Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published OTD in 1962. “[W]e have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM

“The high seas are the world’s largest crime scene — they’re unmanaged, unenforced, and a regulatory legal structure is absolutely necessary” 🌎 apnews.com/article/high...

Ski resorts have been ringing alarm bells on this for decades.

"The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities.., each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: the projects aren’t designed for cars." #transportation #GasGuzzlers www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Addressing the connection between animal biodiversity declines and the carbon stored in our ecosystems can help to make smarter decisions about aligning responses to the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis. 🌐🌏 via @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/09/anim...

Soaking up the storm: Sponge cities and the future of flood-resilient Southeast Asia The climate crisis is causing increased extreme weather events in Southeast Asia. Could “sponge cities,” a city planning method engineered by Chinese architect, Yu Kongjian, help them weather the storm?

“A high-quality program needs to ensure that inclusive participation mechanisms are in place from the earliest stages of design and that community governance structures are involved in overall decision-making” 🌎 worldwildlife.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Walkable cities aren't just more convenient, enjoyable places to live but it seems that they are also good for your health. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Ever watched a scarlet macaw delicately work to get at a piece of fruit? These birds are more than just pretty; they're also important seed dispersers. Sometimes they even swallow fruit whole and plant new trees with their droppings! 🪶🌍🧪

It’s always worth reflecting on success.

“With increased state presence, local communities should finally have the opportunity to engage as allies in the management, restoration and sustainable development of Mesoamerica’s largest national park,” says WCS’s Gabriela Ponce. 🌎 news.mongabay.com/2025/09/guat...

Nuclear power is in a hole. To get out, this start-up kept digging. They’re betting that they can take the cost out of nuclear power—and solve it’s waste problem — by putting small reactors a mile underground. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/nucl...

Octopus taste with their suckers? Cool! As an evolutionary biologist, I find this week's show to be full of segments that I really enjoy. Tune in 7-9 p.m. GMT, 1-3 p.m. CT, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. PT or subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

Amid the biodiversity crisis, stories of resilience and recovery offer hope. From monarch butterflies migrating to the reintroduction of species such as the Arabian oryx, nature's recovery inspires. 🦋 #ConservationOptimism 🌏🧪 Discover more with @theguardian.com 

Welcoming news from #DefraGovUK today. 👏 Almost all of the UK's peatlands are degraded. Protecting our uplands is a great first step for storing carbon, restoring nature, and reducing flood risk. 💧 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“Sargassum. The smelly, brown seaweed can put a damper on a day at the beach at best and hinder baby turtles on their way to the ocean at worst.” #scicomm #sensoryecology www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪 🐢 🐍

“We produce five times as much power as we consume” 🌎 www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

Spirit Halloween has better public transportation options than Columbus

This Alien: Earth marketing campaign is getting out of hand. www.sciencealert.com/ant-queens-p...

Human-driven climate change is fueling the West’s historic megadrought. 🌵 CU Boulder research shows Pacific Ocean shifts could keep the dry spell going for decades. https://bit.ly/47qPsU4

Scientists May Have Identified a Culprit Behind Declining Amazon Rains www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

US tribes “want to see bison, a culturally important protein, on school lunch menus. Tribes have been reintroducing bison, or buffalo as they prefer to call the animals, to their lands for decades—the keystone species is helping bring back Indigenous prairie plants” 🌎 www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...

Bison do what bison do, and as a result along their trails in Yellowstone we see improved soils, improved grassland nutrition and increases in plant biodiversity too 🌍 #EcosystemEngineers #LargeFauna #YellowstonePark #NitrogenCycle www.earth.com/news/bison-g...

Researchers tried in vain to restore an ecosystem ravaged by wildfire. After several attempts, the team decided to enlist the help of some of the most skilled construction workers of the animal kingdom: beavers. 🌎

The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry. https://to.pbs.org/45HtATc

Skilled heritage trade training is being closed down just as climate change calls for more restoration of existing buildings rather than demolition, and AI means young people are once again interested in trades it can't replace, says @lloydalter.bsky.social lloydalter.substack.com/p/why-traini...

