Nature Boy

Well this is fcking crazy. Work from @msbbirds.bsky.social and others found that Black Metaltail hummingbirds can drop their body temperature down to 3 °C (37 °F) during torpor. 🤯 Turns out birds aren't warm-blooded after all! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

📷 Steve Juhasz

What a great idea. Now there’s a way to stick it to big pharma.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

Appeal court rules in favour of Ottawa's toxic plastic listing | CBC News In a victory for the Liberal government, the Federal Court of Appeal has upheld its decision to list plastics as toxic, enabling Ottawa to ban single-use plastic items.

"The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld its decision to list plastics as toxic, enabling Ottawa to ban single-use plastic items."

Read more from @davidthurton.bsky.social: www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #CDNpoli #Plastics

More top guns like this please !

As the Winter Olympics Stares Down a Warming Future, Organizers Must Adapt, Scientists Say With an icy white sheet still blanketing much of the Eastern United States after an intense storm this week, it’s hard to imagine a future with less snow at this time of year.

Snow is disappearing, so we manufacture it at enormous energy cost.
With diverted water.
On damaged soils.
To keep pretending the climate hasn’t changed.
The Winter Olympics are becoming a case study in denial.

Out of the 4 toronto shows, only one has any seats sold

Snowy owls ;)

pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim

Mackerel sky

N.S. group calls on Dalhousie to release agreements for gas exploration program | CBC News A group concerned about the potential risks of hydraulic fracturing wants Dalhousie University officials to release agreements with the provincial government that establish a new program that could le...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Big Oil Turns Against Canada & Greenland, & The Threat to Newfoundland and Labrador - Sierra Club Canada The oil and gas and tech sectors in particular are tools for expanding U.S. influence to countries under threat like Canada & Greenland.

"If Trump invades Greenland we can expect oil and gas interests ‘based in Canada‘ to side with Trump and tell Canada to keep quiet..."

Podcast & Article: www.sierraclub.ca/threat-oil-c... #SovereingtySaturdays #CDNpoli #Greenland #NLpoli #ABpoli #Venezuela

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.

Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.

Source: dr.dk

Bayer lawsuit claims Pfizer, Moderna used Monsanto’s GMO technology to build Covid vaccines | Sharyl Attkisson Bayer sued Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J, claiming they used Monsanto’s patented GMO technology to develop Covid vaccines.

Bayer wants legal immunity from being sued by those it harms, even though Bayer and its subsidiary #Monsanto have aggressively pursued others, including farmers, through the courts! Here's the latest example. sharylattkisson.com/2026/01/baye...

Have the @liberalca.bsky.socials seen the layoff stats for Conoco, Shell, etc. - tens of thousands over the next year. Imperial is cutting 900 jobs in Calgary alone.

Brilliant.

‘It's traditional to make the phrase "peace on earth" …but maybe these days we should be wishing for "peace with earth." Because the climate crisis is a war against nature, a one-sided war ..’ . We (the grand us) need this so much now as the world teeters on the edge of we know not what. Thank you.

The DOJ is more than three weeks late in delivering the Epstein Files. In those three weeks:

- Trump declared himself acting President of Venezuela
- ICE murdered a woman in Minnesota
- Trump is preparing an invasion of a NATO ally
- Trump initiated a criminal investigation of Fed Chair Powell

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

I mean, what do you say any more?

A dead whale found on the bow of a ship in New Jersey sparks an investigation The death of a whale found on the bow of a container ship at a port along the Delaware River in southern New Jersey is under investigation.

apnews.com/article/new-... dead whale found on the bow of a ship in New Jersey sparks an investigation

The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.

Teeny orange #toadlet found in #Brazil. A unique mating call led biologists to this newly discovered pint-sized #amphibian. #frog

Link for more photos and information of this 1 cm long beauty: www.popsci.com/environment/...

Introducing Ashley Noseworthy - one of our two wonderful guests featured on Episode 9 of People, Place, and the Ocean: Zooplankton and Marine Mammals with Ashley and Laura (Part 1)!

Find anywhere you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/show/5c9pzy4FuuxDod3NajdFLc?si=1e082620dc774b3c

These text scammers just don’t get it

Nice use of florid.

I don’t see a link in the agenda. Some interesting talks.

Is there a recording?

Ya I got nice call from one of your board members after I made a donation!