GIVE 📢 THE 📢 POKEMON 📢 PREDATION 📢 DYNAMICS 📢 I want to see the bellsprout populations crash if we don't commit to catching enough weedles

“Two women from the indigenous Jahai people are re-writing centuries of gender norms to save one of Earth’s most endangered big cats.” 🌎 www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/w...

Good news! Thrilling news! Keep a lookout... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The closure of the Strait has triggered the biggest oil supply disruption history, according to an analysis by consulting firm Rapidan Energy. About 20% of the world’s oil consumption is exported through the Strait... www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/c...

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

You might have a love-hate relationship with daylight saving time, but research shows that urban wildlife may stand to benefit

Yurok Tribe leading the way on #wildlife recovery.. #🦊#🌎

Black Death Research Reveals People & Nature Thrive Together 🌍 theconversation.com/the-black-de... paper > doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas 🌎🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster, especially in areas with intensive agriculture...Overall drops in bird population, measured from 1987 to 2021, were sharpest in warm and warming areas, suggesting that climate change may play a role." Gift link

Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are. By @borenbears.bsky.social & Annika Hammerschlag @apnews.com apnews.com/article/sea-...

“In Brazil alone, the Amazon rainforest generates rainfall worth approximately $20 billion dollars per year if it went to agricultural activities” 🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/02/rain...

ESG and climate data has moved from being an 'optional add-on' to a 'core component' of investment workflows, a new report by Morningstar Sustainalytics has found. 📈 #sustainability sustainabilityonline.net/news/esg-and...

It’s #worldwildlifeday and here’s a photo I took of one of the last two northern white rhinoceros, living in protection at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. 🦏 🇰🇪 🌎

The same week our study about non-forest ecosystem loss came out, here's another new study looking at what foods are being grown or produced in areas deforested between 2001-2022 with a good article by @benjij.bsky.social:

Amid a solar boom last year, China saw its emissions drop, even as demand for energy rose.

Very little snow across the West during a winter that has brought record warmth Sierra Nevada: 66% of avg Upper Colorado River region: 66% Oregon: 34% "Projections show that our winters are going to look a lot more like this in the future." www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org

On Feb. 12, the Environmental Protection Agency rescinded its 2009 endangerment finding. That finding was the legal basis for the government’s regulation of greenhouse gases to protect public health and the environment. We talk with Andy Miller, an author on the endangerment finding.

The new IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment underscores the importance and urgency of aligned finance, ambitious public policy and credible markets for nature-based outcomes. Read the report here: ipbes.canto.de/pdfviewer/vi... #NatureBasedSolutions #Biodiversity

“We were missing closer attention to the communities living in these sustainable-use conservation units” 🌎 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Important new @worldresources.bsky.social research shows that agricultural expansion isn’t only leading to forest loss - it’s leading to loss of grasslands, savannas, & wetlands too. From 2005-20, the 🌎 lost 95 Mha of non-forest natural ecosystems to annual crops, and another 95 Mha to pasture. 1/

How Recent Conservation Wins Proved Nature Can Bounce Back

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In the Northeast, snow lovers are celebrating benchmarks not seen since the 1980s,” Porter Fox writes in a guest essay. For the planet, this is “a rare moment when one of its most vital climate systems functions as it should.”

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

“As extreme weather events become more intense, more frequent and more difficult to predict, insurers face much more risk, and respond by raising premiums, restricting coverage or exiting markets altogether.” 🌎 www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The impasse among the states is pushing Glen Canyon Dam closer to the brink. "Aridification is rendering the dam obsolete, at least as a water storage savings account," @landdesk.bsky.social writes: www.landdesk.org/p/the-colora...

What makes all this coverage mildly frustrating is... look, if I drove to my job five times a week, I would be paying between $20 and $30 in gas. That's between $1000 and $1500 a year. If I keep my car ten years, that's $10k to $15k. You make up the cost on the back end!

Lagos generates nearly 5.5 million metric tons of waste each year, yet the formal system handles less than half. About 40% is recyclable, and firms like Pakam Technology Limited are racing to recover the 6,000 tons discarded daily. But weak enforcement still hampers progress.

The Tennessee Valley Authority just voted to keep two coal plants open that were scheduled to close. It also dropped renewable energy as a priority. Trump appointees now control the board.

The Energy Secretary ordered the coal plant to stay open, approaching a year after it was scheduled to be shut down. The question remains: who's paying for it - West Michigan utility customers or the whole region? In Michigan, Trump’s coal plant orders have a $42 million price tag #EnergySky

I spent time on Lake Powell about 20 years ago and though it is (was) a massive lake, the rings of past water levels were already way above the waterline.

“habitat protections and anti-poaching efforts have allowed tigers to triumphantly return, and today there are 70-80 of them” 🌎 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

“A new analysis finds that some 44% of Los Angeles County’s 312,000 acres of pavement may not be essential for roads, sidewalks or parking, and could be reconsidered.” 🌎 www.latimes.com/environment/...

Baby dugong sighting! A rare wildlife sighting of a calf swimming alongside its parents in Indonesia's central Alor archipelago. Its presence indicates the success of several decades of community-led conservation efforts in these waters to protect and expand seagrass meadows.

Did you know that biodiversity loss is one of the biggest threats to businesses? The @ipbes.net #BizBiodiversity report urges companies to act now to safeguard nature and their own futures. Learn more with @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

It's still a shock to find a new PFAS forever chemical hotspot, even when it's inevitable. A bit of digging around paper mills, which often use PFAS, revealed the banned carcinogen PFOS at levels as high as 3,000ng/l in groundwater in south Cumbria www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A highly-sensitive ‘electronic nose’ measures methane where it matters most: On the cow. Most existing sensors struggle to isolate methane in the very noisy chemical landscape of a cattle farm. This new invention may change that. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/?p=239869

Want an easy thing to do at home that saves money and energy? Wash your laundry in cold water.

☺️🌍 The fight against climate change is often framed as a sacrifice, Jade Radke's study finds presenting environmental action in a proactive light makes people more likely to act. "Clear, actionable alternatives make it easier for people to engage," Radke explains. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

The hot, dry, windy conditions that gave rise to fires in Patagonia last month were made three times more likely by warming, an analysis found. via @theguardian.com

The Mojave Desert isn’t barren—it’s alive. 🌱 A rare plant, the threecorner milkvetch, jumped from 12 plants to 93 after a Nevada solar project used a gentler construction method that protected desert seed banks. Newest collab with @grist.org #SolarEnergy #Biodiversity #Ecovoltaics

The EPA is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes’ future

My latest dispatch from Planet Ficus: A reader’s childhood memory led me to an unexpected link between folklore, Indigenous naming practices and a microscopic enigma.🧪🌏 planetficus.substack.com/p/mysterious...

“From Dec. 1 last year to Jan. 15, temperatures were up to 15 degrees above normal in the Rockies, the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada. Colorado is having its warmest winter since 1895.” 🌎 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/s...

As near-freezing temperatures reached southern Florida, cold-stunned iguanas dropped from the trees, unable to handle the chill. See the images: theatln.tc/ULeQ3WgV

Berkshire Hathaway's PacifiCorp is asking an appeals court to throw out a 2023 jury verdict in a wildfire class-action case that has exposed the company to billions of dollars in losses.

Household rat poisons found to be ‘unacceptable risk’ to native animals. So why aren’t they banned? 🌎 theconversation.com/household-ra...