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Join the Bumble Bee Atlas online for a celebration and recap of the 2024 field season! We'll discuss the achievements of our community scientists, how Atlas data is used to support bumble bee conservation, and goals for 2025. To register, visit bumblebeeatlas.org/pages/events

Earthjustice has filed two legal challenges to stop Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute, which would encircle the Bad River Band’s Reservation in northern Wisconsin, where the pipeline has trespassed for over a decade.

“Supporting Xerces Means More Wildlife Protected from Pesticides” A bumble bee collecting pollen from a purple prairie clover flower.

Unlike many conservation groups, Xerces refuses to take funding from pesticide (or fossil fuel) companies. We won't be a part of greenwashing.
This year, we stopped planned insecticide sprays on over 8 million acres of public land. If you can, help us keep going in 2025!🌼🐝 xerces.org/give

Finally made a nice final version of this for print. It’ll be available soon!

Air pollution mapping enters a new tech era EDF and Google Earth Outreach's pilot project uses new sensing and analytical technologies to measure urban gas leaks that contribute to climate change.

Did someone say 2 for 1? In collaboration with Google Earth Outreach, EDF introduced air quality sensors on (electric!) Street View cars, allowing for hyperlocal mapping of air pollution within a city.

Extreme heat is forcing farmers to work overnight, an adaptation that comes with a cost Farmers and fisherfolk across the world are shifting into nighttime work to escape perilous heat.

Shifting to nighttime work to avoid extreme heat has led to physical and mental health challenges for workers. It also disrupts family routines and communal life. grist.org/food-and-agr...

368 Trees vs. Invasive Shot Hole Borers Today, we venture into the critical realm of invasive pests, zeroing in on the invasive shot hole borer (ISHB), a formidable newcomer from southern As...

Trees vs. Invasive Shot Hole Borers.
Beatriz Nobua-Behrmann, urban forestry and natural resources advisor, sheds light on the pest's impact on various ornamental trees, including avocado trees, a very important agricultural crop.

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PODCAST: Bridging chronic Lyme trauma and emotional healing | LymeDisease.org By Fred Diamond Living with chronic Lyme disease can be a relentless battle, often misunderstood by those who haven’t experienced its toll. Beyond the

On this week’s Love, Hope, Lyme podcast by Fred Diamond, Christina Kantzavelos, a therapist and chronic Lyme survivor, offers insights and hope for those navigating this complex journey. www.lymedisease.org/bridging-lym...

Monarch Butterfly Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing protection for one of the nation’s most beloved species -- the monarch butterfly -- and is encouraging the public to be part of its recovery. The Servic...

USFW Press release regarding listing of monarch butterfly as threatened endangered species. Now in the public comment stage.

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Written 54 years ago in response to a child’s letter about what makes a good citizen, and still right on the money.

MEDICAL DETECTIVE: How Will I Know If I Have Lyme Disease? | LymeDisease.org This article was originally posted on Dr. Richard Horowitz's Medical Detective Substack. You can find more helpful content by subscribing to it here. Lyme

In the second episode of Dr. Richard Horowitz's MEDICAL DETECTIVE series, he explains how to recognize Lyme disease through symptoms alone.

READ MORE and access the Medical Detective’s Lyme/MSIDS Questionnaire here. www.lymedisease.org/medical-dete...

EPA bans two cancer-causing chemicals used in everyday products Michal Freedhoff, EPA assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, said the bans will protect workers, consumers and residents from the chemical’s harms.

VICTORY! The EPA has officially banned TCE, a toxic, cancer-causing chemical. Thanks to our clients’ relentless advocacy, vulnerable communities are now better protected. A major win for public health, environmental justice, and the power of people! ejus.tc/3VuZ2ym

New strains of sudden oak death threaten Bay Area trees The pathogen is found in 16 coastal and near coastal counties from the Oregon border to the southern border of Monterey County.

New strains of sudden oak death threaten Bay Area trees.
"It blows around in wind-driven rain, and that's exactly how it's moving here," said #UCCE Environmental Horticulturist Steven Swain who says the new strains look to be more dangerous. www.ktvu.com/news/sudden-... #KTVU

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Photos show the impact of climate change on national parks Photos show climate change impacting national parks from Yellowstone's flooding to warming temperatures in Denali. Wildfires are also causing damage.

