing to Thiel: AI and the 'Noble Lie'“ at Oise. It concludes with a quote from Brooks on the role of the literary humanities "to provide public tools of resistance to bogus and totalizing world explanations." All the papers look interesting--info below.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I find myself fairly critical of AI, but something interesting happening on Ecohana next week is the book club is alternating weeks of reading from "AI for Humanity" and "Thinking Like a Mountain" - starting June 2nd with the Aldo Leopold essay "Thinking like a Mountain" ecohana.mn.co/posts/85026378

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk’s actions have already killed an estimated 300,000 people since January. Read this. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 14 days ago • 48 comments