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The literal 'canaries in the coal mine' our ecological life support system are disappearing across the country (and the world), yet people are much more concerned about the price of eggs, or just about anything else other than reality. 🌏
A recent report assessing the health of U.S. bird populations 🦅🕊️ presents a grim outlook: Birds in the U.S. are declining, and a third of the species — 229 to be precise — are in need of urgent conservation actions.

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A third of US bird species are in decline, report warns
A recent report assessing the health of U.S. bird populations presents a grim outlook: Birds in the U.S. are declining, and a third of the species — 229 to be precise — are in need of urgent…
news.mongabay.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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The BLM under tRump -- gut the agency's workforce, fast track any and all projects that exploit public lands for private profits, remove as many regulations as possible designed to safeguard the environment and public heath, and blatantly exclude the public from providing meaningful input.
Last week BLM released its environmental review of a lithium project that involves drilling across thousands of acres of sagebrush desert. It only gave 5 days for public input. People submitted over 1,500 comments. Now they’ve got more time. www.opb.org/article/2025...
Lithium project in southeastern Oregon gets public input extension
The public now has until April 25 to review environmental impacts that could come during a company's search for lithium, a metal that's critical to renewable energy and electric vehicles.
www.opb.org
April 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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What we'll be seeing more and more of in the near future is the right using the fear of fire as justification to ramp up commercial logging and eliminating public involvement in agency projects. Every fire, no matter the context, will be used as false evidence for this underlying agenda.
Keep telling lies over and over
January 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Portrait of William II, Prince of Orange http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6842
January 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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"Despite several years of international commitments to end deforestation, tropical primary forest loss worsened by 10% in 2022...and totalled 4.1 million hectares, the equivalent of losing 11 football fields of forest per minute." www.brusselstimes.com/574425/world...
World lost 11 football fields of forest per minute last year
Forest loss last year produced 2.7 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide emissions, which is equivalent to India's annual fossil fuel emissions.
www.brusselstimes.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Winter afternoon. Boise River Greenbelt
December 30, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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December 28, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Due to the impeccable timing of a delayed official press release, you probably haven’t heard that 40% of corals on the southern Great Barrier Reef died in 2024 due to record-breaking heat exposure.

www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...
Surveys show widespread Great Barrier Reef coral loss
Researchers say warming oceans threaten world’s reefs
www.voanews.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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Number 2: Biden's Plan to Turn the Desert into a Solar Energy Complex
An earlier take on the update of the Western Solar Plan. Little did we know when we recorded this episode that our worst fears about this process would prove true, and then some.
90milesfromneedles.com/episode/s3e2...
S3E2: Biden's Plan to Turn the Desert into a Solar Energy Complex | 90 Miles from Needles: The Desert Protection Podcast
The Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Utility-Scale Solar energy development is shaping the future of solar in the western United States....
90milesfromneedles.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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December 21, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Boat Billed Heron
(Cochlearius cochlearius)

Found in Latin America, namely Mexico down to Brazil and Peru

Photo taken by moi along the Rio Tarcoles in Costa Rica
November 30, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Dutch wishes everyone Happy Thanksgiving. Wants you to know he has been left at home alone. And without turkey...#Worst Thanksgiving ever!
November 28, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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Card players with woman smoking a pipe http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5188
November 26, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 11:13 AM