Native freshwater mussels do important work filtering the water in Midwest rivers. These animals are in trouble, but Kansas has a plan to help them. Plus: We'll hear from farmers around the central U.S. about what made this such a tough year, and what may come in 2026.

#ResistanceRoots Lynn Conway was born on this day in 1938 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was a computer scientist, electrical engineer and prominent transgender rights activist whose work at IBM and Xerox PARC fundamentally reshaped the architecture of modern computing and the semiconductor industry. /1

This article is gobsmacking. One fact; apparently the Kennedy Center board cancelled lots of concerts when they let FIFA use the Center for over a week. And they’re suing Chuck Redd for cancelling? Pot Kettle Black.

Regeneration and hope in Mark Cocker's @theguardian.com country diary. #countrydiary #naturewriting

There's very little understanding of how reliant our civilization is on biodiversity and natural ecosystems, even amongst scientists, for the reason there's no field of science, really studying it. Scientific ecology only really studies non-human organisms. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/2

Stingless bees in Amazon rainforests become first insects to get legal rights ->India Today | #insect #bee #amazon rainforest | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.

Thanks for sharing this @amandalitman.bsky.social - open.substack.com/pub/amandali...

Bloody hell, just caught up on this. Solidarity with Imran and the whole team. We need CCDH! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Carol of the Bells ("Shchedryk") from Ukrainian Defenders at Sofiivska Square, in the heart of Kyiv. Merry Christmas, friends! 📹: miarodriges / Threads

Here is a version from Mariupol from winter 2021/2022 - just before the full-scale-invasion. It was recorded at the christmas market right next to the theater, which was bombed just a few months later. Several hundreds of people were killed there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ZS...

Something important to note is that the tech companies and the gas companies have promised each other demand and supply, so massively constraining and killing any threat to that is a key function of the Trump admin

After I got fired by DOGE, I wanted to respond to this climate of fear. So I started working at SecureDrop, making software for whistleblowers to communicate with journalists. Our response to all this is to expand who can run and use our software, while safeguarding whistleblowers' anonymity.

Community radio has an important role to play here.

With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism: Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches. Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵

Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

"I’m standing in solidarity with UK Palestine activists who are on day 46 of a historic hunger strike in prison. They’ve been imprisoned without trial and will die soon if Justice Secretary David Lammy doesn’t act"(Nadia Sawalha) #UK #Palestine

Look who’s circling Venezuela... During his interview of Maria Corina Machado, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale tells her: “We have a lot of friends here who’ve had to flee VZ & who are huge fans of yours, & we’re very excited to come back & invest & BUILD w/ u when u get to be a free country.” 1/

Sharing my Epstein et al essay again. Release every damn file so the full rape-protection systemic racket is exposed so we can blow it up finally and make women and girls safer. All victims deserve this now.

The Top Reason for the Delta Ecosystem Collapse: Massive Water Exports South ->Daily Kos | #water #ecosystem collapse | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

This is the Dovetail Orchestra performing in Bristol last night. Most of the performers are asylum seekers or refugees (from Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, Columbia to name a few). Dovetail Orchestras are now forming in other cities too. Maybe one day a Dovetail will be at the Kennedy Centre? #community

Are you a UK community radio station? If so please do follow us and we'll follow back. This may be a cry into the wilderness but if one station sees it it's worth it! It would be great to establish a real presence for uk and global community radio on here. #communityradio

The final of our expert briefings is @tessakhan.bsky.social on the energy transition - with some much needed clarity on the benefits of renewables versus the disadvantages of fossil fuels. #nationalemergencybriefing #neb2025 #netzero #renewables

Endorsed by the likes of @carolinelucas.bsky.social, Feargal Sharkey, Paul Whitehouse, Jim Murray (interview clips below), and supported by local heroes Brighton Energy Co-op, @bhesco.bsky.social @cren1.bsky.social @ovesco.bsky.social The BrandB Facebook page www.facebook.com/brandbradio

This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley: The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out • Mia Mottley is the prime minister of Barbados The timing is br...

Dublin Port Company Myra speaks to archivists about its history listenagain.org?p=58543

Yesterday, I visited my constituent, Amu Gib, who has been detained in HMP Bronzefield without trial since July. Amu is now on Day 39 of their hunger strike, yet there is complete silence across our mainstream media. This is an emergency. They must be granted bail, now.

This is extraordinary. This is where we are in our media landscape right now. That this so-called journalist can seriously question whether colonialism is bad. It's so deeply deeply offensive and cynical and absolutely intent on causing division rather than unity. Appalling.

Thanks to Rosa Vásquez Espinoza for bringing "The Spirit of the Rainforest" to our @bristoluni.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet Christmas Lecture. Stunning combo of biochemistry, traditional medicine, conservation, indigenous wisdom & spirituality

🙏 The film is now available for free on YouTube. Check it out here! youtu.be/52IHWl2dHNU

Please sign this letter. And please comment here if you are part of independent media in the UK. Would like to know who you are and connect.

If we listened to ecologists rather than economists our thinking would be much more long term than short term and there would be so many wins from this.

We asked the Pentagon about a Goodreads page linked to the email of a top official that featured pornographic books. Then, far-right influencer Jack Posobiec entered the picture.

This year, we’ve brought you untold stories — the struggles of burn survivors in rising heat, how a small town became the U.S.' crude oil export capital, and why Hong Kong is struggling to adopt solar. Climate is at the heart of our reporting. Don’t miss what’s next — subscribe to our newsletter. 📬

Community radio has no such tie to these individuals and can speak more freely as a result. Cherish your local radio station - it’s a precious thing. #communityradio

Love this idea! One sign up, 12 great newsletters...

We need communities to be producing their own energy, their own food. There’s one area where resilience is more difficult, producing medical drugs. How do we deal with this?

1. We've had a huge response to the launch of the Earth Rover Program, above all from small farmers, especially in Africa. Farmers all over the world are highly attuned to the need for a better understanding of soil, and have immediately seen the potential. 🧵 1/10 www.earthroverprogram.org

if elected leaders want to subsidize more roads to enable more driving, and do not want to allow more housing in order to avoid more residents, then it seems they perceive their real constituents to be cars rather than people

"Ten years after the Paris Agreement, the French judiciary has asserted itself as a key actor in the implementation of environmental law... through a pragmatic adaptation of existing tools & the consecration of new concepts. The recognition of ecological harm... is the most striking example"

If you've always felt like you are going against the grain, swimming upstream, or been told you are too sensitive, too idealistic, too impractical, unreasonably focused on justice or those in harms way..... keep swimming, because

How the BBC upholds fossil fuel industry narratives, 09/12/2025: an article about a battery storage project featuring one (1) person objecting to the scheme. The opinion is presented as indicative of popular opposition. No other viewpoint is offered.

Whenever I meet someone in climate activism I’m conscious we’re part of a process that can’t be easily defined, but is there nonetheless. Community is everything in the back loop. Nurture community and from that good things will spring.

9,000 metres under the sea: this researcher found the deepest animal ecosystems on Earth ->Nature | #ecosystem #earth | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."

actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-... @labourlewis.bsky.social is organising a briefing for MPs on the water crisis. Is your MP attending? #waterpollution #water

youtu.be/c0NLZPUTH3g Olivia Williams reads an open letter to Keir Starmer and national broadcasters, calling for a televised national emergency briefing to inform viewers about the severity of the climate crisis and the need to take action now to save lives down the line.