“We’re talking about an end to a whole era of conservation.”
One year after the Trump administration changed how conservation around the world is funded and practiced, global leaders and local people are charting a new course—and planning for a future without U.S. support.
For over a century, the United States has largely set the agenda for global conservation--yet the country’s influence is rapidly contracting. And looking back, writes @judeisabella.bsky.social, it’s clear that US-led efforts have always been permeable to political whims and rife with contradictions
“I give the EPA employees here a lot of credit,” says Nicole Cantello, the president of AFGE Local 704 in Chicago. “They want to survive this. They want to live to … rebuild this agency.”
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This Offshore Wind Turbine Will House a Data Center Underwater spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-...
"The turbines will supply the power for the servers, and onboard batteries and grid connection will provide backup."
Earth dirt not so special after all
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Measles outbreak erupts in one of U.S.’s largest ICE detention centers www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...
Look, consequences
Tylenol orders in pregnant people plummeted after Trump falsely linked the medicine to autism
www.scientificamerican.com/article/tyle...
Among Young Climate Scientists, a Growing Interest In Geoengineering e360.yale.edu/digest/young...
Every time you hear about sodium ion batteries, just put a big * next to the story, and remember that it has huge implications for the future of deep sea mining and other critical mineral-related topics
China puts a sodium-ion battery into an EV for the first time — it can drive 248 miles on a single charge www.livescience.com/technology/e...
"A new study ... has announced the momentous discovery of the pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, both previously believed to have been extinct for 6,000 years"
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In an ocean alkalinity enhancement field trial, scientists "measured up to 10 tonnes of carbon entering the ocean and an increase in local pH at the deployment site from 7.95 to 8.3, which represents a return of ocean alkalinity to preindustrial levels."
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Guam objects to Trump administration plan to allow deep-sea mining in western Pacific
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Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas
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“We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the USA this year.”"
"Two men fired multiple shots at the US consulate in Toronto early on Tuesday in what police described as a “national security incident”, prompting beefed-up protection for US and Israeli diplomatic buildings in the city."
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"The vast majority of people, worldwide, expect that others are more likely to suffer from such consequences than themselves.”
Don't worry, climate change will happen to someone else :)
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Iranian residents have reported headaches, difficulty breathing, and oil-contaminated rain settling on buildings and cars. Iran’s Red Crescent Society warned rainfall following the strikes could be “highly dangerous and acidic.”
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That snare tone 😍
Dog Teeth - Boundaries www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7HU...
I’ve reported on some alt technologies to reduce whale strikes—such as AI systems to alert ship captains in real time—and one founder created it because reducing ship speeds wasn’t enough to save right whales. “We cannot afford to ever miss an animal,” he told me. www.biographic.com/ping-youve-g...
FIRST: I talked to some really lovely seabird researchers in the UK about what it was like to see HPAI sweep through Northern Gannet colonies there and what the recovery has been like (for both the birds and the people who love them). www.biographic.com/after-the-ou...
BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Britain is sending a warship to Cyprus after an Iran-made drone hit the UK's RAF Akrotiri base.
Thankfully that's my personal email; my work email is much more under control
Thanks @scifri.bsky.social for having me on to talk about federal research budgets. TLDL: Congress voted to reject the president's big science cuts, but the White House is slow to release those approved funds. 🧪
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"Sarah Sullivant, another former EPA staffer, also lost her job after signing the letter. “It felt so disproportionate to be terminated for exercising free speech,” she says."
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Until last year, the US government was one of the world's biggest funders of #biodiversity protection. For @biographic.bsky.social, I wrote about what's been lost since Trump slashed USAID and other agencies, and how people & organizations are moving forward now.
www.biographic.com/the-future-o...
"Sarah Sullivant, another former EPA staffer, also lost her job after signing the letter. “It felt so disproportionate to be terminated for exercising free speech,” she says."
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