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Rainforest Conservation, Cacao Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Nature is not your Carbon Sink. Projects in Amazon and Indonesia IG: @conservationcacao

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · Nov 19

Cacao comes originally from the Amazon Basin. It grows under shade trees. Out on agricultural frontiers in the Tropics, where rainforest is being lost, cacao in agroforestry can be a barrier to deforestation. The alternatives, cattle, Oil Palm, mean farmers cutting down all their trees.

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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 22h

Russia is at ‘hybrid war’ with Europe, warns EU chief.

“It is time to call it by its name. This is hybrid warfare, and we have to take it very seriously.”

#DefendDemocracy

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Russia is at ‘hybrid war’ with Europe, warns EU chief, calling for members ‘to take it very seriously’

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen urged the EU to “urgently equip itself with a strategic capacity to respond” to Russian hybrid warfare.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 6h

Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drove unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation

- The fires released 791 million tons of CO2, roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of Germany

#climatecrisis
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Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation

<p>A new study by researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, whic...

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Nina Totenberg @ninatotenberg.bsky.social · 18h

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who retired from #SCOTUS in 2018, is worried about this country. In an NPR interview the Reagan appointee warns that “Democracy is not guaranteed to survive.”

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Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy's new memoir is unusually revealing

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who stepped down from the court in 2018, has written a book about his life on the court and off. It's far more revealing than most books written by justices.

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

"I am afraid their response confirms that we can no longer talk about tipping points as a future risk," Lenton told reporters. Seeing this as I'm on my way to Banda Neira in the Coral Triangle. We are failing.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday ➡️ u.afp.com/SmDs

File photo taken on March 7, 2022 shows a diver swimming among the coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef after reports it had again been hit with "widespread" bleaching

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs reut.rs/4ocv79X

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs

U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs, early indications show, contradicting assertions by President Donald Trump and complicating the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation.

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

And the real funding hasn't even begun to kick in yet. All just trial runs compared to what Trump dreams of doing.

Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely insane that the President of the United States has sent militarized secret police to attack multiple American cities, all at the same time.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 1d

We're currently assembling packets containing a whistle and the instructions (quick blasts for ICE spotted, long for ICE detaining someone.) Here's what we're using. (Thanks to Pilsen Arts & Community House for the flyer design in English and Spanish)
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Resources for Whistle Warriors - Google Drive

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

Panamá will host the 7th IUCN World Protected and Conserved Areas Congress in 2027 — marking the first time this global conservation forum comes to Mesoamerica.

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#IUCNcongress #ProtectedAreas

Panama to host next World Protected and Conserved Areas Congress in 2027

Abu Dhabi, UAE, 12th October 2025 (IUCN World Conservation Congress) – IUCN has announced that Panamá will host the seventh IUCN World Protected and Conserved Areas Congress in 2027 – highlighting the...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

A Chinese coast guard ship used a powerful water cannon on Sunday then rammed and slightly damaged an anchored Philippine government vessel off an island inhabited by Filipinos in the disputed South China Sea, said the Philippine coast guard.

Chinese coast guard rams and damages a Philippine vessel off an island in the South China Sea

A Chinese coast guard ship has used a powerful water cannon and rammed a Philippine government vessel near Thitu Island in the South China Sea.

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

Why are you and main IUCN account active on the Musk site and not here? People will move if everyone moves...

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CIFOR-ICRAF @cifor-icraf.org · 2d

The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) is setting a new benchmark for restoration by ensuring the #RightTreeRightPlace.

This initiative helps projects enhance biodiversity, ecosystems, and communities.

Learn more: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ZuNNap

#IUCNCongress #Trees4Resilience

New Global Biodiversity Standard raises bar for biodiversity-positive restoration - CIFOR-ICRAF Forests News

One of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’s headline commitments is the quest to restore 30% of degraded land by 2030. And there’s significant momentum already towards this goal, with ...

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 6d

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and they should recall Hyten's warning from
2017: "If you execute an unlawful order, you will go toil. You could go to jail for the rest of your life." Most American military personnel, however, need no reminder of their constitutional duty. But they do need some
reassurance that they have support from their chain of command to resist illegal orders. And the rest of us, whether we're elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to let our fellow Americans in uniform know that if they risk their careers and even their freedom to protect the Constitution, we will stand with them.

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

Pass the word!

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent. There will never be a better day for Chuck Schumer to pass the torch than today.

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Michael DiTullo @d2lo.bsky.social · 2d

We handed out fliers for #nokings on Oct 18th. We were surprised how many young folks didn’t know about it but were really excited to learn! Talking to people IRL & giving them a piece of paper works.

@indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @coin-indivisible.bsky.social

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Got the flu & new COVID shots today with the family, but my kids only got the flu shot because there are no pediatric COVID vaccines right now because dangerous anti-science lunatics have taken over the centers of national public health & are sabotaging them

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 3d

🇲🇽 Floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least 28 people in Mexico this week and left behind a trail of destruction, local authorities across the country said.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 3d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 3d

Did you not check your 401K yesterday?

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 3d

#Anthropology #Archaeology 🍺

Psychedelic beer may have helped pre-Inca empire in Peru schmooze elite outsiders and consolidate power

The Wari used beer mixed with psychedelics to help build an empire in Peru around 1,200 years ago, a new study suggests.

www.livescience.com

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 3d

There's no hidden gems anywhere there, just watch the good ones again, he did plenty.

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 3d

Names please! What ICE official? We need all their names, the whole chain of command. They all need to see, just maybe, someday, there will be accountability.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 4d

The Trump administration is attempting to undermine elections. Efforts have included rewriting election rules to burden voters, threatening to prosecute election officials, and supporting election deniers. Keep track and learn more with our new interactive timeline:

Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections

Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.

www.brennancenter.org

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