For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

Today in neighborhood bumper stickers #bugsky #insectthursday

So many species that we associate with a certain habitat -- grizzly bears in the mountains, condors by the coast, jaguars in the jungle, etc etc -- live there not because it's the only place they can/used to/like to live, but because that's all that we've left for them

Me: smugly indignant that the great Joni Mitchell, of whom I am clearly the world's number one fan, was not on this list Also me: forgot that she's Canadian www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

wtaf: "At one point, the lawsuit alleges, ChatGPT said that it’s much more likely for a shooting to gain national attention 'if children are involved, even 2-3 victims can draw more attention.'" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It is so hard to watch the journalism crisis hit your favorite publications. We need way more nature/biodiversity reporting, not less!

Gutting news -- this newsroom was saved just recently, and is one of the only places committed to the biodiversity beat. Sharing in case anyone who knows any orgs who might be able to help out. 🌎🧪

A telling detail in this @praddenkeefe.bsky.social story of societal breakdown is that one of the scam's key giveaways was how many people were inside the cars in the "accidents." Americans don't carpool! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Sometimes I imagine trying to explain current headlines as a time traveler to even the recent past www.newscientist.com/article/2524...

New: Microplastics are already in our food and water and contaminating ecosystems and wildlife around the world. Now scientists have discovered that tiny plastic particles in the atmosphere are heating the planet, magnifying climate change impacts. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Snow drought report from 11,400 feet in the Rockies. Am told this trail doesn't typically melt out until early July; I did it in sneakers on May 3rd 🫣

The man next to me on the plane was transporting an 8-week-old puppy, so naturally I needed to snuggle it and hold it, and naturally the puppy needed to pee on my lap at the very beginning of a long flight in the middle seat.

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

A smell map!! www.discovermagazine.com/first-ever-s...

It’s eight people. Eight men whose personal net worth tallies more than $1 trillion. Median US resident net worth is less than $125,000.

🐸🌍🧪 Great paper that revisits a site in the Colombian Andes & finds massive losses of amphibian biodiversity: Shifting baselines in amphibian conservation: Historic survey uncovers disease-driven collapse of a once mega-diverse community link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ForensicEcology 🐸

This is such a lovely and rich paean to public benches and everything we lose when American cities remove them or make them more hostile placesjournal.org/article/the-...

Some professional news... I'm delighted to be @cangeo.bsky.social's new (part-time*) Western Canada Editor! Coverage area: MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NWT. I'll have more detailed pitch guidelines once I get settled in, but in the meantime, I'm at [email protected] if you'd like to get in touch.

#EARTHDAY: Almost Half of America’s Kids Are Breathing Toxic Air - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/2204202...

I am not a lawyer, but am I reading correctly that the majority opinion cited the concern of “irreparable harm” to the coal industry (which employs ~40,000 people) with no mentions of the “irreparable harm” higher CO2 emissions could bring to the population of (at the time) ~7,500,000,000 people?

Great, shocking reporting on the origins of the Supreme Court maneuver that has enabled Trump to impose his agenda without full-blown legal review. Roberts resented the Obama admin’s EPA and wanted quick protection for oil companies.

Unexplained ocean pollution off Papua New Guinea's New Ireland is killing fish and causing skin burns in people. www.thexylom.com/post/papua-n...

War means a windfall for fossil fuel companies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is the most bonkers thing I've read lately, which is saying quite a bit www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/c...

Another heartwarming photo-op capturing the true America

"for sale baby shoes never worn" may be the saddest use of six words, but "the pope is weak on crime" is the funniest

“It should be illegal to blame us if the thing we make hurts people” is the kind of opinion that would’ve doomed the airline industry and currently props up the businesses of guns, cars, and oil.

Hot cheese is a junk food but cold cheese is a health food

Was taking my almost-three-year-old nephew for a very slow walk when we encountered THE MAN FROM THE CITY WHO FLUSHES THE OLD WATER OUT OF THE FIRE HYDRANTS and I truly wish everyone this level of joy over the maintenance of our shared infrastructure.

Every story has a quote left on the cutting room floor. For this one, it's this: Me: The U.S. has sequenced 1000 measles genomes from our outbreak. Virologist @eddieholmes.bsky.social: "This is 2026! There shouldn't be 1000 measles genomes. That's disastrous." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Overall, there’s been less snowpack and higher temperatures than pretty much any winter on record. It’s a situation that climatologists have said would be virtually impossible without climate change"

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

My simplest but best prank was putting all the cups in the plate cupboard and all the plates in the cup cupboard. It broke brains.

1/ My first story as a @propublica.org climate reporter: I discovered that the Trump appointee in charge of rewriting methane rules at the EPA was – just four years ago – an unnamed author of an oil industry response to those same rules. His name isn't in the document itself, but…

strong Team Zissou vibes in these photos

The latest monthly fire season outlook is up, and it's a doozy. Forecasts look similar a year ago, and the season ended up being below average in terms of acreage, so that's worth bearing in mind. But with the historic snow drought, this could be a big one. www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/p...

“This particular year is as clear an indication of the influence of climate change as anything we’ve seen,” Peter Gleick, water scientist and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, told @ianjames.bsky.social for @latimes.com:

"A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter."

Once upon a time if an American president explicitly declared he was considering committing war crimes, there'd be a controversy.

Seattle is pretty excited about our light rail expansion

Faces and stories of some of the children killed in the Iran school bombing www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim…What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister & daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related." apnews.com/article/sper...

Was working with a group of high school students yesterday and someone mentioned 2008 and the teacher said "Were any of you alive in 2008?" and I chortled at the absurdity of the question but, reader, they were not.

This is another one of those jump scare graphs, showing the number of 60°F days in Fort Collins, Colorado this winter compared to any prior season since the 1800s. More here: source.colostate.edu/colorado-rec... and via the @climate.colostate.edu.

536 miles of this