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Rigging the Vote: Trump’s Threats to Elections Marc Elias joins Sue Halpern for a wide-ranging discussion of voting rights, campaign financing, and threats to election integrity.

Sue Halpern (full disclosure my beautiful and sagacious wife) talks with @marcelias.bsky.social live tomorrow on the somewhat important topic of how to make sure we have an election later this year
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They just seem so noble

Congress has to stop attacking our #PublicLands.

The latest: Senator Mike Lee is weaponizing the Congressional Review Act resolution in an attempt to wipe out protections for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

We have to stop this plan! Please submit a public comment ➡️ bit.ly/3N6OOmP

I adore them

Gray/tan bird. There is an out-of-focus little yellow flower in the foreground casting an unfortunate yellow spot on the side of the bird.

Every now and then
I will take a picture of a mourning dove

I got this one the other day

YouTube video by WUFT A sweet inheritance: How one family helps shape Florida agriculture

Video: How one beekeeping #Florida family has kept traditions alive. youtu.be/-jZIoMSYpdE?... h/t @floridatrend.bsky.social

Two starlings perched on stone in front ruins and bridge and water in distance. Painting.

🖼️ Cornelis van Hardenbergh, c.1800.

Tell Chemours to pledge to never mine near the Okefenokee - Environmental Action Chemours can set a powerful precedent by pledging never to mine near the Okefenokee.

The Okefenokee Swamp is a wildlife haven. It’s also threatened by nearby titanium mining.

Join us in urging the mining company, Chemours, to not mine near the Okefenokee:

Bomb Cyclone Produced Historic Snow Totals And Hurricane-Like Winds A late-February bomb cyclone produced historic snow totals and hurricane-strength winds. Here are the preliminary numbers.

My post mortem on the historic Blizzard
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Hummingbirds aren’t typical patients for us, but baby bird season arrived early.

This pair of Allen’s Hummingbird hatchlings showed up in a box on our doorstep, and we moved quickly to care for them.

Their beaks are so so small that drops from Q-tips kept them hydrated!

I love Mexico!

Karmic justice

I may soon go there too! Need to see some whales, eat some great Mexican food and feel welcome

Humpback whale breaching

Humpback whale breaching in the Sea of Cortez, Cabo.

A cold start to yesterday morning and amazing to see a hoar frost on the back of this Tundra Bean Goose at Swinister, Shetland.

#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #UKWildlife #Birds

That’s funny!

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer) Today we celebrate the birthday of Charles Darwin, who elucidated the mechanism of evolution by natural selection and wrote On The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection. All of modern biolog...

Today is the birthday of Charles Darwin, the discoverer of evolution by natural selection and perhaps the most influential scientist in history. Here is a brief reflection on his life, his contributions, and his amazing family.

Project Drawdown launches Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support scientists working in the public good Fellowship seeks early- to mid-career researchers based in America who are committed to science and public expertise

While others are stepping back on climate, Project Drawdown is stepping up!

We’re proud to announce the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support U.S.-based Ph.D.-level scientists & engineers focused on climate solutions for the public good.

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Huge win for California mountain lions: Today they were granted protection under the state #EndangeredSpeciesAct 🙌🐾

Now, six populations within Southern #California and the Central Coast will receive much-needed protections under the Act.

More info on this win for the wild ➡️ bit.ly/4tzC4FI

Reality: Mars sucks. No one can live there.

Also reality: the Moon sucks. We can’t live there either.

More reality: Earth is the only place we can thrive.

The Amazon's Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers 30 years ago.

A festival of music and dance grew into a self-sufficiency showcase growing crops and protecting the Ashaninka’s forest.

“This is not only about implementing a project. What is at stake is cultural change. This is essential to protect life, the territory and its peoples”

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Blue Origin plan puts Indian River Lagoon at serious risk | Opinion Opinion:Blue Origin wants to dump 500,000 gallons of untreated wastewater daily, a move environmental experts say could be catastrophic.

Op-ed: "If it is Blue Origin’s mission to 'build a road to space for the benefit of earth,' one has to wonder why they are applying for permits to dump 500,000 gallons of untreated industrial wastewater into #Florida’s marine environment every single day." www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinio...

Owls over football, any day

Two grayish screech owls in maple trees

Since today is the Super Bowl and I don’t like football, I share with you the owls who have lived in my backyard over the years! #superbowls

Love Rene Magritte

Back from driving across the country in all the rain and rain and rain am now curled up on a sofa in my pyjamas watching Hudson Hawk

Great photo!

Brown and tan bird with a lot of stripes

This is a female red-winged blackbird at the San Pedro House
I am not convinced that she is not an immature male
But The Google says no

The females do not have red feathers on top of the head. You are kind of looking at the black and white striped wings folded over her back.

Here is a female Gila woodpecker on a large branch of a mesquite tree at the San Pedro House