“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

By 2025, 9.6% of the ocean is covered by marine protected areas, but only 3.2% are highly or fully protected—raising concerns about “paper parks” that allow harmful activities.

Always follow the money.

New Year’s nurse shark starts the year swimming through clear blue winter water. Let’s hope 2026 brings many more clear water days in the months ahead! 💙🩺🦈💙 #nurseshark #sharksofcoralcity #shark #newyearsday #clearwater #bluewater #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

A recent study by Dutch colleagues shows that a shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries. That is a thus far underappreciated risk of climate change. @swinda.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) can grow to more than 450 kg (1,000 lb) and live for over 65 years 📹Pelagic Ventures Scuba

Sprat are small members of the herring family, and are the basis of whole marine ecosystems. Yet they're being hoovered up by pair-trawlers to feed fish farms. Please sign our petition calling for a pause on sprat trawling until we have more data. Thank you! www.change.org/p/save-our-m...

Today, the DOJ sued Colorado for access to its complete voter roll. This marks the 15th state sued over private voter info, 13 of which are led by Democrats. My colleague @ariberman.bsky.social and I published a big piece last week about why this should scare you. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Former oil and gas workers in Texas are now fighting to make the industry plug old empty wells, which are exhaling methane and vomiting toxic water (from fracking miles away) all over the state. Eye-opening story by @mollytaft.com www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Damn good journalism. Welfare ranching is the Walmart of public lands. Wealthy ranch owners graze our public lands for pennies at the taxpayer’s dime while destroying wildlife & wild places. They’re trying to take even more & hope we won’t notice. @highcountrynews.org www.hcn.org/issues/57-12...

WCS Celebrates Historic and Sweeping Trade Protections for Sharks and Rays Adopted at CITES CoP20 > Newsroom | All CITES shark and ray proposals pass – marking the most comprehensive advance in global shark conservation in CITES history.

The Trumpetfish is such a ridiculous looking creature, they always make me smile. They are masters of color change as well, shading from brown, reddish, orange, and bright yellow. They often drift head-down like this, especially when hanging out in clumps of soft coral. 🦑 #scuba #diving #oceans

As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN And they are all Trump supporters "Liberal media" indeed

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

The more things change…the more things stay the same…sigh…

First study of its kind finds deep-sea mining waste threatens life and foodwebs in the ocean's dim 'twilight zone' phys.org/news/2025-11...

Whoo hoo! Colorado stepping up!

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests. Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet. share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...

Great piece about how things bubble below the surface… Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

“The math doesn’t work. The morality doesn’t either.” Sums it up pretty good… www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...

WATCH LIVE: Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is holding the floor of the Senate to denounce authoritarianism.

#BREAKING: New estimates reveal that the North Atlantic Right Whale population has increased – proving their resilience. With just 384 remaining, we can’t let Congress threaten one of the only laws protecting them. Speak up: oceana.ly/4nYyxNP

45 major meat & dairy corporations generated more than 1bn tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions eq Largest 5 emitters analysed - JBS, Marfrig, Tyson, Minerva, and Cargill - together produced 480 mn tonnes, surpassing emissions reported for Chevron, Shell, or BP www.businessgreen.com/news/4520605...

Baby orca mini breach! 🦑

Lots of good suggestions for settling into a good book for cozy season…

The oceans just hit an ominous milestone. A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries. grist.org/oceans/the-o... #Oceans #Climate #Heat #Earth #Environment #Greensky

Incredible rare footage captured by @greenpeace.org.nz of the damage done by bottom trawling - and the deep sea life that still remains to be protected. #nzpol

I want this + solar panels in all airport and sports stadia parking lots

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

Narrated by Jason Momoa and with an incredible amount of access to one mining company, this is a great documentary to get up to speed on the issue of deep-sea mining. And I'm not just saying that because I helped consult on it.

The United States is home to dozens of active mines. Some extract copper, while others dig for iron. Whatever the resource, however, it usually makes up a small fraction of the rock pulled from the ground. The rest is typically ignored. Wasted. From our friends at @grist.org:

Motherfucking wind farms…

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over the course of a month.

“Life…uuhhh…finds a way…”

"Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans." www.propublica.org/article/wate...

Water pals 😊

Our painstakingly researched report, Decades of Deceit, comprehensively documents how major fossil fuel companies have misled the public and prevented climate action. We created a timeline that shows a small selection of their actions. Explore it here:

Preliminary surface seawater CO₂ and temperature from the long-term mooring site, #GAKOA, in the northern Gulf of Alaska. 🧪🌊🦑 #MooringMonday #OceanAcidification

Public lands are home to nearly all our old-growth forests, rare species, hiking trails, iconic waterfalls & streams - and most of our drinking water. Under dangerous new rules/bills, most of our public lands could be plundered or sold by private entities. www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/environment/...

Have you'se guys seen the new News & Views article in @nature.com by @dohnemus.bsky.social ?! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy Worlds Oceans Day! 🌊This years theme is "Wonder: Sustaining what sustains us" Let’s save our seas!

Read the story behind our new study published yesterday in Nature, unfiltered straight from the scientists: 🌊 theconversation.com/unprecedente...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/