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Okay I do appreciate a Baseball Pope.

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"Another term for "surplus of open land" is "where the animals still live." " Enjoying this excellent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social piece on the massive ecological blind spots of the Abundancers #abundance #nature #climate defector.com/an-abundance...

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Our NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the Northwest region was terminated this week. I'm so proud of the work we did to support the climate resilience efforts of frontline communities and Tribal Nations. And I'm deeply concerned for what the loss of this support means for NW communities.

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"This is a vision of America's future that has hardly a word to say about forests, oceans, fresh water, ecosystems, or wild animals—about anything that isn't made by and for humans." Amen to this wildly good essay by @bengoldfarb.bsky.social critiquing Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson's Abundance book.

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Me trying to understand all the pope jokes:

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Word on the street: Leo is a climate guy!

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Appreciated this little ode to the Delaware River's last haul-seine fishery for the mighty shad — a sad ghost of what was once one of the world's great anadromous fish runs. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/n...

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What happens belowground when a mountain road cuts through nature? After epic fieldwork, root sequencing & modeling marathons, we found: roads unravel fungal interaction networks—fewer links and more generalists. @dajana-r.bsky.social 📖 Blog: the3dlab.org/2025/05/08/w...

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This, from @bengoldfarb.bsky.social, was a very satisfying read:

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holy smokes !!GALLEYS HAVE ARRIVED!! 🐅 #booksky

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House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah, prompting outrage from Democrats and environmental groups.

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Feels only fitting that CROSSINGS is cover-out at bookstores in Amsterdam, global capital of wildlife-crossing construction and cycling culture.

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It's my honor to be giving the keynote next week at the Internt'l Conference on Ecology & Transportation. What can a writer possibly say that'll resonate with 500 wildlife biologists, transportation engineers, & road ecologists? Who knows! Hope to see some of ya there anyway. #roadecology icoet.net

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This is burrow of paleocastor, a beaver ancestor that lived into the mid-Miocene, at the agate fossil beds in Nebraska. Inside the case with it is some cheatgrass. Cheatgrass has even invaded the grasslands of the past! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoc...

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"Klein and Thompson are, at root, decarbonization bros whose narrow version of environmentalism has a lot to say about solar farms & transmission lines & nuclear reactors, but little about peregrine falcons & pronghorn antelope" @bengoldfarb.bsky.social writes defector.com/an-abundance...

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Read this! It’s great. I just left the FWS (the purge and loss there are immeasurable) and am so concerned that the abundance folks will be quoted by the Sec of the Interior, grinning, as he gleefully allows drill rigs onto wildlife refuges…

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Holy shit I am so excited to see @bengoldfarb.bsky.social, one of the best environmental writers working, putting in a piece on my favorite website. I must insist you all read this, so here's a gift link, just in case: defector.com/an-abundance...

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For @defector.com, I wrote about the impoverishment of "Abundance," a book with no interest in conservation and whose disciples are in desperate need of a land ethic.

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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

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Love that bedraggled little fauxhawk.

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Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

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Today is the day! After eight long years, They Poisoned the World, is out. The book interweaves the moving story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic global crisis with a deep investigation of one the most brazen cover-ups in corporate history. 1/

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💙💙💙

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🧪Hello! are you a scientist who started your PhD in 2020 and are now wrapping up? I want to know how your life is and how you're feeling about your prospects in 2025 for a story in @nature.com. DM me or find me on Signal at aheidt.16. Tell yo friends! (Also seeking international sources.)

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Is A River Alive? is published today, 1 May. It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has. To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much. I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

We’re really gonna give rights to AI before we grant them to nature 😭

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POV: your neighborhood is being absolutely mobbed by a ravenous flock of cedar waxwings.

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caddis szn

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It’s almost impressive that a pundit managed to write a whole-ass column in favor of developing housing on public lands in the arid southwest without once using the word “water.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...

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We’re two weeks away from an EO mandating the construction of Jurassic Park.

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One of the biggest citizen science studies ever conducted — if you logged an eBird sighting in N. America in the last 14 years, this paper represents your work and this alarm is all of our responsibility to sound: Avian life is slipping away. 🌎🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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when the grosbeaks are a week late

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