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Plants understood what is going on before humans did.
Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years!
The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es
The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es
October 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Plants understood what is going on before humans did.
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A postcard from a lost world.
10 years ago @jeffgoodell.bsky.social talked to President Obama about the climate crisis for a Rolling Stone cover. So much has changed but the threat remains and we simply haven't done enough.
youtu.be/5oSvhJwlmis?...
youtu.be/5oSvhJwlmis?...
Obama's Climate Crusade
YouTube video by Rolling Stone
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
A postcard from a lost world.
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Two-thirds of National Park Service employees have been furloughed during the ongoing government shutdown, worsening an already severe staffing shortage. With limited personnel remaining, essential maintenance, law enforcement, and visitor services are significantly reduced.
October 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Two-thirds of National Park Service employees have been furloughed during the ongoing government shutdown, worsening an already severe staffing shortage. With limited personnel remaining, essential maintenance, law enforcement, and visitor services are significantly reduced.
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Thank you @jilldlawrence.bsky.social. Murphy is really finding his moment!
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social to Democrats: Don't be suckers. "This is a high-leverage moment, with the world watching to see what we stand for. And we have a chance to actually constrain his attempt to destroy our democracy..." Great @gregsargent.bsky.social interview. newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Chris Murphy’s Extraordinary New Takedown of Trump Should Wake Up Dems
The Democratic senator has taken the lead in drawing attention to Trump’s authoritarianism. In an interview, he offers a stark new warning that should galvanize his fellow Democrats before it’s too la...
newrepublic.com
October 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thank you @jilldlawrence.bsky.social. Murphy is really finding his moment!
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"Morris, former spiritual advisor to President Trump and the former pastor at a megachurch in Texas, pleaded guilty to charges in a child sex abuse scandal on Oct. 2.
He faced five counts of lewd indecent acts with a child..."
www.kjrh.com/news/local-n...
He faced five counts of lewd indecent acts with a child..."
www.kjrh.com/news/local-n...
Former Trump spiritual advisor Morris enters plea deal in Hominy child sex abuse case
Robert Morris, the former pastor at a megachurch in Texas and former spiritual advisor to President Trump, pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child on Oct. 2.
www.kjrh.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"Morris, former spiritual advisor to President Trump and the former pastor at a megachurch in Texas, pleaded guilty to charges in a child sex abuse scandal on Oct. 2.
He faced five counts of lewd indecent acts with a child..."
www.kjrh.com/news/local-n...
He faced five counts of lewd indecent acts with a child..."
www.kjrh.com/news/local-n...
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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In the middle of the Charlie Kirk assassination US Trump Republicans were busy blocking the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
US Senate Republicans blocked an amendment introduced by Democrat Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that would have released the Epstein files.
Only 2 Republican senators, Rand Paul and Josh Hawley, broke ranks and joined Democrats in supporting the measure. #OpDeathEaters
Only 2 Republican senators, Rand Paul and Josh Hawley, broke ranks and joined Democrats in supporting the measure. #OpDeathEaters
September 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
In the middle of the Charlie Kirk assassination US Trump Republicans were busy blocking the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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They are really, really scared of what good climate data will show about what burning fossil fuels is doing to our planet.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Commentary: Trump wants NASA to burn a crucial satellite to cinders, killing research into climate change
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatories have produced groundbreaking data about global warming and crop health. Trump wants the observatories destroyed by burning them up in the atmosphere — but why?
www.latimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
They are really, really scared of what good climate data will show about what burning fossil fuels is doing to our planet.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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“Without protections, many workers are forced into a kind of extreme heat arbitrage: I need the paycheck, so I will work in the heat and keep my mouth shut and gamble that it won’t kill me,” Jeff Goodell writes.
Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked
Heat waves are increasingly dangerous for those without water, shade and air-conditioning.
nyti.ms
August 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“Without protections, many workers are forced into a kind of extreme heat arbitrage: I need the paycheck, so I will work in the heat and keep my mouth shut and gamble that it won’t kill me,” Jeff Goodell writes.
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Gina McCarthy has done more than almost anyone to build the renewable revolution in this country--and she's undaunted
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t let Donald Trump undermine your faith in the climate fight | Gina McCarthy
The president’s fossil-fuel obsession can’t stop global progress, writes the former Environmental Protection Agency head
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Gina McCarthy has done more than almost anyone to build the renewable revolution in this country--and she's undaunted
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Fact: Commercial fishing kills more than 300,000 whales and dolphins every year.
RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic
August 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Fact: Commercial fishing kills more than 300,000 whales and dolphins every year.
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In America today, the phrase “polluter pays” is like a dinosaur bone from a lost world.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
In America today, the phrase “polluter pays” is like a dinosaur bone from a lost world.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
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"already outpacing efforts to adapt"
One of the strongest, clearest increases in likelihood & intensity, attributable to climate change, I've seen in a complex index like fire weather - the more intense & frequent events in Greece & Türkiye are already outpacing efforts to adapt.
www.worldweatherattribution.org/weather-cond...
www.worldweatherattribution.org/weather-cond...
