The thickness of #Arctic sea ice dropped to a new all-time record low this year around the North Pole (data from PIOMAS). More in my latest 'climate viz of the month' blog: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-... #OpenScience #SciComm #DataViz #OpenData

In the face of a profitability crisis, industrial-scale bitcoin miners are transforming their data centers into AI factories. www.wired.com/story/bitcoi...

"We need to get off of this pesticide treadmill, and we can't just ban one chemical at a time. We need to be looking at these as classes of chemicals." @publicnewsservice.bsky.social app.publicnewsservice.org/story/report...

"Carbon capture ain't a solution, it's just more pollution." You can learn more about carbon capture and storage and its danger to Louisiana's history and traditions by visiting wetlandsnotwastelands.org

You've heard that paraquat is linked to Parkinson's disease. But did you know that the Syngenta plant that formulates this pesticide also generates heavy air pollution in Cancer Alley? Residents of St. Gabriel Louisiana reflect on the role of the agrochemical industry in their community.

NEW report & interactive storymap Designed to Kill: Who Profits from Paraquat? traces the supply chain of a toxic weedkiller from fossil fuels to U.S. farms. The U.S. imports virtually all its paraquat from China & the UK, where it is banned. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9b20...

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

On this day in 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and that made the repeated dissemination of anti-slavery pamphlets punishable by death.

On this day in 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, escorted by federal marshals. A white mob protested her arrival, screaming slurs.

From March 2025 www.fastcompany.com/91304720/tru...

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On this day in 1920, a white mob in Ocoee, Florida, lynched as many as 30 Black Americans and razed the Black community because a Black man attempted to vote.

On this day in 1866, the Texas legislature passed a law restricting when Black people could testify in court, limiting their testimony to cases that involved people of color.

All politics is local. Vote out your state reps who peddle in this dangerous anti-science nonsense.

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The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that Project Astraea, the UK’s new sovereign nuclear warhead, is progressing as part of the Strategic Defence Review 2025 programme. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-confirms-...

Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? | Environment | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

On this day in 1960, 52 people, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., were arrested in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, after refusing to leave their seats at segregated department store lunch counters.

🚨🚨🚨 #MAHA #PublicHealth

Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

The destruction of Gaza has taken place alongside the surge in AI, an industry that props up an empire of lies that constantly pushes mediocre, propagandistic content into a vast market that’s aching to receive its products. Avik Jain Chatlani’s new op-ed critiques the accelerated end of language.

Climate News Round Up Wednesday 24-09-2025 1. Investing in climate protection pays for itself. Many times over:

Researchers have accumulated a mountain of scientific evidence that supports one clear fact: greenhouse gases are a threat to human health and to our future. ​ The Trump administration's attempt to repeal the endangerment finding is detached from reality and will cost lives.​

An interesting but also really worrying video that shows that even though the number of people who die "directly" in disasters has decreased significantly in recent times, the number of "indirect/delayed" deaths is increasing in line with the accelerating climate crisis.