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How Do Offshore Wind Farms Affect Military Radar? With the right technology, offshore wind farms can bolster national defense, not hinder it.

Here's a man-bites-dog story: Offshore wind farms might actually *enhance* national security by reducing reliance on imported energy and providing forward platforms for military surveillance. My latest for @spectrum.ieee.org:
spectrum.ieee.org/offshore-win...

So how many did you buy?

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades, blasting through a coral reef and dredging up sediment that could smother acres of coral, federal scientists say. https://wapo.st/4r7kRAU

Oo! This looks really good!

Birds are changing — and Indigenous memory is the longest record we have Conservation has long depended on measurement. Populations are counted, habitats mapped, trends plotted against baselines that often extend back only a few decades. Yet many ecosystems began changing ...

"Understanding ecological change may depend as much on listening as on measuring." Nice @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social column on traditional ecological knowledge and shifting baselines
news.mongabay.com/2026/03/bird...

Water Always Wins Winner of the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism, Water Always Wins is a hopeful journey around the world and across time, illuminating better ways to live with water.  Nea...

And here's my book, Water Always Wins at @uchicagopress.bsky.social: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Chennai Ran Out of Water — But That’s Only Half the Story - bioGraphic To reduce flooding and bridge droughts, India’s southern coastal metropolis is using ancient knowledge, community action, and wetlands restoration to harness its monsoon rains.

Thanks, Shoma! Here's the @biographic.bsky.social story: www.biographic.com/chennai-ran-...

I will always applaud a William Carlos Williams parody

‘I live in constant fear’: surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers Falling groundwater, extreme heat and water-intensive farming are accelerating land collapse, forcing a rethink in agricultural practices

Turkey's decades of extreme irrigation from rivers and groundwater for ag has also taken water from downstream Iraq. Now Turkey's land is barking back. Similar to subsidence (sinking ground) in California from overpumping groundwater. By @lizcookman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

"... unlike human conversations, which feature different perspectives, users don’t receive pushback during conversations with chatbots: 'The design of the product is pushing you away from reality. It’s pushing you away from other people. The friction with other people is what keeps us grounded.'”

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

"...he was spiraling into beliefs that were detached from reality." This is tragic, and deeply weird. It's as if humans didn't evolve for social interaction with something that isn't another living being. by Varsha Bansal www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

They are so beautiful!

Indigenous communities oppose Papua forest rezoning for palm oil JAKARTA — Indigenous communities in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua accuse the government of underhanded zoning changes to expand the so-called food estate program there to include…

Indigenous communities in Indonesian Papua are challenging forestry decrees that reclassified more than 1 million acres as nonforest land for oil palm under the food estate program.

They say the move lacked consent and may sue if ignored, warning forests and livelihoods are at risk.

Analysis of 261 bird species over 34 yrs shows continental decline of abundance of all birds, w/decline hotspots in southern warm parts of NAmerica & accelerating declines in Midatlantic, Midwest & California MATCHING PATTERNS OF AGRICULTURAL INTENSITY.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Conservation Enters a New Era - bioGraphic One year after the Trump administration slashed biodiversity protections at home and abroad, people and organizations are figuring out where to go from here.

For a century, the United States dominated & influenced conservation around the world--for better and for worse. That era is over.

@biographic.bsky.social has a special issue on the next era of conservation--what it looks like, who's funding it, & what it means for people, species, & ecosystems 🌱

Ancient stepwells brought back to life as India begins to run out of water Centuries-old wells restored to provide drinking water as parts of the country head towards “day zero” when no water will be available

Great to see India's restoration of traditional water management is expanding. I wrote about Tamil Nadu's eris system for @biographic.bsky.social and in my book, Water Always Wins. Good story by @shomaabhyankar.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Thank you!

This is one of the things I am constantly (including in our book, Life After Cars) trying to get people to care about! This is killing us, folks

Thanks, Mike. Will do.

Ha! Not yet, I’m afraid.

Kiliii Yüyan puts Indigenous ‘Guardians of Life’ and their planetary stewardship in focus National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yüyan returns to the Mongabay Newscast to share his experience creating his new book, Guardians of Life: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Science, and Restoring...

Almost three years ago I interviewed @kiliiiyuyan.bsky.social about a project he was working on documenting the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of nine Indigenous communities worldwide. He returns to the podcast to talk about the experience, and the knowledge he's gleaned. Listen here:

I feel the same!

Nice! One time I saw ravens flying up, joining talons, and doing death drops, pulling apart just before the ground. That was outside of Victoria, BC. I am well. Hope you are too!

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

YES! My next book will be partly about this.

Aww! Beautiful! I saw two redtail hawks in an aerial dance yesterday at Lands End.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

happy Oakland creek news!

Braided rivers look chaotic, but their food webs tell a different story.
Using stable isotopes, we found that fish, birds, and spiders connect resources across huge spatial scales — revealing hidden structures that help stabilise these dynamic ecosystems.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I think we haven’t quantified all the things the land carbon sink might do yet. And the land carbon cycles in ESMs are quite linear but are missing a number of processes which could be quite non-linear.