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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🐦‍🔥💚 land back.💚 💯

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It’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. 🌎🦑🧪

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 30/04/2025

The 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.org

U.S. Justice Department Abandons Lowndes County Residents Suffering Longstanding Sewage Problems

As many as 80% of residents lack reliable sewage systems in Lowndes County.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

In 2006, the U.S. government expanded the definition of terrorism to include acts against animal enterprises. Animal rights activists are among the most targeted group by the FBI. This is bigger than Tesla, and there is a lot more at stake for those involved in direct actions.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

“National security” is such a strange term used to justify just about anything. It implies there is insecurity due to a perceived threat. What is the threat..? Whose security is at stake? How will exploiting the ocean protect them? And from what?

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Dystopian is underselling it.

(twitter post)
NOAA
@NOAA

The next gold rush': President Trump unlocks access to critical deep seabed minerals.
Historic executive order will boost economic growth, support national security.
noaa.gov/news-release/n...
@BOEM

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Antarctic 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.

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

FINAL 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

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

USDA 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.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

YES. I call them wildlife CAFOs. I even think there are a lot of hunters who are against them too.

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

If 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.

leatherback turtle caught collaterally in tuna seine

a pod of dolphins trapped in a tuna seine

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This 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.

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

80% 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.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 19/03/2025

The 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

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Florida Keys wildfires, visible from Miami

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Utopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

'Shocking' cruelty is just standard practice in the animal exploitation industry. theecologist.org/2025/mar/13/...

theecologist.org

The milk of human cruelty

Farm linked to Starbucks, Aldi and Asda exposed for cruelty to dairy cows.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’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.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Canadian company TC Energy is responsible for building this pipeline that will expand the reach of gas from Texas in the U.S. It is alarming how these industries tend to be connected across countries. Canada, U.S., Mexico. All intertwined.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

due to the effects they cause on air quality. The Puerta al Sureste gas pipeline located on the coast of Veracruz, in the Gulf of Mexico is an underwater pipeline that threatens the Veracruz coral reef system and already faces strong opposition from local communities in the region.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Sheinbaums 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

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“The Forest Service routinely logs in national forests – it’s part of its standard management plan. In a 2022 report to Congress, the agency said it would increase logging in the east, south, and Pacific Northwest.” lailluminator.com/2025/03/07/t...

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https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/07/trees-carbon/

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The U.S. Forest Service is already set to increase the number of trees it harvests to one of the highest levels since 2019, a result of Biden-era policies. The pandemic disrupted and momentarily paused the agency’s plan to increase timber harvests.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The 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...

PROPUBLICA
Environment
Despite Biden's Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down.
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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Gar sees himself in camera screen… *obscene cuteness warning* 🦑 🌎 🧪

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Konkey Dong [he/they] @seethreepeehole.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Remember the revolutionaries

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This 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.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is somehow even more cravenly pathetic than if they had just said nothing at all.

Tweet from the Anti-Defamation League: "This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.

It seems that
@elonmusk
made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.

In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead."

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RileyTChiweeieT14381 @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

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Joseph 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: 🧵

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Doctors 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.

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Utopia Burns @utopiaburns.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Hind Rajab's name will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

(CNN)
A former Israeli soldier on vacation in Brazil fled the country suddenly after a case was brought against him there alleging he was responsible for war crimes while serving in Gaza.

The case is the latest in a series of lawsuits brought by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) that has tracked the activities of hundreds of Israeli soldiers serving in Gaza.

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Some 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-...

U.S. Offshore Undiscovered Technically Recoverable Federal Oil and Natural Gas Resources billion barrels - Bbl and trillion cubic feet - Tcf)

Source: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/01/2025

as 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

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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The 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

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Community 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.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

These capitalistic systems are viciously corrupt to the point that they’re literally violent. They cannot be reformed, nor can they be dealt with entirely peacefully.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The 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.…

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Baby 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.

Grieving orca mother who carried dead calf for weeks in 2018 spotted doing same after newest calf dies

The Center for Whale Research received a report that the orca, known colloquially as "Tahlequah" was seen carrying her calf that recently died in northern Washington waters, much like what occurred in 2018 when her calf died shortly after birth.

By Chris Oberholtz, Scott Sistek
Source FOX Weather

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I’d rather be here if only to say goodbye and I’m sorry. And I think there are many of us who do this, we sit in communication with the Earth, we bear witness. I’d want someone to do that for me. I’d want them to know I was here and I was life.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

When 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...

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

… with structual and foundational purposes. I know they are holding the fabric of life together. I don’t think it is metaphorical. We are losing more than a world within our world, but the literal world itself, the only one we have.

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Ash.With.Earth @ashwithearth.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

You 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…

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