"When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026… it was not hot enough." via Climate Alert

After years of massive overruns and delays, California's high speed rail hit big milestones, completing around 60 bridges, overpasses and viaducts in the Central Valley, plus a rail yard, with the first tracks expected later this year. Here's my latest for C Magazine: magazinec.com/culture/all-...

With stars increasingly lighting up onscreen and IRL, are younger people picking up the habit? @degenpener.bsky.social talks to actual young smokers to figure out if culture is driving the behavior, or simply reflecting it

Right now, DOGE is saying that any new hires have to be approved by their office. In 1980, when IL Governor Thompson said any new hires had to be approved by his office, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional politicization of hiring. What about now? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

World's richest man ends America's modest aid to the world's poorest people. I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception

Sunlit basidiolichen, Lichenomphalia umbellifera. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #mushroom #fungifriends #fungi

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Please re-tweet so I can quit X. I've got 45k followers there, just 500 here. When I get to 5k I can dump Musk forever I'm the director of @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social. Follow me for real-time, insider takes on endangered species, climate, public lands, oceans, toxics. We sue Trump alot. Very alot.

Apparently it is #BlackFlyDay (I think that's what it's called 😛) - here's a lovely velvety black hoverfly, Pipiza species (probably P. noctiluca) from Somerset last spring

This is a wild plan to combat cane toads in Australia:

Some interesting results from Jo Carpenter! Impacts on beech last is from sheer numbers of rats rather than prey switching as thought? #NZES2024

Jorunna funebris is our #Nudivember species today. They feed on sponges in the Indo-Pacific regions. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Big likes for auroch like:

Quite the thread botanically speaking:

The phrase “magic poo ring” was not on my Tuesday bingo card:

The hedgehog, once common throughout Scotland, has been updated from “least concern to near threatened” in the latest International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of threatened species Story by me for @theferret.scot theferret.scot/hedgehogs-ne...

It's an official goodbye: The slender-billed curlew declared extinct, the "first mainland European bird to go extinct in half a millennium": www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Wolves find their way to new territory : www.activenorcal.com/gray-wolves-...

For the new winter issue, C magazine gave me the opportunity to meet and interview six amazing furniture designers based in the greater Los Angeles area - meet these six inspiring creators here: magazinec.com/design/why-s...

In tandem with the rights of nature legal movement, some nonprofits and other organizations are now giving a place for voices of nature on their boards, writes Sophie Tolhurst at Atmos: atmos.earth/why-the-art-...