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This entire press conference is pure gold. Made my whole year.

LIVE: Sen. Mark Kelly speaks out about Trump and Hegseth's threats YouTube video by MS NOW

This is pure gold. Thank you Senator Mark Kelly for your thoughtful and appropriate responses to the situation. Truly. Best spent hour in politics this year.

I wish they didn’t put these photos on the cover of this video. It’s not like that.

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YAAASSSSS! We need more leadership that supports bike friendly, walk friendly communities. Automobiles should not be the default.

Researchers Discover 'Death Ball' Sponge and Dozens of Other Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures in the Southern Ocean So far, two expeditions have yielded 30 new species—and researchers say there's more to come

Look at this cute little death ball sponge! Deeo sea critters make me happy 💙

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Everybody should take a quick moment to read this short piece by a doctor who remembers what it was like before vaccines virtually wiped out a lot of preventable diseases. I can tell you it's visceral.

Canada loses its official ‘measles-free’ status – and the US will follow soon, as vaccination rates fall Decreased vaccination rates have led to measles outbreaks in Canada and other countries.

Vaccinate. I do not understand the fear mongering around these medical miracles. The quack that said vaccines cause autism was a charlatan and the paper was retracted. What I do see is a lot of scientific illiteracy. Antivaxxers can hurt a lot of other people.

theconversation.com/canada-loses...

I cannot even fathom how many bright, curious minds are engaged in research projects across the globe at any given moment, adding to the greater scientific body of knowledge.

Reef restoration shouldn’t just be about growing corals - but also bringing reefs to life, new study suggests Most restoration programmes focus their efforts on increasing coral growth, but rarely ask whether the reef is actually functioning as a living ecosystem.

Excellent points here. It is about the bigger system. This is a challenging ($$$, 🕰️) but vital component to assessing success of reef restoration efforts, and why partnerships are important. Managers are more likely to have long term monitoring programs.
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Shark Whisperer is lying to you: a look into the harmful effects of Ocean Ramsey and shark influencers — Dr. Jack A. Cooper Ocean Ramsey is undoubtedly one of the most well-known “shark influencers”, whose videos show her free diving and touching wild great white and tiger sharks as she swims right up alongside them. Those...

A well articulated and utterly thorough examination of the influencer savior-centered film. No science here.

www.drjackacooper.com/writing/shar...

Hurricane Melissa Approaches Rare Category 5 — Four Things To Know Hurricane Melissa is on its way to Category 5 status after explosively intensifying. Here are 4 things you need to know right now about its strength, track, and impacts.

"Rainfall from Melissa will be measured in feet". Jamaica is about to feel the effects of the climate crisis in a very real way.

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Ambient noise can track dangerous ocean acidification Acoustic technique could make it easier to monitor threat to marine life stemming from rising carbon emissions

This is so incredible: measuring pH of seawater using the physics of sound! Science is cool!

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Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the sc...

The Fifth Nat'l Climate Assessment is back up, fully functional, and no longer on a gov't website!

Huge thanks to the Climate.us team for making this valuable resource easily available to the public.

A big mahalo to Dr. Jane Lubchenco for sharing on LinkedIn

nca5.climate.us

Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch Cascadia and San Andreas fault zones appear to generate synchronized earthquakes

Well this is enlightening. Science is cool.

"Over the past 3000 years, large earthquakes in the Cascadia fault zone may have triggered as many as eight large quakes on the San Andreas fault."

#science #PNW #Cascadia #earthquake #sanandreas #thebigone #tectonic

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Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91 Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

She made such a positive impact on our world. She will be greatly missed.

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Reality check in the teachable moment

By-product recovery from US metal mines could reduce import reliance for critical minerals The United States (US) has sufficient geological endowment in active metal mines to reduce the nation’s dependence on critical mineral imports. Demand is increasing for cobalt, nickel, rare earth elem...

This👇👇👇

"Holley et al. inventoried the potential endowment of unrecovered critical minerals in active US mines compared with imports. Their assessment suggests that 90% recovery of existing by-products could meet nearly all domestic demand for critical minerals."

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I was recently reminded that this is in the Project 2025 document. Cruelty is the point.

Chewbacca coral: New deep-sea species spotted in waters off Hawai‘i, Mariana Trench | University of Hawaiʻi System News UH researchers helped identify a newly discovered deep-sea coral species, nicknamed “Chewbacca” for its hairy branches.

When you get to name a coral after Chewbacca...

www.hawaii.edu/news/2025/09...

Love data! Bring it! The humor, too. It's badly needed. That old growth graph hurts my heart.

I do! We have a lot of great people out here in Hawaii working on it as well. And I love that you're sharing #DATA.

This is humorous, which is what they appear to be shooting for, albeit funny not funny. This is a false dichotomy. It's a rhetorical device to debate in bad faith. All plastic pollution is harmful to aquatic systems. Straws are low-hanging single use fruit. Changing people's behavior is harder.

Overfishing Deal Reached After 20 Years of Negotiation A landmark agreement to curb billions of dollars in subsidies contributing to overfishing came into force on Monday, the World Trade…

This is great news!

"Governments are now prohibited from providing subsidies for overfished stocks and for fishing in international waters beyond their jurisdictions. Poorer states will be able to access a fund to help ease them into the deal."

www.marinelink.com/news/overfis...

Hats off and hands up 🙌 to @EpicLava for this astonishing capture of the Hawaiian nēnē on the wing...past the lava fountains of Eruption 32 of Kīlauea Volcano at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park!

Mahalo for the permission to repost, Epic Lava!

#nēnē #kilaueavolcano #hvnp #epiclava #wowjustwow

Upwelling Failure

Less winds = no upwelling The question is, have we reached a tipping point? The consequences will effect marine systems and the fisheries that depend on them.
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Breadfruit Is A Global Warming Warrior. But How Strong Is It? ʻUlu, bia, uru, mā: Breadfruit has been lauded as a climate-resilient solution to world food security. That's not proving true in the Marshall Islands, where some have relied on it for centuries.

ʻUlu, bia, uru, mā: Breadfruit has been lauded as a climate-resilient solution to world food security. That’s not proving true in the Marshall Islands, where some have relied on it for centuries.

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Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced International climate experts have extensively debunked the D.O.E.’s recent report, but will science win out?

We took our own look at the fossil fuel “orbiting debris field of oddballs and charlatans” cranked up for Trump to oppose climate action, but it’s hard to top McKibben on a roll. You go, Bill!

Just ordered mine through Audible 🩵

I fully support this idea. More butts on bikes and walkable communities please.

Agreed. I saw it on LinkedIn and shared on other sites. This is important.

It's like that in the US as well. It's untenable.