The latest Biodiversity Bulletin is out: 🌎 28 new deep sea species 🌎 Starving African Penguins 🌎 Tire pollution killing salmon 👇 and lots more www.briefecology.com/the-biodiver...

The latest Biodiversity Bulletin is out: 🌎 28 new deep sea species 🌎 Starving African Penguins 🌎 Tire pollution killing salmon 👇 and lots more www.briefecology.com/the-biodiver...

ICYMI: Our latest issue of The Eco Update is very rad, and features contributions from a number of academics, writers, and photographers www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

The new Brief Ecology site is live! We’ve got a completely new and streamlined redesign, along with a pay-whatever-you-want model for our ebooks and digital magazines. www.briefecology.com

FYI our website is undergoing a redesign and may be unavailable until tomorrow. Apologies for any inconvenience!

The US may be sliding into full blown fascism, the ecosphere may be collapsing, the planet may be boiling, but Brief Ecology is not going to stop. We’re here to here bring you the ecological news, thought, literature, and art that can make a difference.

We may have messed around and made an *actual* magazine

A new and very cool issue of The Eco Update is dropping tomorrow. Some big changes and surprises coming with this one. Here’s a quick sneak peek 👇

Indie publishers: I am once again looking for ecofiction books to read and possible review in @briefecology.bsky.social. Please get in touch if you have a new or upcoming title that you think would be a good fit!

In our latest piece, @benlockwood.bsky.social reviews John Bellamy Foster's Capitalism in the Anthropocene 🌎 www.briefecology.com/p/making-eco...

It’s likely to get lost in the international chaos right now, but the Syrian gov't has launched a counterrevolutionary assault on the Syrian Democratic Forces (with the Trump regime’s approval), aimed at the Kurdish people and the social-ecological revolution of Rojava. Don’t let this go unnoticed.

Brief Ecology stands with the people of Rojava and the social-ecological revolution they are struggling for www.defendrojava.org/news/tell-co...

The Biodiversity Bulletin 🌎 | Andean condor chicks, raccoons becoming domestic, North Atlantic right whale sightings, orcas speaking their own language, and lots more! www.briefecology.com/p/the-biodiv...

Brief Ecology has a new periodic newsletter called The Biodiversity Bulletin. We’ll gather recent news, articles, and studies to keep people informed on the ecological state of the planet. Climate change doesn’t get enough coverage, but our biodiversity crisis gets even less. We want to fix that.

The Biodiversity Bulletin is a collection of recent ecological news, research, and radical perspectives gathered by Brief Ecology. See the latest 👇

The Biodiversity Bulletin 🌎 | Andean condor chicks, raccoons becoming domestic, North Atlantic right whale sightings, orcas speaking their own language, and lots more! www.briefecology.com/p/the-biodiv...

In case you missed it, our January piece of short ecofiction was “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In”, by @jsdouglas.bsky.social. And it’s a weird one (complimentary) www.briefecology.com/p/when-the-g...

Turtles are fascinating animals that have some remarkable ecophysiological tactics for surviving winter 🌎🧪🌐🐢 www.briefecology.com/p/life-benea...

The press likes to claim neutrality, but legacy media is overwhelmingly owned by billionaires, and it relentlessly promotes their interests. We make no such claims at Brief Ecology. We’re explicitly political, aligned in full opposition to billionaires and the ecological collapse they're causing.

I wrote this essay about writing eco fiction. I hope it’s an interesting read! 📚

Did you know that @rottingleafmag.bsky.social is entirely funded by the readers of Brief Ecology? We’re able to pay writers for their work because of our generous supporters. Thank you for being part of a community that still values literature.

“When I write in the eco horror corner of the vast ecofiction genre, I try to strip the natural world of human motivation.” @jsdouglas.bsky.social on Ecofiction www.briefecology.com/p/js-douglas...

