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🌱 #Organic crops—cotton production with wheat and soybean rotations—in tropical climates are found to be #competitive with chemical-intensive conventional systems when evaluating systems’ #resilience, #input #costs, and #profitability in 16-year experiment. #FiBL #DailyNews ➡️ Blog: ow.ly/TToq50X0UwR

Do you like learning about beavers but don't have brain space for reading another technical study right now? Do you enjoy storytelling? Are you or is someone you know a kid? If you answered yes to any of the above, then check out this episode of Terrestrials! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/rad...

Too dangerous for us, but safe enough for everyone else.

Well, that didn't last long. Turning their companies into "crypto hoarders" to goose the stock price didn't work, so now they're going to spend cash -- or even take on debt! -- to buy back their shares. This was never a "business model," just speculative frenzy.

When those leaves eventually fall, leave the leaves! It’s good for your yard and supports wildlife.

New Hampshire consistently ranks among the top 10 states with the highest electricity prices. So yes, let's drive them even higher by inviting data centers to set up shop. Makes perfect sense. But you know, "growth" and all that.

Another solar project that will occupy 80 acres (32 ha) of land and require the destruction of a Vermont forest containing 42 acres (17 ha) of trees. Why do we keep doing this in the name of the climate? That photo shows the forested hillside where the project will be built. Why?

Interesting line-up of stories here, with the "outcry over the 'deadly' wealth tax" story paired with the "how top hedge funds can pay traders $100 million" story. Doesn't seem particularly helpful to the wealth tax critics, eh?

A second runway at Gatwick will allow 100,000 more flights per year. Who cares about the climate if it means cheaper holidays? We will do anything for "economic growth," no matter how destructive. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Seems Orwellian, but what would I know?

Sunday with beavers again! 🧵 Last week I posted a photo showing our newest beaver family had downed a maple across the stream. Photo on left shows what it looked like last Sunday. Photo on right is the same tree today, with almost all limbs gone, broken into sections, and much bark eaten. (1/4)

The Wall Street Journal's regular weekly argument for a wealth tax.

Whoa. “'The insurance crisis in the U.S. is the canary in the coal mine, and the canary is dead,' said Dave Jones, the insurance commissioner of California from 2011-2018.... 'We are marching toward an uninsurable future in this country and across the globe; marching into the abyss.'”

“.. Musk has Tesla shareholders in a Stockholm Syndrome .. Suppose they vote against him, and he leaves .. with his delusions .. “.. Tesla would have to revert to trading closer to its fundamentals, which means slashing the stock price roughly in half ..” @electrek.co electrek.co/2025/09/19/e...

This man is a fabulist and clearly delusional, but still they keep throwing money at him. “My prediction is: Optimus will be more productive than the entire global economy. That the output of goods and services from Optimus will far exceed the global economy, of everyone on Earth.” (1/3)

Hey @us.theguardian.com, can you please stop falling for this PR nonsense from Colossal Biosciences? This is not "de-extinction." Their "Dire Wolf" was nothing more than a gene-edited gray wolf, and now they're going to "de-extinct" the Dodo by gene-editing chickens and pigeons? Come on.

It’s time we learned to cordially debate our political opponents, like the folks who consider moose invasive in Colorado. theconversation.com/moose-have-l...

Every extractive industry -- from coal mining to oil drilling -- always leaves behind enormous amounts of toxic waste that the public, inevitably, has to pay to clean up. We know this history, but we never learn from it. So with each new mine or oilfield, we repeat history.

Julian Cribb makes a good case on why it's time to rename our own species. Although he doesn't propose a new name in this piece, I would suggest "Homo destructivus."

Rather than trying to reproduce species we have already driven to extinction, we might put our efforts into preventing the extinction of existing species that we have driven to the brink.

That photo is toxic wastewater bursting out of an old, abandoned oil well. "For each of the 6.4 million barrels of crude produced in the Permian every day, about three to five barrels of salt and chemical-laden wastewater flow back out and must be disposed of underground."

We really don't need these guys living longer.

"Off grid" in reality means "on propane." You can see the 4 big propane tanks right there in the photo. You may not pay a utility for electricity, but you are still paying the fossil fuel industry to provide your propane. This doesn't make you any more "self-reliant." (1/2)

🎯 The only way to truly protect humans, as well as #pollinators, insects, birds, etc., and the biosphere, is to stop the use of #pesticides completely. #EPA must consider their effects in the context in which they are used and promote the organic alternative. #takeaction ➡️ Blog: ow.ly/ml0q50WWUoa

If insurers are the canary in the coal mine, this is not good. "The reinsurance industry, which exists to help primary insurers cope with losses when disaster hits, has taken significant steps to shield itself against the financial fallout of storms, floods and other severe weather events."

