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Federal funding for first 100 days after inauguration.

U.S. proposal to change safety measure for endangered whales draws criticism from Canada Environmental groups in the United States and Canada are sounding the alarm about a U.S. government proposal to change a regulation that was introduced to protect a critically endangered species of wh...

I am so sick of the BS from the US government.

Environmental groups in the United States and Canada are sounding the alarm about a U.S. government proposal to change a federal regulation introduced in 2008 to protect a critically endangered species of whale. #Canada

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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before.

And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians.

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Francesca Albanese, Max Ajl, Hamza Hamouchene, and other Pluto Press contributors speak at the upcoming People's Congress in Amsterdam - find their books below 📚️ 👇️

For more info follow @progintl.bsky.social and check out the event online here:
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Joan Miró “The Morning Star” (1940) • During WWII, Miró produced 23 paintings collectively known as the Constellations. To create each piece, the artist first applied a soft ground of dry-brushed color that evokes the randomness of nature. Next, he painted fanciful black lines and vibrant flat shapes that change color whenever they cross over a line. Red switches to black…black switches to blue…blue switches to red. Miró’s Constellations pulse, like a universe with music in its soul. • During World War II, the Constellations were the first works of art created by a prominent European artist to reach America. Rumor has it they were secretly transported in a diplomatic pouch.

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡

To escape from the reality of WWII into the comfort of a fantasy world, Miró turned to the sky as a coping mechanism. “I felt a deep desire to flee,” said the artist. “The moon and the stars began to play a major role in my paintings.”

Joan Miró, “The Morning Star” (1940)

It's always time for this anti-fascist moment from Casablanca.

Birds are changing — and Indigenous memory is the longest record we have Conservation has long depended on measurement. Populations are counted, habitats mapped, trends plotted against baselines that often extend back only a few decades. Yet many ecosystems began changing ...

"Understanding ecological change may depend as much on listening as on measuring." Nice @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social column on traditional ecological knowledge and shifting baselines
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CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

“UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has shown that deep reading, defined as sustained immersion in a text, builds the cognitive circuits required for critical analysis, empathy and perspective-taking in ways that skimming, scrolling and short-form video simply cannot.”

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

21 minutes ago Farnaz Fassihi The attacks have come on a Saturday morning, the first day of the week in Iran, with millions of people at work and children in school. Residents in Tehran described scenes of panic and chaos.

Tehran is a city of nine million people, with 17 million in the larger metropolitan area.

Saturday is the first day of the week for Iranians.

Millions of people are at work, and children are in school.

the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night

If America was a country filled with people where the contents of the Epstein files could take down a president we wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with. He was elected AFTER access Hollywood, child separation, covid, being found liable for sexual abuse etc.

Number of students killed in Israeli attack on school in southern Iran rises to 24 We have reported earlier that an Israeli strike hit an elementary girl’s school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing five people. Now, Iran’s Fars news agency is reporting that the number of students killed rose to 24.

No words.

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!

A Thread.

Interesting conversation with someone recently who had been to a big ecology conference

They were amazed at the lack of a sense of urgency about the nature crisis

and that many of the studies presented - while often name-checking the crisis - were pursuing quite esoteric objectives

Screen print of a recent paper published in BES Journal People and Nature. Underneath there is a photo from the Conguillío NP in Chile and a QR code referred to in a text saying "Read the full paper and the open access statement"

🧵 New Perspective in People and Nature

“Strengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists and their societies”

Excited to share our latest paper! @peopleandnature.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

"Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility." from "Deep in Admiration" by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Deep in Admiration" was a talk given at the conference Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Dangerous Planet at UC Santa Cruz in May 2014. The text appears as the foreword to the collection Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 (published by PM Press).

Major Chinese funder to stop paying fees for 30 pricey open-access journals Move comes amid effort to grow the country’s own journals

Chinese Academy of Sciences plans on stopping using public funds to cover APC of expensive journals and caps publishing in them. To stimulate publications in considerably cheaper national papers.

Based. Lead by example. Defeat the system by rejecting it.

Rewilding Environmental Change Webinar - British Ecological Society Does it matter what we think about environmental change? This webinar will discuss shifting baseline syndrome and rewilding.

On Tuesday, the @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org are hosting @sarahpapworth.bsky.social, talking about shifting baseline syndrome and rewilding

Register here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/rewi...

Bird Flu Strikes California Elephant Seals for the First Time

For the first time, bird flu deaths confirmed in California elephant seals- in addition to elephant seals in Southern hemisphere. #birdflu #pinnipeds #elephantseals #nature #California

Botswana shows how smarter cattle herding can save lions, reopen ancient wildlife pathways The lions that roamed the plains of northern Botswana were dying. One by one, the big cats were succumbing to poisoned bait planted by exasperated villagers. The lions had been chipping away at their ...

Restoring traditional herding practices in northern #Botswana has led to a huge decrease in cattle predation + retaliatory lion poisonings.
More #lion cubs are now surviving, with the lion population in northern Botswana up 50% over the past 4 years.
#conservationoptimism

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk!

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Discover more about migratory species conservation and the broader One Health picture, which connects people, animals, and the environment, in our upcoming webinar.

We will dive into why wildlife health matters for ecosystem resilience and what it means for people and livestock too.

Link below! ⬇️

Buying Baja | Hakai Magazine On a storied stretch of Mexico’s Baja peninsula, locals fight rich outsiders and rampant development that threaten to transform the coast and dry up aquifers.

With the unrest in Mexican tourist hubs this week, it seems timely to re-up this old story that explains how the mass tourism promoted by the Mexican government leads to displacement and economic disparity so pronounced that one researcher calls it "de facto social and economic apartheid.”

Why do female reindeer have antlers? They eat them as a postbirthing snack A recent study found an unexpected benefit of female caribou antlers: they can function like a vitamin for deer that have just given birth

A recent study found an unexpected benefit of female caribou antlers: they can function like a vitamin for deer that have just given birth