Native Americans condemn Pentagon move to preserve Wounded Knee medals reut.rs/46I9oj6

Sickening. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Every day another impeachable offense… techcrunch.com/2025/09/27/t...

It’s a sliding scale…

I spent several years on the National Intelligence Council & was co-author of Global Trends Paradox of Progress cited here. The report was rigorous, peer-reviewed, and a key catalyst for global engagement. I encourage everyone to DL a copy & see/read for themselves. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

That’s the sound of American credibility flushed down the drain.

Bees, once buzzing in honey-producing Basra, hit by Iraq's water crisis reut.rs/4myL7lB

Scottish teenager’s petition on single-use plastics wins support in parliament

Deserved attention on ocean stress, which affects people & nations far more than most realize. I’d also spotlight nutrient (N&P) overabundance as a key driver of harmful algal blooms, macroalgae, and associated deoxygenation —damaging outcomes from our agricultural and waste management policies.

Applause for the WTO move to ban harmful fisheries subsidies. A vital step for marine resilience. But much more is needed to stabilize marine food networks: stronger quotas, habitat protections, gear innovation, and real enforcement across all fisheries. apnews.com/article/wto-...

I wonder how many women in the past 50-some years *haven’t* taken Tylenol while pregnant. Are we all autistic to some degree? /s

It’s not that scientists haven’t looked into Tylenol’s links to autism — they did and rejected it. And is anyone surprised that this administration wants to find a way to put the blame on pregnant women? We can’t trust anything this administration says and I hope Kenvue sues RFK Jr personally.

More intense future wildfires, fueled by further climate change, could lead to 70,000 deaths from smoke exposure a year, according to a new study.

We will not be able to address any problem plaguing America, and there are too many to name, until we restore fair capitalism. Insane mergers and other acts of consolidation kill competition and undermine workers and consumers. www.businessinsider.com/nexstar-deal...

Anyone remember the Epstein files discussion?

My grandfather was a livestock farmer that ran a small operation in northern Missouri. Giant factory cattle ranches in the 80s and after ensured his family remained in poverty. The huge number of cows in the USA and elsewhere has long been unsustainable for ecological and economic reasons.

In case anyone thought the administration understood what is important for national security. apnews.com/article/pent...

Another manifestation of the harmful algal bloom crisis impacting freshwater and marine systems worldwide. www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

My family had 3 bikes stolen today, incl a cargo bike that was critical to our life. An AirTag traced it to the house across the street on Independence Ave SE (DC). I watched them in real time with the bike. Police called; nodding heads but no action. We know who did this but zero. What can we do?

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

“We can now point to specific heatwaves and say, ‘Saudi Aramco did this. ExxonMobil did this.’“ Study links oil giants' emissions directly to dozens of deadly heatwaves [via @theguardian.com]

That’s the way you do it…

And have been for many years. You would think the pro-democracy pundit crowd would put this in their top 10 issues to reverse if they ever come back into power.

Some people are waking up that the harmful algal bloom crisis is not just another water quality issue to be managed. But HABs are beyond climate disasters since nutrient pollution is usually the driving force . #ecologicalsecurity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Insanity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Contributions are very heterogeneous, with 14 carbon majors (the former USSR, PRC for coal, Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, ExxonMobil, Chevron, National Iranian Oil Company, BP, Shell, India for coal, Pemex, CHN Energy, PRC for cement) contributing as much as the 166 others. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

Tick tick tick … apnews.com/article/phyt...

Colombia's only Amazon port town could soon be cut off from the river that keeps it alive. As drought and a shifting river spark a tense border dispute with Peru, locals are scrambling to adapt—and politicians are raising flags, literally.

I haven't read Tainter, but I've read some of Peter Turchin's work like "End Times" that seems to address the same faults from a different angle.

What shocks me is that Americans do not respond to mass shootings with the same moral outrage that supposed “pro-life” advocates hold towards abortion.

Yes, pretty familiar with Tainter’s work. Basically, the cost of complexity outweighs its benefits. We understand planetary boundaries a lot better these days, and the stressors from our perturbed Earth are unprecedented. Sobering indeed.

Overwhelmingly, the driver of tree cover loss in the tropics this century is agricultural expansion, shown in orange and yellow in the map below. See more details by region in this article: www.wri.org/insights/for...

To understand modern risk, we have to grapple with emergent and novel aspects of hazard, vulnerability, exposure, and response that comprise risk. Find out more in a new article with @danielaldrich.bsky.social and Daniel Hoyer, just out in @issuesinst.bsky.social. issues.org/mental-model...

Nothing says service to the people like billionaires in a Georgetown club arguing which way to profit off mortgages and stick it to the peasants. It’s like Versailles right before the storming of the Bastille. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The rainfall experienced in Arkansas April 3-6, 2025 was the heaviest ever recorded in the region, wiping out many crops and farms. Closures of USAID and USDA programs have made such climate impacts even worse for farmers and food system stability. #ecologicalsecurity katv.com/news/local/h...

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

This administration lies so easily and often, why should the media swallow that this boat was carrying narcotics? None of these people should be trusted to tell the truth. www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

This tells you all you need to know about how mired in outdated notions of security this administration is. Very much out of step with the global move underway towards a new security doctrine. #ecologicalsecurity www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Perhaps allowing microplastics to course through every ecological and physiological system on Earth was unwise. The implications of that decision are slowly becoming understood. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

This story needs to keep breaking through. www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...

Picture if instead of a boat these “suspected drug trafficker” were pulled out of a truck and shot. There is no substantive difference. People need to be made much more worried about the consequences of following these kinds of orders than they apparently are of not following them.

This is the kind of thing people should have quit over. I know we’ve gotten inured to drone strike footage. I certainly have. But this is a different thing from even the most questionable CT strikes of the last 20+ years. Just straight up murder.

This is how fisheries collapse, with all the socioeconomic and security shocks that accompany it. Another warning sign that our willful blindness to Earth system stress is dangerous for people and nations. #ecologicalsecurity www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Some scientists call Vibrio vulnificus a quintessential climate-sensitive organism. Warming ocean temperatures are promoting a surge in their populations and transmission dynamics. Another thing to keep in mind when reading garbage from the “CO2 is good” crowd.

“It's like looking for a home in a minefield.” Plastic pollution - plus poaching, mass tourism and climate change - on the turtle nesting beaches of Boa Vista, Cape Verde, is putting one of the world's largest Caretta caretta turtle colonies at risk. 📸