@willow-branches.bsky.social
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Extreme lover of nature and defense of it
Former bunny wrangler 🐇
Extreme lover of nature and defense of it
Former bunny wrangler 🐇
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I'm working on a story about a little study on how the likelihood of people in the U.S. regularly seeing their "state bird" will decline w/ climate change... if you're an ornithologist who studies climate-driven range shifts &/or has opinions on state birds & might be up for commenting, let me know.
January 15, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I'm working on a story about a little study on how the likelihood of people in the U.S. regularly seeing their "state bird" will decline w/ climate change... if you're an ornithologist who studies climate-driven range shifts &/or has opinions on state birds & might be up for commenting, let me know.
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Dandelions living in downtown areas of Japan have adapted to life in the big city—perhaps a bit too much.
Urban seeds have evolved to float shorter distances than rural ones, potentially leading to inbreeding problems that could threaten these metropolitan populations. https://scim.ag/49mV964
Urban seeds have evolved to float shorter distances than rural ones, potentially leading to inbreeding problems that could threaten these metropolitan populations. https://scim.ag/49mV964
Urban dandelions have evolved to stay close to home. That’s bad news
Small seed “parachutes” may be causing inbreeding
scim.ag
January 15, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Dandelions living in downtown areas of Japan have adapted to life in the big city—perhaps a bit too much.
Urban seeds have evolved to float shorter distances than rural ones, potentially leading to inbreeding problems that could threaten these metropolitan populations. https://scim.ag/49mV964
Urban seeds have evolved to float shorter distances than rural ones, potentially leading to inbreeding problems that could threaten these metropolitan populations. https://scim.ag/49mV964
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visits avoided by air pollution regulations.
In the eyes of Trump’s EPA, human health is now literally worthless
How the agency’s new math favors polluters over people.
www.motherjones.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visits avoided by air pollution regulations.
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🚨Beware: horrific crashes where victims trapped in flaming #Tesla cars burned to death.... @shuasanchez.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com @tesla-takedown.bsky.social #Tesla #safety #danger @abrangmansjewel.bsky.social
Should you get into a Tesla if you have to consult a manual for different models, years, and manufacturing locations to know how to escape the vehicle in an emergency? Probably not, and we discuss the electronic door handle issue and more on the podcast! https://rss.com/podcasts/autosafety/2461040/
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
🚨Beware: horrific crashes where victims trapped in flaming #Tesla cars burned to death.... @shuasanchez.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com @tesla-takedown.bsky.social #Tesla #safety #danger @abrangmansjewel.bsky.social
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Cunning salmon eludes 3 river otters on the prowl for a meal.
(Otter Spotter report and video submitted by G Hanly.)
(Otter Spotter report and video submitted by G Hanly.)
January 15, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Cunning salmon eludes 3 river otters on the prowl for a meal.
(Otter Spotter report and video submitted by G Hanly.)
(Otter Spotter report and video submitted by G Hanly.)
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At least 25 data centers were canceled last year as communities organized and pushed back against them. That's four times as many as 2024, according to Heatmap News.
heatmap.news/politics/dat...
heatmap.news/politics/dat...
Scoop: Local Opposition to Data Centers Is Surging. So Are Canceled Projects.
A Heatmap Pro review of public records shows that 25 data centers were scrubbed last year after local pushback — four times as many as 2024.
heatmap.news
January 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
At least 25 data centers were canceled last year as communities organized and pushed back against them. That's four times as many as 2024, according to Heatmap News.
heatmap.news/politics/dat...
heatmap.news/politics/dat...
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*Reimagining abundance*
“Thinking like an animal when you’re gardening is immensely freeing. It allows you to behave organically, to shed obsessions with tidiness and open yourself to a new vision of beauty. As a gardener, you’re the keystone species, creating a looser habitat for living things.”
“Thinking like an animal when you’re gardening is immensely freeing. It allows you to behave organically, to shed obsessions with tidiness and open yourself to a new vision of beauty. As a gardener, you’re the keystone species, creating a looser habitat for living things.”
Isabella Tree: ‘Rewilding a garden is not about closing the gate and letting it go’
Rewilding doesn’t mean abandoning — it means gardeners becoming a ‘keystone species’, creating a habitat where wildlife can thrive
www.ft.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:09 AM
*Reimagining abundance*
“Thinking like an animal when you’re gardening is immensely freeing. It allows you to behave organically, to shed obsessions with tidiness and open yourself to a new vision of beauty. As a gardener, you’re the keystone species, creating a looser habitat for living things.”
“Thinking like an animal when you’re gardening is immensely freeing. It allows you to behave organically, to shed obsessions with tidiness and open yourself to a new vision of beauty. As a gardener, you’re the keystone species, creating a looser habitat for living things.”
