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A macro ice photographer who captures freezing moments of a mountain stream and a creative arts therapist who, before C-19, used music to engage chronically ill children in five hospitals around NYC. Air, Soil, and WATER are our most essential resources!
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 28d
The North Cascade Range is home to nearly 100 named glaciers, with 15 near Glacier Peak.

the past five summers have eliminated exceptionally large volumes of ice.

“The same thing's happening in New Zealand, in the Alps, in the Andes, Alaska, British Columbia,”

www.kuow.org/stories/glac...?
Glacierless Peak? The icy realms of Washington’s North Cascades lose their cool
The ice fields that give Washington’s Glacier Peak its name are disappearing, though few people may have noticed.
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 1d
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New cluster of Tapanuli orangutans discovered in Sumatra peat swamp
CENTRAL TAPANULI, Indonesia — Since it was first described by scientists in 2017, the Tapanuli orangutan, one of the world’s rarest great apes, was believed to live only in the Batang Toru forest of I...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d
Top 10 Rally Reminders for #NoKingsDayOct18th
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 1d
Pretty wild place ! 😱

Obviously the most secret of the large Alpine glaciers (rank=4th), this is the actual active front of Fiesch Glacier today (~1700 m asl)! 🧊🌊
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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 2d
I've hiked below some of these glaciers.

Wildfires, drought, bark beetle, mass Sequoia deaths, and now this. It's heartbreaking to see the Sierra Nevada transformed by climate change within the brief span of my own human lifetime.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history
New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 4d
Inside the ice cave of the Hohlicht Glacier today! 🧊
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 5d
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In the Dominican Republic, the hurricane became a source of inspiration to Luis "Terror" Días (1952-2009), a prominent musical composer known for generating over 300 musical pieces that mixed multiple rhythms and genres and for pioneering the transformation of bachata and the development of a
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 5d
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vernacular rock and fusion music. More than a musician, Días was a researcher, a poet, and a thinker. He described his creative method as using "constant movement in the transition from one style to another, a brutal, violent transition… I use the hurricane as a model of composition
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Días's work brings to light the island's rencontres mystérieuses with the Spiral in so far as he drew on an ancestral, Afro-indigenous past-that is, what appear as the collective memories of a historical interrelation that unfolded with the advent of colonization,
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 5d
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when indigenous and African captives fled together, taking refuge in the backlands and caves.

Spirals in the Caribbean by Sophie Maríñez

Native Reservation by Luis Días - thinking of Indigenous people
The cover of "Spirals in the Caribbean" by Sophie Maríñez, with the sub-title " Representing violence and connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic". In the background are ocean plants.
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 5d
Días drew on an ancestral, Afro-indigenous past-that is, what appear as the collective memories of a historical interrelation that unfolded with the advent of colonization, when indigenous and African captives fled together.

Spirals in the Caribbean by Sophie Maríñez

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Luis y Lliam - Native Reservation (Live)
Luis and Lliam live on WNYC radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz2HZX4tDFA with Yasser Tejeda Native reservation Letra y música: Luis Días You been so bad with me that I don't want it to be yo
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 5d
The electric version of
Luis "Terror" Días (1952-2009)
"Native reservation.

Native reservation we are
you're killing our fight for freedom everywhere
but you never wonder why
our fight for freedom everywhere
and I need to be alive.
but the sun someday will shine

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Luis Días - Native Reservation
Earth is a reservation we share, but it takes cooperation, not denigration. Native reservation Letra y música: Luis Días Acoustic tribute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz2HZX4tDFA You been so ba
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 6d
Water is a common right, not a private comidity.

Water is Life.

Our leaders should be protecting its health
and making sure clean water is accessible to all.
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 7d
tap into the world’s most sophisticated information exchange
-The biodiversity crisis is not just about losing beautiful creatures. It’s about compromising Earth’s most extensive information network — one that holds answers to questions we haven’t yet learned to ask
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Biodiversity is our most sophisticated information network and must be protected (commentary)
As a conservationist, I often find myself reflecting on the deeper meaning of biodiversity. Beyond its beauty and its value to human well-being, biodiversity represents the most ancient and sophistica...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 9d
In his own words: the President is responsible for the shutdown.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 9d
My statement on Middle East peace
A white graphic with a blue border includes the following text: My Statement on Middle East Peace October 9, 2025 After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered. More than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians, with the support of the U.S. and the entire world community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza – and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve a lasting peace.
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Victoria @victoriamillerston.bsky.social · 10d
Book of the Day for World #Octopus Day
chelchell.bsky.social chelchell @chelchell.bsky.social · Aug 23
Remarkably Bright Creatures

This one had me in my feels. Such a beautiful book.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 10d
Celebrated each year on October 8th, World Octopus Day is a time to honor one of the most intelligent animals in the ocean.

www.earth.com/news/world-o...
World Octopus Day: The intelligent creatures of the sea
World Octopus Day highlights the complexities of protecting marine animals as environmental threats like climate change continue to evolve.
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 10d
This order is so atrocious, it’s nearly unbelievable. Nothing has changed in terms of impacts of this destructive road, or the thousands of Alaskans and hundreds of thousands of Americans who are opposed to it. We will continue to fight this with everything we have.
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“So Atrocious, It’s Nearly Unbelievable:” U.S. Government Approves Controversial Project Within U.S. National Park
Environmental organizations are outraged.
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 11d
The Gecko Project and ICIJ published an investigation that echoed the NGOs’ allegations - First Resources’ founding family allegedly secretly controlled a web of “shadow companies” responsible for extensive deforestation, peatland destruction and land conflicts.

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RSPO sparks NGO outrage for dismissing complaint over alleged ‘shadow companies’
JAKARTA — A major palm oil producer linked through supplier-reported mill lists to global brands like General Mills and PepsiCo has escaped sanction for allegedly concealing a web of “shadow companies...
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Henry Patton @rhewlif.xyz · 13d
How Switzerland's glaciers have shrunk
Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes
They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 13d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 13d
Very cool and unique band
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Str12ng Swivelable @str12ng.bsky.social · 14d
We are creatures of Vibration.

How amazing that we can hear
the interactions of the world around us.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/c...
Listen to the Sounds of Climate Change
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MeidasE @ericpere.bsky.social · 15d
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 15d
Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene! 🧊😲

What a surprise! (nope) 🙃

Another evidence we are leaving the climate crucible that saw human societies develop! 🔥📈

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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