To mark Remembrance Day for Lost Species, which falls on 30 November each year, I am republishing something I wrote a few years ago.🧪🌏 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/unhappy-en...

Imagine being so slavishly addicted to fossil fuels that earth under perpetual stratospheric smog seems like a viable future.

Those are 30-year linear extrapolations. I've asked them a while back to add an option to change the time period and/or extrapolations and was told they'd look into it, but it still hasn't happened yet. At least they made the code available, which we used to make this: bsky.app/profile/leon...

The increasing insanity of BIG AG www.theguardian.com/environment/...

sounds like a indigenous person in the year 1700

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Ha,ha. Whatever it is that we are living on now is no longer the Planet A that I once knew. I think we have already transported ourselves to Planet B. And it is an unhospitable place!

Thread: (5/5) We don’t need to define humanity by 500 years of destruction. But we also can’t ignore the deep-time consequences of a primate that became a supergeneralist before ecosystems could adapt.

Thread (1/5): Indigenous land practices matter, but extinction isn’t mainly a cultural process. It’s an ecological one.

While the EU delays/stalls for another year, forests continue to fall...🌳🪚

Oil & gas companies pivoting from petroleum as fuel to petroleum as plastics have “spent millions of dollars lying to the public, trying to get them to believe that [you can] just recycle your plastic and everything will be fine,” Beyond Plastics president and former EPA official. Sadly, it's a lie.

Adrian Lambert on the break between collapse awareness and acceptance. It’s one thing to learn the facts about collapse. The facts are uncomfortable but clear. Acceptance is another matter. Acceptance is the psychological recognition that the worldview you lived inside no longer holds.

"Zillow, the country’s largest real estate listings site, has quietly removed a feature that showed the risks from extreme weather for more than one million home sale listings on its site." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Nothing surprises me anymore. We are a self-poisoning species, and apparently we like it that way. The real tragedy is that we are poisoning the rest of the planet and all of our fellow species, too.

Excellent article by Claire Poole of @forbes.com on the National Emergency Briefing. Perfectly encapsulates the key messages. Thanks Claire. #NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing www.forbes.com/sites/claire...

October 2025 was the warmest October on record for the #Arctic. Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the lowest on record for late November. My newest 'climate viz of the month' summarizes some of this latest data: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-... #ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz

“Our study shows that global warming causes and accelerates Day Zero Drought conditions worldwide. Even if we meet the 1.5°C target, hundreds of millions of people will still face unprecedented water shortages"

" #Climate change, Zorapas explains, hampers groundwater replenishment while extending irrigation seasons and increasing water demand due to rising temperatures. Over the past five years (2020–2024), rainfall has significantly decreased, particularly in southern and eastern regions" 2/2 #Greece 🇬🇷

It's Remembrance Day for Lost Species today, but few seem to mark it this year... Have we lost our ability to grieve, or tossed it away?

Oh look, it's that awkward part of collapse where peeps are still driven to extirpate the conditions of life in order to make a living. #collapse

The government's plans for carbon capture + hydrogen could consume 860mn litres of water a day - which may leave some parts of England without enough water to meet demand, even with additional reservoirs being built, report finds. Our latest article, out now: share.google/GiSGJ9xD2ES3...

Floods in #Indonesia, #Thailand and #SriLanka have left nearly 800 dead! #Collapse

"#Arctic at the lowest level ever for the date No coverage ...amazing" (Christopher Cartwright) #collapse

Carbon capture and storage has always been a smoke and mirrors cover for business as usual in the fight against climate breakdown Now something looks like stopping it in its tracks in the UK Climate breakdown 😊 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think we should assign agency: Fossil fuel companies have hidden behind the idea of future CCS as an excuse for business as usual. Governments have used CCS policy as a means of preventing / retiring coal power plants. Industrial emitters are supporting CCS clusters to enable emissions cuts.

Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #climatechange #deforestation #Africa

It's been quite something to see one of the world's leading climate scientists, James Hansen, being vilified the past years for presenting data showing the rapid acceleration of global and regional warming, associated with continued greenhouse gas emissions and rapid reduction of air pollution.

