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Whale dies after collision with small boat off New Jersey shore A minke whale has died off the New Jersey shore after colliding with a small boat. The incident occurred Saturday in Barnegat Bay and the impact nearly tipped the boat and threw a person overboard.

They did that “person collided with car and died” thing, but in the ocean.

No, the whale didn’t collide with a boat. A person driving a boat hit a whale and killed it.

On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to @mattiwilks.bsky.social of the University of Edinburgh about her work on children's conceptions of the moral circle. The podcast is available for free below or in all the usual podcast places. Tune in!

knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-240-...

Fishing activities within Spanish marine protected areas in the Mediterranean Sea Marine protected areas (MPAs) are used for biodiversity conservation and Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed to use them together…

9️⃣ Final takeaway:

To meet the 30x30 goal by 2030, we need MPAs that truly protect marine life.
🔑Our study offers key insights to improve marine conservation.

📖 Read the full article 👉

Surging electric truck sales stall China's LNG trucking boom China’s battery-electric truck surge is stalling the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucking boom.

"Liquefied natural gas (LNG) heavy truck sales are declining in 2025 as LNG’s cost advantage over diesel falls and competitive battery-electric alternatives gain ground."

LNG is too expensive.

Sellers can't do anything about that.

Buyers can.

And do.

Quaschning erklärt: Chemtrails Einige halten Kondensstreifen von Flugzeugen für absichtlich versprühte Chemikalien. Diese "Chemtrails" sind zwar nur Wasserdampf, gefährlich sind sie trotzdem.

Einige halten Kondensstreifen von Flugzeugen für absichtlich versprühte Chemikalien. Diese #Chemtrails sind zwar nur Wasserdampf, gefährlich sind sie trotzdem, sagt @volkerquaschning.bsky.social. Sie sind ein sichtbares Zeichen, dass wir weniger fliegen sollten.

www.klimareporter.de/technik/quas...

Abgewiesene DUH-Klage: Teilerfolg für die Gaslobby Umweltschützer klagten gegen die Verlegung eines Seekabels in der Nordsee. Diese wurde zurückgewiesen. Beginnen werden die Arbeiten aber noch nicht.

Riffe sterben leise. Gasverträge nicht. Willkommen in der Realität deutscher Energiepolitik. #Klimakrise

Meinung: Frackinggas-Importe: Zolldeal mit Donald Trump bedroht europäische Klimapolitik Die EU verspricht den USA, Öl und Gas für 750 Milliarden Dollar zu kaufen. Experten warnen: Das würde Europas Klimaziele gefährden und die Staatengemeinschaft von Trump abhängig machen.

Der Zolldeal mit Trump ist ein Problem für die Energiewende in Europa. Die Zusage von 750 Milliarden für fossile Importe ist zwar aus der Luft gegriffen – aber langfristig ein super Argument für die Öl- und Gaslobby. Wie sie den Deal bereits feiert: @spiegel.de 👇 #trump #zolldeal #klimakrise

During glacial retreat, the main contribution to sediment flux is from moraine remobilization (compared to bedrock erosion)! 🔥📈🌊

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN 41 DEGREES AGAIN

40.8 Komatsu today
Heat indexes >50C with extreme humidity:Deadly heat 24/7.Many people hospitalized because these brutal conditions.
26 new records today, >1500 in the past 7 weeks, falling every single day and many more to come !

Hope for global plastics treaty in Geneva to tackle pollution Officials from 170 countries are gathering to finalise measures to curb waste, after Sir David Attenborough’s Ocean documentary brought the issue into focus

More than 170 countries are meeting in Geneva tomorrow

Their task: thrash out a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution

What would it mean for the average person if the final deal is ambitious? Here's what experts think 👇

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Sea Level Rise in NYC In response to my last post, a reader asked Please evaluate their Fig. 7.6 graph of the 30 year trailing rate of Battery sea level rise. The author’s comment is that “NOAA’s projection is remarkabl…

Wow, that is quite a clever deception to downplay sea-level rise in the DOE climate report.
You have to read the vertical axis label in their graph and understand what “trailing trend” means.
StatisticianTamino explains it nicely in his blog.

tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse

It’s about inequality: “The lessons he has drawn are often striking: people are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens”

Colombia deforestation surges 43%, Amazon region worst hit – DW – 08/01/2025 Colombia recorded a sharp uptick in deforestation in the country's Amazon rainforest for last year. The expansion of livestock farming and illegal construction were among the factors authorities blame...

"Colombia deforestation surges 43%, Amazon region worst hit. The expansion of livestock farming and illegal construction were among the factors authorities blamed for the increase." 🌍 www.dw.com/en/colombia-...

Pet dogs transfer veterinary medicines to the environment Worldwide, the number of pet dogs increases yearly, and as a result so does the use of veterinary medicines for flea and tick control. We investigated…

Pet dogs transfer veterinary medicines to the environment
Diepens et al 2023

Ouch! Get well soon.

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“…changes to snow and frozen ground across Arctic landscapes produce cascading effects on permafrost thaw, snow and ice melt, and ecological processes…a reminder of the accelerating pace of change, and made us wonder if we have been too cautious with our climate warnings.”
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Bitte verzichtet auf Spot-ons und andere Zeckenprophylaxe bei Hund und Katze - diese Mittel können Vögeln schaden

Bird mortality rates rising due to pet treatment chemicals found in nests
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

High prevalence of veterinary drugs in bird's nests
de Montaigu et al 2025

Dass es momentan so heiß ist, liegt nicht nur am Klimawandel! Es ist die Entwaldung, wie ich euch mit einer Infrarotkamera an verschiedenen Stellen sehr schön zeigen kann. Die gute Botschaft: das kann man relativ zügig verbessern, in dem wir die Waldfläche vergrößern!

Bitte lasst keine Hunde in Waldtümpeln baden! Sie machen das Wasser trübe, und wenn sie gegen Zecken behandelt sind, dann hinterlassen sie oft Insektizide im Wasser. Das ist sehr gefährlich für die Organismen, die darin leben, zum Beispiel Molche oder Wasserkäfer.

Der arme Baum.

Climate change threats to Earth's wild animals We are entering an existential crisis for the world's wild animals. To date, the primary cause of biodiversity loss has not been climate change but, rather

Climate change joining habitat loss & over exploitation as causes of wildlife extinctions
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Will data centers crash the economy? This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.

Interesting.

We are in another giant tech hype cycle with AI — where people are throwing ungodly sums of money at something they don't understand, making promises they cannot keep — without thinking of the fundamentals.

All the ingredients of another crash.

www.noahpinion.blog/p/will-data-...

Hoffnung für das Klima Fluten, Hitze, Waldbrände: Unser Kontinent ist ein Hotspot der Klimaerwärmung. Warum handeln wir so wenig? Harald Lesch zeigt Wege aus der Klimakrise.

Sehenswerte zweiteilige Doku mit Prof. Harald Lesch: Hoffnung für das Klima

www.zdf.de/dokus/hoffnu...

#Klimakatastrophe #Bildung #Doku

"Mein Haus.
Mein Auto.
Mein Boot.
Meine Pferde.
Und meine Pferdepflegerin."
(alter TV-Werbespot einer Bank)

The marine heat wave in the North Pacific is one of the most extensive, spanning the giant N Pacific, and in spots, the most intense, I’ve observed. Anomalies near Japan are 15 F (8C) above normal. (Japan just recorded its hottest temp on record.)
The reason for this N Pacific heat wave is… 1/

Long-Dormant Russian Volcano Erupts for the First Time in Centuries

See, now this is interesting! Krasheninnikov in Kamchatka erupted Sunday for the first time in possibly 500 years. Whether or not the eruption might be linked to the M8.8 earthquake will take some work to figure out: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/w...

George Orwell's 1984 : George Orwell : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 393 pages - The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever....

Many have been referencing 1984 (George Orwell)

For those who have not read it, here is a free online copy. Yes, it is terrifying.

archive.org/details/Geor...

Zecken finden – Mit dem Handy geht's einfacher Zecken übertragen gefährliche Krankheiten und sollten deshalb so schnell wie möglich entfernt werden. Um die kleinen Blutsauger auch in den Haaren besser finden zu können, gibt es einen simplen Trick:...

Gelernt: Man kann Zecken mit dem Handy wesentlich leichter finden, vor allem an schwer einsehbaren Körperstellen. Geht recht easy: Lupe am Telefon an, Farbumkehr rein, absuchen.

Im Winter, ich wiederhole: IM FUCKING WINTER können auf Spitzbergen Bodenproben mit Löffeln genommen werden, weil der Boden nicht gefroren ist.
What the fuck!

#Medienversagen
#Klimakatastrophe #KlimaMedienKrise

Weathering the storm: stability in a changing climate - speech by Sarah Breeden Based on remarks given at the Chapman-Barrigan lecture

This month, the @bankofengland.bsky.social warned that climate change endangers households and businesses globally, and so endangers the financial system.

www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2025/...