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Hey! I know that guy. @relenski.bsky.social
The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment Has Been Going For 80,000 Generations
The experiment has let organisms evolve over 80,000 generations so far in 12 different lines from a common ancestral colony, to see how they compare to each other.
www.iflscience.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Hey! I know that guy. @relenski.bsky.social
Not ideal for those people that might be impacted by changing weather patterns…which includes everyone. 🤦♂️
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Not ideal for those people that might be impacted by changing weather patterns…which includes everyone. 🤦♂️
Well that’s an interesting idea.
A Radical Climate Proposal Aims to Channel Seawater Into a Giant Egyptian Desert to Fight Sea Level Rise
Flooding Egypt’s vast Qattara Depression with seawater could slightly lower global sea levels and reshape climate adaptation.
www.zmescience.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Well that’s an interesting idea.
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"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg
December 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg
Thoughtful choices about your everyday actions can make a positive impact. Thoughtlessness can destroy ecosystems. Please consider switching to shade coffee. It tastes great and works with the environment instead of against it.
Coffee Watch
Coffee Watch is a nonprofit watchdog organization dedicated to the proposition that we should make the world a better place with each cup of coffee.
coffeewatch.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Thoughtful choices about your everyday actions can make a positive impact. Thoughtlessness can destroy ecosystems. Please consider switching to shade coffee. It tastes great and works with the environment instead of against it.
Colorado is building the world’s largest wildlife overpass.
Colorado Is Building the 'World's Largest' Wildlife Overpass, Giving Elk and Other Big Creatures a Safe Path to Cross a Busy Freeway
The completed overpass will be 200 feet wide by 209 feet long, forming a bridge across six lanes of traffic that see more than 100,000 vehicles each day
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Colorado is building the world’s largest wildlife overpass.
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Domestication syndrome is a collection of traits that emerge when animals adapt to living closely with humans.
www.iflscience.com/raccoons-in-...
www.iflscience.com/raccoons-in-...
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Domestication syndrome is a collection of traits that emerge when animals adapt to living closely with humans.
www.iflscience.com/raccoons-in-...
www.iflscience.com/raccoons-in-...
A new species of bee has been identified! Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), has demon-like horns and visits a critically endangered flower in Australia
Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), a new megachilid with demon-like horns that visits the Critically Endangered Marianthus aquilonaris (Pittosporaceae)
A new species Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) is described from both sexes. Megachile lucifer sp. nov. is of conservation importance, as it is a visitor to the range-restri...
jhr.pensoft.net
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A new species of bee has been identified! Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), has demon-like horns and visits a critically endangered flower in Australia
Fresh water reef restoration in Lake Huron.
Reef restoration will support native fish in Saginaw Bay
Most reefs are associated with tropical waters and colorful fish, not the Great Lakes, but the Saginaw Bay was once the home of many rock reefs. Now, efforts are underway to restore this lost habitat.
www.wnem.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Fresh water reef restoration in Lake Huron.
Just leave the leaves alone.
www.michigan.gov
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Just leave the leaves alone.
Especially if they are powered by the solar panels on your roof. 😏
Study finds EVs quickly overcome their energy-intensive build to be cleaner than gas cars
Producing and manufacturing electric vehicles and their batteries uses a lot of energy, leading many to be skeptical about the environmental benefits of going electric.
apnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Especially if they are powered by the solar panels on your roof. 😏
95% of all mammal on the planet consist of us and our domesticated food. 😳😳😳
The global biomass of mammals since 1850 - Nature Communications
Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850’s to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
95% of all mammal on the planet consist of us and our domesticated food. 😳😳😳
Positive news on the climate front is always welcome.
We Just Crossed Our FIRST Tipping Point… And It’s NOT What You Think
YouTube video by PBS Terra
youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Positive news on the climate front is always welcome.
Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died. Truly no one like her. She will be missed.
Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.
apnews.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died. Truly no one like her. She will be missed.
Hard to overcome invasive species, climate change and overfishing all at once.
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September 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Hard to overcome invasive species, climate change and overfishing all at once.
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Iberian harvester ants are the only known organism that propagates two species by itself, according to new research.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Iberian harvester ants are the only known organism that propagates two species by itself, according to new research.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/47sVFyS
Learn more: https://scim.ag/47sVFyS
Proud to say I got to play a small part in this project. Great to see school districts stepping up and doing their part in the climate crisis.
Lansing School District embraces solar to help power schools, buses
A switch will get pulled this year for what Lansing School District officials say will be an impressive show of solar capacity in south Lansing.
www.lansingstatejournal.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Proud to say I got to play a small part in this project. Great to see school districts stepping up and doing their part in the climate crisis.
So many cool native species to find. Definitely earned a few @inaturalist.bsky.social badges this weekend.
September 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So many cool native species to find. Definitely earned a few @inaturalist.bsky.social badges this weekend.
Plants with no chlorophyll, no leaves, and a root system they abandon. Dodders definitely don’t fit neatly into what makes a plant a plant.
This Plant Is A Vampire
YouTube video by Animalogic
youtube.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Plants with no chlorophyll, no leaves, and a root system they abandon. Dodders definitely don’t fit neatly into what makes a plant a plant.
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Yellowstone's wolves are helping a new generation of young aspen trees to grow tall and join the forest canopy
www.livescience.com/animals/land...
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Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 years
Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young trees, and it is finally paying off for quaking aspen.
www.livescience.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Yellowstone's wolves are helping a new generation of young aspen trees to grow tall and join the forest canopy
www.livescience.com/animals/land...
www.livescience.com/animals/land...