Before the fur trade, beavers…..not deer were the backbone of many predator diets. Wolves following beavers is not an anomaly; it’s a glimpse of what North America looked like before we trapped its keystone species out of existence. queticosuperior.org/wolves-track...

Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 30, 2025 ~ Hot! "suddenly the Southern Ocean belches its accumulated heat, leading to a rate of planetary warming similar to what humanity is causing right now... the thermal burping would continue for at least a century." www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

"Alberta’s press release promises to deliver the 'cleanest heavy oil on the planet,' which is like calling menthol cigarettes the best way to get lung cancer." 🌎 🌡️ 🛢️ 🐋 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/a...

We endanger other species at our peril. From 1992-2007, the number of vultures in India plummeted from ~4 million to 32,000. Dogs feasted on dead cattle no longer consumed by vultures, leading to an increase of ~5.5 million dogs, ~38 million more dog bites, and >47,000 extra deaths from rabies.

A recent paper concluded that the loss of vultures increased human deaths by >4% because of the large negative shock to sanitation. What happened? Painkillers used to treat cattle were toxic to vultures + deliberate poisonings. What's being done: wapo.st/3XUWoma (gift). 🌎 #birds

Living in gratitude is more important than ever these days. I try to treasure and embrace each and every day that a Government official doesn’t announce “release the robot dogs.”

New study finds Pacific Northwest birds are becoming more common in the mountains as the climate warms ->The Conversation | #climate #bird | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Climate scientist @kevinclimate.bsky.social says “we need to eliminate fossil fuels”. Societal and ecological collapse at 3-4C warming. For <2C, the UK has 7 years of current CO2 emissions. Drax and CCS are delay tech. Heat pumps, good public transport, and deep cuts of aviation are essential.

Professor Kevin Anderson delivers some granite hard truths @kevinclimate.bsky.social "We need profound shifts in our social norms. It is too late for non-radical solutions. The UK is emitting far more than its fair share of greenhouse gases. We need deep cuts in energy use."

Good news! NYC Comptroller Brad Lander ”is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing to tackle global warming.” 1/x

Our public lands are enormously popular with Americans--and to date we've been fairly successful in preventing development on and sale of those lands. So Trump and minions have another idea: cut staffing and funding for national parks and other public lands: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/c... (gift). 🌎

When those lands start to look neglected, it's all the excuse needed to sell them to the private sector. Please call your senator and representatives and demand that they fully fund our public lands and pay the staff, including back pay. How to contact and sample script in alt text. Thank you! 🌎

I’m in rural Brasil. There’s inevitable expansion happening here. I see the clearings. We are stuck in an inevitable system of destruction and overshoot.

THE HALL OF INFAMY: A Global Century of Environmental Supervillains A century of leaders who liquidated the living world--and left us the bill. by Lyle Lewis open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...

The modern villain doesn’t clear-cut a forest; they approve a permit. They don’t burn wetlands, they subsidize the companies that do. They don’t deny the consequences outright. They deny them by minimizing them, recasting them as overblown, or insisting technology will solve them “later.”

Oh cool, a public enemies list. Not at all chilling.

#ResistanceEarth Climate change is making plastic pollution worse. Hotter temperatures, higher humidity and stronger ultraviolet radiation speed the breakdown of larger items into microplastics. Storms and floods grind it down further and carry it to watersheds. www.earth.com/news/how-cli...

Porcelain crabs have a symbiotic relationship with stinging-celled anemones. They find refuge from predators while grooming their host. My Portfolio: portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #crab #photography

The COPs in a nutshell

“For global warming, organisms can migrate towards the poles if they’re really lucky, but ocean acidification is everywhere. It’s absolutely pervasive and totally underreported. The sea is already 30 per cent more acidic than it was in pre-industrial times.” www.smh.com.au/environment/...

The extent of global sea ice cover is more than 3 million square kilometers below the 1981-2010 average. This is the 2nd lowest on record for this date over the satellite-era. Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

Surely everyone can agree that slamming into a wall at speed is never a great idea.

Every era celebrates its conservation heroes. Far fewer remember the destroyers. My new piece, The Hall of Infamy, traces a century of leaders, industries, and institutions that liquidated the living world — and left us the bill. From Hetch Hetchy to the Amazon… open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...