In Brazil's coffee-producing areas, more than 42,000 square miles of forest have disappeared over about two decades, says Coffee Watch. Deforestation leads to drought, which harms crop yields.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation—the ocean system that stabilizes Earth’s climate—is weakening as global warming melts Greenland and freshens the seas. Its collapse could flood coasts and trigger mass migration. Civilization hangs in the balance.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

This seems like a good fact to share with your friends today:

The 365 day running average for global surface temperature is once again less than 8 standard deviations above the 1941-1970 average.

That's about 1-in-1.125 quadrillion by chance alone.

Bill Clinton proves Marco Rubio is lying, right here, clear as day: WE forced Ukraine to give up their nukes, cruise missiles, and strategic bombers: WE promised to protect Ukraine from Russia; WE made Ukraine vulnerable. So yeah, THIS IS OUR WAR.

eventually he's just going to bulldoze the White House and move everything to Mar-a-Lago so he's never too far from the omelette bar and the tacky bathroom with all our secrets in the shower

Forests, our planet's lungs, are suffocated by plastic pollution.

The good news?

We can still #BeatPlasticPollution and the solutions are within reach.
Ahead of #WorldEnvironmentDay, join the global movement.

www.worldenvironmentday.global

Congrats to all our friends in Northern Ireland on another important milestone for Corncrake conservation.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Proud of the garden I created from nothing 6-8yrs ago.

Been 100% neglected (no watering, pruning etc) for 3+ yrs. If you plant drought tolerant, location suited flora, you don’t need large amounts of work once established. All desperately need a prune/tidy up… soon hopefully💜😊

Hope for Killarney National Park - though it’s bound to look worse before it gets better

Decades-long battle to clear rhododendron in Killarney www.rte.ie/news/munster...

The system of cataloging software vulnerabilities used worldwide, by basically every security professional, is just going away huh??

Gonna be honest, seems bad

More in No, Other People:

New poll:

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree

“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory

Remember this?

The military gets it. Shame on Donald Trump and JD Vance for continuing to disparage our men and women in uniform.

Out of these, which would you choose first to destroy and re-wild?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/z1Q1Bn/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">1 acre solar/wind farm
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/z1Q1Bn/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">1 acre cow farm (for milking or meat)
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/z1Q1Bn/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">1 acre of ubran sprawl (parking, roads, shops)
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/z1Q1Bn/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">1 acre of oil wells / coal / natural gas

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BREAKING: New Nasal Spray Bird Flu Vaccine Could Help Protect Us In A Future Pandemic

Researchers have created an H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu, vaccine that can be administered as a nasal spray.

I kind of want to go

👀 A fascinating insight to how changes in #Antarctic sea ice have effects elsewhere in the world:

🕳️ Lack of usual sea ice in Ross Sea
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🌪️ hurricane-strength winds
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🌊 strong, long-period swell on the southern NSW coast more than 4000km away!

▶️ www.swellnet.com/news/swellne...

as a journalist whose real passion is the history of science and technology, who has written hundreds of thousands of words on the subject:

this, absolutely this

The things we find.
#beachcombing

Red Squirrel having a bit of a scratch captured by Michael Allen. #photooftheday #wildlife #nature

Scientific consensus: "artificial intelligence (AI) can exacerbate bias and discrimination in society... governments need to enact appropriate guardrails and governance in order to identify and mitigate these harms."

Today I joined 100 other scientific researchers in reinforcing this basic fact.

BREAKING: Experts Warn Public to Prepare for Potential Bird Flu Pandemic

"The H5N1 virus has crossed species barriers, adapting to mammalian hosts, including dairy cattle, leading to widespread exposure and sporadic human infections."

Ezra Klein is wrong about AGI:

garymarcus.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

Trivia question -- what's mostly yellow with a large stripe of red across it?

Don't tell me. Don't tell me. ...

Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5)

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Analysis estimates that 4% - 14% of the world’s staple crops of wheat, rice & maize is being lost due to impact of microplastics

Crop losses could be of a similar scale to those caused by the climate crisis in recent decades

www.theguardian.com/environment/...