Emerald Green
@gracebatslast.bsky.social
Reader, gardener, passionate Earth defender. Introvert. Native of the Colorado Rockies now transplanted to the Atlantic coast in New England to live near my children and grandchildren.
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Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing
go.nature.com/49CE3Bt
go.nature.com/49CE3Bt
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
Nature - From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional...
go.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing
go.nature.com/49CE3Bt
go.nature.com/49CE3Bt
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📽️VIDEO: Despite major pro-democracy wins in 2025, the fight is far from over. Marc Elias exposes the next phase of Trump and the Republicans' playbook, as well as what voters, lawyers and journalists must do now to defend democracy before it’s too late. https://bit.ly/483Fdok
8 Ways Republicans Will Subvert The 2026 Election
Despite major pro-democracy wins in 2025, the fight is far from over. This video exposes the next phase of Trump and the Republicans' playbook — and what voters, lawyers, and journalists must do now to defend democracy before it’s too late. Marc Elias o...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
📽️VIDEO: Despite major pro-democracy wins in 2025, the fight is far from over. Marc Elias exposes the next phase of Trump and the Republicans' playbook, as well as what voters, lawyers and journalists must do now to defend democracy before it’s too late. https://bit.ly/483Fdok
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
I wish EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY could see this. I want to throw up.
11.6.25, Fitchburg, MA. Here a man is seizing after #ICE agents choked while the mother of his child is being ripped away from the family by ICE agents. The little boy is terrified and crying while these thugs are violently attack his mother and father right in front of him.
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I wish EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY could see this. I want to throw up.
No one paying attention is surprised
Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults in several states, warns an FBI bulletin to law enforcement agencies issued last month.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
No one paying attention is surprised
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Lichen on granite, Heil Valley Ranch today 🌿
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Lichen on granite, Heil Valley Ranch today 🌿
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This is what democracy looks like.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This is what democracy looks like.
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Systematic execution of hundreds in a hospital in Darfur, as RSF/Janjaweed take over the city of El Fasher (population ~250k) in Darfur.
That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine.
But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.
That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine.
But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.
Sudan’s paramilitary killed hundreds including hospital patients in Darfur, residents say
Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people including patients in a hospital after they seized el-Fasher city in the western Darfur region over the weekend, according to the UN, displaced re...
www.ctvnews.ca
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Systematic execution of hundreds in a hospital in Darfur, as RSF/Janjaweed take over the city of El Fasher (population ~250k) in Darfur.
That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine.
But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.
That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine.
But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.
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Parts of Jamaica may see more than 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Melissa
This is the mark of an overheated earth, and the damage it causes will be terrifying. Please be prepared to help those providing aid
This is the mark of an overheated earth, and the damage it causes will be terrifying. Please be prepared to help those providing aid
October 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Parts of Jamaica may see more than 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Melissa
This is the mark of an overheated earth, and the damage it causes will be terrifying. Please be prepared to help those providing aid
This is the mark of an overheated earth, and the damage it causes will be terrifying. Please be prepared to help those providing aid
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One of the more gratifying things I get to in my job: share well-made photos of some of the abundant beauty in the world. 'The Colors of October' - 26 images showing foliage, flight, and festivity around the Northern Hemisphere at the peak of autumn. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
October 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
One of the more gratifying things I get to in my job: share well-made photos of some of the abundant beauty in the world. 'The Colors of October' - 26 images showing foliage, flight, and festivity around the Northern Hemisphere at the peak of autumn. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Tough love conclusion published recently in @nature.com: “Mitigating climate change requires ending the burning of fossil fuels. Offsets distract from this crucial task.”
Our only options for saving our climate & our children’s future is a price or cap on heat-trapping pollution. Make polluters pay!
Our only options for saving our climate & our children’s future is a price or cap on heat-trapping pollution. Make polluters pay!
Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why | Nature
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed. The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Tough love conclusion published recently in @nature.com: “Mitigating climate change requires ending the burning of fossil fuels. Offsets distract from this crucial task.”
Our only options for saving our climate & our children’s future is a price or cap on heat-trapping pollution. Make polluters pay!
Our only options for saving our climate & our children’s future is a price or cap on heat-trapping pollution. Make polluters pay!
