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#Firework season is upon us. Most people already know about the hazards of improper fireworks usage, but even when everything goes to plan, there’s still a cost to be paid in the form of #airpollution. 🎆
📽️ Brynne Rardin
📽️ Brynne Rardin
July 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#Firework season is upon us. Most people already know about the hazards of improper fireworks usage, but even when everything goes to plan, there’s still a cost to be paid in the form of #airpollution. 🎆
📽️ Brynne Rardin
📽️ Brynne Rardin
#Desertification is rampant around the world, and if left unchecked can cause upwards of 1.5 million km² of #agricultural land loss by 2050. Two-thirds of the land on Earth is already beginning a process of desertification, accelerated by #climatechange, drought, and poor management.
📽️ Ian Powell
📽️ Ian Powell
June 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#Desertification is rampant around the world, and if left unchecked can cause upwards of 1.5 million km² of #agricultural land loss by 2050. Two-thirds of the land on Earth is already beginning a process of desertification, accelerated by #climatechange, drought, and poor management.
📽️ Ian Powell
📽️ Ian Powell
The #summersolstice is a highly regarded day for cultures around the #world 🌎☀️.
The #sun feeds us, warms us, and is overall an amazing thing to have around. Our lives are dictated by its rising and setting, so what better day to appreciate it than when it’s highest in the sky?
📽️: Brynne Rardin
The #sun feeds us, warms us, and is overall an amazing thing to have around. Our lives are dictated by its rising and setting, so what better day to appreciate it than when it’s highest in the sky?
📽️: Brynne Rardin
June 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The #summersolstice is a highly regarded day for cultures around the #world 🌎☀️.
The #sun feeds us, warms us, and is overall an amazing thing to have around. Our lives are dictated by its rising and setting, so what better day to appreciate it than when it’s highest in the sky?
📽️: Brynne Rardin
The #sun feeds us, warms us, and is overall an amazing thing to have around. Our lives are dictated by its rising and setting, so what better day to appreciate it than when it’s highest in the sky?
📽️: Brynne Rardin
The UN is celebrating World Oceans Day with a simple message: keep wonder alive. 🌊
Let wonder fuel that passion for discovery. Believe that you can still be amazed by our oceans, and they will surprise you every day.
What moments of the ocean fill you with wonder?
📽️ Brynne Rardin
Let wonder fuel that passion for discovery. Believe that you can still be amazed by our oceans, and they will surprise you every day.
What moments of the ocean fill you with wonder?
📽️ Brynne Rardin
June 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The UN is celebrating World Oceans Day with a simple message: keep wonder alive. 🌊
Let wonder fuel that passion for discovery. Believe that you can still be amazed by our oceans, and they will surprise you every day.
What moments of the ocean fill you with wonder?
📽️ Brynne Rardin
Let wonder fuel that passion for discovery. Believe that you can still be amazed by our oceans, and they will surprise you every day.
What moments of the ocean fill you with wonder?
📽️ Brynne Rardin
No scripts, no retakes. We’re going LIVE y’all!
Tela Coral is taking over our Instagram airwaves to bring us a special report directly from the field in Honduras. 🇭🇳🪸
SUNDAY, JUNE 1 @ 3PM CST.
Bring your questions! We’ll bring the answers!
Tela Coral is taking over our Instagram airwaves to bring us a special report directly from the field in Honduras. 🇭🇳🪸
SUNDAY, JUNE 1 @ 3PM CST.
Bring your questions! We’ll bring the answers!
May 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
No scripts, no retakes. We’re going LIVE y’all!
Tela Coral is taking over our Instagram airwaves to bring us a special report directly from the field in Honduras. 🇭🇳🪸
SUNDAY, JUNE 1 @ 3PM CST.
Bring your questions! We’ll bring the answers!
Tela Coral is taking over our Instagram airwaves to bring us a special report directly from the field in Honduras. 🇭🇳🪸
SUNDAY, JUNE 1 @ 3PM CST.
Bring your questions! We’ll bring the answers!
Get in, landlubber, we’re going filming! 🎥🌊
EcoWatch is joining Tela Coral on their latest expedition to Honduras! The team will be filming a short documentary and VR experience #TheRebelReef, and they’ve invited us along for the ride!
Our feeds will be updated regularly, so check in! 🪸
EcoWatch is joining Tela Coral on their latest expedition to Honduras! The team will be filming a short documentary and VR experience #TheRebelReef, and they’ve invited us along for the ride!
Our feeds will be updated regularly, so check in! 🪸
May 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Get in, landlubber, we’re going filming! 🎥🌊
EcoWatch is joining Tela Coral on their latest expedition to Honduras! The team will be filming a short documentary and VR experience #TheRebelReef, and they’ve invited us along for the ride!
Our feeds will be updated regularly, so check in! 🪸
EcoWatch is joining Tela Coral on their latest expedition to Honduras! The team will be filming a short documentary and VR experience #TheRebelReef, and they’ve invited us along for the ride!
