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NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Simple rule: Stop setting carbon on fire to make energy. It ain't sustainable.
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Simple rule: Stop setting carbon on fire to make energy. It ain't sustainable.
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While the Global South faces floods, droughts, and deforestation, Exxon spread confusion instead of solutions.
A deliberate campaign to delay climate action, protect profits, and undermine cooperation.
It’s time to hold Big Oil accountable.
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A deliberate campaign to delay climate action, protect profits, and undermine cooperation.
It’s time to hold Big Oil accountable.
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
While the Global South faces floods, droughts, and deforestation, Exxon spread confusion instead of solutions.
A deliberate campaign to delay climate action, protect profits, and undermine cooperation.
It’s time to hold Big Oil accountable.
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A deliberate campaign to delay climate action, protect profits, and undermine cooperation.
It’s time to hold Big Oil accountable.
#COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What's a crow's favorite drink? Caw-fee! ☕️🐦⬛
Next Thursday is Crows & Coffee Social Hour. Did you know that how your coffee is grown can have a significant impact on migratory birds? Opt for Bird-Friendly or shade grown coffee options that preserves biodiversity and habitat.
Next Thursday is Crows & Coffee Social Hour. Did you know that how your coffee is grown can have a significant impact on migratory birds? Opt for Bird-Friendly or shade grown coffee options that preserves biodiversity and habitat.
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
What's a crow's favorite drink? Caw-fee! ☕️🐦⬛
Next Thursday is Crows & Coffee Social Hour. Did you know that how your coffee is grown can have a significant impact on migratory birds? Opt for Bird-Friendly or shade grown coffee options that preserves biodiversity and habitat.
Next Thursday is Crows & Coffee Social Hour. Did you know that how your coffee is grown can have a significant impact on migratory birds? Opt for Bird-Friendly or shade grown coffee options that preserves biodiversity and habitat.
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“Sustainable bear management” is the phrase we use when we want nature to conform to our whims and desires.
The hunt didn’t end because grizzlies were overpopulated. It ended because they were struggling to stabilize after centuries of decline.🧵
The hunt didn’t end because grizzlies were overpopulated. It ended because they were struggling to stabilize after centuries of decline.🧵
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“Sustainable bear management” is the phrase we use when we want nature to conform to our whims and desires.
The hunt didn’t end because grizzlies were overpopulated. It ended because they were struggling to stabilize after centuries of decline.🧵
The hunt didn’t end because grizzlies were overpopulated. It ended because they were struggling to stabilize after centuries of decline.🧵
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The carbon market is not the way to do CO₂ removal (CDR). If we're serious about this, it has to be a government-led effort.
‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?
After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The carbon market is not the way to do CO₂ removal (CDR). If we're serious about this, it has to be a government-led effort.
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Hawaiʻi has 18 plant species with only a single wild individual left. Dozens more around the world hang by the same thread.
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
These Hawaiʻi native plants are the last of their kind in the wild
Hawaiʻi has more endangered plants than all other U.S. states combined. Here's a look at some of the species that are so rare they only have a single wild plant left.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Hawaiʻi has 18 plant species with only a single wild individual left. Dozens more around the world hang by the same thread.
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
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Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
Citizen-led pollution monitoring persists in Louisiana, despite law that limits its use • Louisiana Illuminator
Communities around Louisiana are taking environmental data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their findings can be used to enforce regulations.
lailluminator.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
it's simple - Nancy Reagan is still right - Just. Say. No. #billgates #richwhiteguypontificating #whocaresBillGates
Why Should Anyone Care What Bill Gates Thinks About Climate Change?
Gates’s contradiction-filled memo criticizing climate “alarmism” is a great example of why we shouldn’t be listening to people like him to begin with.
newrepublic.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
it's simple - Nancy Reagan is still right - Just. Say. No. #billgates #richwhiteguypontificating #whocaresBillGates
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🦇News of the "probiotic" we are using to treat bats against white-nose syndrome makes the National News this week - on CBC's "Your World Tonight" - the story is introduced in the first minute and then highlighted between 22:25-25:43
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www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🦇News of the "probiotic" we are using to treat bats against white-nose syndrome makes the National News this week - on CBC's "Your World Tonight" - the story is introduced in the first minute and then highlighted between 22:25-25:43
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Residents in wildfire-prone rural California endure thousands of unannounced power outages every year; regulators and utilities have done relatively little to ease the burden.
For rural Californians, unreliable power has become the norm - High Country News
Years ago, the state’s largest utility rolled out a power outage program designed to reduce wildfires. Customers now experience thousands of outages a year.
www.hcn.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Residents in wildfire-prone rural California endure thousands of unannounced power outages every year; regulators and utilities have done relatively little to ease the burden.
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Eastern Bluebird #Kennebunk #Maine 11/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm Program #bird & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #bluebird #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Eastern Bluebird #Kennebunk #Maine 11/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm Program #bird & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #bluebird #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature
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Forests, Fires, and Falsehoods: Exposing the Timber Industry’s Greenwashing Playbook
This is for those who prefer citations/data over talking points. Evan Frost and I unpack how “sustainable forestry” has become a shield for carbon loss & habitat destruction.
