Amy Martin

We could produce a lot of electricity on the land used for biofuels About enough to meet current global electricity demand.

Amidst all the chaos, the need to solve for a livable future remains. @hannahritchie.bsky.social's latest is an informative read toward that end.

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Trump shrugged off Khashoggi’s killing. This is a new low | Jodie Ginsberg Jamal Khashoggi was dismembered in a Saudi consulate. The president says ‘things happen’

"Attacks on journalists are attacks on the truth. They are attacks on facts. They are attacks on our rights to know and on our freedom to live freely and safely." Thank you Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of @pressfreedom.bsky.social.

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Alaska. Brazil. Jamaica. 1 week of headlines + 3 places = 1 story

Drilling for oil in Alaska
+
weak promises heading into COP in Brazil
=
devastation in Jamaica (and so many other places)

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As a farm kid, public radio was a game-changer for me. Every morning I learned about the world on @npr.org while getting ready for school. Other cultures, languages, musics, realities -- all of it was piped into my young mind, opening and changing me. #protectpublicmedia

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I'm doing a thing where I write letters to my fellow Earthlings in different times. It's part of how I'm contending with the extremely distressing present moment. It helps me, somehow. Not because it provides any answers, but maybe because it gives me a different perspective on the questions.

Hark Episode 12: Trailblazers Elephants communicate through a variety of calls, trumpets, and rumbles. But despite being some of the largest land animals on Earth, they can also be incredibly quiet. In this episode, we open our e...

Such an honor to interview Joyce Poole of ElephantVoices & Daniela Hedwig of the Elephant Listening Project! Listen to these trailblazers on the latest episode of Threshold.

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I would like for wealthy people excited for tax cuts to sign a piece of paper acknowledging that every dollar they get in tax breaks is going to be paid for by someone else…either someone not getting healthcare or SNAP or some future person paying higher taxes to pay the interest on our new debt.

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

This is un-freaking-believable. Except it's all too believable now. Authoritarians know the power of story—that's why they lock up storytellers.

Thank you for continuing to tell yours, @alistairkitchen.bsky.social.

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I am sickened and enraged by how you were treated. Thank you for sharing your story.

Let's Nerd Out with a Swan And a Cuckoo! And a Redwing!

A swan, a cuckoo, and a redwing met at lake...

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Hark Episode 11: Am I Not Lucky? Modern humans emerged into a world filled with and shaped by elephants. But for elephants, living with humans isn’t always easy. Elephants have survived by adapting to all the changes we’re making to ...

Need some elephant rumbles in your ears today? (Who doesn't?) Latest episode of Threshold features the #elephants of @reteti.bsky.social — and some of their amazing keepers.

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We Call This "Ambi" Because we're not in it

Think you know your soundscapes? Guess where I recorded this one and you could win some free @thresholdpodcast.bsky.social merch. Current guesses include Indonesia, Costa Rica, and maybe a mix of multiple places...

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Digging this. Don't going effing with the meteorologists, people! #SaveAmericasForecasts

Urgent: Endangered Species Act at Risk Listen now | Comment period on proposed rule change ends TODAY

Comment today before midnight EDT on the proposed change to the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. Disrupting habitat *will* cause harm to threatened and endangered species, and to other species too, including our own.

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The Trump administration is trying to convince you that destroying habitat won't "harm" a species. This will gut the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. Comment by midnight on Monday EDT to make your voice heard.

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I also had a Close Encounters with Swedish Cranes recently! The best. Love this image @gdippe.bsky.social.

Hark Episode 10: Behold, The Wonderchicken More than 60 million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth, wiping out nearly all the dinosaurs. The only dinosaurs to live through this mass extinction were birds. In this episode, we look at how thes...

One of the most moving conversations I had while making the latest season of @thresholdpodcast.bsky.social was with Darius McCain, a young man from Richmond, CA. We talked about a lot of things. Including birds. Hear his story in the latest episode.
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Happy Friday!

Before, during, and after this administration, we still have to figure out how to face and take action on climate. If you're feeling a little lost about how to do that, check out this event with @katharinehayhoe.com, hosted by @climatena.bsky.social.

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After spending most of the last two years researching and reporting on sound and listening, I'm really looking forward to reading this!

Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. (Gift Article) The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.

Rumeysa Ozturk is sitting in a cell *because of her writing.* Thank you to these three Massachusetts leaders for visiting her and for calling it like it is: "This is authoritarianism.....When a government begins to imprison writers for their words...alarm bells must ring. Loudly."

Emperor penguin males huddled while sitting in eggs . We mainly have king penguins on Heard Island but emperors do visit sometimes they just don’t breed here

Toxic masculinity isn’t a concern here, and we don’t view empathy as toxic. For centuries, adult males have huddled together, protecting the colony’s most vulnerable, giving their future a chance amidst the raging storms that threaten them.

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

What is Ecological Thinking? Some of my ideas, and a request for yours

On #EarthDay, and kind of all the time right now, I'm asking: how can I make myself useful in all of this madness? I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with ecological thinking. I'd love to get your take on what that means.

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Wildlife, not livestock: Why the Eastern Shoshone in Wyoming are reclassifying buffaloes (This story was published in partnership with The Associated Press.) In Wyoming, the Eastern Shoshone want to redefine how we see buffalo.

The Eastern Shoshone this month voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock. The vote indicates a growing interest to both restore buffalo on the landscape and challenge the relationship between animal and product. The latest from @siisiiko.bsky.social. grist.org/indigenous/w...

Opinion | The Emergency Is Here (Gift Article) Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.

Ezra Klein's essay at the top of this episode is essential listening. "This is how dictatorships work. Trump has always been clear about who he is and the kind of power he wants. Now he is using that power."

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Yes, I need to stay up on the news. But I also need to watch and listen to the annual return of the Whooper Swans to northern #Sweden. A different sort of news delivery, telling a different sort of story. Like the return of a species from near-extinction, and the return of the Sun to the north.

Where did they all go? How Homo sapiens became the last human species left At least nine hominin species once roamed the Earth, so what became of our vanished ancestors?

Cooperation = survival. Working on a new episode of @thresholdpodcast.bsky.social & was reminded of this (again!) in this piece from @sarahemilywild.bsky.social. "...what we see from Neanderthals and H. sapiens is that the groups that cooperated better were the ones that got through." 🤔

Happening this week, scientist friends: an opportunity to process what's happening to you and to #science in the U.S. in a supportive environment. The @climatena.bsky.social does not peddle in woo-woo b.s., they are the real deal. Check it out and share.

All the good people (and critters) of the world could use a little of this right now. Hang in there folks.