The Trump administrationโs cuts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service come as species across the globe languish, including the Florida panther, the official state animal.
Nature always has a remedy
Scientists discover tiny ocean fungus that kills toxic algae
A newly discovered marine fungus can kill toxic algae blooms, hinting at a hidden natural regulator in the ocean.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure.
This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimerโs Disease share.google/Vm0hfSMfkGIc...
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1/ Oil hit $111 today. The Strait of Hormuz โ through which 20% of world oil flows โ has never been closed like this. Ever. If you're surprised, you weren't paying attention. Thread on winners, losers, and what "diversified investor" actually means right now.
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Campaigners outside SSE's offices in Glasgow holding a banner which reads: "Stop Berwick Bank"
Today we gathered outside SSE's Glasgow office to urge them to stop the Berwick Bank offshore wind farm.
Together we delivered a petition signed by 12,500 people opposing this damaging project.
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Fungicides used in agriculture cause resistence in Aspergillus fumigatus (fungus present in every compost heap) wich can infect immunocompromised people. In the NL 1000 infections of resistent Aspergillus each year, 200 fatalities. Don't contribute to this and eat organic!
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The fishing of krill is putting marine wildlife at risk.โ
To protect this fragile ecosystem, the fishery needs to be paused until stronger management and safeguards are in place.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Good. No concern was given for the impact on other marine species nor for human health. #politas
๐79% of homeowners report rising home insurance premiums.
๐66% of voters see a connection between Big Oil, extreme weather, and rising insurance costs.
๐61% of voters support legislation that would empower states to sue Big Oil companies to recover insurance-related costs from climate disasters.
This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale ๐ population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...
Forest study demonstrates that nature is reacting to the warming climate in surprising ways: www.earth.com/news/forests...
@wardvalley.bsky.social Please support, sign and share the petition to help reduce litter at source and help protect wildlife and watercourses in business settings, trashing the UK. Businesses need to step up, not just volunteers. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Pretend Left Wing paper the Guardian saying that Fossil Fuel tax should be cut so trillion dollar Fossil Fuel giants will make more profits and drill more oil and gas.
And Public Services can be defunded.
Trump threatens to halt trade with Spain because its govt refused military base access.
The felon demands obedience and has tantrums when sovereign govts refuse to be part of his illegal war.
Tariff/Military wars are part of his delusions of world domination.
More need to resist.
Irelandโs winter wetter and warmer than average for sixth year in a row, says Met รireann
Our โkey body for enforcement of environmental protection legislationโ just cannot reach any of these trollies dumped in our river basins.
R we โfightingโ the climate crisis yet @fingal.ie ?
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๐ฎ๐ชRiver Basin Management Planโ
it's sad the the 'before' picture is so commonplace (and so accepted as normal) in ireland
if they were displayed the other way around, you would think something cataclysmic had happened
Fracking and North Sea oil are a red herring for energy security
โWe have renewables which are reducing UK prices of electricity.โ North Sea oil and gas are sold on global markets by private firms โnot owned by the publicโ. Wind power cut UK energy bills by a third in 2025. @jessralston.bsky.social
Itโs time for more scrutiny of swapping grass pitches for astroturfs, some councillors and academics say. The change may mean the pitches can withstand more use, but it also means they wonโt absorb as much rain, or sustain as many creatures, they say.
A new disabled personsโ organisation has launched in Dublin. The Dublin DPO aims to bring together voices from across coalitions โ groups for the blind, the mobility impaired, the autistic, and more.
China's doubling down on grid infrastructure โก๐๏ธ
China will add 15 ultra-high voltage (UHV) lines by 2030, connecting ~200 GWh of renewable power to the grid ๐
Generation gets the headlines, but transmission is what makes large-scale decarbonization actually work ๐๐ฑ
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Picture of Hugh Grant, with a quote of his from X: "Dirty Business on Channel 4. Brilliantly made, devastating. Water must be nationalised now. The owners of the private water companies jailed."
Hang it in the The Louvre! *
Hugh Grant is right - the privatisation of water is a scam, and it's a Very English Scandal that no-one has been brought to justice for the destruction of our rivers and seas.
We need public ownership, and oversight, now.
* (with extra security)
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.
They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.
Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.
Watch how they vote this week.
A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source:ย EirGrid, SEMO
A stacked area chart of the renewable electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland. There are eight fuel types: pumped storage, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. The y axis indicates the percentage of demand being met by each source. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source:ย EirGrid, SEMO
As spring arrives, a little glimpse over the past 24 hours of how the Irish grid is taking advantage of multiple sources of renewable energy:
- wind peaked at 80% of electricity demand last night
- solar peaked at 14% this afternoon -- a figure that was a summertime record as recently as 2024
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Aside from slaughtering masses of innocent people, the US and Israel's illegal war on Iran is yet another reminder that the current global order has a 19th century mindset, supremely incapable of tackling catastrophic climate and ecological collapse.
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