Rissa tridactyla

OTD 1955: Larry Doby was traded to the White Sox after eight great seasons in Cleveland. Later Doby would become the 2nd Black MLB manager when the White Sox hire him in 1978. Also? Doby debuted with Cleveland vs the White Sox in 1947. Designate July 5 as Larry Doby Day @mlb.

Guardians win AL Central title, finishing off comeback of the century CLEVELAND -- On July 4, after the Guardians lost for the eighth time during their 10-game skid, players lingered in the dugout at Progressive Field and stared out at the scene of the Tigers’ celebrato...

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Enjoy your baseball team tomorrow. Even if they are terrible. Even if they make you mad and frustrated. The offseason is long and the world is full of horrors. Even very bad baseball is better than waiting for spring.

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Happy Saturday, Cleveland! We are so ready to cheer on our Guardians in their late-season push ⚾

Photo: John Pana, cleveland.com

Keep manifesting!! #ForTheLand

Go Guards! #ForTheLand

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Insect populations drop even without direct human interference, a new study finds Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find

Deforestation is never 'just trees'.

It’s half a million lives lost in 20 years because we stripped away nature’s cooling system.

We don't just need nature. We ARE nature.

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The Water Cure

“You’re a cool and weightless mer-creature, returned to the primordial soup that formed you.”

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Pollinator‐Promoting Interventions in European Urban Habitats—A Synthesis Syntheses of urban pollinator-friendly management are lacking, hindering policy implementation compared to farmland. Addressing this gap, our re-analytical data synthesis demonstrates the generally p...

New Europe-wide study finds that efforts to provide pollinator habitat in urban areas - such as sowing wildflower mixes - really do work, boosting numbers of bees and butterflies: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Early ripening of berries in UK shows nature is under stress, say experts Hot summer also causing trees to shed their leaves as concerns raised over ‘food gap’ for wildlife in autumn

Nature’s calendar is out of sync.

Across the UK, berries are ripening early & trees are shedding leaves. These aren’t signs of early autumn, but of ecosystems under stress from heat & drought. ⚠️

Our wildlife will struggle as food sources vanish too soon. 🐾

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Austin Hedges changes his tune, and might keep it that way: Guardians breakfast today Austin Hedges changed his walk-up music for one night and ended up with a pair of hits and an RBI in Cleveland's 9-4 win.

🦔🦔🦔 #ForTheLand

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'I saw them as monsters and man-eaters': Saving the world's rarest crocodile from its bad reputation It's known for its deadly bite, but the Philippine crocodile – thought to be the rarest in the world – has a lot more to give than it gets credit for.

“Philippine crocodile, something to be proud of”

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Carbon credits: The dark heart of the climate ‘solution’ that simply does not work Amid the climate crisis, no amount of wishing for an imaginary carbon unicorn will make it true

“Climate justice means putting people and the planet before profit.”

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There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

All the smoke is now belong to Seattle.

Legendary Cleveland broadcaster Hamilton takes his place in Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- When Tom Hamilton introduced his Wisconsinite parents to the legendary Bob Uecker in the radio booth one day many years ago, Uecker jokingly apologized to them that they were forc...

Joy and tears, and all honor to the voice of our summers! #ForTheLand

A Deep Dive Into the Biodiversity of America’s National Parks From the fog-drenched forests of the Great Smoky Mountains and lakeshore prairies of Indiana Dunes to the cliffs of the Grand Canyon and coral reefs of Biscayne Bay, the U.S.

Spent a few days analyzing the NPS species database. Some interesting findings:

- Redwood is the only national park with 100+ mammal species
- Only two parks are more biodiverse than New River Gorge
- Indiana Dunes has a ridiculously high biodiversity density (species/square mile)

#nationalparks

The trunk of a tree splits off into twisting branches with all the greenery on the top third. It’s growing in shallow brown soil with a blue sky overhead.

Not so much a thick trunk as a complicated one. Along the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, October 2024 #ThickTrunkTuesday

‘You think God didn’t make gay men?’ Comedian Leslie Jones on religion, grief and getting famous at 47 She was Saturday Night Live’s oldest hire, then faced a torrent of abuse after her role in the Ghostbusters reboot. She talks about the deaths of her mum, dad and brother – and why she’s given up dating men

‘You think God didn’t make gay men?’ Comedian Leslie Jones on religion, grief and getting famous at 47

J-Ram records 7th (!) 20/20 season as Guards blast off vs. O's CLEVELAND -- When your name is alongside folks such as Barry Bonds and Bobby Bonds in baseball’s all-time record books, you know you’re in good company. José Ramírez continues to cement himself alongs...

“Whatever else may be going on in the world, you can always, always count on José Ramírez.” #ForTheLand

The opposite of war isn’t peace!
It’s creation!

My newest paper: on surviving a career in #ecology while having a #disability (and how to make things better!!)

Storm clouds gathering over the Great Lakes

Where it's wave over wave, sea over bow
I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow

Storm rolling in over the Great Lakes. All the shades of blue.

Remember you are this universe and this universe is you.

Joy Harjo

Sunset on the Great Lakes

Oh, my heart is on the highway
And I'm sold on going to sea

Ok, #Knitting BlueSky, you’re my only hope! I’m working a 100st hat *in the round* and I need to incorporate a complicated 20st-wide #intarsia pattern, at only one point. (I know, #stranded would be much easier.)

I’ve been all over YouTube but am still at a loss. Any sage advice?

Thanks!!

Nature Beyond Cure: Disabled Perspectives Books that explore nature and living with disability and illness from disability perspectives. No magical cures here!

I've made a new list on @bookshop.org of books that explore nature / walking / the outdoors by disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill writers - Nature Beyond Cure - aka our own narratives are messy and complex. Do share! #BookSky #DisabledWriters
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Rhinoceros Auklet, by Mathew Schwartz

Today is World Seabird Day!

World Seabird Day was created to commemorate the extinction of the Great Auk, a flightless seabird last seen on July 3, 1844, and to celebrate the many incredible seabird species still with us, like this Rhinoceros Auklet, seen in British Columbia.