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James Aura
@jamesaura.bsky.social
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I write mysteries, environmental and climate fiction: Sometimes they overlap. #books #SciFi #mysteries Latest book: The Hurricane Code https://www.amazon.com/Hurricane-Code-James-Aura/dp/B08J1SK814
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 7h
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d
Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas. Growing evidence of permanent shift Without adequate sea ice formation, their melting rates will accelerate, with the potential to cause extreme global sea level rise.
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Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas
Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 10h
 🤦🤦CDC Scrambling to Restaff After Accidentally Firing Top Scientists 
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CDC Scrambling to Restaff After Accidentally Firing Top Scientists
More than 4,000 government employees were laid off on Friday in what has been dubbed a “massacre.”
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 10h
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings...
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 10h
Trump keeps trying to build monuments so people will remember him and I so desperately want to show him footage of all the Lenin statues getting ripped down in Ukraine
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 10h
England sees record low harvests because of heatwaves #climate
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Cwnidog @cwnidog.bsky.social · 18h
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Magpie Miller @magpiemiller.bsky.social · 18h
Perfect moment.
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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 1d
Diane Keaton by Jill Krementz, 1977
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 18h
One of the blissful things about being in Canada was the lack of pharmaceutical ads. It’s amazing how many other products exist in the world- chocolate! Laundry detergent! - that you can hear about if you’re not being told about medullary thyroid cancer
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 18h
Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism #books #nonfiction
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d
Climate Update: Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” scientists have found, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated. www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...
Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d
Dr. Seuss: Considering the complex legacy of Theodore Geisel
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Is It Time to Move On From Dr. Seuss?
August 12th marks the 65th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, a book whose orange cover fills me with delicious nostalgia. Svetlana Boym defines nostalgia as “a longing for a home that …
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d
Climate Update: Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” scientists have found, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated. www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...
Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d
Karen becomes the Atlantic’s northernmost named storm on record
Storm formed at about the same latitude as Minneapolis...
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d
With Trump policies the US is falling behind the rest of the world on renewables #energy #climate
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Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world
As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d
Book Review: The Omnivore's Deception #books
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The Omnivore's Deception: Conscience makes cowards of us all : EcoLit Books
If the title of this book reminds you of the bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, that is intentional. For as author John Sanbonmatsu writes, Michael Pollan did a ... Read more
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d
The last time we stopped Fascism:
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Nazi Town, USA | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS
YouTube video by American Experience | PBS
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d
John Fugelsang on 'Separation of Church & Hate'
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John Fugelsang - “Separation of Church and Hate” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks for the shout-out!
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 4d
“Science Under Siege,” by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.
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Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science
"Science Under Siege," by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 1d
Hard Science and Human Drama in the year 2099: Extreme weather? You haven't seen it yet. Read a story of the future: 'The Hurricane Code' #climate #SciFi #CliFi #Environment #booksky #books
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d
The ‘Thursday Murder Club’ Author on Killers, Cats and Kindness #books
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The ‘Thursday Murder Club’ Author on Killers, Cats and Kindness
Richard Osman was at home discussing “The Impossible Fortune,” the latest book in his phenomenally successful “Thursday Murder Club” series,
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d
Climate Update: When will climate change turn life upside down? #climate
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d
On the AI Prompt That Could End the World #AI
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The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
How much do we have to fear from A.I., really? It’s a question I’ve been asking experts since the debut
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d
Moon Tree
Field notes on the tiny seeds that took a trip around the dark side of the moon
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Moon Tree - Orion Magazine
Field notes on the tree seeds that took a trip around the dark side of the moon
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d
Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story
Musical Pioneers
Like many of the American musicians who helped create rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s, The Everly Brothers were instantly influential, popular almost from the b…
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James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d
Book Review: 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny'
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'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' is a terrific, tangled love story
This is an epic novel to be savored. At nearly 700 pages, this multi-character, multi-stranded story explores exile and displacement — not only from one's home, but also from one's own sense of self.
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