Adam Welz
@adamwelz.bsky.social
Author THE END OF EDEN: WILD NATURE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE BREAKDOWN (Bloomsbury) - avail. globally
Writer, conservationist, naturalist. Takes photos
Posts mainly wildlife conservation, climate change, civil liberties & nature photos
Cape Town, S Africa
Writer, conservationist, naturalist. Takes photos
Posts mainly wildlife conservation, climate change, civil liberties & nature photos
Cape Town, S Africa
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Canadian Forests started doing this almost 20yrs ago 😕
Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds
New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source.
phys.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Canadian Forests started doing this almost 20yrs ago 😕
Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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Another coward bends the knee
Northwestern University became the sixth the sixth school to reach a deal with the Trump administration, ending federal investigations into alleged discrimination, race-based admissions and a hostile environment for Jewish students.
Northwestern to pay $75 million to end Trump administration probes
Northwestern’s interim president said the university chose to negotiate an agreement because the “cost of a legal fight was too high and the risks too grave.”
wapo.st
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Another coward bends the knee
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So Trump just pardoned the former prez of Honduras, who:
-took a $1M bribe from El Chapo:
-was aided his in clemency campaign by Roger Stone
-ran for reelection despite a law against it, thus setting off political violence that killed dozens.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
-took a $1M bribe from El Chapo:
-was aided his in clemency campaign by Roger Stone
-ran for reelection despite a law against it, thus setting off political violence that killed dozens.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
So Trump just pardoned the former prez of Honduras, who:
-took a $1M bribe from El Chapo:
-was aided his in clemency campaign by Roger Stone
-ran for reelection despite a law against it, thus setting off political violence that killed dozens.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
-took a $1M bribe from El Chapo:
-was aided his in clemency campaign by Roger Stone
-ran for reelection despite a law against it, thus setting off political violence that killed dozens.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...
www.whitehouse.gov
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
I don’t know what’s more dangerous to the integrity of journalism: Hacks submitting AI slop to publications, or publications quietly deleting AI slop without being comprehensively honest with their readers as to why.
"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
November 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I don’t know what’s more dangerous to the integrity of journalism: Hacks submitting AI slop to publications, or publications quietly deleting AI slop without being comprehensively honest with their readers as to why.
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can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
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It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
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It's really hard to overstate the conservation significance of this, and what doors it unlocks for future conservation.
Mood among my global endangered species conservation colleagues is off-the-charts happy today.
Mood among my global endangered species conservation colleagues is off-the-charts happy today.
WCS Celebrates Historic and Sweeping Trade Protections for Sharks and Rays Adopted at CITES CoP20 > Newsroom | All CITES shark and ray proposals pass – marking the most comprehensive advance in global shark conservation in CITES history.
WCS Celebrates Historic and Sweeping Trade Protections for Sharks and Rays Adopted at CITES CoP20
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Nov. 28, 2025 – The following statement was issued today from CITES CoP20, celebrating the adoption of sweeping and historic adoption of new international trade protections for…
newsroom.wcs.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It's really hard to overstate the conservation significance of this, and what doors it unlocks for future conservation.
Mood among my global endangered species conservation colleagues is off-the-charts happy today.
Mood among my global endangered species conservation colleagues is off-the-charts happy today.
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Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
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Reptile species found only on islands are significantly more vulnerable to extinction than their mainland counterparts, yet remain vastly overlooked by researchers, according to a recent study.
Island-confined reptiles face high extinction risk, but low research interest
Reptile species found only on islands are significantly more vulnerable to extinction than their mainland counterparts, yet remain vastly overlooked by researchers, according to a recent study.…
news.mongabay.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reptile species found only on islands are significantly more vulnerable to extinction than their mainland counterparts, yet remain vastly overlooked by researchers, according to a recent study.
me too
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
me too
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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Congratulations, you managed to enshit the internet.
![Extract from FT article.
According to the Al agency Graphite, at least 52 per cent of internet content was machine-generated by May this year. Not only does this Al-generated content threaten the integrity of the web, it could also endanger the resilience of future AI models.
[Graphic showing that AI-generated content has surpassed human-written articles since early 2025]
If Al models ingest too much synthetic data then there is a danger they might go "mad" - or suffer from model autophagy disorder. When the input for new models increasingly becomes the output of older models then it risks model collapse, says Ethan Smith, Graphite's chief executive.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/bafkreigof2qnhtn5dlbo7igg56kbmmktjddpy4atiuexl2dkhocvlrzq7i@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Congratulations, you managed to enshit the internet.
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‘We like it a lot’: how Romania created the largest deposit return scheme in the world - great way to tackle excessive single-use plastics www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We like it a lot’: how Romania created the largest deposit return scheme in the world
In the two years since the system was launched, beverage-packaging collection and recycling has risen to 94%
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
‘We like it a lot’: how Romania created the largest deposit return scheme in the world - great way to tackle excessive single-use plastics www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...
Nature Beat #87
Updates, stories, resources and opportunities
thenaturebeat.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...
Illegal #gold miners attack community in Madagascar, destroying tens of houses and kidnapping a person. The community had been engaged in #forest conservation and had reported the gold miners to authorities.
conservationallies.org/after-devast...
conservationallies.org/after-devast...
After Devastating Attack, Madagascar's Indigenous Forest Defenders Need Help to Rebuild - Conservation Allies
This week, the President of the Makirovana Association—an Indigenous community organization (VOI) that co-manages the Makirovana-Tsihomanaomby Protected Area in northeastern Madagascar and a Conservat...
conservationallies.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Illegal #gold miners attack community in Madagascar, destroying tens of houses and kidnapping a person. The community had been engaged in #forest conservation and had reported the gold miners to authorities.
conservationallies.org/after-devast...
conservationallies.org/after-devast...
I'm a huge fan of the drumming on this track. I'm a huge fan of everything about this track!
The Lazarus Heart - Sting [plus an extraordinary band] (1987)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR_L...
The Lazarus Heart - Sting [plus an extraordinary band] (1987)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR_L...
The Lazarus Heart
YouTube video by Sting - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I'm a huge fan of the drumming on this track. I'm a huge fan of everything about this track!
The Lazarus Heart - Sting [plus an extraordinary band] (1987)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR_L...
The Lazarus Heart - Sting [plus an extraordinary band] (1987)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR_L...
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How many other species were in Ireland in the Holocene that we don't yet have firm evidence for, or never will?
Species that play *vital* roles in ecosystems?
Species that play *vital* roles in ecosystems?
The first directly dated wildcat bones found in Ireland have been identified, confirming that the species inhabited the island more than 5,500 years ago
Wildcat bones found in Co Clare dated to 5,500 years ago
The first directly dated wildcat bones found in Ireland have been identified, confirming that the species inhabited the island more than 5,500 years ago.
www.rte.ie
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
How many other species were in Ireland in the Holocene that we don't yet have firm evidence for, or never will?
Species that play *vital* roles in ecosystems?
Species that play *vital* roles in ecosystems?
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When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
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The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
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Africa's spectacular hornbills are in trouble -- they're being shot and trapped to become pets or decor items and for voodoo ceremonies -- but all is not lost
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
Please share! #birds #conservation #hornbills
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
Please share! #birds #conservation #hornbills
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
A Troubling Rise in the Grisly Trade of a Spectacular African Bird
Researchers are finding a disturbing uptick in the trade of African hornbills and their body parts in West African voodoo markets and globally on the internet. Conservationists want international prot...
e360.yale.edu
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Africa's spectacular hornbills are in trouble -- they're being shot and trapped to become pets or decor items and for voodoo ceremonies -- but all is not lost
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
Please share! #birds #conservation #hornbills
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social
Please share! #birds #conservation #hornbills
e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
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I truly need "AI Won't Stand in Authentic Wonder" swag sold in the Vatican gift shop. Also, I will need it on a tote and shirt.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I truly need "AI Won't Stand in Authentic Wonder" swag sold in the Vatican gift shop. Also, I will need it on a tote and shirt.
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Metal scaffolding is more solid, leads to less worker deaths, and obviously isn't flammable, but bamboo is dirt cheap and light, and I think many here have a nostalgic preference for it.
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Metal scaffolding is more solid, leads to less worker deaths, and obviously isn't flammable, but bamboo is dirt cheap and light, and I think many here have a nostalgic preference for it.
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A disastrous residential fire in Hong Kong tonight.
These concrete buildings are normally very fire resistant, but when they renovate here, they cover the buildings completely in bamboo scaffolding, turning them into literal smoke and fire traps from the outside.
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/26/h...
These concrete buildings are normally very fire resistant, but when they renovate here, they cover the buildings completely in bamboo scaffolding, turning them into literal smoke and fire traps from the outside.
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/26/h...
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A disastrous residential fire in Hong Kong tonight.
These concrete buildings are normally very fire resistant, but when they renovate here, they cover the buildings completely in bamboo scaffolding, turning them into literal smoke and fire traps from the outside.
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/26/h...
These concrete buildings are normally very fire resistant, but when they renovate here, they cover the buildings completely in bamboo scaffolding, turning them into literal smoke and fire traps from the outside.
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/26/h...