Quercus
@conservation.bsky.social
Enjoys outdoors instead of doom-scrolling. We are in a climate crisis!!! Solar-wind-geothermal-storage
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My political identity can best be described as "returning Pacific lamprey to downtown Spokane."
www.nwcouncil.org/fish-and-wil...
www.nwcouncil.org/fish-and-wil...
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My political identity can best be described as "returning Pacific lamprey to downtown Spokane."
www.nwcouncil.org/fish-and-wil...
www.nwcouncil.org/fish-and-wil...
This is an important article. What are we doing?! So many bad actors!
“The precedent is Flint.” Amazon has come to Oregon’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages. Read the story ⤵
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is an important article. What are we doing?! So many bad actors!
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According to Agriculture and Agri Food Canada, 85 per cent of the country is classified between abnormally dry and extreme drought. So where will the water used by data centres for cooling come from? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/o...
Who is minding the water data centres will use?
Around the world, scientists and environmentalists are sounding the alarm on the data centre industry.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
According to Agriculture and Agri Food Canada, 85 per cent of the country is classified between abnormally dry and extreme drought. So where will the water used by data centres for cooling come from? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/o...
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Sorry but Vatican giving a "fuck you" to Meloni and every other anti-renewables chud pol in Europe not only making clear they're now 100% fossil free electricity, from solar *agro-voltaics" makes me smile.
Can't believe the Telegraph hasn't run w Tory MP decrying "Papist Energy Hurts Farmers".
Can't believe the Telegraph hasn't run w Tory MP decrying "Papist Energy Hurts Farmers".
The Vatican Is First 100% Solar Country Via Agrivoltaics: Who Is Next?
The Vatican is now completely powered by a farm that sports solar panels to help shade-tolerant crops thrive. This new coupling of solar and agriculture is growing fast.
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sorry but Vatican giving a "fuck you" to Meloni and every other anti-renewables chud pol in Europe not only making clear they're now 100% fossil free electricity, from solar *agro-voltaics" makes me smile.
Can't believe the Telegraph hasn't run w Tory MP decrying "Papist Energy Hurts Farmers".
Can't believe the Telegraph hasn't run w Tory MP decrying "Papist Energy Hurts Farmers".
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Arctic sea-ice extent on November 30th was about 400,000 square kilometers below the previous record low for the date, set in 2016.
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Arctic sea-ice extent on November 30th was about 400,000 square kilometers below the previous record low for the date, set in 2016.
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“New car registrations in the EU inched down by 0.1% in the first eight months of 2025 compared to last year, but increased by 5.3% in August. From January to August, sales of EVs grew year-on-year by 24.8%”
EV sales aren’t declining.
ICE sales are declining.
ICE decline stalling market.
EV sales aren’t declining.
ICE sales are declining.
ICE decline stalling market.
November 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“New car registrations in the EU inched down by 0.1% in the first eight months of 2025 compared to last year, but increased by 5.3% in August. From January to August, sales of EVs grew year-on-year by 24.8%”
EV sales aren’t declining.
ICE sales are declining.
ICE decline stalling market.
EV sales aren’t declining.
ICE sales are declining.
ICE decline stalling market.
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All-Electric Homes Save Money & Improve Health
There is no reason to have fossil gas in your home. Electricity can do everything gas can do but cheaper, cleaner & more efficiently. All gas does is burden us with high costs & bad health for the rest of our lives
www.youtube.com/shorts/uSacJ...
There is no reason to have fossil gas in your home. Electricity can do everything gas can do but cheaper, cleaner & more efficiently. All gas does is burden us with high costs & bad health for the rest of our lives
www.youtube.com/shorts/uSacJ...
All-Electric Homes Save Money and Improve Health
YouTube video by Mark Z. Jacobson
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
All-Electric Homes Save Money & Improve Health
There is no reason to have fossil gas in your home. Electricity can do everything gas can do but cheaper, cleaner & more efficiently. All gas does is burden us with high costs & bad health for the rest of our lives
www.youtube.com/shorts/uSacJ...
