Great listen! Wondering how to improve kids’ health and educational experience? Cleaner indoor air might be part of the solution.

6/ EPA says it's committed to reducing PFAS pollution. So why does it keep advancing new PFAS pesticides? Especially ones like isocycloseram, a chemical that exceeded levels of concern for bees and aquatic life for most proposed uses? #PFAS #Pesticides #ForeverChemicals #PublicHealth #EPA

4/ 🐝 Isocycloseram: Proposed broad spectrum insecticide with very high toxicity to aquatic invertebrates and honey bees. Risk quotients exceeded levels of concern for both, in some cases by orders of magnitude. Yet no full field studies for bees were required. 📄 www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-H...

Now that EPA has approved several of these, it’s time to bump this thread on PFAS pesticides:

Excited to share our new video, Growing Pollinator-Safe Plants: What Nurseries Can Do (and How You Can Help)! 🐝🌸🌎 This project has been 3 years in the making, featuring interviews with nursery managers on steps they take to reduce pesticide risks. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcdv...

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Exciting new meta-analysis: compared to calendar spraying, threshold-based management cuts insecticide use by 44% and costs by 40% without reducing yields, and supports more beneficial insects. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Newly registered or re-registered insecticides and herbicides will be rolling out with labels that may require drift/runoff mitigations to protect ESA-listed species. Learn more about how to navigate the menu of mitigations in a 90 min webinar next Tuesday from EPA: www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

"Places that are used to fire, to relying and thriving on it, are now encountering fire regimes that are staggeringly different from those with which they evolved...The complex ecologies that thrived alongside their milder predecessors will be pushed beyond the point of recovery." 🌏

“As classroom temperatures rise over time ... students tend to show declines in attention, memory and test performance,” said @edithdeguzman.bsky.social @ucanr.edu @luskininnovation.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

Vermont is a soccer state! What an incredible season and undefeated run to the national #USL2 championship @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social

UNDEFEATED NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! 🏆 THE INVINCIBLES! ✨ YOUR VERMONT GREEN FOOTBALL CLUB! 💚

Hundreds of monarch butterflies died in a winter 2024 event. Investigation implicated multiple pyrethroid insecticides: tinyurl.com/3h3y7wuf From The Guardian: "Combinations of pesticides can have a synergistic effect that makes them even more toxic. The solution...less pesticides." 🧪🌍🦋

Starlink's connection speeds drop below the federal definition of "broadband" at a density of ~7 customers per square mile, according to recent research. The more the customers in an area, the slower everybody's connections get. Data shows that 83% of US Starlink customers get sub-broadband speeds.

US scientists describe the effects of Trump's cuts. “If you cut the funding to the people who are doing the work right now, you don’t know what they would have innovated in 10 years or 15 years or 32 years like Rosalind Yalow. We don’t know what we’re losing.” 🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

USDA rescinded more than $1 billion in regional conservation grants. These local partnerships help make federal dollars go further. Without RCPP investment, tens of thousands of acres of land and water conservation projects won’t happen. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

USDA disaster assistance is now open for farmers hit by 2023–24 storms or weather events! If you had crop insurance or NAP, check your mail for a pre-filled form and apply at your local USDA office. A separate sign-up for uninsured losses is coming this fall. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

Third year of flooding on July 10th in Vermont - the impacts are being felt, and the urgency is real.

🚨 New paper published in @nature.com today by L. Monclús, H. P. H. Arp, K. J. Groh, A. Faltynkova, M. E. Løseth, J Muncke, Z. Wang, R. Wolf, L. Zimmermann & M. Wagner 👇 Mapping the #chemical complexity of #plastics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On Aug 1, tariff rates are scheduled to rise to historic highs. average tariffs on women’s clothing will rise to 48 percent, wine to 20 percent, and toys to nearly 50 percent. taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/too-m...

So sad to hear about Sheila’s passing. She was a brilliant native bee scientist, advocate, and mom, gone far too soon. The world feels smaller today. Rest in power, Sheila. We’ll keep fighting for the wild things and for justice, as you did fiercely and with so much heart. 🐝🌻💛

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

In January 2024, 200 monarchs were found dead or dying on the ground at a CA overwintering site. The likely culprit? Nearby residential/commercial pesticide use. 1/ academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...

