i was also struck by how many people receiving SNAP are employees of wal-mart and other big corporations. almost seems like we taxpayers are subsidizing private companies 🤔

"The future is still being written. Through choices in policy, investment, education, and care for one another and the Earth, we can still create a turning point. It begins by embracing our shared humanity and recognizing the profound interconnectedness of all life on the planet"

CBS News — fresh off its acquisition by Skydance Media and the installation of anti-woke opinion writer Bari Weiss as editor in chief — fired most of the reporters who specialize in covering climate change.

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"These notes describe orphan wells spewing toxic water near homes or into streams, leaving scars of salt residue. A homeowner reported that his grandchildren often play near a purging well. Ranchers have lost calves, which, drawn to the salty water, died after drinking it."

😮 indeed!

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries ➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. It has news, resources, jobs, great stories, and more. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

Melanie Winter @whaddaworld.bsky.social was a visionary, and fierce, with a mind like a microfiche of all the city reports that have ever been. RIP, Melanie, I'm so glad I had a chance to know you. @ianjames.bsky.social, what a lovely obit. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Great piece about efforts to save and plant seagrass meadows. Two key lines: "Seagrasses account for an estimated 10% of all the carbon stored by the world’s oceans." "At current rates... a football field’s worth of seagrasses disappears every second."

In early October, 50 African gray parrots were released into the wild by the Lukuru Foundation, after having been rescued from poachers and undergoing rehabilitation for a year at a refuge run by the foundation.

'Another unoccupied house collapsed into the ocean along North Carolina's Outer Banks on Saturday night. It's the 11th house to collapse since mid-September. In total, 22 homes have collapsed into the ocean in the area since 2020.' via AccuWeather [X] #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevel

California is protecting environmental expertise by hiring fired federal EPA scientists for key state roles. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Wind damage

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

The judge "acknowledged the Wet’suwet’en hereditary leaders’ decades-long fight to affirm the nation’s rights and title — and the B.C. and Canadian governments’ failure to engage meaningfully in negotiations." This "directly led to the land defenders blocking access to the pipeline route."

Thank you Melissa! Boston-area peeps, come check it out.

Wow, handcuffing Lady Liberty now?

Beautiful. I have a nephew who is largely nonverbal and taught himself to read when he was 3.

“Today, globally ~$200 billion/yr is invested in nature, vs over $7 trillion to activities of environmental degradation...trying to increase nature-positive finance to forests/critical natural systems, without addressing the negative, is fighting a losing battle” globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

#NoKings Port Angeles, WA

As always, @ianjames.bsky.social finding a great story water story to bring into full public view. www.latimes.com/environment/...

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...

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Five of Earth’s vital systems are close to a point of irreversible change, warns a new report released by a global network of scientists ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate change conference in Brazil.

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

Excited to see this vision spread!

A stick, hanging in mid-air? What's going on? Hazel glue fungus! Keeping a dead twig attached to a living stem allows the glue fungus to break it down without competition from the many other fungi that work at ground level. Nature is *so* amazing!

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

Oh, cool! Thanks, @kinarnicholas.bsky.social, for highlighting my article as Hydrology Paper of the Day!

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels, report finds - ABC News 🦑🧪🌎

This made me smile

🍄 👀 Humongous #fungus amongus via @mongabay.com "It is so large that I could sit on it, and it remained firmly attached to the tree.”

Six unoccupied homes in North Carolina’s Outer Banks collapsed into the ocean last week after being battered by waves from Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda. The shocking footage has spurred discussion online, with many asking “why did these homeowners build so close to the ocean?”

Flagging Trump this afternoon: "We took the freedom of speech away. Because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech — but what has happened is, when they burn a flag it, agitates and irritates crowds."

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

Neighbor

Food production for people (food forests) can overlap with natural biodiversity. "In Ecuador, the figure is striking: 99% of all Afro-descendant land is in biodiversity hotspots, while in Colombia almost 92% of Afro-descendant lands are in the top 5% of areas for biodiversity."

Our latest data analysis shows nearly 1 million Ha of tree cover was lost across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in 2024. Nearly a quarter of this was primary forest, but - more alarming - ~30% of tree cover losses occurred inside protected areas. Read the breakdown on @mongabay.com

🍄🧪🚨GLOW-IN-THE-DARK TREE SCIENCE🚨🧪🍄 Scientists have identified 125 species of bioluminescent fungi, and there are likely many more. One of the latest discoveries is a species that doesn't just glow on its own -- trees interlaced with its filaments also emit an ethereal greenish light (!!)

Chairman Mao Mao questions our decorative choice of his Birmingham Peaky Blinders doppelgänger.

Only 2-3 percent of old growth remains on Vancouver Island & some may be logged soon. Colonizers pushed First Nations to form elected councils, at odds w/their hereditary governance. Now some nations are split over land management. By Robyn Bell, Capital Daily www.capitaldaily.ca/news/old-gro...

Super cool story by Robyn Bell for Capital Daily www.capitaldaily.ca/news/orcas-s...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

ICE agents shoved multiple journalists while they were doing their jobs. One had to go to the hospital. www.amny.com/immigration/...

Jane Goodall whooped a chimp greeting at Cal Academy, and held the audience rapt. I got to interview her, and she was so kind, & clear in her message that she spent 300 days/year traveling to tell. Her Roots & Shoots org stoked wonder, love, and protection for nature in children worldwide. RIP