August 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"already outpacing efforts to adapt"
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#Zelenskyy calls for 'tough' sanctions on #Russia after major air attack on #Kyiv
#Europe #Ukraine #WarCrimes
#Europe #Ukraine #WarCrimes
Kyiv hit by 'massive' Russian missile, drone attack, officials say, with 19 killed
Kyiv and came under a major combined missile and drone attack overnight into Thursday, Ukrainian officials said, with at least 18 people killed in the capital.
abcnews.go.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
#Zelenskyy calls for 'tough' sanctions on #Russia after major air attack on #Kyiv
#Europe #Ukraine #WarCrimes
#Europe #Ukraine #WarCrimes
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“One of roadkill’s cruelest aspects is not how many animals it culls: it’s which ones. Wild ecosystems weed out the sick and the old…Roadkill, by contrast, is an equal-opportunity predator, as apt to eliminate the strong as the feeble.” -Ben Goldfarb
November 29, 2024 at 12:56 PM
“One of roadkill’s cruelest aspects is not how many animals it culls: it’s which ones. Wild ecosystems weed out the sick and the old…Roadkill, by contrast, is an equal-opportunity predator, as apt to eliminate the strong as the feeble.” -Ben Goldfarb
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When it's hot, everyone feels it. But we don't feel it equally. What makes extreme heat so deadly is that it amplifies and exploits pre-existing social vulnerabilities.
NEW – Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @vernerviisas.bsky.social w/ comment from @profangelhsu.bsky.social @charleshsimpson.bsky.social Emma Howard Boyd @chlobrim.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/boWI6M1
Read here: buff.ly/boWI6M1
August 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
When it's hot, everyone feels it. But we don't feel it equally. What makes extreme heat so deadly is that it amplifies and exploits pre-existing social vulnerabilities.
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“Over and over again, we have seen farmworkers go without the heat safety protections they are legally entitled to,” said Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers union. The state’s heat illness prevention enforcement system “isn’t working.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Farmworkers keep dying from heat illness, 20 years after California vowed to protect them
Agricultural workers are toiling in the state's worst heat wave this year, amid questions about the state's commitment to ensure their safety.
www.latimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“Over and over again, we have seen farmworkers go without the heat safety protections they are legally entitled to,” said Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers union. The state’s heat illness prevention enforcement system “isn’t working.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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I cannot describe Europe and the heatwaves this year. They started early, they kept going sooo high and sooo long, now one of the fiercest one is still roaring.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Southern Europe swelters under deadly heatwave as temperatures pass 40C
Scientists warn of ‘molotov cocktail’ of climatic conditions fuelling vast wildfires across Mediterranean
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I cannot describe Europe and the heatwaves this year. They started early, they kept going sooo high and sooo long, now one of the fiercest one is still roaring.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Southern Europe is sweltering under life-threatening heat that could last through Monday, fueling wildfires that have left at least two people dead. In Spain, soldiers have been deployed to battle the fires and hundreds of people have evacuated. nyti.ms/46STog7
August 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Southern Europe is sweltering under life-threatening heat that could last through Monday, fueling wildfires that have left at least two people dead. In Spain, soldiers have been deployed to battle the fires and hundreds of people have evacuated. nyti.ms/46STog7
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New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency
President Donald Trump and his family have made a staggering $3.4 billion off of the presidency, according to an analysis by the New Yorker.
www.rollingstone.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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I usually tell people that *so far*, habitat loss, not climate change, has been the major driver of bird population declines... but now we're starting to get analyses directly connecting bird declines to extreme weather events fueled by climate change. 🪶 theconversation.com/70-years-of-...
70 years of data show extreme heat is already wiping out tropical bird populations
A study using more than 90,000 scientific observations shows Earth is getting too hot for many tropical birds.
theconversation.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I usually tell people that *so far*, habitat loss, not climate change, has been the major driver of bird population declines... but now we're starting to get analyses directly connecting bird declines to extreme weather events fueled by climate change. 🪶 theconversation.com/70-years-of-...
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"In the Inland Empire, where summer temperatures climb into the triple digits, many families are now making impossible choices: Do they turn on the air conditioning or buy groceries? Do they stay inside and risk heat exhaustion, or go outside and risk being taken?"
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Fear of ICE raids is making heat intolerable for Southern California families
Fear from ongoing ICE operations has led immigrant workers and families in Southern California to face worsening extreme heat conditions at their workplaces and homes.
www.latimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"In the Inland Empire, where summer temperatures climb into the triple digits, many families are now making impossible choices: Do they turn on the air conditioning or buy groceries? Do they stay inside and risk heat exhaustion, or go outside and risk being taken?"
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
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A newspaper wrecked on purpose.
POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.
July 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A newspaper wrecked on purpose.
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Today, half the people in America will have good reason to think about the climate crisis and the hot, turbulent world we are creating for ourselves. As a climate scientist once said to me, "If CO2 stained the air purple, people would see the sky darkening and they would understand."
More than 170 million are under heat alerts across the Central U.S., Midwest, Southeast, and East Coast, with some areas feeling temperatures as high as 115°F.
Over 170 million under heat alerts in South and East
Major cities under heat alerts on Monday include Dallas, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Tampa, Charleston, New York, Philadelphia and Boston.
nbcnews.to
July 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Today, half the people in America will have good reason to think about the climate crisis and the hot, turbulent world we are creating for ourselves. As a climate scientist once said to me, "If CO2 stained the air purple, people would see the sky darkening and they would understand."