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In Thailand, a coral cryobank tries to buy time for dying reefs In a quiet laboratory at Phuket Rajabhat University in southern Thailand, Preeyanuch Thongpoo is attempting to freeze time. As a molecular biologist, her work focuses on the cryopreservation of live…

Scientists in Phuket are freezing coral larvae and algae to build a “living seed bank” for Thailand’s reefs after repeated bleaching since 2022.

Experts call it genetic insurance — but say restoration still depends on cleaner water, regulated tourism and stronger community protection.

Good news for largest MPA Network in Europe.
#OceanOptimism #30x30

You market your product as something that will turn human civilization upside down and destroy livelihoods, and somehow everyone is not super excited about it. 🤔

Arresting journalists. Seizing ballots. Murdering protesters. Detaining children. It’s time to decide what your red line is.

It's amazing, the feeling of community you find riding bikes alongside other folk who show up for their community and values - and hapilly join in yelling "FUCK ICE" through the streets 🚲

Narrative vs. reality: Alex Pretti. My conversation with @timothysnyder.bsky.social out today. #ResistICE

Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter joins those calling for boycott of World Cup in U.S. Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Trump and his administration at home and abroad.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Trump and his administration at home and abroad. n.pr/4t3yQtH

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:

The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.

newrepublic.com/article/2055...

Alex Jeffrey Pretti Knew He Wanted to Help Others Shot and killed by immigration agents on a Minneapolis street, he wanted to be a ‘force of good in the world.’

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, an official said. He was a registered nurse who worked in the intensive-care unit at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. nyti.ms/4t3ekJW

BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up.

Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.

The Oceans Just Keep Getting Hotter For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would take to boil 2 billion Olympic swimming pools.

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would take to boil 2 billion Olympic swimming pools. www.wired.com/story/the-oc...

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’

Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT:

When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:

www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Trump moves to pull US out of bedrock global climate treaty, becoming first country to do so | CNN The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of the bedrock treaty that underpins international cooperation on climate change, along with dozens of other global bodies.

Trump moves to pull the US from bedrock climate treaty, UN IPCC and other int'l orgs & UN agencies. In doing so, the US becomes the only country to withdraw from this particular climate agreement dating back to 1992 (UNFCCC). www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/c...

DHS’ Racist Social Media Posts Beloved by Neo-Nazis and Other Extremists, and They Know It The DHS has been posting recruitment content featuring explicitly racist and fascist imagery. Posts comparing migrants to monsters and depicting Black people have gone viral, drawing praise from Proud...

DHS recruitment posts using racist and fascist imagery—Black people trapped in “crystals,” fashwave visuals, & Halo-inspired calls to “destroy the flood.” Neo-Nazis & Proud Boys are celebrating what they see as validation, a dangerous sign of how deeply extremism has seeped into official discourse.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Where there are large oil reserves Canada 159 billion barrels United States 81 bil. barrels Venezuela 303 bil. barrels 10 bil. 25 bil. 100 bil. Oil reserves, in barrels Russia 80 bil. barrels Saudi Arabia 267 bil. barrels Nearly half of the world's proven oil reserves are in 12 countries in the Middle East.

Just your occasional reminder that Venezuela’s oil reserves are greater than Saudi Arabia’s, and nearly 4X those of the United States

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.

“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”

Read that again.

Opinion: We’re sending B.C.’s extreme weather bills to the wrong people Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits

Excellent oped by Kiera Taylor: We’re sending BC’s extreme weather bills to the wrong people.

Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while fossil fuel companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Castle Fun Park owner paying out of pocket to upgrade flood defences As Abbotsford continues to dry out from last week’s flood, the damage at one hard-hit business is becoming clear—and so is the cost of restoration.

ABBOTSFORD: “For the second time in four years, Castle Fun Park found itself surrounded by water, which also caused significant damage inside.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... - @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social

#Abbotsford #BCFlood #Flooding

Opinion | The New Evidence Climate Change Will Upend American Homeownership A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.

NYT reporting on First Street's $1.5 trillion estimate of the size of the housing component of the brittleness bubble (which is not the whole bubble, by any means).

We've been watching this emerge for 20+ years, and now it's here.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...

U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Students walked out of school at Burnsville High School in Minnesota to protest Trump’s ICE gestapo terrorizing their community….the kids are alright 💪!

"NO MORE ICE! NO MORE ICE!"

56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly It could be a sign of what’s to come.

When global temperatures shot up by ~6°C about 56 million years ago, plants were unable to thrive

The reduced ability of vegetation & soils to capture & store carbon may have kept temperatures elevated for >100,000 years

Today Earth is warming ~10 times faster than it did 56 million years ago

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

Paris: Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...