Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 30/04/2025It’s fun to joke about, but the courtship that crosses vast ocean basins to bring two turtles together after decades of solitude is one of the most profound love stories in the world. 🌎🦑🧪 47917
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthEqual Justice Initiative @eji.org · 30/04/2025The U.S. Justice Department terminated an agreement to remedy the ongoing sanitation crisis in Lowndes County, AL. Now residents of the county are at risk of criminal penalties or even property loss for sanitation conditions they can not afford to fix themselves.eji.orgU.S. Justice Department Abandons Lowndes County Residents Suffering Longstanding Sewage ProblemsAs many as 80% of residents lack reliable sewage systems in Lowndes County. 55848
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Dystopian is underselling it. 2223
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthBen Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Pileated woodpeckers, welcome to The War on Cars. @thewaroncars.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comWoodpecker damages more than 20 vehicles in Massachusetts town“We seem to have a vandal in our neighborhood. I’m describing him as 18 to 24 inches tall, wearing black and white with a red hat,” one resident said. 49313
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Antarctic krill fishing starves blue whales while drowning humpbacks. It burns four times the biomass it extracts in fossil fuel. You might think of krill oil supplements, but the primary demand for this fishery is fish and shrimp farms. 1174
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 21/04/2025FINAL PUSH for MIAMI BEACH MARINE PARK! 🐠🪸 The city commission casts its final vote Wed. morning on protecting our nearshore reef from fishing, anchoring, & dredging. You can help us push this over the finish line w/ a quick comment and/or email. instructions: open.substack.com/pub/patrickb... 🌎🦑open.substack.com🪸Reef Update! Protection goes before full Commission 4/23🪸The whiplash is real - and good! Your advocacy is needed 172
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 16/04/2025USDA Wildlife Services' annual report just dropped. In 2024, the federal government killed 1.9 million wild animals at the behest of agribusiness, billing the public over $100 million. 1514373
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 19/04/2025If you want to boycott industries associated with the Trump administration, stop buying tuna. The tuna industry is the central lobby behind the decision to sell Pacific Islands Heritage National Monument for commercial fishing. Tuna should have the same reputation as Tesla. 12612
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?" 542243037266
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthBen Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This is a great book if you want to feel retroactive rage at English colonists, fur traders, market hunters, mountain men, feather-hat milliners, bison killers, wolf poisoners, trigger-happy naturalists, passenger-pigeon shooters, and American history generally. I’m pretty pissed at the Clovis too. 3344
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 01/04/202580% of US bees have not died. Colony losses in commercial bee farming, typically ~50%, are ~80% this year. 2024 saw record high colony & farm counts, up 160% since 2007. You should be more concerned about long-term collapse of native pollinators, *driven in part* by farming non-native honeybees. 314254
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthCenter for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 19/03/2025The Center joined more than 30 conservation organizations to call on UNESCO and the International Union for Conservation of Nature to take urgent action against the Saguaro LNG project proposed in Puerto Libertad, Sonora. Learn more: biodiv.us/4kF7OoA 1409
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Florida Keys wildfires, visible from Miami 091
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthUtopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · 19/03/2025'Shocking' cruelty is just standard practice in the animal exploitation industry. theecologist.org/2025/mar/13/...theecologist.orgThe milk of human crueltyFarm linked to Starbucks, Aldi and Asda exposed for cruelty to dairy cows. 0117
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 11/03/2025This is harming dolphins, whales, and it threatens the Gulf of California. In case that sparks anyone’s interest. www.nrdc.org/stories/lng-...nrdc.orgLNG Export Projects Threaten a World Heritage Site in MexicoThree liquefied natural gas terminals on the Gulf of California coast are the last thing this biodiversity hot spot (and the climate) needs. 132
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I’m an environmentalist no matter who is in office. I realize there is more silence from the media and from many environmentalists when a “progressive” politician is in office, but we are in an ecological crisis + climate crisis, and these polluting industries keep expanding. 000
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Sheinbaums new LNG projects and the construction of the gas infrastructure increases Mexico's dependence on the U.S. and are obviously terrible for the environment. These are the same LNG projects that harm Gulf Coast communities in the U.S. Many deaths and illnesses are directly attributed to them 110
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025The U.S. Forest Service is under the jurisdiction of the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture.) Why? Because they view forests as commodities to harvest for profit. This isn’t anything new... 130
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Gar sees himself in camera screen… *obscene cuteness warning* 🦑 🌎 🧪 1032949
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthKonkey Dong [he/they] @seethreepeehole.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Remember the revolutionaries 0211
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025This is why I call it climate chaos, as in, “These rich fools are causing chaos” People are going to think this snow along the Gulf Coast disproves global warming. It is easier to understand the situation as chaos. 020
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2025This is somehow even more cravenly pathetic than if they had just said nothing at all. 1550878
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20/01/2025Gaza Ceasefire: Palestinian Lawyer Says Women, Children Released by Israel Faced Torture, Starvationdemocracynow.orgGaza Ceasefire: Palestinian Lawyer Says Women, Children Released by Israel Faced Torture, StarvationAs the ceasefire in Gaza has entered its second day and appears to be holding, we begin our coverage in Ramallah. “We’re hoping that it will continue, the Israelis will continue to release prisoners.... 7282114
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthRileyTChiweeieT14381 @rileytchiweenie2.bsky.social · 20/01/2025#Israel has #violated the #ceasefire agreement again. An Israeli sniper shot and killed a child in southern #Gaza and then shot at a man who tried to help him. 😡💔 #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 #WarCrimes 2119
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Joseph Biden will be remembered, above all else, for the genocide of Gaza. But I’d like to take a moment to reflect on his horrific environmental record. A few key points: 🧵 14112
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthDoctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 20/01/2025#Gaza: The destruction is abnormal, catastrophic, as if a nuclear bomb had hit the area. While the ceasefire in Gaza has finally been announced, in the past months people across the Strip have continued to suffer from Israeli forces' relentless bombardments. 1126890
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthUtopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Hind Rajab's name will haunt them for the rest of their lives. 194
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Some context left out in the fanfare celebrating Biden’s closing of the US Pacific and Atlantic coasts to offshore drilling: 1. Drilling has already been banned in these areas for over a decade. 2. There is effectively no oil here. www.api.org/news-policy-... 0121
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/01/2025as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us 762413039258
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthMorgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this 597344137688
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Community is what gets us through hurricanes in the Gulf South. It will be your community in California that gets y’all through the hurricane fire too. Sending love and strength from the rainy side of climate chaos. 000
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025The fires in LA are violent. The bombs dropped on Gaza are violent. The over extraction and exploitation of our Earth is violent. The captivity and exploitation of nonhuman animals is violent. The mass incarceration, forced labor, and exploitation of humans is violent.… 100
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Baby orcas get the same media treatment as Palestinian children and police victims. Their deaths are described passively and headlines are written to obscure the fact that we are starving this population to extinction by damming the rivers and extracting the salmon. 0238
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 04/01/2025When you are mindful of the ecosystem around you, you become hyper aware of who is missing in action, whose populations are dwindling. The more you know, the more it hurts. I don’t want to watch species die off, it is heartbreaking. Still, I’d rather know... 151
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 04/01/2025You know the phase “When a child dies, an entire world dies"… well, I was wondering what could be said when an entire nonhuman species dies? How do we convey the immense impact this loss has? I think about how these worlds within our world are intricately woven… 2126
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 03/01/2025🙃 “The USDA certainly never dreamed of culling the infected animals” … this is not true. The U.S. never dreamed of holding the industry accountable. The animal agriculture industry is subsidized and bailed out by the gov with our tax money. There is no financial incentive for … 121
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 03/01/2025You lost me at, “Outbreaks of H5N1 in agricultural animals are concerning; however, they’re also something governments across the globe have been successfully handling with aggressive elimination tactics for decades.” The issue is far worse than this. Let me explain … 110
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthmiggie aka mike @nixtamali.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Scientists who still drink cow’s milk and eat dead chickens and their eggs warning us we’re on the brink of a H5N1 pandemic 🫠 182
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 01/01/2025In 2024 many of us faced an enormous amount of social and economic threats for standing against g3nocide. We were called “terrorists”& “terrorist supporters” Many of us encountered people who described in detail how we’d be thrown off of roof tops/assaulted. In 2025 I will stay mad about everything. 143
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Then not far from Jackson, there are factory farms way too close to Pearl River, Mississippi Band of Choctaw. I’m not legally allowed to take photos of animal agriculture, due to Ag-gag laws, but Google satellite is fair game. Nitrate is the primary pollutant in the water. 001
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 24/12/2024A few miles before arriving in Jackson, Mississippi, something smelled terrible. Checked my map, and as I suspected, I was surrounded by factory farms. Definitely not my first disco, I know the smell. 232
Reposted by Ash.With.Earthspencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Israel has deprived access to water in Gaza by nearly 95%, leaving Palestinians with approximately 4% the amount of water the UN deems necessary for basic survival. www.hrw.org/report/2024/... 11711
Reposted by Ash.With.EarthCenter for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 24/12/2024The USFWS used its Endangered Species Act emergency authority today to protect the blue tree monitor lizard that is highly coveted in the pet trade. This monitor lizard only exists in the wild on Batanta Island in Indonesia. More info ➡️ biodiv.us/4a08aRB 17410
Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I was thinking about this recently because he wants to deport immigrants. He can’t do that and increase line speeds. The exploitation of non-human animals depends on the exploitation of humans. Meat and poultry are already the most dangerous occupations in the U.S. with highest serious injury rate. 140