Our feeds will be updated regularly, so check in! 🪸
#Monarch #butterflies are iconic.
Instantly recognizable, culturally impactful, and a major beneficiary to the #ecological balance all across the North American continent 🦋🦋🦋
Their numbers have looked better in the past, but we may be seeing a rebound for these dazzling #insects!
📽️ Ian Powell
Instantly recognizable, culturally impactful, and a major beneficiary to the #ecological balance all across the North American continent 🦋🦋🦋
Their numbers have looked better in the past, but we may be seeing a rebound for these dazzling #insects!
📽️ Ian Powell
May 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#Monarch #butterflies are iconic.
Instantly recognizable, culturally impactful, and a major beneficiary to the #ecological balance all across the North American continent 🦋🦋🦋
Their numbers have looked better in the past, but we may be seeing a rebound for these dazzling #insects!
📽️ Ian Powell
Instantly recognizable, culturally impactful, and a major beneficiary to the #ecological balance all across the North American continent 🦋🦋🦋
Their numbers have looked better in the past, but we may be seeing a rebound for these dazzling #insects!
📽️ Ian Powell
“This administration thinks that if they stop doing the work to identify climate change that climate change will go away." 🌍🌀
NOAA has announced it will stop tracking the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters.
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/noaa-climate...
NOAA has announced it will stop tracking the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters.
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/noaa-climate...
May 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“This administration thinks that if they stop doing the work to identify climate change that climate change will go away." 🌍🌀
NOAA has announced it will stop tracking the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters.
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/noaa-climate...
NOAA has announced it will stop tracking the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters.
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/noaa-climate...
The devil’s in the details! 🐠😈
Mike Mitchell is taking the spotlight today at EcoWatch to talk about his product and passion, #PezzyPets. It started when he noticed that fisheries in Mexico were being completely overrun with a very #invasive fish, the devil fish.
📽️ Brynne Rardin
Mike Mitchell is taking the spotlight today at EcoWatch to talk about his product and passion, #PezzyPets. It started when he noticed that fisheries in Mexico were being completely overrun with a very #invasive fish, the devil fish.
📽️ Brynne Rardin
May 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The devil’s in the details! 🐠😈
Mike Mitchell is taking the spotlight today at EcoWatch to talk about his product and passion, #PezzyPets. It started when he noticed that fisheries in Mexico were being completely overrun with a very #invasive fish, the devil fish.
📽️ Brynne Rardin
Mike Mitchell is taking the spotlight today at EcoWatch to talk about his product and passion, #PezzyPets. It started when he noticed that fisheries in Mexico were being completely overrun with a very #invasive fish, the devil fish.
📽️ Brynne Rardin
According to a new study, the #carbon #footprint of the world’s wealthiest 10% has been responsible for two-thirds of #globalheating over the past 35 years. 🫨
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/carbon-emiss...
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/carbon-emiss...
May 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
According to a new study, the #carbon #footprint of the world’s wealthiest 10% has been responsible for two-thirds of #globalheating over the past 35 years. 🫨
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/carbon-emiss...
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/carbon-emiss...
🚨 IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED TO PROTECT ENDANGERED SPECIES!
May 16 is #EndangeredSpeciesDay (usually a day of celebration 🥳🦅) -- but this year? The Trump Administration is trying to gut the Endangered Species Act.
We all need to speak up to save this law and the species it protects!
📽️ Brynne Rardin
May 16 is #EndangeredSpeciesDay (usually a day of celebration 🥳🦅) -- but this year? The Trump Administration is trying to gut the Endangered Species Act.
We all need to speak up to save this law and the species it protects!
📽️ Brynne Rardin
May 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🚨 IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED TO PROTECT ENDANGERED SPECIES!
May 16 is #EndangeredSpeciesDay (usually a day of celebration 🥳🦅) -- but this year? The Trump Administration is trying to gut the Endangered Species Act.
We all need to speak up to save this law and the species it protects!
📽️ Brynne Rardin
May 16 is #EndangeredSpeciesDay (usually a day of celebration 🥳🦅) -- but this year? The Trump Administration is trying to gut the Endangered Species Act.
We all need to speak up to save this law and the species it protects!
📽️ Brynne Rardin
BREAKING: University at Albany researchers have presented the first recorded evidence that surface waters in the #AdirondackMountains have made an almost complete recovery from #metal #pollution since enactment of the #CleanAirAct. 🏔️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/clean-air-ac...
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/clean-air-ac...
May 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
BREAKING: University at Albany researchers have presented the first recorded evidence that surface waters in the #AdirondackMountains have made an almost complete recovery from #metal #pollution since enactment of the #CleanAirAct. 🏔️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/clean-air-ac...
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/clean-air-ac...
