Is there actually anyone left in the US who can shoot straight at a standing target?

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

“It fails, or it blows up.” Officials just ordered mass evacuations across SIX Orange County cities after a leaking chemical tank at an aerospace plant was deemed likely to catastrophically fail. Authorities warn the volatile tank could either EXPLODE or spill 6,000–7,000 gallons of what

Mongolia's coal shipments to China surge 61% in April, overtaking Indonesia reut.rs/4nM8hHo

The annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations has failed to reach consensus to designate the endangered emperor penguin as a "Specially Protected Species".

Slush Fund Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org

Russia on Thursday delivered nuclear munitions to field facilities in Belarus and showcased elements of its strategic nuclear forces, as tensions with European NATO members rose.

A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over millennia, meaning higher CO2 emissions than assumed

In case you’re wondering about the status of the start of melt season on the Greenland Ice Sheet, keep on wondering… #Arctic #Climate @zacklabe.com @ruthmottram.eurosky.social

eerily similar.

Albanese’s office among departments blocking 80% of FoI requests, scathing report finds

Cattle ranching, agriculture and gold mining remain by far the biggest threats, finds the study. Global meat production is expected to increase 13%, driven by population growth. Oil, gas and coal are playing an ever bigger role in the destruction of rainforests.

Mice in their millions are eating grain crops, destroying food, and invading houses. Here's how it all started.

Even if future habitats remain suitable, many species may never reach them. A new study finds that under >4°C warming, ~78% of Earth’s land could lose the connectivity needed for wildlife migration by 2061–2080, increasing risks of isolation and biodiversity loss. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh look, adaptations to changes to seasonal patterns due to climate change can alleviate only about 23% of projected global crop losses by 2050 and 34% by the end of the century, according to a new study in Nature. #collapse

Not one mention of climate change or the Clausius-Clapeyron relation. For every 1°C increase in temperature, the atmosphere can hold about 7% more moisture.

Australia's farmers, hit by Iran war costs and dry weather, grow less wheat reut.rs/4wC14NV

Cattle farmers say they care for their animals. They know when the monsoon season will arrive (Nov-Apr), yet they do not round up their animals beforehand to a safe area. Then they cry "poor me", when they are not subsidised for their own stupidity.

Petroleum geologist Art Berman explains how not every barrel of oil is equal.

Some slightly good news in the collapse. I say "slightly", as there is no mention of removing the cattle and rewilding in a continent that never had the destruction caused by hoofed animals and the cattle is the baseline common denominator for both~ bird explosion and soil erosion.

At least 87 deaths have been reported in Congo's new Ebola disease outbreak, as health authorities warn the strain "has no vaccine, no specific treatment".

New global analysis of 21,439 rivers (1985–2023) shows Earth’s rivers are steadily losing oxygen Less oxygen = more ecological stress, fish kills, biodiversity loss, & weakened freshwater resilience River deoxygenation is becoming a planetary-scale climate signal www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Oh dear... the current global average temperature is once again setting new record highs for the time of year. 🔥 See more at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

With a Strong El Niño imminent, concern grows for life on the Galapagos. El Niño is a natural cyclical phenomenon but it can be devastating to the #Galápagos Islands. In the 1982-83 event 77% of the penguin population did not survive… 1/

"The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted crucial supply chains for fertilizer feedstocks, causing the prices of some fertilizers to rise by over 50%," writes the CSIS Economics Program and Scholl Chair in International Business. More: https://bit.ly/4nBwgck

Once a major cause of childhood deaths, diphtheria was largely eliminated through vaccination. Health authorities say falling immunity may now be helping the disease spread again.

Energy Australia says the proposed 1.4-gigawatt gas-fired power plant would be critical to the energy transition by supplying reliable back-up power, but analysts have flagged supply and economic issues.

New research links seismic testing used for oil and gas exploration with decreases in commercial fish catch rates in Victoria's east.

Malthus was right We did not permanently defeat the iron laws of ecology with our intellectual brilliance. We merely stumbled upon fossil fuels and mistook our staggering inheritance for our own genius. collapse2050.substack.com/p/malthus-wa...

Anomaly forecast dated May 12, 2026, for the Niño3 region, with forecasts exceeding 4°C for part of some forecast members and exceeding 3.5°C for part of the forecast for the Coupled Forecast System version 2 (CFS.v2) ensemble mean (black dashed line). arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/05/arct...

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

Kessler Syndrome + Nuclear weapons ☢️ What could possibly go wrong 🤷‍♂️

Classified military intelligence assessments from early this month show Iran has regained access to most of its missile sites, launchers and underground facilities.

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! April data for "Total Column Precipitable Water" just came in, and once again a new record was set for the 36-month running average over the Northern Hemisphere, Mid-Latitudes, where over 50% of all humans live. Can you spot the trend?

It is simultaneously ironic and moronic... When New Zealand is the global focal point for billionaires building doomsday bunkers in preparedness for societal collapse due to climate change. _____________ Shhhhh 🤫 Swept under the carpet. No one talks about Voldemort. Move along, carry on. #Collapse

Just had to save an olive green python (non venomous, never big enough to constrict a human), from a first nation indigenous woman who was petrified and had no idea of what snake it was. That's just how fucked we are.

Your 'moment of doom' for May 9, 2026 ~ Once and future jungle. "In the past, Antarctica helped buffer global warming. Our results suggest it may now be shifting in the opposite direction." theconversation.com/antarctic-se...

"It's a matter of days before we are back in record-breaking ocean sea surface temperatures again” Samantha Burgess (ECMWF)

"This is fine"

Sometimes the most complex problems have a straight-forward solution – let’s start gathering the evidence. See Exxon – mailchi.mp/caa/exxon Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/exxon

May 1, 2026, ECMWF forecast for the Niño3.4 region. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/05/arct...

Read the latest here yhoo.it/4etDFb1

There's a worrying recent rise in sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), which has GWP-100 of 24,300 and, as it has a 1000 years lifetime, its GWP-500 is even higher, i.e. 29,000 (IPCC AR6). arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/05/carb...

Delusional techno hopium has no understanding whatsoever of earth's functioning capacity... 7 of 9 planetary boundaries have already been breached. There is no earth 2.0 Earth 1.0 is already in terminal collapse. The collapse wars have already begun~ water, food, safe habitable environment.

‘Wake-up call’: methane emissions from Australian coalmines more than double official estimates, report finds

Hopium v Physics. Physics wins.