Krista Langlois

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

I Am The God Of Your Children. I Am The Final Parent. Hi, friends! Today, I’d like to talk to the grown-ups. I know it’s not easy raising children. Looking after little ones is a lot of work, and sometimes you just need a moment to breathe. So you plop y...

"The false idols fall away. Mama, Dada, the frothing hog-child Peppa Pig, the simpering zoo beast Daniel Tiger, that orange wretch Blippi—the whole obsolete pantheon. These voices are but muffled ghosts beneath My bright refrains."

DYING @theonion.com

British Columbia is making Daylight Savings Time permanent?!?!

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Little snow in California and the West as a warm winter nears end California's snowpack remains much smaller than average after months of extremely warm conditions across the West.

Very little snow across the West during a winter that has brought record warmth

Sierra Nevada: 66% of avg
Upper Colorado River region: 66%
Oregon: 34%

"Projections show that our winters are going to look a lot more like this in the future."
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In the Wake of the Storm A look back at the United States’ outsize influence on global conservation—and why the latest funding cuts are hardly surprising.

I don't usually follow rules in my writing and reading life, but one of the few I adhere to is: Read anything Caroline Van Hemert writes.

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The Future of Conservation Without U.S. Aid In the United States, efforts to save a beloved species face pushback from a surprising foe: gun rights advocates.

One of the delights of editing is working with writers you admire. The great @nijhuism.bsky.social is one of them, and she knocked this story out of the park. www.biographic.com/the-future-o...

Conservation Enters a New Era - bioGraphic One year after the Trump administration slashed biodiversity protections at home and abroad, people and organizations are figuring out where to go from here.

For a century, the United States dominated & influenced conservation around the world--for better and for worse. That era is over.

@biographic.bsky.social has a special issue on the next era of conservation--what it looks like, who's funding it, & what it means for people, species, & ecosystems 🌱

A children drawing that says climate change is bad change

A child’s drawing of a sun that says too much hot

Help the Canadian public school system is radicalizing my child

Firefox adds an AI killswitch Users can now remove all AI features with the toggle of a single switch.

Um yes please Firefox

Buying Baja | Hakai Magazine On a storied stretch of Mexico’s Baja peninsula, locals fight rich outsiders and rampant development that threaten to transform the coast and dry up aquifers.

With the unrest in Mexican tourist hubs this week, it seems timely to re-up this old story that explains how the mass tourism promoted by the Mexican government leads to displacement and economic disparity so pronounced that one researcher calls it "de facto social and economic apartheid.”

Huh, yeah, different strokes :) I’m loving it

Carlos Dada, editor of El Faro: “The most important thing journalism can do in a dictatorship is to tell the truth” The Salvadoran journalist will deliver the 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture. In this interview, he discusses his work and the challenges of reporting from exile.

“When someone publishes something important, this should be subject to public debate and people should hold power to account for it. But when you don’t live in a healthy society, when citizens are oppressed by the dictatorship, journalism’s impact is not as big as it should be”

Country diary: The magic of knowing a meteorite fell here, of all places | Amy-Jane Beer Wold Newton, East Yorkshire: On a dreary day in a nondescript field, I visit the site where a 4.56 billion-year-old bit of space rock came to Earth

@amyjanebeer.bsky.social with what is, to me, a lovely version of The Credo:

“A belief that if you keep walking the land – any land – with your mind and senses open, then small, slim chances accumulate and coalesce until, sooner or later, extraordinary things become almost certain to happen.”

They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war. “We are a sustainable community, but we are not a rural community.”

The more homogeneous the social fabric of a community, the less likely the neighborhood has a biodiverse range of plants. "In other words, the economic and racial diversity that American communities fail to cultivate is reflected in the plant-scape. Mono-crop vegetation matches mono-crop demography"

I am just here to say that The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones is so fucking good and you should absolutely read it

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

YouTube video by Tla'amin Nation Tla'amin celebrates the return of TFL 39

Huge #landback win today in British Columbia: the Tla'amin Nation just reacquired 150,000 hectares of land. "This single act increases our land holdings from 8% to over 51% of our territory."

This was industrially-logged land that will now be restored, respected, and managed on a 300-year-plan 🌱

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I think Brown makes that point in the next graf, though?

"...Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker was able to crisply revitalize that paper of record, and pay attention to data as an index of engagement, without the lumbering incompetence exhibited at the Washington Post."

Lessons in Longevity Pronghorn have survived even as the mammals they evolved alongside have perished. Can they weather the uncertain future of the Anthropocene?

Pronghorn can run 11 kilometers in 10 minutes, achieving bursts of 97 km/hour. But after a fast-moving Wyoming wildfire, at least 70 pronghorn died, overtaken by the flames.

A Wyoming writer whose roots are intertwined with pronghorn asks: Can our fastest land mammal outrun a warming climate?

I saw a fogbow! Did not even know such a thing existed until today. All kinds of wonders out there

Someone at @highcountrynews.org please write about this

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thanks, John

A screenshot of text from a newsletter that reads: "When I struggle to find value in my own work during such times, I think of a line my friend Sierra Crane Murdoch once wrote: “Violence toward land begets violence toward people, and vice versa.” Similarly, care for the land begets care for its people. The well-being of all beings is connected. We can care about plants and animals and ecosystems while also caring about human lives, not only because we have complex brains capable of holding multiple truths at once but because we’re all intertwined. Government violence connects to oil connects to climate change connects to biodiversity. People connect to oxygen connect to trees connect to fungi connect to insects connect to birds."

If you write primarily about nature and environmental issues, it can be hard to see the value of your work during times like these. I wrote about this a bit in my introduction to @biographic.bsky.social's weekly newsletter.

Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.

It appears it was actually real www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Follow me on this: Subscription and membership are not the same thing.

Subscribers buy a product. Members join a cause.

The distinction matters because around the world readers are being asked to pay more of the costs for quality journalism. 23/

Key distinction number two: journalism vs. the media (vs. the press)

I think of the media as the attention business, an industry whose product is audiences.

Journalism is a social practice, the purpose of which is to keep publics informed and hold power to account. 7/

Thanks for pointing that out

Oh no!! Really?!