There is no reason to have fossil gas in your home. Electricity can do everything gas can do but cheaper, cleaner & more efficiently. All gas does is burden us with high costs & bad health for the rest of our lives
www.youtube.com/shorts/uSacJ...
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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There's so much wrong in the world that it's overwhelming. But, if you can, spare a thought for the thousands of species which are silently slipping into extinction. This adorable weevil's just hanging in there, but how many more of our smaller creatures have we lost without noticing?
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
There's so much wrong in the world that it's overwhelming. But, if you can, spare a thought for the thousands of species which are silently slipping into extinction. This adorable weevil's just hanging in there, but how many more of our smaller creatures have we lost without noticing?
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Fun beaver/fish interaction: When I approached this pond, I startled brown trout preparing to spawn below it (beavs filter sediment & keep downstream substrate clean). The fish dashed to the dam & hid in its base. Beavers created perfect spawning grounds: pristine gravel adjacent to dense cover! 🤯🦫🐟
October 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Fun beaver/fish interaction: When I approached this pond, I startled brown trout preparing to spawn below it (beavs filter sediment & keep downstream substrate clean). The fish dashed to the dam & hid in its base. Beavers created perfect spawning grounds: pristine gravel adjacent to dense cover! 🤯🦫🐟
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Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of NPR who helped blaze a trail for women in journalism by becoming the first female anchor of a national nightly news program in the United States, died at 87.
Susan Stamberg, pioneering broadcaster at NPR, dies at 87
As a host of “All Things Considered,” she was the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program in the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of NPR who helped blaze a trail for women in journalism by becoming the first female anchor of a national nightly news program in the United States, died at 87.
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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
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
October 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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
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
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You can only know how old the grains are or how many there are but not both.
October 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
You can only know how old the grains are or how many there are but not both.
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Community notes strike again.
October 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Community notes strike again.
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Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away
A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW
October 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away
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That big, bubbly chemical reaction isn’t the powerful cleaning agent you may think it is. Combining these two compounds neutralizes the effectiveness of both, making a much less powerful cleaner than if you were to use them separately. nyti.ms/46qX5Je
October 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
That big, bubbly chemical reaction isn’t the powerful cleaning agent you may think it is. Combining these two compounds neutralizes the effectiveness of both, making a much less powerful cleaner than if you were to use them separately. nyti.ms/46qX5Je
www.zillow.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Humanity dug up the carbon remains of ancient life and set them ablaze. The result: we’ve summoned Earth’s deep-time ghosts into a climate nightmare that will bury us, too.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/carb...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/carb...
This is Carbon Dioxide’s World—We Just Live in It
In his latest book, science journalist Peter Brannen argues that CO2 is the most important—and most misunderstood—molecule on Earth
www.scientificamerican.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Humanity dug up the carbon remains of ancient life and set them ablaze. The result: we’ve summoned Earth’s deep-time ghosts into a climate nightmare that will bury us, too.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/carb...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/carb...
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OMG 😭
Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure."
LIFE SAVING!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...
Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure."
LIFE SAVING!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
www.youtube.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
OMG 😭
Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure."
LIFE SAVING!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...
Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure."
LIFE SAVING!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...
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Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.
Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.
People have power. Ask Target
Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.
People have power. Ask Target
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.
Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.
People have power. Ask Target
Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.
People have power. Ask Target
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Yes, America.
Our government is now calling truth and history "corrosive ideology."
It's only corrosive because it burns aways lies.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Our government is now calling truth and history "corrosive ideology."
It's only corrosive because it burns aways lies.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
www.washingtonpost.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Yes, America.
Our government is now calling truth and history "corrosive ideology."
It's only corrosive because it burns aways lies.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Our government is now calling truth and history "corrosive ideology."
It's only corrosive because it burns aways lies.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Wikipedia's resistance to enshittification is fascinating to me.
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
www.theverge.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Wikipedia's resistance to enshittification is fascinating to me.