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Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid

Critical Minerals? There’s a Plant for That - bioGraphic Could phytomining—using plants to pull metal out of the soil—put the green in “green transition”?

"Getting the metal out of hyperaccumulating plants is simple in principle: burn the plants and separate the metal from the ash. Surprisingly, the quality of the resulting metal is often more concentrated and purer than that extracted by conventional mining." www.biographic.com/critical-min...

To build their model, the Heiltsuk used knowledge of bear movements garnered from DNA samples of bear fur collected across the territory, community interviews, and the Heiltsuk Traditional Use Study, which started gathering oral histories and traditional knowledge from Heiltsuk elders in the 1990s.

YouTube video by World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Main Title “Through the Roof of the World”

If you never listen to video game soundtrack music, but you like classic music in general (especially more romantic stuff like most movie scores), you're really missing out.

This medley is so beautiful, especially the climax

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRLM...

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Content Manager, Live Science - Future Publishing What you'll doOne of the world's leading, most trusted science brands, Live Science breaks down the stories behind the most interesting news and photos on the internet. Our team digs up fascinating di...

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YouTube video by SharpTone Records 156/Silence - For All To Blame

Today's mood:

For All to Blame - 156/Silence www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJvq...

Vanity Fair, Olivia Nuzzi Agree to Part Ways Nuzzi and the magazine will let her contract expire at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Calling it now that she'll eventually end up at CBS www.wsj.com/business/med...

Copy of print magazine department page called "You are Here." In story shown, "you" are a piece of space garbage.

Would a catastrophe change anything? I wrote this way back in 1995. Seems almost quaint reading it now.

YouTube video by Captain Pikant BLUE MONDAY - Analyzing the MOST BRUTAL BEAT of the '80s | Drum Patterns Explained

I love this channel so much youtu.be/msZCv0_rBO4?...

One of the funny things about hakaiOgraphic is we almost never cover studies from Science or Nature or the other really big journals. It's a bit like how I almost never read the New York Times or the New Yorker. Where's the value in watching the same sources everyone else is watching?

Another fantastic story from the ever insightful & visually stunning @biographic.bsky.social

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The car repair place is playing a weird pop-dance remix of Linkin Park's "numb"?

Impacts of an industrial deep-sea mining trial on macrofaunal biodiversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution A species-level dataset of sediment-dwelling macrofauna, sampled 2 years before and 2 months after a test of a commercial deep-sea mining machine, reveals losses of macrofaunal density and species ric...

Impacts of an industrial deep-sea mining trial on macrofaunal biodiversity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For fossil fuel-dependent islands, ocean thermal energy offers a lifeline A small floating pilot device deployed off the Canary Islands could one day prove pivotal to unlocking clean energy for tropical island and coastal communities by harnessing seawater heat. At least, t...

I've had my eye on Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion for a while, so its great to see this piece about it news.mongabay.com/2025/12/for-...

For sure, we shouldn't celebrate people who do a bad job

I'm pretty sure it's just a term for the kind of independent journalism work we've seen arise from individual practitioners on places like substack or medium. Even blogging could be described this way, assuming the work is journalistic in nature

Publishers will finally learn to truly value news creators "News organizations will become loose confederations of news creators and supporting services."

"Successful news publishers will be those who build compelling pitches and value propositions that recruit and retain journalists who command audience attention." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/publ...

Sorry, the explainer is dead "Remember when we told journalists to write more explainers? Yeah, sorry about that."

Sorry, the explainer is dead www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sorr...

The New York Times draws a line on Pentagon press limits - Poynter The Times sues the Pentagon in a stand against the efforts by the government to intimidate and hinder the free press.

“An attack on any journalist’s rights is an attack on all. And the only way to put an end to the Trump administration’s multipronged assault on press freedom is for every news outlet to fight back at every opportunity.”

www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

Space debris: will it take a catastrophe for nations to take the issue seriously? A crack in the window of a Chinese space capsule is the latest incident involving debris.

Space debris: will it take a catastrophe for nations to take the issue seriously?

theconversation.com/space-debris...

Over a third of animals impacted in deep sea mining test - scientists The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.

"The machine removes about the top five centimetres of sediment. That's where most of the animals live. So obviously, if you're removing the sediment, you're removing the animals in it too," lead author Eva Stewart told BBC News

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Morocco to secure 60% of water needs from desalination, minister says Morocco, which has endured seven years of drought, plans to supply 60% of its drinking water from treated seawater by 2030, up from 25%, its water minister said, as Rabat accelerates investment in des...

"Morocco, which has endured seven years of drought, plans to supply 60% of its drinking water from treated seawater by 2030, up from 25%" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

Thank you!!!!

I like this quote from the paper:

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Traditional ecological knowledge is incredibly valuable. Everyone knows this (or should.) The hard part is turning the deep ecosystem insight carried by every Indigenous community into the kind of data you need to power a predictive model. That's why I love this story--they did the hard part

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