🦋 Hey everyone! I just published my latest printable coloring book page + activity sheets that teach kids about the monarch butterfly's epic 3,000-mile journey, life cycle, and story! It's perfect for classrooms, families, or rainy-day fun. 👉 hpconservation.com/my-wildlife-... #monarch #coloring

If anyone asks, this is how I want to be buried. 🌱 "Life Beyond the Grave: These morticians are both conservation heroes and undertakers." Green burials meet conservation easements - protecting nature while returning to it. Great read by Marin Scotten for Sierra. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/life-...

“More Indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns.” Great piece about "counter-mapping" projects: Indigenous nations are using maps to reclaim their stories by charting ancestral routes & sacred places to assert rights and un-erase their presence. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/these...

Interesting that the major tech companies quickly kowtowed to the unilateral order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America," yet it didn't stick in news outlets. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine...

An Indonesian songbird once nearly extinct in the wild, the Bali starling, is making a comeback through community-led conservation. Villages embraced traditional awig-awig regulations to protect the starling, creating powerful cultural, social and financial deterrents to poaching.

Not to play favorites, but this story was special... hpconservation.com/abroad/revit...

"A quadrupling of area burned.” "Forests are being knocked back to the Pleistocene." "Not so much reset as annihilated." “Some of our forests will never be forests again." A piece by Zack Metcalfe for Sierra Magazine. www.sierraclub.org/Sierra/wildf...

🔥 🌳 Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds, wildfire-driven fire storms that inject smoke, ash, & moisture high into the sky and trigger hurricane-force winds below, generate lightning, ignite fires, and rain embers. They used to be rare. Not so anymore. buff.ly/5ONKAH7

Peekskill, New York, last 40 years: 1 ton of lead, 40,000 tons nitrous oxide, 840 pounds mercury, 8 million tons toxic ash, 31.8 million tons greenhouse gas emissions, home to sewage treatment, chemical and gypsum plants on the polluted Hudson River. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2025-...

We love a good wildlife corridor reconnection + wildlife crossing + educated Bear Smart community! Way to go #Montana. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2025-...

Can buying hunting licenses help save Florida's black bears? There is NO scientific grounding to support a bear hunt in Florida to "control the population," which shows absolutely no signs of being over-populated. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/can-b...

Broad Hurricane Helene FEMA cleanup damaged sensitive waterways and rare species, prioritizing speed and volume over care. Local rafting and fishing guides are taking a more thoughtful approach, and it's restarting outdoor recreation industry in the region. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/one-y...

New Landscape Ordinance Passes Unanimously in Kansas City: Intentional native plantings are now allowed to grow to their natural heights, even if they are over 10" tall... can't believe we had to fight for that. deeproots.org/new-landscap...

Gross. sherwood.news/tech/reading...

Companies like Cloudflare are claiming to build systems to monetize traffic from AI bots, which assumes tracking bots is straightforward, and that a website can reliably tell them what to do. Neither is a safe assumption. mediacopilot.substack.com/p/publishers...

"When tech giants interact with publishers and writers, it’s a lot like when Lennie pets the puppy in Of Mice and Men." mailchi.mp/aboard/zkd26...

AI trained on low-quality Wikipedia translations risks accelerating the decline of vulnerable languages, not saving them. Smart, sobering piece from MIT Tech Review: www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

The world’s rarest orchid, Rhizanthella gardneri, flowers underground and depends on a 3-way symbiosis to survive. A fragile system, now at risk:

🦋 Monarch butterflies captivate humans with their beauty, transformation and epic multigenerational migrations. Once hundreds of millions strong across North America, #monarchbutterfly populations have plummeted due to habitat loss, pesticides, and climate stress. 📸 Shot on @canonusa.bsky.social

Most people want platforms (not governments) to be responsible for moderating #content, according to this study across 8 countries. This preference holds for social networks, video sites, messaging apps and search engines. 🤔 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/most-pe...

“The North American model remains strong, but there are modern threats that echo this case — the privatization of public lands and wildlife are still a real risk. What makes America, America and Wyoming, Wyoming is our public lands and our public wildlife.” www.publicdomain.media/p/karen-budd...

There’s Never Been a Worse Time to Be Authentic at Work: Author Jodi-Ann Burey on the dangers of disclosure in environments that aren’t built for our well-being. “What makes us authentic makes us different. What makes us different makes us institutionally antagonistic.” www.wired.com/story/theres...

In my first piece for Mongabay, I report on how Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild: news.mongabay.com/2025/10/indi... This prized songbird is making a comeback through community-led conservation on Nusa Penida through traditional village regulations.

lol "Musk raised eyebrows by promising to 'rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors,' using his Grok AI." www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/elon...

The workslop effect: Losing trust one typo at a time - a hard look at slop signals, editing, transparency and disclosure. mediacopilot.substack.com/p/the-worksl...

