Epic American wildlife is found in the U.S. East too 🦬 Elk are back after successful reintros & #rewilding plus bison & sandhill cranes -- moose, fisher & bear are also rebounding Today at @mongabay.com I interview the author of an inspiring new book "Beasts of the East" that chronicles all this:

Heard a popular & progressive podcast host talk about taking a "bufo" trip & how his guide said it was "humanely extracted" Incorrect ~ "milking" Sonoran desert toads stresses a wild species in decline, & hurts its habitat People can stop pressuring wild toads & use synthetic 5-MeO instead, please

Cabo Verde, Egypt, and Norway give their teams parades for champions. 🇨🇻 🇪🇬 🇳🇴 As one Norwegian put it: "It's nice to be a country that celebrates how far you've come. Not just where you finish." 🏆⚽️ When it concerns FIFA, that's not just a principle of self-love. It's pragmatic survival. 👀 🙃

"the American Astronomical Society said the endeavor cannot be considered to serve the public interest and would waste taxpayer $ by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife" Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

Reviews are in. Everyone LOVES White Phosphorous. theonion.info

New underwater photo session captured unfurling water lily #flowers & new leaves in states of splendor Water lilies only send green chlorophyll to leaves when they reach the surface, so underwater it’s an autumnal landscape of stunning reds & oranges Full set here: www.instagram.com/erikhoffner

Mayor Wu, backed by Boston's wealthy business owners, has decided people should die so drivers can be fast & reckless The Globe editorial board has treated this as a tough but understandable move by Mayor Wu, because they see the wealthy business owners as their peers, not the people being killed

Adorable animal emblem of Western Australia, the numbat (or banded anteater) is recovering after decades of #conservation efforts, @mongabay.com reports “The ‘downlisting’ of the numbat on the IUCN Red List from Endangered to Near Threatened is what we have been working for over the last 40 years!”

A rare bacteria found in water has been traced to a new AI #datacenter under construction for Meta in Wyoming “Meta is committed to being a good neighbor in Cheyenne, including through the protection of local water resources…” Public water supplies were contaminated with Cupriavidus gilardii

Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content, Reece Rogers reports for @wired.com ~ www.wired.com/story/meta-n... As a photographer & journalist, I see inappropriate uses of my work often enough, but it's extra rude when driven by a platform

Grew edible chicken of the woods #mushrooms in 2025 by shoving bits of ones I'd foraged elsewhere into a slowly dying red oak's bark for a couple years Now a new clump appeared this week (pic 2) 🥂 😍 Also works w/ chanterelles, just stuff stem ends & gills into soil under trees they're symbiotic w/

Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content, Reece Rogers reports for @wired.com ~ www.wired.com/story/meta-n... As a photographer & journalist, I see inappropriate uses of my work often enough, but it's extra rude when driven by a platform

10 #seaturtles were released last night on Cape Cod 🥂 6 Kemp's ridleys, 2 loggerheads & 2 greens rehabbed from injuries & equipped w/ satellite and acoustic tags hit the waves to cheers from the crowd 💥 See more coverage of these species via @mongabay.com here, news.mongabay.com?s=sea%20turt...

"Experts are calling on U.S. authorities to conduct a full environmental assessment of the practice of burning up satellites. Instead, the U.S. appears to be moving in the opposite direction and plans to exempt #Starlink and other large satellite constellations from such review." 🤔

Weds night in London @mongabay.com's podcast is up for a new 🏆 @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social & I are finalists for a Publisher Podcast Award We're nominated in the "best science" category for this ep featuring the founder of an NGO that gives outdoor adventurers conservation data collection missions:

Loon on a floating nest with a patch of grass, caged against eagles or to provide shade Water level in this reservoir fluctuates & these #birds don’t move well on land so biologists build these to prevent failed nesting attempts Hot day, she’s not singing in this picture but panting to stay cool

Romelu Lukaku and Belgium danced like U.S. President Donald Trump after the fourth goal in the 4-1 win over the USMNT. Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino and asked him to review Flo Balogun's suspension, telling reporters Monday he "didn't say that you have to" lift it.

Iranian security forces have rearrested conservationists Houman Jowkar and Sepideh Kashani. The Asiatic cheetah experts previously served 6 years on widely condemned espionage charges linked to using wildlife camera traps. @wcs.org expressed “profound concern and alarm” over the detentions.

Did you know? In the Victorian era, one of the first female mycologists transformed the study of mushrooms into a respected science. Anna Maria Hussey was a naturalist whose passion for fungi led her to become the first British woman to publish a work devoted to mycology. #Victorian #history

New research calculates how large satellite constellations — like the awful #spacex plan for a million+ more — could affect #darksky & #astronomy by increasing sky brightness "The worst impacts can only be avoided by limiting the total number of satellites, existing and future, to around 100,000…"

"They have shown courage, togetherness, unity and unwavering belief in what they are and what they can do. The story of this tournament is Cape Verde. That is what you want to see in a football side." #CapeVerde #CaboVerde #WorldCup www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Great #restoration success: Whippoorwills are increasingly rare & prefer barrens habitats Mass biologists used fire & saws to restore such an area that was overgrown by red maple & it’s now 1 of the northeast’s main breeding areas for these #birds who sing on full moon eves like on Monday, listen:

