Thank you to @erikhoffner.bsky.social for this special feature in @mongabay.com 👇 #AMOC

As of today this award-winning novel is now available in the US via @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791895... Highly recommend this powerful, historically-based read about #Indigenous Sámi displaced by a hydropower dam via a dubious claim that ‘reindeer herders can live anywhere'

An investigation by Al Jazeera has identified 40 distinct Israeli military outposts entrenched within Gaza.

As of today this award-winning novel is now available in the US via @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791895... Highly recommend this powerful, historically-based read about #Indigenous Sámi displaced by a hydropower dam via a dubious claim that ‘reindeer herders can live anywhere'

A new @mongabay.com investigation looks at the risks of oil drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River and what an oil spill could mean for a unique population of hybrid manatees found nowhere else on Earth. @alexdesanti.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2026/06/amaz...

"The potential outcomes could be even more severe than projected." PML's Prof Helen Findlay writes for Monagbay explaining why uncertainty about #AMOC collapse - which is shifting due to #ClimateChange is not a reason to wait - it’s a reason to act. 🔗 news.mongabay.com/2026/06/unce...

Congratulations to this year's #FoodPlanetPrize winner, Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming in India! foodplanetprize.org/initiatives/...

From the annals of self promotion. Yesterday, Kirkus Reviews published their *Starred Review* of The Earth Said Remember Me. "An urgent manifesto about what it takes to hold onto memories of a livelier world ... his greatest tool against forgetting is language. Mark doesn't hold back."

Amazing work by @peopleprimate.bsky.social member Jo Leen

Heads-up Maine, NH & VT: feds may move to open up areas to mining Appalachian #lithium deposits are claimed by a new USGS report at 300+ years of import supply Much of that's in Maine but as @livescience.com reports it's toxic & can harm habitat & #biodiversity: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Musk’s plan to launch a million AI data center satellites could trigger financial collapse, sending #SpaceX into a high-speed nosedive, experts tell Forbes “Launching a million satellite orbital data center constellation is fantasy.” So financial mismanagement may forestall Kessler Syndrome:

Cash for pregnant moms led to good outcomes all around in first-of-its-kind program in Michigan!

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

The business case for #DeepSeaMining is sinking faster than machine to the abyss 🌊📉 Interesting piece out on @mongabay.com by @more-whit.bsky.social. Maybe don’t bulldoze one of Earth’s least understood ecosystems for speculative profits.🐙 The rush was never inevitable. #KeepItInTheSeabed

God he’s really going to turn one of the US’ most elegant cities into his gold plated toilet.

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

"When I’m out on my boat with my sons, . . . it feels like home. " Ellie Kinley of the Lummi Nation has devoted her life to protecting and honoring the abundance of the Salish Sea.

A new data center constructed by Meta in Georgia is allegedly turning the drinking water for nearby residents brown, forcing people to drink bottled water At a recent hearing @aoc.bsky.social shared that #datacenters are also affecting appliances & water pressure @h2oradio.bsky.social reports:

Indigenous leadeers fear international #ayahuasca trade will outpace its capacity for regeneration, via @mongabay.com's Brazil bureau “What we see today is people wanting to turn this knowledge into a product,” says one leader “If you say you have spirituality, you need to take care of the earth.”

Today at @mongabay.com I edited the iconic Yvon Chouinard of @patagonia.com fame He's a fierce defender of wild fish & aims his sharp pen at #aquaculture often and #Iceland in particular, lately 65% of Icelanders agree w/ him in opposing salmon farming which a new bill would allow to expand:

NASA has shared new maps showing how light pollution has changed between 2014 and 2022, improvements in purple: “LEDs and energy conservation measures coincided with reduced light pollution in Paris and throughout France (a 33% dimming), the U.K. (22% dimming), and the Netherlands (21% dimming).”

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.

Morels are metal but in b&w they’re goth too, found a troop of these among our ash trees Been a good season w/ friends reporting harvests of these quasi-symbiotic, semi-detritivore gnome stools across our region Full photo set here at Insta: www.instagram.com/erikhoffner #fungi #mushroomhunting

Another interesting result from long term ecological research (LTER) via @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Have also heard birds on my 7 acres using songs to allocate breeding territories among species, they seem to divvy up the sonic territory, too, by letting each other sing while waiting their turn

My 13th (😱) #ConfettiWesterns column explores the queer horror of an unseasonal bloom. This Southwestern gothic has everything: supernatural plants, a chronically ill narrator, a generational curse called climate change…there’s even a lurking vampire. www.hcn.org/issues/58-5/...

‘While some cling to the promise of an AI “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied.’ fortune.com/2026/05/22/m...