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In a win for voters Friday, a federal appeals court rejected a right-wing effort to revive a Republican bid to block Pennsylvania from counting undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots.🥳 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Appeals Court Denies GOP Effort to Disenfranchise Pennsylvania Mail Voters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
In a win for voters Friday, a federal appeals court rejected a right-wing effort to revive a Republican bid to block Pennsylvania from counting undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots.🥳 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Bannon says Tr*ump is acting as a vehicle of divine providence. This is an old authoritarian propaganda theme.
October 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Bannon says Tr*ump is acting as a vehicle of divine providence. This is an old authoritarian propaganda theme.
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@propublica.org is joining the @coveringclimatenow.org collaboration!
October 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
@propublica.org is joining the @coveringclimatenow.org collaboration!
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One reasonable explanation for spending so much money on AI is that it's the vehicle for the last gasp of fossil fuel expansion
billmckibben.substack.com/p/hey-grok-w...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/hey-grok-w...
Hey Grok, What's a Waste of Energy?
AI amidst the climate emergency
billmckibben.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
One reasonable explanation for spending so much money on AI is that it's the vehicle for the last gasp of fossil fuel expansion
billmckibben.substack.com/p/hey-grok-w...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/hey-grok-w...
Gawd I’m so sick of the Dodgers. Brewers took a lead on a homer and LA came right back with two.
October 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Gawd I’m so sick of the Dodgers. Brewers took a lead on a homer and LA came right back with two.
@bsky.app I am still (after months, and having tried all your suggested remedies) never seeing many of those I follow in Following. This feels like a major bug.
Also, when will you order posts chronologically? Please? Asked for this quite awhile back and was told it was coming...
Also, when will you order posts chronologically? Please? Asked for this quite awhile back and was told it was coming...
October 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
@bsky.app I am still (after months, and having tried all your suggested remedies) never seeing many of those I follow in Following. This feels like a major bug.
Also, when will you order posts chronologically? Please? Asked for this quite awhile back and was told it was coming...
Also, when will you order posts chronologically? Please? Asked for this quite awhile back and was told it was coming...
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The barriers to building a career in science keep piling up - they’re certainly not coming down anymore.
It’s a brutal time for early-career folks, and I wish I had more constructive advice to offer about entering this field right now.
It’s a brutal time for early-career folks, and I wish I had more constructive advice to offer about entering this field right now.
The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
September 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The barriers to building a career in science keep piling up - they’re certainly not coming down anymore.
It’s a brutal time for early-career folks, and I wish I had more constructive advice to offer about entering this field right now.
It’s a brutal time for early-career folks, and I wish I had more constructive advice to offer about entering this field right now.
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Can't publish science without political approval, what could go wrong
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EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
wapo.st
September 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Can't publish science without political approval, what could go wrong
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Yikes! Typhus too? Another serious climate sensitive disease is making a huge comeback in the US.
Let's clean up our energy supplies, transportation options, and food systems so we can protect our loved ones and the climate on which all human life depends.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
Let's clean up our energy supplies, transportation options, and food systems so we can protect our loved ones and the climate on which all human life depends.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
Typhus, a disease once nearly eradicated in the U.S., is on the rise in Texas
Texas is seeing an explosion of cases of typhus, a disease that – if untreated – can be fatal. Typhus was almost eradicated from the United States, but now it's making a comeback.
www.npr.org
September 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Yikes! Typhus too? Another serious climate sensitive disease is making a huge comeback in the US.
Let's clean up our energy supplies, transportation options, and food systems so we can protect our loved ones and the climate on which all human life depends.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
Let's clean up our energy supplies, transportation options, and food systems so we can protect our loved ones and the climate on which all human life depends.
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Trump’s EPA wants to reverse its own scientific conclusion that climate change is real, giving corporations free reign on climate pollution. The EPA is accepting comments to its terrible plan right now. Tell them to put people before polluters: https://on.nrdc.org/4phfi37
September 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Trump’s EPA wants to reverse its own scientific conclusion that climate change is real, giving corporations free reign on climate pollution. The EPA is accepting comments to its terrible plan right now. Tell them to put people before polluters: https://on.nrdc.org/4phfi37
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If they were making Mad Max now there'd be no need to hijack oil tankers. He could be Chill Max, just relying on his solar panels
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The climate solution both the right and the left can get behind | Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben: We’re beyond Mel Gibson’s Mad Max era. We no longer need oil to make it through the apocalypse
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If they were making Mad Max now there'd be no need to hijack oil tankers. He could be Chill Max, just relying on his solar panels
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...