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Democrats Say They Have Votes to Force Lutnick to Testify on Epstein Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say they have the votes to subpoena Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

“House Oversight Democrats believe they have the votes to force Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify before the committee regarding his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and the lies he told about it.”

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Trump Is Attacking Climate Science. Scientists Are Fighting Back. It’s easy, looking at the past year, to see the damage the administration has done. But researchers are also stepping up, trying to fill the gaps.

“Like neighbors in Minnesota standing vigil together, the climate research community needs to stand in solidarity with other targets within the scientific community (such as the public health community) and beyond.”

newrepublic.com/article/2070...

Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously threatened to remove the firm from the department's supply chain.

Anthropic refuses to bend its AI rules for Pentagon. "At issue... is the potential use of its AI tools... for ‘mass domestic surveillance’ and ‘fully autonomous weapons’. [Dario] Amodei said ‘such [uses] have never been included in our contracts with the Dept. of War...'" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oil Tankers Reportedly Avoid Strait Of Hormuz Following Air Strikes Following U.S. and Israeli strikes Saturday oil and gas tankers were reportedly not passing through the Strait of Hormuz near Iran, a corridor through which about 20% of oil passes through each year.

Following U.S. and Israeli strikes Saturday oil and gas tankers were reportedly not passing through the Strait of Hormuz near Iran, a corridor through which about 20% of oil passes through each year.

two little green sea cushions on a bumpy green kina (urchin) shell . kina shell is shaped like a donut

wee sea cushions (star fish) on a kina (urchin) shell 🙂

Newsom staff fighting the good fight.

Meanwhile, Reform want to send us back to the 1970's.

— producing a combined output of 74 megawatts from 18 floating turbines, sufficient to power the entire city of Inverness (population 65,000) continuously and indefinitely from tidal energy alone.

Lawmakers Blocked From Seeing Classified Intel Behind Tulsi Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint The Trump administration has informed lawmakers that it will not provide them with the classified intelligence report that underlies a whistleblower complaint involving Director of National Intelligen...

White House blocks Congress from seeing NSA intelligence from whistleblower complaint. “The Trump admin. has informed lawmakers that it will not provide them with the classified intelligence report... citing an assertion of presidential executive privilege." www.ibtimes.com/lawmakers-bl...

La Sabina (Juniperus phoenicea) en el pueblo de Sabinosa. El Hierro
Tiene alrededor de 500 años. Mide 3,5 metros, el perímetro del tronco son 3,35 metros mientras que el diámetro de la copa son 3 metros

Iowa accuses General Motors of not disclosing OnStar data sharing The state claims GM customers were not told their vehicles were “secretly spying on them” and the manufacturer was selling their driving data to insurance companies.

Iowa accuses GM of spying on customers. “General Motors failed to disclose to car buyers that driving data collected by [its] OnStar program... is sold to auto insurance companies & other third parties without consumers’ awareness or consent, Iowa claimed..." www.courthousenews.com/iowa-accuses...

Alameda South Shore beach

Beach walk 1/2

Great to be able to get back on to Wheldrake Ings now that water levels have dropped. Absolute wader fest, with 60 Black-tailed Godwits, 200 Dunlin, 9 Ruff, 500 Lapwings and 100 Golden Plovers. A male Merlin zipped through, Chiffchaff singing and two Coot back on the ings. @yorkbirding.bsky.social

The Northern Lights in Canada are really the most beautiful thing in nature to see in the world.

The deepest we've seen a cephalopod was a Dumbo octopus (Grimpoteuthis) at 6,957 m. The deepest we've seen a squid was a Bigfin squid (Magnapinna) at 6,212 m.

Come on, cephalopods, we can't let us be beat by *fish* of all things. We got to pump those numbers up (or I guess down)

A Common Sydney Octopus (Octopus tetricus) sitting in a little hole behind a rock, and grabbing onto a person's fingers with its tiny arms. The sea floor is sandy, the octopus spot seems to no be covered in sand because of the sand covered rock behind it. The octopus has its mantle well into the hole, with just its arms sticking out. The arms are in a messy curvy pile, and grabbing onto the tips of the person's middle, ring and pinky finger (it is a left hand). The octopus is a mix of light and dark grey with orange on its underside. The octopus appears to be about the size of the hand or smaller.