Going off the cliff as fast as we can.

A week ago we found our beavers had gone to work on this maple by the stream. Sometimes, they'll start on a tree and then, for reasons that escape us, they'll just abandon it and look for another one. We weren't sure what they were going to do with this one. (1/4)

We walked a long way up our stream this afternoon. As you can see, the stream bed is more rock than water. Though having a low flow this time of year is normal, this kind of empty stream bed is not. We're in severe drought and have had less than 1.5 inches of rain in all of August and September.

Fall colors are already starting to be a thing here on our land in northern New England. Some of this is earlier than normal, probably due to drought stressing the trees. The ashes in particular have turned early and fast, and leaves are now mostly brown (i.e., tall tree in center left of photo).

Globally, August 2025 ranked as the third hottest ever recorded. It was also separately the 4th warmest August for global land areas and the 3rd warmest for global ocean areas. + Data by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan... + Monthly summary: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

Seven states urgently need to cut water use to avert a deepening crisis on the Colorado River, experts warn in a new analysis. “We’ve got a real problem,” researcher Jack Schmidt says. “Reclamation needs to address all this right now and begin to implement cuts.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

This guy drank the Kool-Aid. “I just love bitcoin, I just think it is so interesting,” Casey, 54, said on a podcast interview hosted by venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz last year, calling it “one of the coolest things that has ever been created by people.”

If your company is totally dependent on an erratic, conspiracy-peddling, and ketamine-using man-child, you've got a problem. Meanwhile, "singular talent" Musk was telling the crowd at Tommy Robinson's far-right rally in London that “violence is coming” and “you either fight back or you die”.

Did anyone really expect costs not to soar if private equity firms got involved? "Local authorities are obliged by law to provide care for children in need, but seven out of 10 of the independent providers with the most homes are owned by private equity...." (1/2)

This is my annual 'we're f***ed' post

The effects of #pesticides are not limited to their applied crops. #Synergistic effects of multiple #exposures are the rule, rather than the exception. #TakeAction #glyphosate 📣 #EPA must consider pesticides' effects in the context they are used & promote the #organic alternative: ow.ly/KNu050WW85h

For the life of me, I simply don't understand why any farmer would spread this stuff on his or her land. You're not really saving any money by using biosolids over actual fertilizers. You're just poisoning your land, which will eventually be worth a lot less because of this toxic contamination.

"Off grid" in reality means "on propane." You can see the 4 big propane tanks right there in the photo. You may not pay a utility for electricity, but you are still paying the fossil fuel industry to provide your propane. This doesn't make you any more "self-reliant." (1/2)

Again, how people respond to surveys about climate is at odds with how they vote. For example, Reform UK -- a political party deeply hostile to any climate "action" -- is ahead in the polls. In June, IPSOS had Reform at 34%, Labour at 25%, and Greens at just 9%. More recent polls are similar.

This series of articles explores how PFAS (forever chemicals) contaminate our water and food, and what we can do about it. barnraisingmedia.com/reports/the-...

Geoengineering is designed to facilitate business as usual and keep consumer capitalism in the fast lane Hacking the Earth while pumping out colossal quantities of CO2 is like giving a poisoned patient an antidote while administering more poison www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Team MAGA really sticking it to those elites again. "The Trump administration is quietly dismantling efforts by the Internal Revenue Service to shut down a slew of aggressive tax shelters used by America’s biggest multinational companies and wealthiest people."

"Climate change is increasing the frequency of disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes across the US, forcing carriers to increase premiums or walk away from the most disaster-prone markets.... North Carolina and South Carolina - hit by flooding - experienced sharp increases, as did California."

Definitely not a bubble, though. "Traders are piling into a *corrugated packaging company* that will buy tokens linked to OpenAI chief Sam Altman’s iris-scanning crypto group, sending its shares soaring 3,000 per cent in a single day." Shares actually climbed 5,600% before falling back to 3,000%.

The planet needs fewer humans, not more. We're already at 8 billion and still growing. Most other species are suffering because of us. We need to figure out a different, better way of organizing our societies other than depending on an ever-growing population. Otherwise, it's just a Ponzi scheme.

The #ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis are intimately interlinked. And #Insectageddon really matters: "Insects are necessary for terrestrial and fresh-water ecosystems to function." phys.org/news/2025-09...

We really don't need these guys living longer.

Bravo @ellecordova.bsky.social #Music #SongsOfResistance

Definitely worth watching this documentary presented by Chris Packham. As he points out, human overpopulation is the uncomfortable topic no one wants to talk about ... but it's the "elephant in the room," so he's tackling it in this piece.