The full paper:
🔗 bit.ly/4qEjz1m
This is for those who prefer citations/data over talking points. Evan Frost and I unpack how “sustainable forestry” has become a shield for carbon loss & habitat destruction.
The full paper:
🔗 bit.ly/4qEjz1m
(PDF) Forests, Fires, and Falsehoods: Exposing The Timber Industry's Greenwashing Playbook
PDF | On Oct 14, 2025, Lyle Lewis and others published Forests, Fires, and Falsehoods: Exposing The Timber Industry's Greenwashing Playbook | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchG...
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Forests, Fires, and Falsehoods: Exposing the Timber Industry’s Greenwashing Playbook
This is for those who prefer citations/data over talking points. Evan Frost and I unpack how “sustainable forestry” has become a shield for carbon loss & habitat destruction.
The full paper:
🔗 bit.ly/4qEjz1m
This is for those who prefer citations/data over talking points. Evan Frost and I unpack how “sustainable forestry” has become a shield for carbon loss & habitat destruction.
The full paper:
🔗 bit.ly/4qEjz1m
AMEN.
The new climate denial isn’t denial. It’s doubt dressed up as reason. “We don’t know everything” has replaced “it isn’t happening,” while ignoring what we do know: nature’s carbon sinks are collapsing, and so is our margin for error.
normanjansen.substack.com/p/climate-ca...
normanjansen.substack.com/p/climate-ca...
Climate Catastrophe?
or climate change as has existed for millenia? Or something in between?
normanjansen.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
AMEN.
Given that the feds aren't going to step in anytime soon, this will be up to state AG's, most likely for now.... #insurance #mckinsey #profiteering #hypocrisy #greed
How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance
A secret report shows that Florida underwriters were banking massive profits while stiffing customers. Welcome to insurance in the era of climate collapse.
newrepublic.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Given that the feds aren't going to step in anytime soon, this will be up to state AG's, most likely for now.... #insurance #mckinsey #profiteering #hypocrisy #greed
Bring it. #jailTrump #sunrise
Sunrise Movement, Founded to Fight Climate Change, Pivots to Fighting Trump
While Trump targets his critics on the left, Sunrise has decided that it can’t fight climate change without fighting authoritarianism.
theintercept.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Bring it. #jailTrump #sunrise
"In my hometown of Phoenix, it was 91 degrees as I write late in October; generally it used to be in the 50-degree range when I was growing up ..
Such high temperatures in autumn came because hundreds of thousands of acres of some of the finest ... prized produce were replaced by sprawl." #phoenix
Such high temperatures in autumn came because hundreds of thousands of acres of some of the finest ... prized produce were replaced by sprawl." #phoenix
Climate change to drive U.S. migration, change regional makeup | Jon Talton
With an administration committed to ignoring climate change, it's time for rational people in Seattle to prepare for a coming influx of people in search of lower temperatures, Jon Talton writes.
www.seattletimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"In my hometown of Phoenix, it was 91 degrees as I write late in October; generally it used to be in the 50-degree range when I was growing up ..
Such high temperatures in autumn came because hundreds of thousands of acres of some of the finest ... prized produce were replaced by sprawl." #phoenix
Such high temperatures in autumn came because hundreds of thousands of acres of some of the finest ... prized produce were replaced by sprawl." #phoenix
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Counting only the stumps misses the roads, rigs, lines, and lost wildlife. The boreal is heavily fragmented, which is exactly what those intactness studies measure.
This statistic doesn't seem possible, considering 552 million hectares of the Boreal Forest is in Canada alone and less than 0.02% has been logged.
November 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Counting only the stumps misses the roads, rigs, lines, and lost wildlife. The boreal is heavily fragmented, which is exactly what those intactness studies measure.
fund it now or pay the price later! it's that simple. #BC #britishcolumbia #canada #oldgrowth #ancientforests #pacificnw
$1.2B Federal Forestry Funding Is BC’s Chance to Future-Proof Economy With Smart, Modern Forest Industry
The leading charitable organization working to protect endangered old-growth forests in BC and ensure a transition to a sustainable, value-added second-growth forest industry.
ancientforestalliance.org
November 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
fund it now or pay the price later! it's that simple. #BC #britishcolumbia #canada #oldgrowth #ancientforests #pacificnw
and he's WRONG. Just because you are beyond rich, doesn't mean you are right - ask fElon! #climatechange #environment #billgates #onlyoneearth
Bill Gates Just Changed His Tune on Climate Change. Here's Why
The Microsoft co-founder thinks that a 'doomsday outlook' may not be helpful—instead, he's pushing for a 'different view.'
www.inc.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
and he's WRONG. Just because you are beyond rich, doesn't mean you are right - ask fElon! #climatechange #environment #billgates #onlyoneearth