Stay connected with ESA—even through employment disruption. The ESA Member Support Fund supports entomologists who have faced job loss in 2025 by waiving membership dues, allowing beneficiaries to maintain access to key benefits. Learn more and apply: www.entsoc.org/support/memb...

No Climate Action, No Food.

We feed you. They hunt us.

It's 50 pages of legal contortion trying to find a way to argue that the Antiquities Act does not say what it clearly says — presidents only have the power to create national monuments. Congress reserved the power to eliminate or shrink them.

"Secretary Kennedy’s team argues that there is insufficient evidence to support updated COVID-19 vaccines for healthy Americans under 65, but this claim is unfounded. Years of data demonstrate that vaccines save lives and reduce hospitalizations across all age groups." time.com/7292898/rfk-...

This week, the Trump EPA is expected to roll back the regulation of carbon emissions from power plants, which account for about a quarter of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Trump's first administration scrapped Obama's rules and his second will scrap Biden's.

NEW: The White House is quietly ordering agencies to freeze billions of dollars in additional funding for the EPA, Interior, Ag, National Science Foundation and more as part of a strategy to make cuts to education, climate, etc permanent and weaken role of Congress. www.eenews.net/articles/whi...

In an unprecedented move, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 members of the CDC's expert panel of vaccine advisers, citing conflicts of interest. cnn.it/4mYohFy

Nuestro blog reciente sobre qué hacer si ves muchas abejas muertas se ha publicado en el blog de Extensión en Español de la Universidad de Maryland. ¡Esperamos que te sea útil! 🐝 @xercessociety.bsky.social @umdentomology.bsky.social extensionesp.umd.edu/2025/06/09/v...

There's an effort afoot to try to save #GMRLN (pronounced Gremlin), the global #measles & #rubella lab surveillance network that was reliant on US funding that has disappeared. It costs a pittance, in global health terms, to run. Its loss would be huge. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/t...

It was hard to be outside yesterday, on a 75-degree sunny day that should have been perfect for hiking and biking. Another smoky summer thanks to #climatechange.

Cool insect #NaturalHistory paper in @science.org! 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛 “Hawaiian caterpillar patrols spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A new article in #RESInsectConsDiv shows moth communities are shaped by season, weather, elevation & landscape composition - a dataset of unusually large spatial & temporal extent Read the article now🔽 doi.org/10.1111/icad.12835 @felixneff.bsky.social @agroscope.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social

1/ Did you know some pesticides are PFAS (forever chemicals)? A recent study found 30% of pesticides approved by EPA in the past decade meet the OECD definition of PFAS. 📄 Donley et al. 2024: ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/...

Need a visual for insect declines and shifting baseline? Read this, and use the image sliders. “It’s the same sheet, with the same lights, in the same place, looking over the same vegetation…” he says. “There’s just no moths on that sheet.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

USDA ARS has published their initial findings from the colony losses: symptomatic sampled honey bees had high viral loads (deformed wing virus A and B and acute bee paralysis) and nearly all sampled mites had resistance to the common miticide amitraz. www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/...

The House Republican tax and spending bill extends and expands tax cuts for the rich, partly offset by cuts to Medicaid, climate-related spending, student loans, food benefits, and other essential programs. The bill would add nearly $3 trillion to the national debt over ten years.

Trump administration officials blocked publication of written government analysis because it predicted an increase in the nation’s trade deficit in farm goods, counter to the administration’s messaging on tariffs.

Only a quarter of Illinois farmland is owned by the people who farm it. That’s shaping what’s grown and how it’s grown, including the use of conservation programs/practices. Great in-depth read from @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/i...

Fascinating footage here - well worth a watch.

Like tens of thousands of years after he leaves office...

We are almost out of time to speak up for protecting the Endangered Species Act! If you haven't already, join us ⤵️

Today (May 19) is the final day to provide comments on the Endangered Species Act rule change - here's some info about how to submit a comment: esa.org/esablog/2025...

Many very bad proposals are embedded in the budget reconciliation package heading through Congress. This one is the most dangerous.

It was a relatively slow day at Magee Marsh for the first weekend of the @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social festival. And by "slow" I mean saw ~300 individual birds of 44 species, including ~65 warblers of 13 species. The best is yet to come (hopefully for my Saturday walk, open to the public!)