www.latimes.com/california/s... The Trump administration rolled back the Endangered Species Act on Friday, slashing protections to the habitats of endangered species and paving the way for more drilling and mining. 🧪🌎

On the Strait of Hormuz: “If it is also seen as an ecological corridor, another question enters the room: how much ecological capital is the region willing to risk while trying to protect its political and economic capital?” 🌎 news.mongabay.com/2026/07/can-...

Global warming got tired of being put on the back burner... www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“Today, with a few taps on a phone, Americans can buy a baby monkey on social media—no permits checked, no questions asked. Over a period of just six weeks, researchers identified more than 1,600 primates openly offered for sale online in the US.” 🌎 www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/...

I had the best luck briefly to observe mandrills in Gabon, W. Africa; they are magnificent. "Ape Action Africa's message is direct: Mandrills are not just visually striking animals but a species facing real danger, and that danger is us." #wildlife #monkey #primates #conservation #primatesarenotpets

As ocean temperatures rise, Australia’s critical seagrass ecosystems are facing severe pressure. These marine plants serve as essential carbon sinks and wildlife habitats, driving urgent new conservation efforts to restore coastal resilience against climate impacts. Sean Mowbray reports.

Let’s do the Ohio River next

America 250: David Muir on national parks and Native tribes that call them home. abcnews.com/US/america-2...

Skateboarding can help solve this. Make public plazas skateable and add skateparks to green space.

“Mangroves live in carbon-rich soil. Their complex root systems capture and accumulate sediment and organic matter, making them powerful carbon stores that often outperform tropical forests” 🌎 www.forbes.com/sites/jamieh...

There were 1300 excess deaths last week in Europe related to the heat dome. apnews.com/article/fran...

The climate friendly city is a bullseye. Urban planners have been asking the wrong question. It's not how dense a city is—it's how close. The sweet spot for shorter commutes and lower emissions, for many cities, forms a ring. https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/?p=241931

Tired: posting about meat and climate (deforestation! land use! methane!) Wired: posting about shrimp and climate (mangrove loss!) Inspired: posting about farmed bivalves (oysters, clams, mussels, scallops) and climate (no feed or freshwater required! improving water quality around them!)

NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

New, fun, one-minute learning, and celebration of American History #250to250 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team Narrated by Harrison Ford Civilian Conservation Corps #WeAreAmerica250 #NewDeal #CCC #PublicWorks #Hiking youtu.be/LL-M1LwHaZg?...

In the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the mountains have remained largely snowless. The source of the Colorado River is drying up. @rgauth999.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

Camera traps have revealed several monkey and other arboreal species using the bridges, including the Weddell’s saddle-back tamarin, the tufted capuchin, and the Colombian red howler, as well as a raccoon relative called the kinkajou. 🌎 www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/...

Forty people drowned in France over recent days as they sought to cool down to escape record heat, the prime minister said, as a heatwave swept across much of Europe reut.rs/4oM2Fxt

Africa is becoming an EV growth story. The FT reports that the energy crisis has supercharged African demand for electric motorbikes and buses. Start-ups rolling out charging infrastructure are raising record sums. The transition isn’t just a Europe, US and China story anymore.

"Through the Orange House, she inspired generations of Lebanese to value and protect their natural heritage and coastal ecosystems.” 🌎 www.npr.org/2026/06/21/n...

Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher and mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science and the first woman or person of colour to become 🧵

Videos show the aftermath of heavy flooding across the Gulf Coast and the southern United States due to Tropical Storm Arthur and its remnants. Forecasters expect more rain, even though Arthur is no longer a tropical system.

Health officials and researchers hope that efforts to control deer populations, which serve as "party buses" for mating ticks, can reverse the tide of ticks and the illnesses they cause. n.pr/4ozK8UM

Economy and ecology are the same word: oikos, the household. One runs it, one reads it. The tragedy of the commons is where the halves grind. Hardin said shared resources are doomed & competition is inherently unstable. A crowded Breton rock full of limpets proves him wrong twice👇 🌊🦑🌍

Study: Seaweed aquaculture boosts seawater alkalinity, enabling millions—and potentially tens of millions—of tonnes of carbon dioxide removal each year. 🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/01/weve...

Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Malaysia Cause RM58.7 Million in Losses Over Four Years #WildlifeConservation #HumanWildlifeConflict #Malaysia #EnvironmentalAwareness #Sustainability

PFAS levels in clothing and outdoor gear have dropped by up to 99% in some states. A new report from @nrdc.org links the decline to state laws, while noting some products still contain the chemicals. #Environment #Health #ForeverChemicals

Mangroves are making a comeback. It’s a rare climate success story.. For decades, we've catalogued what we're losing to climate change. A sweeping new study offers something harder to find—evidence that one of the planet's most vital coastal ecosystem https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/?p=241895

Nature asked Franco Impellizzeri, a football-journal chief, about emerging trends in football that you might see during the World Cup, from #AI tools to PhD students embedded with teams. 🧪

Scientists discover 149 new marine species off Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands

A Washington tribe is working to address drought in the Snoqualmie River Basin. The new project highlights declining snowpack and river flow as major threats to salmon and local ecosystems. #WashingtonState #Climate #TribalNations

Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave Scientists were shocked to find that the Houtman Abrolhos Islands’ coral reefs survived a prolonged extreme heatwave in 2025 virtually unharmed, which may reveal how to protect corals elsewhere www.newscientist.com/article/2524...

Mind blown! 🤯 Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“The California Department of Transportation and a big group of partners designed the wildlife bridge, which is approximately 100 feet long by 140 feet wide, to address the high rate of cars killing deer and elk on the two-lane highway.” 🌎 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

The critically endangered 🐧 Regent Honeyeater’s song has dwindled along with its population. 🏡 To help preserve their song and courtship behavior, one group of scientists have recruited wild-born birds as tutors for captive-bred populations. 🌍 📰🧪 More with The Guardian: https://ow.ly/zZ9650Z77aW

American alligator, Kiawah Island, South Carolina 🐊

Last month, the VoyageursWolfProject revealed to the world that Minnesota has some new arrivals in its north woods. A series of high-quality wildlife camera footage shows a family of cougars feeding on a deer carcass. The videos gives wildlife lovers hope that the cats are expanding their range. 🌎

Namibia gets funding to conserve 24% of its country. Namibia has a long conservation history; at independence it wrote environmental protection into its constitution. www.worldwildlife.org/news/stories...

“If current trends continue,” he said, “around 90% of the Mekong Delta would be underwater by the end of this century.” - @jjopperman.bsky.social 🌎 news.mongabay.com/2026/05/the-...

Some conservationists criticized the Trump administration for steering so much money to projects in Washington that appeared to be cosmetic fixes rather than urgent upgrades. (via New York Times)

“The Next California Initiative, a yearslong vision to transform the mid-Mississippi Delta and bring new commodity crops to the region, hopes to literally and figuratively seed a new era of agriculture.” 🌎 www.fastcompany.com/91493943/eco...

It’s #BiodiversityDay. 🌎 Here’s what the Kinabatangan River in Sabah, Borneo sounds like. 🔊 Habitat loss, often as conversion to agriculture, is a major threat to biodiversity. We need to protect key areas, restore degraded lands, & ensure connectivity, such as along rivers like this. 🦧

Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth—from plants & animals to tiny microorganisms—that keeps our ecosystems healthy and resilient. Yet habitat loss, pollution, & climate change are pushing nature to the brink. This #BiodiversityDay, find out how to take action: www.cbd.int/biodiversity...

On the International Day for Biodiversity, here are five ways fig trees are titans of biodiversity, and a plug for my newsletter devoted to these extraordinary plants. planetficus.substack.com 🧪🌏

Could sunlight, combined with a uniquely rigid and porous class of polymers, detect and remove PFAS from water supplies? eos.org/articles/a-p... Read more in our May issue: eos.org/themes/seeki...

Forecasters expect 8 to 14 storms will form in the Atlantic between June 1 and November 30. But the danger is more serious than the numbers suggest. n.pr/4wHbewT

Glad to see this from the president of Johns Hopkins and the chancellor of U Kansas A rare public acknowledgement from university leaders that the current NIH and NSF funding delays are not okay and are a violation of Congressional intent. www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/singers you’ve seen live. 1. Neil Young and Crazy Horse 2. The Who 3. Rolling Stones 4. The Beach Boys 5. Bob Dylan 6. Paul Simon 7. Mavis Staples 8. Lou Reed 9. Van Morrison 10. Bruce Springsteen

Carbon markets underestimate risks U.S. forests face from climate change. Maps produced in a #UofU -led study show where the risk of loss from fire, insects and drought are most elevated.