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Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

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U.S. was only country in a worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are bad people A new Pew survey shows that other countries’ citizens tend to look more favorably on their neighbors.

It gives me no joy to say this, but ... We live in a sick country. There is a rot at the core. Just about *every* pathology in this country can be traced back to this atmosphere of mistrust
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

And while you’re at it, maybe organize the shelves too? I’m trying to figure what the titles on this shelf have in common but I’m stumped…

NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

One reason climate reporters are pushed out of the newsroom: their editors refuse to allow them to tell the truth about the problem.

Case in point: only 8 percent of all corporate broadcast climate segments in 2025 mentioned fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.

I loved that piece and how it flirted and danced with shifting baselines ...

Man, publishing a book is a trip. You spend a year (or more!) self-isolated with your thoughts and then, after every last social muscle has atrophied, you're expected to engage in the most extreme rush of shameless self-promotion imaginable. Who concocted this system?

More shifting baseline syndrome coverage today, like this from @fonddavidsuzuki.bsky.social: "Indigenous knowledge is crucial to limiting the syndrome’s effects, as it pushes forward the lived experiences of communities that recognize historic baseline conditions."
davidsuzuki.org/expert-artic...

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
news.mongabay.com/2026/03/bird...

File Under: Takes One to Know One

I know there are much much more important questions in the world right now, but a query for all you writers out there:
Should writers' professional websites be written in:
a) an omniscient narrator 3rd person
or
b) an intimate and colloquial 1st person?

Any country that doesn’t produce its own oil keeps getting more and more incentive to accelerate the shift to renewables, even if it couldn’t care less about climate change.

Fading memories and forgotten tales: Jackals in Assamese narratives | Current Conservation Current Conservation Fading memories and forgotten tales: Jackals in Assamese narratives

Love this:
"This whole experience made me realise that species conservation is not only about counting them and mapping habitats—it is also about listening. Narratives are valuable repositories and an important part of culture."
www.currentconservation.org/fading-memor...

How climate change and La Niña turned up the winter heat in Phoenix Phoenix experienced its hottest winter on record, ending with a string of 90-degree days. Experts say it's a sign of a changing climate.

Phoenix experienced its hottest winter on record, ending with a string of 90-degree days. Experts say it's a sign of a changing climate.

AI: Does not compute Building fossil-fuel infrastructure to power data centers is a poor bet. Renewables are by far the cheaper, faster choice.

Amory Lovins has entered the chat:
"Today’s AI mania rhymes: Gas and nuclear vendors that can’t beat energy efficiency and renewables in competitive markets are leveraging hype into mandates and subsidies to rescue their losers."
www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...

Sanders pitches $4.4 trillion tax on billionaires, in 2028 marker The measure comes as Democrats began to jostle ahead of the upcoming presidential primary.

When the editor makes your article inaccurate by messing with the lede:
First we're told the wealth tax would "roughly halve their [billionaires'] fortunes" ... but later we learn "the measure would leave most billionaires’ fortunes intact."
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Opinion | The Whooping Crane Recovery Shows What We Stand to Lose

Some quiet wisdom for a bloody day:
The living world also sustains us in ways we hardly recognize until we have been deprived of it for too long. The feel of turned soil in our hands, the scent of flowers on a breeze ... this is the world we were born for."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...

Warmest Phoenix winter on record sets stage for early March heat March 1 was expected to reach a high of 94 degrees, breaking the record for the hottest day to date for the city of Phoenix.

March 1 was expected to reach a high of 94 degrees, breaking the record for the hottest day to date for the city of Phoenix.

Under blood red skies

Mount Shuksan covered in snow

Mt Baker ski resort

Not a bad day to spend in the mountains
#Cascadia

Come to my TED Talk featuring my spouse and sister ...
This is beyond parody.

This is very bad news

Shifting Baseline Syndrome: The Definitive Guide to Generational Amnesia and Industrial Decay A strategic analysis of Daniel Pauly’s Ecological Theory applied to Heavy Industry. Why every new generation of engineers unknowingly accepts a dirtier, deadlier factory as "normal," why Asset Integri...

There's *always* a shifting baseline syndrome angle ...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/shifti...

Sam Alito has an oil money problem 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels.

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies

Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling

I drew the Washington state bird as a resistance symbol. I'm born and raised just outside Seattle.

'A good way of dealing with overpopulation': Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism Jeffrey Epstein and his vast network of elite figures routinely traded in myths that undermine climate progress. Experts say it's not an accident.

As @amywestervelt.bsky.social has pointed out ... There's *always* as #climate connection.
www.fastcompany.com/91490280/eps...

Trump's EPA wants us to cover our eyes. On climate policy, the Trump administration is willfully burying its head in the sand. It’s crucial newsrooms don’t follow.

A must-read for anyone on the #climate beat:
"The Trump administration may be burying its head. But journalists can’t afford to look away now. "
www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Will Your State Bird Disappear? • The Revelator A new study shows that tens of millions of Americans could lose the chance to see their state bird due to climate change.

I thought this was a smart way of making climate news accessible to people everywhere. Also, it prompted me to learn that the state bird of WA is the American Goldfinch
therevelator.org/state-birds-...

The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?

America 2026, captured in a headline
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a quiet revolution happening on US grids.

hey some rare good news: the us is installing a SHIT TON of batteries right now!

Supreme Court to Weigh Oil-Industry Effort to End a Major Climate Suit The case could have significant bearing on a range of other lawsuits brought against the fossil fuel industry by cities and states across the country.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court will hear a case in which the oil industry claims it shouldn’t be sued in state courts over its role in global warming.