John Vaillant

Amazon river dolphin harassing a black caiman by nibbling at its tail. [📹 jhonathabc]

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Jeff Koterba

Diver accidentally captured this breathtaking moment after dropping his camera underwater off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [📹 Peter Mieras]

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Winning . . .

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
Leave your comment here:

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A trillion more reasons to embrace the #EnergyTransition:

Election chiefs huddle to combat Trump’s meddling, and an illegal draft executive order aims to give him control of elections The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by a chamber of Congress. The Department of Justice’s grab for state voter rolls. And a potential executive order giving President Donald Trump the power t...

This week, Trump and his allies kicked into high gear their illegal campaign to prevent fair elections in 2026. Democracy Docket not only covered every step, but revealed key new information along the way. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The fate of the Iranian people has never been of great concern to American administrations, and this one is no exception

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When both shame and irony are exhausted, what remains?

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...

Wait, so did Claude tell them to bomb a girl’s school?!

Mark Carney made ‘terrible mistake’ by parroting Donald Trump’s justification for war on Iran, says historian and security expert - Alberta Politics Prime Minister Mark Carney made “a terrible mistake” with his immediate full-throated support of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran, Canadian historian and security-intelligence exper...

albertapolitics.ca/2026/03/mark...

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

According to WaPo, Saudi Crown Prince MBS, who has invested in excess of $3 bn in Trump family businesses, made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a US attack on Iran, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Pape's book studying whether or not air power succeeds is called "Bombing to Win".

Spoiler: No one ever wins.
Read the gist here:
escalationtrap.substack.com/p/the-smart-...

YouTube video by The Telegraph Trump attacks Iran with 'major combat operations' to oust regime - what next?

A more sober and nuanced take on this morning's events: #IranWar
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_8T...

Imagine those eyes looking into yours at close range . . .

Ohboy

Peatland lakes in the Congo Basin release carbon that is thousands of years old Over thousands of years, the swamps and peatlands in the Congo Basin have accumulated and stored huge amounts of carbon. A research team led by ETH Zurich has now shown that large lakes in this ecosys...

The Congo Basin is emitting large volumes of CO2 via peatland lakes. Over thousands of years, the swamps and peatlands have accumulated and stored huge amounts of carbon, which they are now releasing with long-term impacts on the global climate. 
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
#emissions #wetlands #Congo

American Taliban:

Hard not to see this as deliberate political disinformation central to a key wedge issue targeted at a large voting block with potential language limitations early in a municipal election season.

In other words, lying on purpose so you can win.

Twice. #Vancouver

Goebbels

Every accusation is a confession from the Trump regime and the MAGAts: pedophilia, dementia, incompetence, un American, Trump crime family, running the economy to the ground, cozying with our enemies around the world, censorship of free speech and of course the biggie, destroying the United States!

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

Anthropic (Claude), in their dealings with the Republican regime, come out looking pretty good.

Anthropic doesn't want to enable unbridled domestic surveillance and automated killing machines.

The Republican regime wants AI-powered surveillance, killing machines.

www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Government documents reveal Big Bend border wall details as opposition grows U.S. Customs and Border Protection has in recent weeks sent letters to local property owners in the path of potential border wall building. The documents reveal new details on the plan, which has garn...

Insane potential desecration of a national treasure. www.marfapublicradio.org/news/2026-02...

People keep comparing MAGA/ICE/CBP/MAHA to 1930s Germany.

It's also more and more like late 1960s China, during Cultural Revolution. Or mid 1970s Cambodia, during "Year Zero."

A war against knowledge itself.

thehill.com/policy/defen...

An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

I wrote about this in Fire Weather (ch. 22)
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554938...

With no end in sight to dry days and high wildfire risk, Colorado eyes a task force Warmest start to a water year in 131 years has experts forming coalition of agencies focused on water, agriculture and emergency management.

With no end in sight to dry days and high wildfire risk, Colorado eyes a task force coloradosun.com/2026/02/26/c...

YouTube video by Foreign Affairs Stephen Walt: America the Predatory Hegemon | Foreign Affairs Interview

Predatory Hegemony:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV-...
via @foreignaffairs.com

How extreme weather is leaving thousands of homes uninsurable In this week’s newsletter: The climate crisis is making insurance unaffordable for many – and it should worry all of us, even if we think we’re safe from floods, wildfires and hurricanes

"Mortgage prisoners” are people who cannot sell because their homes are too flood-prone to insure, and fears of banks facing rising defaults. And the climate crisis is just getting started
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Border wall is closing in on Texas’ Big Bend country Residents and elected officials are speaking out against a proposed border barrier through Texas’ biggest state park and one of the jewels of the national park system.

Links:

www.texastribune.org/2026/02/23/t...

www.fox7austin.com/news/border-...

www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

David Ellison will soon control CNN. In response, I wrote to Democracy Docket subscribers today about the importance and urgency of building a strong independent media ecosystem.

Whether it is Democracy Docket or another independent news outlet, please support one today. bit.ly/4qmEiFz