🌱 New global restoration standards (3rd edition) shift the goal from "avoid harm" to "create uplift" for biodiversity. Key addition: a refined Five-star System measuring both ecological AND social success — plus a stronger business case for investment. My latest for @Mongabay.com

Fun fact: the vast majority of all carbon re-captured by CCS is used to dislodge more oil from nearly-depleted oil fields thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Ahead of the historic #CaboVerde match against Argentina on Friday during the #worldcup, consider this good news story: “I ate turtle meat and never realized I could make a living for conserving them,” a ranger for Turtle Foundation told @mongabay.com about the 4 species of #seaturtles found there:

As a nominator for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award, I'm glad to share my pick for this year: Zuzana Buřivalová is a #bioacoustics genius at U of Wisconsin: www.ioes.ucla.edu/person/zuzan... She's also a former colleague, as science chief for this series we did at @mongabay.com:

New by me —> Now we're getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news! How a fake news site splits its energy between (a) the imagined closure of real US newspapers and (b) Chinese-friendly takes on Taiwan www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-...

A mobula ray leaps clean over a hammerhead shark in the wild. Scientists still debate why rays jump, but the timing here is nearly impossible to replicate.

A new harvesting method allows an undisclosed Amazon plant to provide production of ibogaine, a psychedelic compound known for its largely unregulated and understudied properties in helping chemical addiction. Jenny Gonzales on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/06/secr...

I read this morning that Palantir stock spiked in value, which may have been auto-trading bots reading this headline and believing it to be real. We truly are in the dumbest timeline.

Best ad in a recent print edition of @theonion.com This product hits the market too late to help millions of hikers across the Austro Pacific but when in the territory of a cassowary, be wary and carry a can:

Last Sept a landmark study found that about half of the increased intensity of heat waves can be traced to the Carbon Majors And in the wake of Europe’s blistering heat wave, climate advocates are once again demanding accountability for the fossil fuel industry www.oneearthnow.org/p/climate-cr...

Always special when these giant silk moths visit Luna moths lack mouths since they only live 7 to 10 days, seems a shame for such a work of art to be so ephemeral

Wildlife shapes how ecosystems store carbon yet this is seldom considered in #climatechange policy negotiations A new initiative led by scientists seeks to bring animals into the conversation, so I solicited an op-ed for @mongabay.com by one of the drafters of the Wildlife and Climate Consensus:

Otter pup chirps anxiously for mom as family rests, pups make bird-like chirps when hungry, cold, or separated like this—turn the sound up to hear the cuteness and then peaceful quiet of the reunion 🦦 #trailcamera I put in this magic spot also showed a bear family & a duckling troop recently:

Good piece in the Globe about this ongoing debate by @brookehaus.bsky.social This state's many deer hunters & wildlife trackers like me would have proof via our trail cameras, as her source says: "If there were mountain lions here, there would be footage of them from the countless trail cameras."

Dutch-Lebanese conservationist killed by Israel strike Mona Khalil died after being wounded when her home at Mansouri beach in southern Lebanon was hit For 25+ years she protected endangered loggerhead & green #seaturtles that nested on this narrow stretch of coast near Tyre:

Groundbreaking reporting: How a multi-billion-dollar mitigation banking effort is helping save nature. "What nature does is worth money. It is valuable...And it’s going to become more and more valuable as ecological function becomes more scarce.” baynature.org/magazine/sum... @schapiro @BayNature

If you've seen the Juneteenth flag, but don't know its history or what it means, you can read about it in the words of Ben Haith, the man who designed it. Happy Emancipation Day! ✊🏽 #Juneteenth capitalbnews.org/juneteenth-f...

"The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean-monitoring system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, bowing to a bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill."

In a global milestone, Peru’s Satipo and Nauta-Loreto regions have recognized native stingless bees as rights-bearing entities. Backed by a 2025 national law, the framework allows legal action to shield critical pollinators from deforestation and pesticides. Liz Kimbrough reports for #Mongabay.

New op-ed for @mongabay.com by the Minister of Fisheries in Angola I just edited & published argues that African leaders at Our Oceans Conference this week must take action for krill #ooc11 "Please join me in calling for an end to krill fishing now," she writes, to protect #whales, people & more:

Spanish MEP Irene Montero sparked controversy in the European Parliament after singing “Happy Birthday” to US President Donald Trump, replacing the words “Mr. President” with “Mr. Genocide” during a debate on the Middle East.

The G7 didn’t print “climate change” anywhere in its Evian declarations. But climate security is in there if you squint — resilience, food security, energy diversification. New post (1/x):

"With hate crimes exploding in the last couple of years, Canada’s Senate has passed a bill that would criminalize more Nazis symbols, the noose & make it illegal to block people from attending places of worship. An amendment for Indigenous hatred was rejected before the final bill was approved." 😑

“We search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture [so] community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.” Happy birthday to Wes Jackson, the sustainable ag pioneer turns 90 on June 15

Looking forward to watching how much musk hates answering to his shareholders

Worse than I thought. I saw Kushner’s Albania resort up close — it is an environmental disaster. The damage at Vjosa-Narta is not fake news. Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

When languages go extinct, so does the ecological knowledge they contain. therevelator.org/extinction-l...