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Geothermal energy is essentially carbon-free, it is available at any time of day and in any weather, and it leaves a small footprint on the landscape. New approaches to harnessing it may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pvWVGb
Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy
It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
January 10, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Geothermal energy is essentially carbon-free, it is available at any time of day and in any weather, and it leaves a small footprint on the landscape. New approaches to harnessing it may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pvWVGb
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at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
January 9, 2026 at 11:22 PM
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
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Gonna take this moment to once again point out that the way that this fascist stormtrooper used his "less lethal" weapon (shooting people in the face) is contra not only to the instructions for operation of the weapon provided by the manufacturer, but to their own training in how to use the weapon.
January 10, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Gonna take this moment to once again point out that the way that this fascist stormtrooper used his "less lethal" weapon (shooting people in the face) is contra not only to the instructions for operation of the weapon provided by the manufacturer, but to their own training in how to use the weapon.
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"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money." – Cree proverb
January 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money." – Cree proverb
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Local assisted living facilities are taking additional security measures because the residents don’t want their care to be interrupted when ICE abducts their staff. Schools are closed for the safety of students, faculty, and staff. There is no facet of society or stage of life unaffected.
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
January 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Local assisted living facilities are taking additional security measures because the residents don’t want their care to be interrupted when ICE abducts their staff. Schools are closed for the safety of students, faculty, and staff. There is no facet of society or stage of life unaffected.
“This is part of a larger pattern of Trump branding government materials with his name and image,” Kierán Suckling, the executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, told NPR. “But this kind of cartoonish authoritarianism won’t fly in the United States.”
National Park Service will void passes with stickers over Trump's face — NPR
The use of an image of Trump on the 2026 pass — rather than the usual picture of nature — has sparked a backlash, sticker protests, and a lawsuit from a conservation group.
apple.news
January 10, 2026 at 3:07 AM
“This is part of a larger pattern of Trump branding government materials with his name and image,” Kierán Suckling, the executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, told NPR. “But this kind of cartoonish authoritarianism won’t fly in the United States.”
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Himes: "I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the admin. I've had zero outreach and no D I'm aware of has. So apparently we're now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party."
January 4, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Himes: "I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the admin. I've had zero outreach and no D I'm aware of has. So apparently we're now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party."
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Trump on Democrats: "They should say 'great job.' They shouldn't say, 'Oh gee, maybe it's not constitutional.' You know, the same old stuff that we've been hearing for years and years and years."
January 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Trump on Democrats: "They should say 'great job.' They shouldn't say, 'Oh gee, maybe it's not constitutional.' You know, the same old stuff that we've been hearing for years and years and years."
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January
Alex Colville
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Alex Colville
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January 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Alex Colville
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It really is crazy that the president has engineered a situation where the US government pays his companies tons of money whenever he goes on vacation, and now he just goes on vacation endlessly www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...
December 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It really is crazy that the president has engineered a situation where the US government pays his companies tons of money whenever he goes on vacation, and now he just goes on vacation endlessly www.howtoreadthisch.art/president-ho...
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Why have Americans become so mean, sad, and alienated? The answer is simple, @nytdavidbrooks argues. People no longer grow up learning how to be decent to one another: bit.ly/4qskLny
December 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Why have Americans become so mean, sad, and alienated? The answer is simple, @nytdavidbrooks argues. People no longer grow up learning how to be decent to one another: bit.ly/4qskLny
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Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered…
news.mongabay.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
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Infuriating NEWS...
The damage Trump is doing is irreversible...
Just destroyed native protected land that was home to wildlife AND outrage as he damaged sacred Indigenous Burial Grounds
Irreversible Damage
The damage Trump is doing is irreversible...
Just destroyed native protected land that was home to wildlife AND outrage as he damaged sacred Indigenous Burial Grounds
Irreversible Damage
December 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Infuriating NEWS...
The damage Trump is doing is irreversible...
Just destroyed native protected land that was home to wildlife AND outrage as he damaged sacred Indigenous Burial Grounds
Irreversible Damage
The damage Trump is doing is irreversible...
Just destroyed native protected land that was home to wildlife AND outrage as he damaged sacred Indigenous Burial Grounds
Irreversible Damage
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Cases from Nepal show degraded land can regenerate when locals enforce grazing bans, curb logging, and patrol forests—no costly tree-planting needed.
Native species rebound within years, suggesting community-led protection and natural regeneration are more effective and sustainable.
Native species rebound within years, suggesting community-led protection and natural regeneration are more effective and sustainable.
Grassroots forest protection succeeds where planting drives fail in Nepal
NAWALPUR, Nepal — At 75, Hasta Bahadur Sathighare Magar says he still remembers the time when the slopes above his village in the rural municipality of Rupsekot, in central Nepal, looked dead. Dust…
news.mongabay.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Cases from Nepal show degraded land can regenerate when locals enforce grazing bans, curb logging, and patrol forests—no costly tree-planting needed.
Native species rebound within years, suggesting community-led protection and natural regeneration are more effective and sustainable.
Native species rebound within years, suggesting community-led protection and natural regeneration are more effective and sustainable.