Xanthomendoza trachyphylla, the Desert Firedot Lichen, growing on a sedimentary rock slab #Fallback to June 6 🌿

After a break of 40 yrs, I produced my first mini #zine: ko-fi.com/s/700d3d3138 and I'm so nervous now! More: www.cronenburg.net/zines/ #nature #solarpunk #sciComm #cartoon #reconnection #NatureMatchCuts #zines #moss #fungi #education #noAI #art

Finally finished this last week and highly recommend! Such a carefully crafted timeline of the history of life in the air and the science that describes it. Loved the chapters on the Mills' and Lindberghs' contributions many decades ago. The fight for clean air is nothing new! @carlzimmer.com

I found this stranded Atlantic Giant Cockle the other morning after King tides. Isn't it pretty? After this little photo shoot, I placed it gently back into the ocean. 🦑

„Ungenügend, unwirksam, gefährlich“: Umweltverbände & Wolfsexperten weisen das neue #Wolfs-Jagdgesetz einhellig zurück, mit der es dem Wolf an den Pelz gehen soll. Auch Juristen fällen ein vernichtendes Urteil. @riffreporter.bsky.social @wwf.de @nabu.de @bund.net www.riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/na...

Pay farmers NOT to have sheep, and many would jump at the chance to do the right thing. But farming is their livelihood, so it won't happen otherwise. *Society* has to do the right thing by nature, and give farmers the option of letting it come back, instead of killing it off.

👏 Gut für echten #Meeresschutz: Der Umweltausschuss des Bundesrates hat die Initiative gegen die Gasausbeutung vor #Borkum angenommen! Im Umweltausschuss des Bundestages gab es am Mittwoch bereits viel Kritik an den Vorhaben - aus der Stadt Borkum, von Umweltverbänden & Meeresbiologen.

It's World Pear Day and will you just look at Manet's pears:

The Lewis Chessmen These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀 From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA

Reptile species found only on islands are significantly more vulnerable to extinction than their mainland counterparts, yet remain vastly overlooked by researchers, according to a recent study.

Natuur in plaats van spullen, maar dan wel zwart. #BlackFridayNature Doe gerust mee als je wilt. Naar een idee van @geertje-geertsma.bsky.social Natuurlijk doen ook de insecten mee zoals deze #Dambordvlieg en #StinkendeKortschild #ElkeDagEenInsect

Natuur ipv spullen, maar dan wel zwart. #BlackFridayNature doe gerust mee als je zin hebt. . #FungiFriends

Ik doe gerust mee met #BlackFridayNature #paddospam

This mushroom decayed into a weird gothic version of my great-grandmother’s lamp. Maybe fitting for Halloween, but today for #BlackFridayNature @geertje-geertsma.bsky.social #fungifriends

I feel compelled to break this vicious cycle of "laaaaarge ferocious wild animals" and reintroduce invertebrates huhu Swallowtails 🦋 Crabs 🦀 Achatinas 🐌 Various caterpillars 🐛 Jellyfishes 🪼 :)

👣 First pieces from 9.1 — focusing on #indigeneity — are out. Exploring #badgers, #meat ethics, #raptors, the bonds between humans, nonhumans, & place, plus #conservation politics, these essays highlight #ecocentric ways of being. Incl. #JaneGoodall tribute. 🐾 ecologicalcitizen.net/issue.php?i=...

my new #sciart for @chistinesd.bsky.social: her research in @newphyt.bsky.social reveals arbuscular mycorrhizae in the stem of the early plant Aglaophyton from 407 million years ago, showing that fungal-plant symbioses are as old as the earliest soils. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For the first time, scientists have documented an unusual defense: Some species of arachnids build giant doppelgängers on their webs, creating a frightening deception that scares off would-be killers. https://scim.ag/487Myn0

Mammoth spotted in South Poland! Actually, a to-scale model by Studio Kamyk for the Jegiellonian University Nature Education Centre, Krakow. 😍

Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont

I'm back in #zines (after a 40-year hiatus)! It's my personal #activism against #AI #scraping of #artists: #AI and #llm can't fold paper / have fun with silly stuff like a moss caressing alien. And I'm fascinated by the modern forms and the possibilities of #storytelling. #sciComm #writer #solarpunk

Did you ever join a #community project of #crafts? I did and experienced the #happiness, #cooperation, and why #participatoryArt can be important for #activism: steady.page/en/naturemat... You can subscribe to my free newsletter! #craftivism #embroidery #textileArts #socialPractice #NatureMatchCuts

Up close with a Texas cave scorpion from UT Austin's Brackenridge Field Lab.