In “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In” @jsdouglas.bsky.social takes us on a strange, beautiful, tumbling journey 👇

It’s here! Take a break from your human horrors and read my eco horror short story. #horrorstory #shortstory 📚👀😱

"Like so many others, this tumbleweed is released from its anchoring root, the wind flinging it into the air. It lands on a grasshopper mouse, trapping it and killing it with sharp thorns and percussive bouncing." When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In, by @jsdouglas.bsky.social

Our first rotten leaf drops tomorrow. Keep your eyes on this space for “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In” by @jsdouglas.bsky.social

It’s not our usual newsletter, but our editor, @benlockwood.bsky.social, had some thoughts about strategy in the current political environment

Just in - "According to @climatecentral.org, 2025 ranks as the third-highest year (after 2023 and 2024) for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters..." + Interactive graphics/data: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv... + Climate Matters article: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Ecology is more than just the science of organisms and their interactions. The knowledge it produces could be used to structure our economic production in ways that don’t destroy the planet or ourselves.

Fossil fuels are destroy in our planet, exacerbating wealth inequality, and instigating war. How do we get rid of them? Here’s some ideas 👇 www.briefecology.com/p/learning-f...

Want billionaire-free and independent environmental news? That’s us!

Fossil fuels are destroy in our planet, exacerbating wealth inequality, and instigating war. How do we get rid of them? Here’s some ideas 👇 www.briefecology.com/p/learning-f...

Are you a photographer? We’re always looking for original nature photography to feature in our publications! Send submissions to editor[at]briefecology.com

Are you a photographer? We’re always looking for original nature photography to feature in our publications! Send submissions to editor[at]briefecology.com

“Masked shrews are one of our smallest mammals, tipping the scales at between 3 and 6 grams (one to two pennies), with a 2.5-inch-long body, and a 1.5-inch tail. They have a long, pointed snout full of sharp teeth, and a powerful nose surrounded by extremely sensitive whiskers.”

Did you know that some shrews can shrink? There's a lot more to these little creatures than meets the eye 🌎🧪🌐 www.briefecology.com/p/the-incred...

“As I’m photographing it, I notice the shadows the different stems are casting and realize it’s because the sun is going down behind me…then I spot a sign for the Arboretum’s Winter Lights display that’s going on now, and I decide to stick around until dusk to see it.” - @benlockwood.bsky.social

I'm photographing and writing about the bark of every tree in the eastern US. My latest: silver maple 🍁

“As I’m photographing it, I notice the shadows the different stems are casting and realize it’s because the sun is going down behind me…then I spot a sign for the Arboretum’s Winter Lights display that’s going on now, and I decide to stick around until dusk to see it.” - @benlockwood.bsky.social

When we say that the fascist billionaire class has captured legacy media, Bari Weiss killing negative stories about the regime at CBS is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about.

New research finds that marine environments with offshore wind turbines have higher levels of biodiversity and biomass. Turbines provide surfaces for barnacles, algae, and sea sponges, which can support an ecosystem. Things like this show we can design with nature, rather than against it. 🌎🧪🌐🏡

"Pennhurst AI has proposed a 1.3 million square feet campus with multiple data center buildings and onsite power generation...its plans have ignited fierce opposition to the proposal amid increasingly tense townhalls over potential zoning and ordinance changes."

In Pennsylvania, data center construction is threatening environmental degradation in the southeast, while oil and gas development extracts from and exploits the environment in the southwest 🌎🧪🌐🏡 www.briefecology.com/p/data-cente...

This issue of the Eco-Update also has a review of @hilaratzabi.bsky.social's eco-poetry collection, "There Are Still Woods" from @juneroadpress.bsky.social

Hey Pennsylvania, there's a lot of bullshit going on around here

In Pennsylvania, data center construction is threatening environmental degradation in the southeast, while oil and gas development extracts from and exploits the environment in the southwest 🌎🧪🌐🏡 www.briefecology.com/p/data-cente...

ICYMI: there was a lovely review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in Brief Ecology, a newsletter focusing on environmental news. It's definitely worth checking out. Here's a link to Brief Ecology #22, where you can find more about THE OTHER SHORE: www.briefecology.com...