Search fragmentation and AI are rewriting the search playbook. 🚀 At #AHREFSEvolve in San Diego, I’ll share how to cut through fragmentation - Google, marketplaces, social, AI/LLM search - and build a clear, modern discoverability strategy. Details 👉 ahrefsevolve.com #SearchMarketing #AI

Innovation often looks confusing from the outside. Not everyone will "get" what you do, or why it matters. Don’t mistake someone else’s lack of understanding for a lack of value. Trust your compass.

🦎 New Wildlife Wonders is here! buff.ly/Cj1yFHc Meet the Eastern Collared Lizard, Oklahoma’s flashy, fast state reptile. It can sprint 15 mph on two legs and leap across granite boulders 🏜️ 📸 Closeup photos 📊 Snazzy infographic 🎨 Free kids’ activity + coloring sheet!

Mehta’s ruling has increased Google’s value by about $220 billion. It’s good to be a monopoly! www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-... by @JoshuaBenton.com for Nieman Lab.

"Most Valuable Clicks" --- The Wall Street Journal is focusing on the most valuable clicks, and those are coming from Google search referrals, not Google Discover – despite the growth in Google Discover traffic publishers’ are seeing. digiday.com/media/how-th...

"Agreements between French news publishers and trade unions are redistributing revenue from AI licensing deals directly to journalists, guaranteeing that if a reporter’s stories are used by AI companies, they will share directly in the publisher’s earnings." www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-f...

Jury orders Google to pay $425 million for violating user privacy, collecting user information even after they turned activity tracking off. www.theverge.com/news/771540/...

"There's no trick. It demands incredible time investment, and that's it. If you ask somebody who is extremely physically fit, who is a great at investing, they can give you tips that might sound like shortcuts... in reality, this is what consumes them." niemanstoryboard.org/2025/09/04/c...

“Margaux Blanchard” never existed. Yet this fictional freelance journalist successfully placed articles in Wired, Business Insider, and four other publications before Press Gazette exposed the elaborate AI hoax in August. mediacopilot.substack.com/p/fake-pitch...

Jury orders Google to pay $425 million for violating user privacy, collecting user information even after they turned activity tracking off. www.theverge.com/news/771540/...

"If used irresponsibly, LED technology can have hidden costs and unintended consequences... Bright blue-white LEDs at night disrupt the circadian rhythm of living things." from the latest edition of the Missouri Conservationist about preserving #DarkSky mdc.mo.gov/magazines/mi...

Big cats, big cities: how Los Angeles and Mumbai live cheek by jowl with feline locals: The two megacities are the only ones in the world where large carnivores thrive as the urban areas have encroached on natural habitats www.theguardian.com/environment/... (Oldie but goodie.)

"There’s a huge, untapped potential for environmental policies that use language consistent with rural attitudes and values, such as ideas about #conservation and land stewardship." theconversation.com/why-rural-co... via @us.theconversation.com

"We may be domesticating the planet, but it still has room for species that just can’t stand us." open.substack.com/pub/conserva...

On the new episode of the Human-Centered podcast, host Nick Brunker and I talk about the front lines of the #AIsearch revolution and how brands can navigate and thrive in this new discoverability landscape. Listen here, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Kansas City–based conservation #photojournalist and writer Heather Physioc has earned 6 awards in the Outdoor Writers Association (OWAA) 2025 Excellence in Craft contest, celebrating outstanding outdoor media across writing, #photography and other creative disciplines. kctrvlr.com/domestic/hea...

Good morning #OWAA2025! Looking forward to seeing you at 1pm ET TODAY for my keynote, "Discoverability for Outdoor Communicators" - and the next two days for workshops! Full schedule here owaa.org/2025-confere...

My two worlds will collide next week at the Outdoor Writers Conference. By day, I'm Chief Discoverability Officer at VML. By night, I'm a conservation writer, photographer, and an active member of #OWAA. Register to attend the event! owaa.org/2025-confere...

I am getting really hyped for the keynote and hands-on workshops on "Discoverability for Outdoor Communicators" at #OWAA conference next week in Chattanooga. Check out my workshop deets here: owaa2025.sched.com/event/1uxl4

"The rise of easy-to-generate AI content has been described as an ‘existential threat’ to Wikipedia" - how Wikipedia editors are detecting LLM "tells" and speeding deletion of AI slop content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

OpenAI is preparing to raise what could be its final defense to stop The New York Times from digging through a spectacularly broad range of ChatGPT logs to hunt for any copyright-infringing outputs that could become the most damning evidence in the hotly watched case. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Newsrooms wrestling accurate answers out of AI: “News media is [changing]. The article as we know it may not be the preferred format of readers or listeners or viewers in the years to come. People are getting used to generative ecosystems, and that won’t change.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-...

“The thought of losing that history, particularly in this political moment, was devastating.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/miss...

Hey #photographers - what platform are you using to showcase and sell your work as prints, cards, etc.? @zenfolio.bsky.social has become a sunk cost money pit instead of a platform I can count on to grow my business. They collect feedback about the platform, but don't actually evolve. :(

"This month, Robinson retired, and Willa’s Books and Vinyl closed its doors. But thanks to The Kansas City Defender [turning it into a public archive and public headquarters] the collection isn’t going anywhere." www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/miss...