A Cartoonist Finds Hope Amid the Apocalypse(s) In two powerful new graphic novels, @pkuper.bsky.social tackles climate change, disappearing insects, and other tough environmental topics — but gives us reasons to avoid despair. https://therevelator.org/peter-kuper-insectopolis/

Happy Friday! Here's an Ovenbird at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 2 uplands. #birds

'Texturen' #FotoVorschlag Diese Schönheit viel mir gestern im Botanischen Garten vor die Füße- in Vorahnung zum heutigen Thema.😉

Good that Canada joins coalition to fight against climate disinformation (so maybe don't weaken greenwashing law?) www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

I will never get tired of trying to infinitely inch closer to hummingbirds I have a few food spots around county where the birds simply ignore me and go about their business I will watched this male over a period of 20 minutes as I repositioned my self closer and closer… 📷🌿🪶 Anna’s Hummingbird

UK publication day! www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/chris...

I witness my students undergo major transformations as they learn to see past the basic ways their sense of the world has been framed by human exceptionalism. As the wool is pulled from their eyes, they come to experience Nature as more alive, animate, and aware. (1/2)

Ja dann fragen wir doch mal die Töchter:

Wenn Friedrich Merz sich auch nur ansatzweise interessieren würde dafür, was gut für meine Töchter ist, nähme er die Klimakrise ernst, würde den Verbrennungsmotor in Rente schicken, Überreiche fair besteuern und nie mehr AfD-Parolen nachbellen.

Kurzer Eindruck von der »Wir sind das #Stadtbild« -Demo auf dem Pariser Platz in Berlin, die kurzfristig am heutigen Abend stattfand.

Der Artikel ist älter, deshalb wurde #Bundeskanzler Friedrich #Merz noch nicht erwähnt: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Sein brandgefährliches Narrativ über #Frauen und #Töchter stellt ihn aber in eine Reihe mit all diesen rassistischen und misogynen Gestalten. #Stadtbild #Rassismus #Misogynie

"Current and former national security officials…describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the US apart from the world’s most repressive regimes." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

there are lessons from No Kings' scale that serve us all. if this is the sum of your protest experience, what's next for you? if you are someone plugged into movement and direct action outside electoral politics, can this be an opportunity for you to radicalize someone and bring new resources in?

I originally invited conservation photographer @chasingbugs.com to write this for the @sejorg.bsky.social magazine, but I thought it deserved an even bigger audience, so I'm republishing in on @therevelator.org today: therevelator.org/write-about-...

Monocultures destroy life, eradicate ecosystems, maintained by endless toxic pesticides. "Diversity is strength" is the fundamental operating principle of life on earth. It's everything fascists must destroy in order to maintain their monoculture of hate &supremacy. But they are brittle AF. 2/2

📣 Educators: Since my book was published, I've really enjoyed connecting directly with teachers, students, & academics of all kinds. I'd be honored if you would consider Becoming Earth for your class & I'd be happy to visit when feasible 💙📚 🧪 penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/2025/03/03/f...

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

🥁 Drumroll please... An investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in anti-protest laws; A profile of a Palestinian woman collecting climate-resilient heirloom seeds; And a sprawling television series tackling the profound fight between saving the planet and growing our economies...

While the rest of the web flounders, I am pleased to report that my bug photo website is still going strong and may be the last thing available for you to look at.

Basil thyme (Clinopodium acinos) still in flower and a lonely Viola tricolor ssp tricolor for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Julian Brave NoiseCat is one of the smarter people I've ever met, and this is a very fine new book! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is what psychological warfare looks like. More than anything, even more than being huge ass racists, ice agents want to look cool and feel like badasses. Make. them. look. stupid. #portland #portlandfrog

#Antifa #PortlandFrog #Amphifa #FuckAgentKrasnov

The frogs are multiplying at the ICE facility protests in Portland, I am not surprised by this development. After all it’s #Frogtober! 😹🐸 #Portland #ICE #ICEprotests #StopICE #FuckICE #Portland #PortlandFrog

Never forget that the rise of the frog resistance was foretold by a great prophet, many years ago, in a more innocent time. #PortlandFrog www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0fu...

Everybody Loves A Freedom Frog!