It snowed in New Jersey!

Amazon rainforest is transitioning to a 'hypertropical' climate — and trees won't survive that for long www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

It was an incredible honor to receive the Stephen H. Schneider award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication from @climateone.org this year.

This week's #25DaysOfFishmas and today's #SundayFishSketch. Fishes of the southwest.

There has never been this little sea ice in the Arctic during December. We are in a climate emergency. (graphic by @zacklabe.com)

I watched yesterday's webinar on this subject, and it really does feel like a whole new frontier of exciting possibilities and potential is opening up in how we grow food, and how that impacts on the natural world. Hope at a time when it's in short supply!

I've been married for closing in on 40 years and I've been in higher education for pretty much all of them. And yet V still chirpily asks "Are you finished grading yet?" The answer is no. It's always no. It *will* always be no. When I die, cremate me with ungraded papers.

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I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.

ICYMI: Newly issued waivers allow hundreds of miles of new border infrastructure — including double walls, patrol roads, and industrial lighting — in the last open corridors for jaguars, ocelots and dozens of other animals moving between the U.S. and Mexico. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Breaking The University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center (WCC) has tonight confirmed a brand-new jaguar in the United States, Jaguar #5, never before identified, just days after the Trump administration’s new double border wall construction waivers (see below).

A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca) on rose coloured rock. Northwest Territorie, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

What we’re watching right now 🧐 DemoGARgon lives here in the right side up! #StrangerThings

The Paris Muse by Louisa Treger is out on Thursday from Bloomsbury and I’m delighted to share my review lindasbookbag.com/2024/07/01/t...

Annual shameless self-promotion! This book is for anyone who has ever wanted to leave civilization behind for a spell of personal growth & refreshment by a stream in the mountains far from town. Makes a great gift!

I think the Chinese have better things to be doing that spying on American moms' morning routines to undermine their way of life, like beating the US in clean energy and use soft power to expand their global influence.

Iowa City, socialist hellhole www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Volume up 🔊... The wonderful sound of a couple of hundred Twite - known here in Shetland as 'Linties' - at Loch of Spiggie in one of the 40 'Bumblebird' wildlife-friendly crops grown by crofters and the Shetland Species on the Edge team in 2025. 👏 #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife

We have news to howl about 🐺🐺 A new wolf family was confirmed this fall. The Grizzly pack consists of two adults and a pup who have established territory in southern Plumas County. The Grizzly pack’s confirmation means that #California still has 10 existing packs. Read on ➡️ bit.ly/3JWiBNC

In newly reconnected backwaters of the Lower Mississippi River, an ancient fish finds its way home www.nfwf.org/media-center... Update on National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and partners’ Mississippi River floodplain restoration work!

Did you see the Northern Lights last night? It is unusual to see them in so widely, especially in places like Georgia and Florida. I explain why we see them and whether we will see them again tonight. A good 101 www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Living sculpture. Notice also the pool of water held in the crook of this ancient oak on the shores of Kenmare River (bay).

GREAT presidential acceptance speech from Catherine Connolly, including a repeated focus on the threat of climate and environmental breakdown. She's clearly announcing that she'll be an activist president: *exactly* what's needed right now.

Citizens of the Land of Mushrooms, C20th lithograph.

10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trees grow naturally in the forest and chainsaws are also not a hoax"...Dr. Marshall Shepherd One of my "go to" responses to the woefully simplistic retort that climate changes naturally only.

Right now the U.S. is amassing "the largest U.S. military deployment in Latin America since the Cold War" to provoke a war against Venezuela. In some better alternate timeline, we'd be using all those resources to help our neighbors in Jamaica, Haiti, & Cuba recover from Hurricane Melissa.

Was Hurricane Melissa Super Hurricane? Is Category 6 needed? I took a deep dive in my weekend Forbes piece citing @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @bmcnoldy.bsky.social @weatherprof.bsky.social Rheeda walker Let me know your thoughts after reading it www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Column: Expanding offshore drilling will doom these rare whales that live near #Florida. My latest for the @floridaphoenix.com also features shout-outs to Joni Mitchell, John Sebastian and "Star Trek IV." floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/30/e...

Great news and such a wonderful name! Paul Davies said: “We’ve been managing this rare limestone grassland for years to encourage a rich diversity of wildlife. To see that work paying off with the return of a species this rare is incredibly rewarding.” #spiders www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Krill fishing has just got even more political and horrifying Ukrainian scientist, Leonid Pshenichnov, has been arrested by Russia for his work in Antarctica towards protecting krill from overexploitation He faces life in prison for "high treason" 🦑🌊🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Those who seek to impose their will on others through military might and genocide, like Putin and Trump, are also those who will kill off whole ecosystems for profit. The connection is direct and uncoincidental. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Milkweed pod in the dunes of Michigan ! #lakeMichigan

This is beautiful!

Two years ago today, True West came out! It feels like a 100. If you want to understand how we got to where we are, give it a read. I look at the collision of militia, MAGA, MAHA, cowboy mythology, billionaires, & fractures in urban/rural communities. It’s about healing, & fighting the bad guys…

The fact is, this un-retouched picture captures just a fraction of the power and beauty of the natural world that surrounds us all, everyday... and some of what you see here is public land, your land. You can help protect Western lands fm oil & gas/mining destruction by supporting @westernlaw.org

Stuck in the office the whole damn day…again! Devil’s Spring Ranch in the Heart of New Mexico’s Beautiful San Juan Basin

Swallowtail shot this morning in Greece 🦋🇬🇷

Goodnight. May our dreams give us light and hope to hold us through the darkness until morning finds us again. 🖼️ Toni Demuro

Swift fox prove more adaptable than anyone thought. A conservation success story. It doesn't hurt that they're incredibly cute animals.

The "Fix Our Forests Act" passed out of committee this week and will now go to the Senate for a vote. Passage of this bill would be terrible news for our national forests -- let your Senator know this is a disaster in the making (for anyone but the timber industry). dailydispatch.com/news/wildlan...

One of the last truly wild places on Earth, sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife, wilderness and cultural values. Now, the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1.5 million acres, has been opened up for oil and gas leasing. vimeo.com/247917667?fl...

As is often the case, @joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall has a very good point to make, this time about the need for people who have done well by our society to stand the heck up for it talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fear-...

Two #Florida coral species declared functionally extinct. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim... via @nbcnews.com

“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” — Rosa Parks 🙏🏼🌎🕊️

Rebelión Científica #Ecuador raised their voice against Daniel Noboa's extractivist and authoritarian model. They demand respect for popular consultations, justice for the victims, and territories free of oil and mining. Science gets active ✊🌿

The Trump administration plans to open whole swaths of the East and West Coasts to offshore oil and gas drilling, including areas previously protected for environmental reasons, according to federal documents reviewed by the Houston Chronicle.

Sorry I am not here often. Will try to post here more. Coco Fred says good night!💤

Efficient disease carriers expanding their turf. #climate

International eyes needed on Ecuador rn, where an organised assault on constitutional integrity, land- & water-defenders, the rights of nature & Indigenous rights is currently in full swing, as directed by the newly elected president Noboa. Excellent piece here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...