Kat Tancock

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.

The environment flows through our bodies, altering our trajectories in ways medicine is just starting to see. "Your 'environment' could be the refinery a town over, the lead in the paint of your mother’s home, the plastic sheath of a Hot Pocket you microwaved in 1996." www.wired.com/story/scient...

I got stuck once on Via for 5 hours, ended up taking 10 to go from TO-Mtl, and I swore off them after that. And I love trains.

Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans? The answer, in retrospect, is obvious—and it’s part of a larger campaign to stop bans on Teflon cookware nationwide.

Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out

They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.

New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:

romance is not generally my genre but translation from Russian is so for 2026 may I suggest a book called Pioneer Summer?

The Ottawa-Alberta MoU is a backslide on methane goals.

That delay adds 1.9M tonnes of methane, roughly half the annual pollution created by the cars on Canada’s roads.

Alberta is already behind on methane — and now it has permission to fall further behind➡️ buff.ly/qriG0i3

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will we never be free of the ostriches

This is the technofix Carney's so excited about:

World’s largest CCS project hits new low on amount of carbon captured and stored

Not only has Chevron's Gorgon failed to hit its targets, its performance has declined significantly over time

reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-large...

“I didn’t know I was building a forest” This 90-year-old woman in India offers a lesson on how small, incremental action can lead to meaningful change.

In 1980, Devaki Amma met with a life-threatening car accident. Her recovery was slow and excruciating.

But, amidst the darkest of the clouds, Devaki Amma found a silver lining – a native #forest she raised and planted with her own two hands.

#rewilding

www.rewildingmag.com/i-didnt-know...

ok but I for one adore on the calculation of volume and yes, I have read more than the first chapter

Two marmots peep out of their release box. 2025. Adam Taylor

Following the end of the field season, our small team has spent the past few weeks reviewing all the data we collected during this year, and I am thrilled to announce that the wild population of this critically endangered species reached a new high this year - 427 marmots!

The arrogance is astounding.

there are real vibes of thinking it’s SoCal

though OF COURSE it was filmed in Kelowna

Carney signs major energy agreement with Alberta, laying out conditions for new oil pipeline Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed a major new energy co-operation agreement on Thursday, outlining the conditions that need to be met for a new oil pipeline to the P...

NB: Its also an AI/data centre deal (gift to big tech). The terms include:

« Constructing thousands of megawatts of AI computing power, with a “large portion” dedicated to sovereign cloud; »

www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...:

Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.

What we have witnessed tday in this new federal-Alberta agreement is a complete abandonment of core federal climate policy and a complete abdication to the MAGA-aligned govt of Alberta and to oil & gas corporations that send huge chunks their profits to the US.

👏👏👏

I’m so angry about this

Amid climate impacts, leading Secwépemc firekeeper shares 'a better way of looking after the land' In a time of worsening wildfires, Joe Gilchrist says cultural burning 'needs to be multiplied hundreds of times' — returning to Indigenous stewardship

"You can’t just do work on the forest just once," said Secwépemc firekeeper Joe Gilchrist.

"It has to be continuous — it has to be more of a lifestyle change."

Story by Aaron Hemens.

indiginews.com/features/lon...

New data shows the world is embracing renewable energy. Canada can’t follow Trump’s fossil fuel obsession North America at risk of becoming an island of fossil fuels in an electrifying world. Canada should take note and choose a better path.

"Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs." Couldn't agree more with colleagues @gmbutts.bsky.social @rjcsmith.bsky.social and Peter Nicholson on the only sustainable way forward for Canada www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

So depressing but great story. Not sure I’ve ever felt so old!

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

This is one of the most endangered mammals in the world – there are fewer than 400 alive in the wild right now – so it is pretty special to watch this mom and her two pups emerge from their burrow. Kids will be kids, no matter how rare your species!

P.S. they are Vancouver Island marmots

Congratulations!

The city turning lawns into pollinator meadows In Vancouver, a city-led (and research-backed) initiative is converting chunks of park land into wilder ecosystems.

"There are 14,000,000 square metres of parks, boulevards and golf courses in #Vancouver. Six million of that is lawn. We’ve transitioned 7 percent of that. We'll keep increasing as and when we can."

www.rewildingmag.com/the-city-tur...

gives our waste-of-space MP something to do I guess

ugh try living here

Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Australia to introduce power cuts... no, wait, free power for 3 hours a day, as the solar boom has reached its, what's the new word?, abundance phase.

HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

boomer women had pretty strong social conditioning on How to Be a Woman