👀 Eye-opening photographs show the stark changes—from hotter, drier weather to invasive species to more powerful storms—that climate change is bringing to national parks in the U.S.
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Help save property bordering the San Gabriel Mtns. National Monument!

Show your support of The WEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA PLAN if you want to save wildland from developers!

Make a public comment : publiccomment.bos.lacounty.gov

Further information: bos.lacounty.gov/Board-Meetin...

CA makes impressive stride towards it's climate goals. The 2022 data shows a 2.4% decrease in total GHG emissions

🌾 Agriculture: 1.7% emissions drop
🚗 Transportation: 3.6% emissions drop
⚡ Electricity: 4.1% emissions drop
🏭 Industrial: Lowest emissions ever recorded

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The Trump Cabinet nominees who could decide our climate future It's not just the EPA. From Elon Musk and RFK Jr. to Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum, Trump's picks to lead key agencies are poised to set a very different climate agenda

President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks signal a major shift in U.S. climate policy. Key nominees are staunch fossil fuel advocates, climate skeptics, and deregulation proponents, with little focus on clean energy transition grist.org/politics/tru...

FUCK. YEAH. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Altadena: A Brief History of What Might Have Been - Local News Pasadena Organized opposition, fizzled projects and unfulfilled plans that defined a community. Communities share a sense of place, defined by clear-cut decisions that direct us.

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Getting this Plan approved is the best chance we have at conserving the Nuccio's land and keeping what's left of the open space in the foothills.

West San Gabriel Valley Area Plan: mailchi.mp/a37b1d8f0e7b...

www.chaneytrailcorridor.org/wsgvap

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today I'm thankful for foxes, fresh bread, bookish folk, lighthouses, lampposts, C. S. Lewis, university libraries, classic films, cold rains, Mr Pickwick, Marcel Proust, Mrs Owl, and you.

YouTube video by symmetry My Life as a Turkey | Illumination in the Flatwoods | Joe Hutto

Happy Thanksgiving! Might you join me in my annual tradition of watching this heartfelt documentary? youtu.be/ENr62-oWyPs?...

Actually, the Orange Man Is Bad And that's kind of the point.

"He runs the table on the seven deadly sins and demonstrates not a trace of any of the four cardinal virtues. He possesses not a single character trait that you would want your child to fully emulate."

Yep, still true.

Tim Miller from the archives:

Beschloss & Meacham: No One Should Be Surprised Podcast Episode · Impolitic with John Heilemann · 11/18/2024 · 1h 38m

🚨👍🚨 New pod alert! The Bash Brothers of presidential historians, @beschlossdc1776.bsky.social & Jon Meacham, weigh in on the Trump 2.0 transition. Clear-eyed, level-headed, laden with perspective—and therefore all the more alarming. Listen here tinyurl.com/56awmeah or here tinyurl.com/yevee5cr

Mexico Death Tied to Bird Flu Strain Never Before Seen in People A person in Mexico died after contracting a strain of bird flu that hasn’t been seen in humans before, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

A person in Mexico has died after contracting a strain of bird flu that hasn’t been seen in humans before, the World Health Organization said

Hoverfly pollinating yarrow flowers with large compound eyes.

Oh little hoverfly providing services we silly humans receive from you and rarely recognize. I appreciate you.

#ecosystemservices
#pollinators
#syrphidae

Trump picks TV's Dr. Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had chosen celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

My teenage daughter just texted me and asked "Why is Dr Oz leading Medicaid and Medicare?" The things we now have to explain to our children followed by the phrase "I'm sorry."

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The DTE Energy River Rouge plant, in the foreground, with the EES Coke Battery facility on Zug Island in the background. The EES Coke facility releases thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide in the overburdened River Rouge community and near the state’s most polluted zip code, 48217. (Ted Auch / FracTracker Alliance).

VICTORY: We reached a settlement with DTE Energy on behalf of the Sierra Club, putting the utility on track to end the burning of coal for electric generation in less than a decade & securing a hastened retirement date for the US’s 3rd largest climate polluter, the Monroe Coal Plant.

We have a country to save Terri, so great to see you here as well.