Ricky Lanusse
@antarctic-sapiens.bsky.social
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
Antarctica: The Things That Undo Us Rarely Start Where We Can See Them
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Antarctica: The Things That Undo Us Rarely Start Where We Can See Them
Wrecking storms from underneath
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November 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Antarctica: The Things That Undo Us Rarely Start Where We Can See Them
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In a Blinded, Overheating World, Hope Still Lives in the Cracks
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In a Blinded, Overheating World, Hope Still Lives in the Cracks
Sparks of defiance amidst the fire
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November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In a Blinded, Overheating World, Hope Still Lives in the Cracks
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Does COP Even Matter At This Point?
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Does COP Even Matter At This Point?
And yet, without them, no one would even bother pretending
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November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Does COP Even Matter At This Point?
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How to Erase Eight Kilometers of Antarctic Ice in Just Two Months
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How to Erase Eight Kilometers of Antarctic Ice in Just Two Months
After the greatest collapse in modern history, Brazil is ready for the next chapter of climate theatre
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November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
How to Erase Eight Kilometers of Antarctic Ice in Just Two Months
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This time, history had no reference point. 2025 wasn’t a bad season.
It was the year Patagonia, burdened by human atmospheric madness, never turned white.
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It was the year Patagonia, burdened by human atmospheric madness, never turned white.
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La Niña Just Erased Patagonia’s Winter. What Will She Do to the North?
The climate doesn’t do "typical” anymore
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October 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This time, history had no reference point. 2025 wasn’t a bad season.
It was the year Patagonia, burdened by human atmospheric madness, never turned white.
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It was the year Patagonia, burdened by human atmospheric madness, never turned white.
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The Atlantic Ocean Circulation is Breaking Down
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The Atlantic Ocean Circulation is Breaking Down
The only disagreement is when, not if
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October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The Atlantic Ocean Circulation is Breaking Down
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The Paris Agreement Wasn’t Meaningless — Just Painfully Human
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The Paris Agreement Wasn’t Meaningless — Just Painfully Human
Congratulations: We’re Slightly Less Cooked!
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October 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The Paris Agreement Wasn’t Meaningless — Just Painfully Human
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The louder he roars, the smaller reality feels in his echo chamber.
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He’s Right — Climate Change Is Indeed the Largest Con Job Ever
This is louder than any warning we’ve ignored
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September 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The louder he roars, the smaller reality feels in his echo chamber.
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TODAY is Sun Day! ✴️ Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. ☀️ Join an event near you today: sunday.earth
September 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
TODAY is Sun Day! ✴️ Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. ☀️ Join an event near you today: sunday.earth
Our imagination is so colonized that we’d rather force women to have fewer children than force billionaires to have fewer yachts.
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Population Control: The End of the World or The Solution to Our Problems?
There’s only one reason for overshoot (and it’s not the one you might think)
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September 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Our imagination is so colonized that we’d rather force women to have fewer children than force billionaires to have fewer yachts.
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The glacier that seemed eternal may never touch the opposite shore again.
Tourists may see more dramatic calving, but they’ll be watching a hollow spectacle: the slow disappearance of an icon, swallowed by the mountains behind.
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Tourists may see more dramatic calving, but they’ll be watching a hollow spectacle: the slow disappearance of an icon, swallowed by the mountains behind.
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Patagonia’s Most Iconic Glacier Is Surrendering to the Heat
And how to confess collapse to the dead who believed in permanence
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September 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The glacier that seemed eternal may never touch the opposite shore again.
Tourists may see more dramatic calving, but they’ll be watching a hollow spectacle: the slow disappearance of an icon, swallowed by the mountains behind.
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Tourists may see more dramatic calving, but they’ll be watching a hollow spectacle: the slow disappearance of an icon, swallowed by the mountains behind.
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Millions want to help, yet most don’t know how or where to start.
So here’s what I’ve been doing instead: collecting quiet hacks and small revolutions. Acts that don’t make headlines but create ripples that eventually move the needle.
It’s our turn.
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So here’s what I’ve been doing instead: collecting quiet hacks and small revolutions. Acts that don’t make headlines but create ripples that eventually move the needle.
It’s our turn.
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Quiet Revolutions Can Also Change The World
To be the invisible person who moves the needle when everyone else hesitates
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September 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Millions want to help, yet most don’t know how or where to start.
So here’s what I’ve been doing instead: collecting quiet hacks and small revolutions. Acts that don’t make headlines but create ripples that eventually move the needle.
It’s our turn.
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So here’s what I’ve been doing instead: collecting quiet hacks and small revolutions. Acts that don’t make headlines but create ripples that eventually move the needle.
It’s our turn.
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If @rahmstorf.bsky.social, always the voice of caution about an AMOC collapse, refers to these new findings as shocking, the world must hear.
This is different.
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This is different.
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The Atlantic Ocean Current Could Tip as Early as 2050
There’s a grim new timeline for collapse
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September 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
If @rahmstorf.bsky.social, always the voice of caution about an AMOC collapse, refers to these new findings as shocking, the world must hear.