Modern conservation treats #biodiversity as a concept but the truth is that for much of our history, it was not an abstraction but was immediate, sacred & embedded in life As an admirer of ancient rock art since living in New Mexico, I enjoyed editing and publishing this new @mongabay.com analysis:

‘We need to see something different or we’re going to go down a very, very dark path’: Dallas Goldtooth speaks about the current political climate in the United States on the latest Face to Face. Watch: youtu.be/1hAh2q8v_E0

Bowhead Whale Mother and Calf Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq n.d.

Literary sleuths have found that Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove” is (probably) an AI generated text. lithub.com/a-prize-winn...

The @thirdactorg.bsky.social convenes monthly calls on #datacenters re: legal, corporate, political & narrative resistance On Monday: Michael Richardson w/ @thirdactupstateny.bsky.social & others linked w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social will discuss recent tactical wins: thirdact.org/events/fight...

This big beautiful bug bonked into my parked car & expired 😞 Vertical diving beetles are up to 4-5cm long like this, are major predators in ponds Their larvae get even longer & super predatory, called "water tigers" they are big enough to eat tadpoles but they also max a lot of mosquito larvae

"If the FAA even hinted it might approve the lift-off of a million-strong #SpaceX mega-constellation “I would expect immediate and very strong objections from satellite operators, astronomers, insurers, national space agencies, defense organizations, and foreign governments.”

“In the spring, some wild animals consume buds, fermented fruits, or decaying vegetation — and may exhibit completely unpredictable behavior.” - French law enforcement Also some victim blaming: "tipsy animals can quickly cause collisions if humans are not vigilant"

I would like a personal apology from every man who called the station or emailed me personally to gripe about my voice during my time on public radio but never did the same to Ira Glass.

In the 'wild west' that is the virtually unregulated space industry, these chaps have the right moniker at least "Earth's energy grid can't run at the pace of AI. We can," Cowboy officials said All so their self-dubbed satellite "stampede" can produce AI slop & obliterate ground based #astronomy

At world’s largest shark conference, scientists warn of a grim outlook across the board

In Benin, the Zangbéto deity protects mangroves through a spiritual ban on woodcutting. This practice has saved 500+ hectares over a decade. As climate bodies embrace Indigenous knowledge, journalist Jahëna Louisin explores how Vodun safeguards nature for 60 million people. 👉️ mongabay.cc/meBX32

Even for kids who do have access to nature, the lure of electronic devices is pulling them back indoors. Nature is calling, but our kids are wearing noise-canceling headphones.

Glad to say @mongabay.com is a finalist for a #podcast award for this episode on how outdoor adventure can boost #conservation “We harness the collective power of the tens of thousands of people that are outside every day to benefit conservation.” Listen here: news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025...

#Colorado residents can now have plug-in #solar systems (which are illegal in most states) to generate #power and lower #electricity bills even if they live in an apartment or condo. H2O Radio's latest: h2oradio.org/this-week-in...

Everyone who participates in online discourse would benefit from knowing that authors/journalists don’t control the titles or graphics of their pieces in newspapers and magazines.

Jack in the pulpit in woods below the house 2 weeks from spikes to spadixes in these pics Jacks are pollinated by fungus gnats, which find their way under the overlapping ‘pulpit’ — they’re weak flyers, so the flowers accommodate them with an exit hole at the base Evolution is amazing 🤩

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

EXCLUSIVE for @mongabay.com: Brazilian federal police seized devices from the famous bird expert Tony Silva in a wildlife trafficking probe tied to India’s Vantara zoo, a source told Mongabay. The seizure took place last Friday at the Congonhas Airport, in São Paulo.

Because a lot of the exotic ant sellers (yes, ant smuggling is a thing) like to exaggerate size of the ant species on their websites, I'm finding that Google Gemini tends to give overly large answers for the sizes of various ant species.

Reintroduction success: Our India bureau @mongabayindia.bsky.social reports the nation's very rare swamp deer population translocated to Satpura Tiger Reserve has grown from 98 to 172 individuals Habitat restoration, predator-proof acclimatization enclosures & long-term monitoring did the trick:

Clear weather last night brought many migrating #birds flying by moon & stars to my land Scarlet tanagers, chestnut sided warblers & yellowthroats new among the choir, check your forecast here birdcast.org/migration-to... Building owners, pls turn night lights off to avoid collisions w/ glass! 🐦‍⬛

This OG of natural wonder is nearly 100! 🐦‍⬛ 🐠 🐊 Over time as #climate, #biodiversity loss & habitat destruction became harder to ignore, his message has become more direct: Understanding nature is not just a matter of curiosity; it is the beginning of responsibility @mongabay.com's founder reports: