And when ‘water companies’ blame storms and inadequate drainaqways we learn this.
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India’s ‘Tree Father’ plants for a greener future https://www.byteseu.com/2396666/ #environment
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
By Sandra Laville
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
#Rewilding #Wetlands #Rivers #Somerset #Water #Wildfires #TheNationalTrust #Environment #UKnews #England #Conservation #Treesandforests #Wildlife #TheGuardian #SandraLaville
https://www.europesays.com/3265951/ Norfund: Staying the course in a volatile environment #Environment
Summer season 2026. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
🌍️ #Environment & #Green accounts to follow:
NEWS
@TheConversationClimate - Conversation Climate
@mongabay - Mongabay
@greenpeace - Greenpeace International
@index - Climate change litigation
@rewildingmag (main) & @stories (blog) - Rewilding Magazine
@justin - Renewable energy news
@industrydecarbonization - Industry decarbonisation
@index@patrolling.org - Fight against poaching
@yessfun - Green newsletter
@InsideClimate - Inside Climate
@ErinBrockovich - Brockovich Report
@EarthDayorg - Earth Day
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Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
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The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-salmon-columbia-river-tribes-deal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Native #Indigenous #Oregon #Environment #Sustainability #PNW
The MAHA movement is mad about glyphosate and Trump's EPA
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-5801645/maha-epa-pesticide-glyphosate-trump
Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more ~
Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
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#USA #USpol #USgovernment #trump #TrumpAdmin #data #datasets #health #PublicHealth #education #environment #labor #police #veterans #immigration
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/18/trump-federal-data-deleted-altered
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Trump’s Iran war supercharged EV sales everywhere except the U.S.
As the Iran conflict pushed gas past $4 a gallon, EV sales spiked worldwide – with Chinese automakers winning the race U.S. policy handed them
#ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #ClimateReversal #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
NEW: The First Major Overhaul of Public Lands Grazing Regulations in a Generation Looks to Cut Out Public Involvement
For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations. The new rule, which governs ranching across 155 million acres of public lands in the West, would heavily favor the livestock industry.
https://www.propublica.org/article/public-land-livestock-grazing-ranching-access?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PublicLands #Livestock #Cattle #Regulation #Native #Environment #Conservation
IF WE CAN SURVIVE ON MARS,
WE CAN THRIVE ON EARTH 💎
I've just watched a fascinating video about something that doesn't get nearly as much attention as getting humans to Mars.
GETTING SAFELY HOME AGAIN.
Mars isn't the Moon. A return journey means launching a substantial spacecraft from the Martian surface, which means an enormous amount of fuel. Carrying all that fuel from Earth adds enormous mass. Making fuel on Mars means sending machinery capable of producing rocket fuel, along with a large, extraordinarily reliable power supply, and having the whole system operate autonomously before the astronauts even arrive.
Then there is what a multi-year Mars mission might do to the human body. Months in weightlessness. Long exposure to radiation. More than a year potentially living in 38% of Earth's gravity. Then another long journey home to Earth.
And you can't simply leave Mars whenever you've had enough. The useful alignment between Earth and Mars comes around only about every 26 months.
This is difficult stuff.
But towards the end, the video makes the familiar argument for doing it anyway.
HUMANITY NEEDS A BACKUP PLANET.
An asteroid crashing into Earth. A nuclear war. A supervolcano darkening the skies. Another pandemic. Some unforeseen catastrophe that makes Earth uninhabitable.
SO WE ESTABLISH A SELF-SUSTAINING CIVILISATION ON MARS.
And that's where something occurred to me.
HAVE WE GOT THIS BACKWARDS?
Mars is already catastrophically hostile to human life.
It is freezing. Its atmosphere is almost entirely carbon dioxide and less than 1% of Earth's atmospheric pressure. There is dangerous radiation at the surface. No breathable air. No forests or plants of any kind. No oceans, lakes or rivers. No farms.
And no functioning biosphere is waiting for us.
To establish a genuinely independent civilisation there, we would have to become extraordinarily good at creating and maintaining habitable, fully enclosed environments.
We'd need to recycle our water and air and grow all of our food. We'd need to generate enormous amounts of reliable energy, protect ourselves from radiation, manufacture what we need and keep a closed human ecosystem functioning for generations.
So here's the question I can't get past.
IF WE BECOME GOOD ENOUGH AT KEEPING HUMAN BEINGS ALIVE ON MARS, HOW BADLY WOULD WE HAVE TO DAMAGE EARTH BEFORE MARS BECAME THE EASIER PLACE TO LIVE?
Even a badly damaged Earth still starts with something Mars doesn't have.
A BIOSPHERE.
Perhaps Mars really will become humanity's second home one day. I hope we go. Exploration is one of the things human beings do magnificently.
But I'm not convinced Mars is our lifeboat.
Perhaps the technologies required to survive there will teach us something considerably more urgent.
How to look after the astonishing planet we're already standing on.
https://youtu.be/ahrj83jWl-I?si=xCpgTx42MVXZFs_l
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#Mars #SpaceExploration #Science #Climate #Environment #SpaceX #NASA
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NEW: Cadillac Heights used to be a quiet neighborhood. After a historic land swap facilitated by Detroit officials, a billionaire-owned concrete plant moved in.
Now residents say they are battling air pollution so thick they can “taste the dust.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/detroit-kronos-morouns-concrete-neighborhood-takeover?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Detroit #Industry #Michigan #BlackMastodon #Pollution #Environment
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from #Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.
Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Housing #Environment #Pollution #Discrimination #Racism
NEW: Oil companies are blasting millions of gallons of toxic waste underground each year — less than a half-mile from Enid, Oklahoma’s water wells.
But to protect their city, officials must appeal to the state agency that created the problem.
https://www.propublica.org/article/enid-oklahoma-oil-gas-pollution-water-protections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Environment #Pollution #Water #Regulation
In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.
See what changes are in store for your county.
#Climate #Environment #Wildfires #Data #ClimateChange #Research
1/ It was 20 years ago that I first heard of the devastating health impacts and cancer cluster in Fort Chipewyan, home of the Mikisew Cree First Nation downstream from oil sands tailings "ponds”.
(Scare quotes justified because even 20 years ago those toxic lakes were so vast they could be seen from space.)
Dr. John O’Connor, a physician who worked in the community, became a whistleblower - and was vilified and targeted for that work.
Today, according to the First Nation, cancer rates in the community are at least 25% higher than the rest of Alberta, but we don’t know exactly how much because the UCP government stopped publicizing that vital public health data in 2022.
And now the Alberta Energy Regulator, clearly captured by the industry, is going to let Suncor release oil sands tailings directly into the Athabasca river, without environmental assessment.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/news/alberta-oilsands-tailings-suncor-regulator
Lets get real.
For starters, anything 'disposable' should be illegal.
And the marketing of disposability as a 'feature' should be a crime punishable by death.
Because that's what the flesh dripping ghouls profiting on deliberately-designed waste are doing to humanity.
Burn them.
Hang them.
Tar and feather them.
An example has to be made.
Before they make one of us, the first species to knowingly hasten its own extinction.
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Yellowmargin Moray Eel, aka Puhi, hanging out at an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
Prints available - DM me. #yellow #moray #monday #LaborDay #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef
NEW: Despite a legal requirement to do so, Vermont never audited a water project that’s cost nearly a billion.
“I find it amazing that they haven’t done the audit and that somebody in the legislature did not hold them to account,” said a former lawmaker.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vermont-clean-water-act-champlain-audit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Vermont Has Spent Nearly a Billion Dollars to Clean Up Lake Champlain. But the Green Slime Keeps Coming Back.
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The state kicked off an ambitious effort in 2015 to clean up waterways and meet tougher EPA restrictions. But after a decade and nearly a billion dollars spent, potentially toxic algae still lingers in Lake Champlain. What happened?
https://www.propublica.org/article/lake-champlain-algae-bloom-cyanobacteria-water-pollution-vermont?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Green Sea Turtle, aka Honu, cruising over an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
Prints available - DM me. #green #turtle #tuesday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef
Cone Shell Hermit Crab, aka Unauna, crawling out of its flipped over shell on an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
Prints available - DM me. #orange #crab #wednesday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef
Washington has joined 20 other states around the country in filing two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s changes to the Endangered Species Act.
https://www.kuow.org/environment/2026-09-09/wa-sues-to-prevent-federal-changes-that-would-undercut-endangered-species-act
#KUOW #News #EndangeredSpecies #Environment #Government #LawAndCourts #TrumpAndTheNorthwest
"Even with the reelection of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party), most of the caucuses of right and far-right deputies, like the ruralist caucus, will likely press for bills to unravel the demarcation of Indigenous Territories, reduce the size of conservation units, or keep remote embargoes on illegally deforested properties from being written into law before 2026 ends.
It is a taste of what Congress has in store after February 2027, when the deputies and senators elected on October 4 will take office. In the Chamber of Deputies and especially in the Senate, the far right edged out members of the Centrão coalition, and Flávio Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party will now have the largest caucuses in the two legislative bodies."
Please read more: https://sumauma.com/en/fechadas-as-urnas-congresso-retoma-agenda-de-destruicao-e-ameaca-fiscalizacao-e-terras-indigenas/
#Brazil #indigenous #environment #congress #farright #agribusiness #deforestation #mining