Its not monsters from outer space
Its humans scraping the bottom floor and sucking up every life form that exists, leaving nothing
Fish often in vain flee for their lives
Also releases 370 million metric tons of planet-warming c02 every year, roughly same as running 100 coal power plants
Over 250 MILLION acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the future under the Senate's current budget reconciliation bill.
That's more than half of ALL lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service.
#protectpubliclands #publiclands #parkchat
"In 2023, Ecuador burned off 1.6 billion cubic metres of gas in oil operations in the Amazon, an amount more than triple the country’s total annual gas consumption, according to data analysis based on SkyTruth Flaring, a platform that employs satellite imagery to identify flaring."
#Methane #Amazon
Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.
Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows
A northern pufferfish is species #215 in the Coral City Catalog of Fishes 🥳🐡 #northernpufferfish #pufferfish #coralcitycatalogoffishes #pufferfishofcoralcity #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity
Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded.
CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.
Please read—this is becoming serious!
All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 24, 2025 ~ Dying in a corner of the sky.
"The findings add to growing fears of another decade of international failure on nature. Governments have never met a single target in the history of UN biodiversity agreements..."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I'm a geospatial software engineer - would love to be added! 🤗