✨Resplendent Quetzal✨ So lucky to see one of these magical birds the other day. But did you know that their feathers aren't actually green? They actually look green because of how they bend light. There’s no green pigment at all, and they can even look brown under different lighting. 🪶🧪🌍

Shell of a win for leatherback turtles 🎉 As a result of a petition filed by conservation groups, the USFWS has announced that nesting habitat for leatherback sea turtles in Puerto Rico may warrant protection as designated critical habitat under the ESA. Learn more ➡️ biodiv.us/4lK5gof

Reminder that this has always been concern trolling in the interest of fossil fuels - if they actually cared about whales, they would focus on vessel strikes (including those from oil tankers) and fishing gear entanglement, not to mention climate change.

It's Tuesday! Let's go for a virtual hike on the prairie together; discover "A Dragonfly Migration Celebration" tuesdaysinthetallgrass.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/a... #odonata #dragonflies #migration #nature #naturewriting #insects

What a great way to put it: 25,000 miles/acre/yr vs 700,000 miles/acre/yr

WWF Peru and HP Inc. have partnered to install canopy bridges that help wildlife move around the 202,000-hectare (500,000-acre) forest. 🌎 www.iflscience.com/watch-canopy...

SMART is a set of easy-to-use tools—including mobile apps, cloud-based systems, and artificial intelligence—that helps rangers, Indigenous peoples, local communities, and volunteers collect, view, analyze, and share data for informed decision-making.

Congrats to Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize on this announcement to protect the Maya Forest. Cooperation is essential for the future of Mesoamerica’s largest forest. Will benefit the wildlife and the communities that depend on it. We are proud to support. 🌎 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Did you know that "ugly-cute" animals like vultures, sloths, and aye-ayes play key roles in ecosystems? From cleaning up carcasses to preventing disease spread & pollination, these misunderstood creatures are vital to #biodiversity.🌏🧪 Find out more:

Counterintuitive, and interesting: Even trees need seasonal cold stratification (like many seeds) to stay on a normal seasonal schedule. environment.yale.edu/news/article... 🧪🌿🌎🪶

U.S. cities are converting empty lots into forests of food-bearing trees and shrubs, providing residents with fresh, free food. In addition, the forests offer wildlife habitat and climate/environmental benefits: wapo.st/3HGTBsl (gift). 🌎

“We’ve been studying aboveground biodiversity and its functioning for things that we care about — like water retention, carbon sequestration, productivity — for five decades. But we’ve made very little progress doing the same thing with belowground biodiversity.” 🧪🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/s...

"Instead of one big fire year every 15 or 20 years, every year will be big in some part of the country. We really don’t know exactly how climate change is going to continue. It doesn’t drive things in linear ways." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“China now dominates the renewable energy landscape” and the rollbacks of subsidies in the US means we won’t be able to catch up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Energy Star program has saved Americans more than a half-trillion dollars in energy costs and has reduced climate pollution. Now the Trump administration wants to eliminate or privatize it. By @jeffbradynews.bsky.social

Warren Dunes State Park, MI

“Ford is pivoting toward slightly smaller, significantly cheaper EVs — and doing so right as the U.S. EV industry is facing significant headwinds, including the Trump administration's efforts to roll back policies that promote EVs and fight climate change in general.” www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...

www.capecod.com/newscenter/m... 🧪🌎🦑

Go check out our new post on the Methods Blog! Find out how a simple dust cloth might revolutionize airborne eDNA monitoring 🧬 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/BhIKcKq

"Trump officials aim to divert money meant for buying wilderness land. After a plan to sell public land faced bipartisan backlash, the Interior Dept appears to be making a bid to halt any expansion of federal public lands." 🌍 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

“Cleveland-Cliffs abandoned plans to make its Middletown steel plant more environmentally friendly, a project that would have been funded in part by a $500 million federal grant for clean energy projects.” www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

Chemical makers will pay New Jersey $875 million to settle claims linked to pollution from so-called forever chemicals.

Really cool Natural Resource Park at the Ohio State Fair. ODNR created an oasis of fresh air and fun activities like fishing, kayaking, etc. while introducing fairgoers to the great outdoors…inside an otherwise hot and crazy fairground. Any other state fairs do something similar?

Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org