This is different.
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This is different.
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The Antarctic logbook from recent years reads more like an obituary than a journal.
This ice has not come back. It may never do.
And change is easy to understand when it’s linear.
But collapse doesn’t happen in straight lines.
It happens like an explosion.
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This ice has not come back. It may never do.
And change is easy to understand when it’s linear.
But collapse doesn’t happen in straight lines.
It happens like an explosion.
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It’s Antarctica or Planetary Collapse
The white kingdom may seem remote, but its breaking points will ripple into every life on this planet
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August 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Antarctic logbook from recent years reads more like an obituary than a journal.
This ice has not come back. It may never do.
And change is easy to understand when it’s linear.
But collapse doesn’t happen in straight lines.
It happens like an explosion.
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This ice has not come back. It may never do.
And change is easy to understand when it’s linear.
But collapse doesn’t happen in straight lines.
It happens like an explosion.
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Why We Choose Not to Know
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Why We Choose Not to Know
Ignorance always has a price
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August 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Why We Choose Not to Know
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Shrinking Humanity Won’t Save a Burning Planet
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Shrinking Humanity Won’t Save a Burning Planet
How population panic became the ultimate cop-out
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August 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Shrinking Humanity Won’t Save a Burning Planet
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Bragging About Your IQ Is Like Flexing Monopoly Money
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Bragging About Your IQ Is Like Flexing Monopoly Money
You’ll never be a true genius if you’re obsessed with proving it
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August 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Bragging About Your IQ Is Like Flexing Monopoly Money
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Many factors can influence the spread of zoonotic diseases.
Every pandemic has its spark — a crucial one is the climate.
So this is where climate change stops being just about weather and becomes about exposure.
Because now, the kindling is everywhere.
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Every pandemic has its spark — a crucial one is the climate.
So this is where climate change stops being just about weather and becomes about exposure.
Because now, the kindling is everywhere.
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A Warming World Is a Sicker World
The deadliest side of climate change doesn’t show up in weather reports
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July 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Many factors can influence the spread of zoonotic diseases.
Every pandemic has its spark — a crucial one is the climate.
So this is where climate change stops being just about weather and becomes about exposure.
Because now, the kindling is everywhere.
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Every pandemic has its spark — a crucial one is the climate.
So this is where climate change stops being just about weather and becomes about exposure.
Because now, the kindling is everywhere.
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It’s a habit now: scrolling apocalypse during breakfast.
Everything’s breaking — burning — melting — drying — vanishing.
Amazon still delivers on schedule, but this is climate collapse in real-time.
So how did we get here?
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Everything’s breaking — burning — melting — drying — vanishing.
Amazon still delivers on schedule, but this is climate collapse in real-time.
So how did we get here?
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Making Sense of This Mess
We hacked the system and broke the planet — but sure, let’s fix the economy
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July 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It’s a habit now: scrolling apocalypse during breakfast.
Everything’s breaking — burning — melting — drying — vanishing.
Amazon still delivers on schedule, but this is climate collapse in real-time.
So how did we get here?
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Everything’s breaking — burning — melting — drying — vanishing.
Amazon still delivers on schedule, but this is climate collapse in real-time.
So how did we get here?
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Every job gets heavy. Every path has boredom, repetition, sacrifice. You will pay for your work — in hours, in sanity, in pieces of yourself.
The question is: What kind of madness are you willing to sustain?
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The question is: What kind of madness are you willing to sustain?
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Why It’s So Damn Hard to Figure Out What to Do With Your Life
And how to find the version of hell that feels like home
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July 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Every job gets heavy. Every path has boredom, repetition, sacrifice. You will pay for your work — in hours, in sanity, in pieces of yourself.
The question is: What kind of madness are you willing to sustain?
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The question is: What kind of madness are you willing to sustain?
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For years, melting ice was helping protect the remaining ice: when ice melts, it leaves freshwater behind, and freshwater freezes more easily than saltwater.
Well, recent satellite data shows the opposite is happening now.
And that’s a big problem.
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Well, recent satellite data shows the opposite is happening now.
And that’s a big problem.
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Antarctica’s Fall: The Most Alarming Environmental Shift of the Decade
The southern sea ice may be in terminal decline
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July 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
For years, melting ice was helping protect the remaining ice: when ice melts, it leaves freshwater behind, and freshwater freezes more easily than saltwater.
Well, recent satellite data shows the opposite is happening now.
And that’s a big problem.
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Well, recent satellite data shows the opposite is happening now.
And that’s a big problem.
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The ‘Overpopulation Crisis’ Might Be Over Soon— Just Don’t Expect It to Solve Our Problems
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The ‘Overpopulation Crisis’ Might Be Over Soon— Just Don’t Expect It to Solve Our Problems
This is the largest ever human experiment. And we’re the variables.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The ‘Overpopulation Crisis’ Might Be Over Soon— Just Don’t Expect It to Solve Our Problems
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