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@lizzieoglesby.bsky.social
📍 Richmond, VA 🇺🇸
March 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
March 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Prayers for Myrtle Beach. Vacation destination of my youth. 🙏💔
South Carolina is burning.

Climate change will make these disasters more common, and we’re gutting our abilities to effectively predict and respond to them.

www.wbtw.com/news/grand-s...
March 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
February 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
February 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Another snow day in RVA.
February 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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⚡️Report power outages to Dominion Energy. If you lose power, there are three easy ways to report your outage and track your restoration time:

1) The Dominion Energy mobile app
2) Dominion Energy website
3) Call 866-DOM-HELP (866-366-4357).
February 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Blue sky over RVA. 🦋
February 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Meet the woman who lives without money: ‘I feel more secure than when I was earning’
Meet the woman who lives without money: ‘I feel more secure than when I was earning’
Ten years ago, Jo Nemeth quit her job and closed her bank account. Today, she’s more committed than ever to her moneyless life * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Sharon Brodie clearly remembers her first Christmas with her good friend Jo…
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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"It's a heavy thing to carry, going through these situations knowing I have the luxury and freedom of being back home to safety afterwards, to where the people in those moments are there full-time."
'Stories upon stories': Virginia photographer captures life in Ukraine in upcoming exhibition
An upcoming gallery exhibition will showcase photographs of civilians and soldiers living amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.
www.wtvr.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The plane that crashed near Washington, D.C., was carrying an unknown number of passengers from the figure skating community, including Russian husband-and-wife world champions.
U.S. and Russian figure skaters are among the victims of the D.C.-area plane crash
The plane that crashed near Washington, D.C., was carrying an unknown number of passengers from the figure skating community, including Russian husband-and-wife world champions.
www.npr.org
January 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hundreds, probably thousands, of Canada Geese have made downtown Richmond their temporary home for the past two weeks. It has been quite the spectacle.
January 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Evacuations are underway as a wildfire near Old Fort is burning "out of control." There is 0% containment, according to the North Carolina Forest Service. #NCNews www.wcnc.com/article/news...
'Out of control' wildfire burning in McDowell Conty
The 50-acre fire has 0% containment as winds continue to gust near 30 mph.
www.wcnc.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
January 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Who is everyone buying seed from this year? We do these guys & johnnys for everything, but this year I’m really excited to buy from the commonwealth seed growers, who like SESX are based in Louisa VA. VA growers might be interested in their regionally adapted varieties.

commonwealthseeds.com
January 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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“Those springs have been fresh water springs — naturally filtered and available to the indigenous populations, and certainly helped as settlement moved here in the 1600s through today,” said Christina Vida, curator at The Valentine Museum.
Springs eternal: Richmonders find hope in groundwater
The springs’ water was tested until the 1970s, a Valentine curator says.
www.vpm.org
January 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Last year was the first in which global average temperatures exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the aspirational target world leaders set in 2015 to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
The Climate Question - News update: The Earth breaches its temperature target - BBC Sounds
In 2024, the global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels
www.bbc.co.uk
January 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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What we learned this week

In case you missed it, 2024 has been named the hottest year on record and the first to breach the 1.5 degrees C of heating limit. The press release from NASA explains the contributions from other factors beyond climate change, such as El Nino. Ashden has one of its videos…
What we learned this week
In case you missed it, 2024 has been named the hottest year on record and the first to breach the 1.5 degrees C of heating limit. The press release from NASA explains the contributions from other factors beyond climate change, such as El Nino. Ashden has one of its videos in the Smiley Charity Film Awards and we need your votes.
earthbound.report
January 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM