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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 1d

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 20h

This changes everything!

The Northern Hemisphere used to radiate more heat to space than it absorbed from the sun, but this changed over the past 20 years.

More:

www.patreon.com/posts/141034...

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 16h

Happy #thicktrunktuesday 💚🌳

Looking up from within the centre of a multi-trunked Alder

Looking up to the canopy of very old Alder tree with multiple trunks.
A beautifully clear blue sky in the background

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 17h

The Okavango Delta, Amazon, Everglades—Earth’s last wild strongholds—are all in decline, says the IUCN. It’s not a mystery. As the human footprint grows, the living world shrinks. What little we have left is almost gone.
theconversation.com/natural-worl...

Natural World Heritage sites under growing threat, but bright spots remain

Many of these extraordinary places are increasingly at risk due to escalating climate change, invasive species, and and a lack of consistent funding to protect them.

theconversation.com

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Cynthia Sax @cynthiasax.bsky.social · 1d

World leaders knew corals would be gone at 1.5C when they agreed on that goal.
I was so angry that day and I'm still angry today.
We have NO idea how everything is interconnected.
We are knowingly breaking a system that is far too complex for our understanding.
And this will end in total disaster.

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 1d

Evenings Ian

Hope your day was a good one.

In a previous life I studied economics. So glad I jumped off that insane growth grid. 🖤

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 1d

Economic growth story.
Mind. Fucking. Blowing. 🤯

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, Jah
Christopher Columbus is a damn blasted liar
👌💚🖤🎶

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“The real economy of this planet is its forests and oceans. Its currency is water, food, oxygen, sunlight. Its stock market is the ecosystems and climate systems which balance the allocation of these resources, and its stakeholders are its 10 million species”

From my book BEYOND THE PETRI DISH

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 2d

#MushroomMonday
🍄🌳😞💚🍄

Multiple clusters of Hypholoma mushrooms on the roots of a dead Birch tree

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 2d

The homes of a quarter of the animals that live in our oceans. Gone forever.

We should grieve & know that these tipping points are gonna fall like dominoes.

Now is not the time for ‘carrying on as normal’.

All our homes are at risk.

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 2d

Comme d'hab, Lyle nails this perfectly. 🖤

Hope thrives in the absence of honesty.

"Humanity would rather lie to itself about endless growth than face the limits of a finite planet"

Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 2d

The IUCN calls the extinction crisis a mix of “hope and concern.” But hope thrives in the absence of honesty. Humanity would rather lie to itself about endless growth than face the limits of a finite planet.
apnews.com/article/red-...

Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened species

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining.

apnews.com

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 2d

These are some nice Mycelium 🍄💚🖤

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 2d

The IUCN calls the extinction crisis a mix of “hope and concern.” But hope thrives in the absence of honesty. Humanity would rather lie to itself about endless growth than face the limits of a finite planet.
apnews.com/article/red-...

Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened species

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining.

apnews.com

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 2d

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 12, 2025 ~ The end of bees.

"Fifteen species of bumblebee, which play a crucial role in pollinating peas, beans, peanuts and clover ... are now classified as threatened."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

www.theguardian.com

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 3d

Unsurprising tbh 🖤

Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 3d

Hell must surely have frozen over, when MTG makes sense 🤯🥶

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 3d

"Some people are so poor, all they have is money" (Bob Marley)

This is true richness 🌳🌲💚🖤
#JustLookUp

Looking up at an oak tree canopy in autumn

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 3d

True, Natalie 💚
The staggering speed of collapse just shifted through another gear 🖤

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 4d

“Humans will leave an endless sea of trash behind them even if they disappear, because this is what you do when you party like there’s no tomorrow. And this is why there won’t be a tomorrow”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

They Came. They Danced. They Went Extinct.

I normally don’t expect a nature hike in the clean suburban air of my beach town to turn into a back-to-the future, post-apocalyptic excursion into the remnants of an extinct society.

open.substack.com

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 3d

So sadly, and similarly catastrophic 😞🖤
We have so fvcked this planet 😭

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 3d

Another day spent outdoors 💚
Meet some friends of mine 🌳
#LookUp
#HugATree

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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 4d

The new European Butterfly Red List shows that butterflies are under increasing threat across Europe, with the number of species at risk of extinction up from 37 to 65 (73%) in the last 10 years. See our Press Release www.bc-europe.eu/documents/68...

www.bc-europe.eu

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 3d

If you're not keen on eating food, then I'm sure everything is fine 😬🖤

solhog @solhog.bsky.social · 3d

Pollinators - the foundation for food systems, ecosystems and societies:
Nearly 100 additional wild bee species in Europe classified as threatened in a new assessment for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™with more than 20% of species in groups face risk of extinction.
iucn.org/press-releas...

Mounting risks threaten survival of wild European pollinators – IUCN Red List

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 11 October 2025 (IUCN) – Nearly 100 additional wild bee species in Europe have been classified as threatened in a new assessment for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Sp...

iucn.org

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