In #Switzerland, a #solartechnology startup is making use of open spaces between railway tracks to place solar panels. The panels collect #solarpower, even with #trains using the #railway throughout the day. 🚂⚡
✒️ Paige Bennett
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/solar-railwa...
✒️ Paige Bennett
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/solar-railwa...
May 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
In #Switzerland, a #solartechnology startup is making use of open spaces between railway tracks to place solar panels. The panels collect #solarpower, even with #trains using the #railway throughout the day. 🚂⚡
✒️ Paige Bennett
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/solar-railwa...
✒️ Paige Bennett
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/solar-railwa...
“My number one worry is what is going to happen in the summer... there are fewer wildfires but they can be catastrophic.”
The wildfire season in the UK is so prolifically bad that it's breaking records in all the worst ways. ⚠️⚠️⚠️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/uk-wildfires...
The wildfire season in the UK is so prolifically bad that it's breaking records in all the worst ways. ⚠️⚠️⚠️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/uk-wildfires...
May 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
“My number one worry is what is going to happen in the summer... there are fewer wildfires but they can be catastrophic.”
The wildfire season in the UK is so prolifically bad that it's breaking records in all the worst ways. ⚠️⚠️⚠️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/uk-wildfires...
The wildfire season in the UK is so prolifically bad that it's breaking records in all the worst ways. ⚠️⚠️⚠️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/uk-wildfires...
“Drawing quantitative linkages between individual emitters and particularized harms is now feasible, making science no longer an obstacle to the justiciability of climate liability claims." ☠️💸
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/climate-warm...
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/climate-warm...
May 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
“Drawing quantitative linkages between individual emitters and particularized harms is now feasible, making science no longer an obstacle to the justiciability of climate liability claims." ☠️💸
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/climate-warm...
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/climate-warm...
"It’s time for the world to recognize that MPAs are the building blocks of the #blueeconomy." 🌊🌎
If we want to keep our oceans protected at the rate we promised, ocean safeguarding efforts will have to quadruple over the next 5 years.
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/revive-our-o...
If we want to keep our oceans protected at the rate we promised, ocean safeguarding efforts will have to quadruple over the next 5 years.
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/revive-our-o...
May 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"It’s time for the world to recognize that MPAs are the building blocks of the #blueeconomy." 🌊🌎
If we want to keep our oceans protected at the rate we promised, ocean safeguarding efforts will have to quadruple over the next 5 years.
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/revive-our-o...
If we want to keep our oceans protected at the rate we promised, ocean safeguarding efforts will have to quadruple over the next 5 years.
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/revive-our-o...
"We urgently need to embrace a paradigm shift..."
Two billion people are at risk due to the fact that #snowfall in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region has reached its lowest level in 23 years 🤯❄️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/snow-himalay...
Two billion people are at risk due to the fact that #snowfall in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region has reached its lowest level in 23 years 🤯❄️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/snow-himalay...
May 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"We urgently need to embrace a paradigm shift..."
Two billion people are at risk due to the fact that #snowfall in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region has reached its lowest level in 23 years 🤯❄️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/snow-himalay...
Two billion people are at risk due to the fact that #snowfall in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region has reached its lowest level in 23 years 🤯❄️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/snow-himalay...
"27,000 Years of Aggregate NOAA Experience. Lost in a day. Thank you, President Trump." - Craig McLean, Retired OAR Director.
#NOAA is about to feel the DOGE squeeze. What does that mean for the rest of us? (Hint: it's not good)."
📽️: Ian Powell
#NOAA is about to feel the DOGE squeeze. What does that mean for the rest of us? (Hint: it's not good)."
📽️: Ian Powell
April 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"27,000 Years of Aggregate NOAA Experience. Lost in a day. Thank you, President Trump." - Craig McLean, Retired OAR Director.
#NOAA is about to feel the DOGE squeeze. What does that mean for the rest of us? (Hint: it's not good)."
📽️: Ian Powell
#NOAA is about to feel the DOGE squeeze. What does that mean for the rest of us? (Hint: it's not good)."
📽️: Ian Powell
“After nearly a decade of negotiations, nations have come to a “landmark” agreement to reduce #greenhousegasemissions from global shipping 🚢
But, will this be enough?
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-shipp...
But, will this be enough?
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-shipp...
April 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“After nearly a decade of negotiations, nations have come to a “landmark” agreement to reduce #greenhousegasemissions from global shipping 🚢
But, will this be enough?
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-shipp...
But, will this be enough?
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-shipp...
Despite the massive uptick in plastic demand and creation, new research has found that the amount of #plastic #waste being #recycled globally ♻️ has remained stagnant at 9%, with most new plastic continuing to be made from #fossilfuels 🛢️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-plast...
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-plast...
April 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Despite the massive uptick in plastic demand and creation, new research has found that the amount of #plastic #waste being #recycled globally ♻️ has remained stagnant at 9%, with most new plastic continuing to be made from #fossilfuels 🛢️
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-plast...
✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-plast...