Its very cute when you octopus is grabbing a persons hand like a sort of handshake, but then you remember octopuses can taste with their suckers, so they are also tasting the person's hand at the same time, which just adds a fun layer of weird too.

🐙📷Nick Strachov (inaturalist.ca/observations...)

“The beauty of a great sunset is the transcendent penetrating into the immanent.”

— Hamza Yusuf

Webster the white shark pings off 400 miles off Florida's space coast A white shark called Webster has been tracked hanging out in the open ocean, hundreds of miles from the coast of Florida.

I wonder what Webster did to get demoted from Great White Shark to just White Shark.

I understand that the terminology applies to the same shark, but it just seems like a slap in the face.

Source: FOX Weather
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Gas Prices Could Go Above $3 Per Gallon Next Week After Iran Strikes, Analyst Warns Gas could reach a national average above $3 per gallon for the first time this year, as analysts anticipate crude oil prices will jump next week.

Gas could reach a national average above $3 per gallon for the first time this year, as analysts anticipate crude oil prices will jump next week.

Pelicans in dispute 2.

Learning from Tracked Birds: Conservation and Compassion A recent post in Rewilding Earth, “Rewilded Condors Find a Haven in Chilean Patagonia,” discusses the importance of satellite tracking for the protection of

Continuing the #flyway theme from my last column for #Rewilding Earth (@rewilding.org), I reflect on how satellite tracking not only informs conservation but also invites - gasp - empathy for *individual* #birds 🐦

I suggest even rewilders must accept this consequence.

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Assessing climate change impacts for small-scale fisheries in the Gulf of California using deep learning The complexity of small-scale multi-species fisheries, which often lack detailed catch data, creates significant obstacles to measuring and addressing…

Assessing climate change impacts for small-scale fisheries in the Gulf of California using deep learning doi.org/10.1016/j.fi... 🧪 🦑 🌍️ 🐟️

China Deploys Thousands of Fishing Boats off Japan's Coast, and They Are Not There to Fish Thousands of Chinese fishing vessels have appeared in tightly packed formations near Japanese-administered waters, captured in striking satellite images.

China Deploys Thousands of Fishing Boats off Japan’s Coast, and They Are Not There to Fish

Japanese authorities seized a Chinese fishing vessel suspected of violating domestic fisheries law after it entered territorial waters.
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Drax to stop burning controversial Canadian wood within next year Yorkshire plant has been criticised for taking material from some of British Columbia’s most environmentally important forests

Biomass is unethical. Even the customers know it. The Nova Scotia government still touts it. The second smallest provincial landmass in Canada and 99% of it has been clearcut. They won't stop plundering til we have the land version of the fisheries collapse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Bird of the Day: Pelagic Cormorant (PECO)
In Monterey, three species of cormorants were co-existing along the rocky shore: Brandt’s, Double-crested, and these PECO. To pick them out from the others, I looked for the iridescent sheen on their dark feathers, catching the light with shades of violet,

Alaska Natives navigate blocks from state government, fishing industry to maintain their lifeways The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the state of Alaska to affirm subsistence fishing rights

Kimberly Nicholas contends that proper fisheries management must include Alaska Natives.

“I would like them to give us a seat at the table,” she told Prism. “Co-management is what would actually help."

https://prismreports.org/2026/02/25/alaska-natives-supreme-court-subsistence-fishing/

A seasonal check-in for Maine’s lobster industry A Maine lobsterman weighs recent catch levels, rising regulatory costs, and the future of the state’s lobster industry.

Maine’s fisheries pay a central role in the state’s economy. While last year saw record-breaking lobster catches, each season brings uncertainty.

Deeper ocean ecosystems are unique – and uniquely vulnerable without better protection A new study challenges a common assumption that deeper marine ecosystems act as refuges which could reseed damaged shallower reef systems.

🌊 Deeper ocean ecosystems are unique – and uniquely vulnerable without better protection

theconversation.com/deeper-ocean...

World’s largest coral colony discovered off Australian coast by mother-daughter team | CNN A mother-and-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified the world’s largest known coral colony, found on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia.

A mother-daughter team just discovered the largest coral colony ever recorded! 🌊

Located on the Great Barrier Reef, it’s about the length of a soccer field. Discoveries like this remind us why protecting ocean habitats and biodiversity is urgent. https://cnn.it/4ufZVuD