RAISE YOUR VOICE: Now is the time to pledge your support for banning octopus farming. Octopus farming would be an ethical and environmental disaster, but with enough public support, we can protect octopuses from a lifetime of suffering: secure.everyaction.com/lE4sjpZgqUST...

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

"Fight Fascism" Poster seen in Gainesville, Florida

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

Oregon Senators and US Representatives: Show us you prioritize science! Support permanent Standard Time! @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @repbonamici.bsky.social @repdexteror.bsky.social @repvalhoyle.bsky.social @bynum.house.gov @salinas.house.gov @savestandard.bsky.social

A raptor with no qualms about eating its opponents wins New Zealand’s annual bird election

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

The Governor of Oregon @tinakotek.bsky.social decrying the shooting of Charlie Kirk. No mention of the three Evergreen High School students shot in Colorado on the same day. My thoughts are with them.

Loss of koala habitat shows ‘total failure’ of nature laws, conservationists say

In a new paper, researchers describe a bizarre dinosaur with thorny spines along its neck and back that made its home in Africa more than 165 million years ago.

New Zealand launches campaign to find love for rare and lonely left-spiralling snail Ned

Ancient ‘alien’ brittle stars linked to relatives across the globe by a deep-sea evolutionary superhighway

It should not be so lonely, nearly a decade after MeToo, to say that sexual violence is morally significant, that women’s dignity is worth defending. And it should not be so common to see people act as if treating women as disposable instruments for gratification is a privilege of men’s status.

14 June 2025 No Kings protest in Chewelah, WA #NoKings #Chewelah

There are over 200 species of deep-sea anglerfish; some are long and thin, some are squat and round, some have fins that they use to "walk" along the sea floor, and others have huge eyes set far back into their heads. But how did all this morphological diversity first come to be?

This elusive possum was thought to be extinct outside Victoria. Now ecologists have made an ‘amazing’ discovery

Western quolls and brushtail possums thrive in national park a decade after reintroduction

Echidna mothers change their pouch microbiome to protect tiny ‘pink jelly bean’ puggles, new research finds

Rare large carnivorous New Zealand snail filmed for the first time laying egg from its neck – video

Sea pigs, icefish and trilobites: Antarctica’s mysterious marine life – in pictures

Australia re-elects Anthony Albanese as PM after Peter Dutton failed to dissociate himself from Trump-like rhetoric and policies – and lost his own seat

Collapsing bird numbers in North America prompt fears of ecological crisis – research

Canada’s liberal party, led by Mark Carney, secures election victory after dramatic reversal of fortune

If you're in or near Clark County, Washington State, please come out to protest Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez at her Town Hall Thursday! Marie votes MAGA a third of the time, supports DOGE, voted for the SAVE Act, betrayed the Chinook Tribes, and censured Al Green. It's time to defend our democracy!

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85 cats escaping from a log cabin in the book 170 Cats by Zhenya Gay and Pachita Crespi, 1939.

Hands OFF protest in Kettle Falls, WA. 5 April 2025. #kettlefalls #washington #handsoff

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From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital to the forests’ health and the planet’s welfare.

33% of Americans are too stupid for words. 36% of Americans are too stupid to vote.

Warrior Rock Lighthouse Sauvie Island

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Start your Resistance garden if you have space. Share the crops you harvest.