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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 18h
A swarm of wild bees infected with a deadly mite caught a ride on an international cargo ship. “If this spreads, then we’re in serious trouble,” thought one biologist. Fortunately, the swarm was intercepted. But the close call is a warning for biologists and beekeepers.
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A Mite on a Bee on a Ship on the Sea Spells Trouble | bioGraphic
Pollinator pathogens are spreading through international trade, threatening both agriculture and wild ecosystems.
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Emma Smith @3mm4sm1th.bsky.social · 20h
In my latest for @biographic.bsky.social, I reported on a Southeast Asian mite that is spreading into parts of Europe, threatening honey bees. Last summer, a cargo ship carrying mite-infested bees was headed toward the U.S. when officials intercepted the swarm. biographic.com/a-mite-on-a-...
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A Mite on a Bee on a Ship on the Sea Spells Trouble | bioGraphic
Pollinator pathogens are spreading through international trade, threatening both agriculture and wild ecosystems.
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 21h
wrote about one of the craziest worms of all time defector.com/this-worm-ha...
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This Worm Has No Ifs And Many Butts | Defector
In the 1870s, as the research ship HMS Challenger passed through the Philippines during its circumnavigation of the Earth, it dredged up a sponge from the gray sludge 95 fathoms (nearly 600 feet) belo...
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the southwestern U.S., tamarisk is considered a villain: a water-guzzling invasive tree sucking rivers dry. But 25 years after a beetle was released to knock tamarisk back, water levels still haven't risen--and riparian wildlife is still struggling. Why?
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The Trouble with Tamarisk | bioGraphic
Twenty-five years ago, land managers unleashed a beetle to control an invasive tree sucking rivers dry. But water levels haven’t risen—and the real villains are still causing trouble.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
*are vital 😬
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well this feels really good biographic.com/support-us/
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thanks for the reprint @sierramagazine.bsky.social! We truly believe that syndication and collaboration is vital in this journalism era, and that everyone deserves to read accurate journalism about the natural world. That's why all our stories are available to read and reprint for free.
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Restoring Watersheds One Dam Removal at a Time
The benefits of decommissioning reverberate across the Northeast as thousands of tiny dams come down
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026
Today is a good day to follow news outlets that take a strong stand against Generative AI slop, btw: bsky.app/starter-pack...
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How do fat bears get so fat? 🐻 Catching salmon requires skill, luck, and years of practice. But research shows that the real secret to bulky bears is a varied diet.
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The Art of the Catch | bioGraphic
To bulk up for winter hibernation, Alaska’s brown bears employ a range of techniques for snaring salmon.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're feeling so loved! Thank you all for your support so far -- we've already exceeded our original fundraising goal of $20,000 and are now aiming to reach $30,000. Can you help with the final push? biographic.com/support-us/
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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imagine this kind of plenty coursing through an eastern landscape. we can’t even conceive of it.
Over the past four centuries, scientists have calculated that New England's dams have deprived its ecosystems of more than 9 million metric tons (20 billion pounds) of alewives-roughly the weight of
300,000 humpback whales.
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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you can read this without crying, I don't know what to tell you. Good crying to be clear, that so many people are fighting the good and hard fights to keep our paradise among the stars vibrant and alive.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So I creep (yeah) Cuz he doesn't know what I know That frog sex helps the nest grow
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New research into a fascinating form of frog fornication may explain why certain species of reptiles, birds, fish, and even mammals evolved to mate with multiple partners. 🧪🐸 Story by @annieroth.bsky.social
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When it Comes to Frog Sex, Teamwork Makes the Dream Work | bioGraphic
New science on gray foam-nest tree frogs hints at the evolutionary benefits of multiple sexual partners.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
...and of course I couldn't possibly write about infra without including a story on #roadecology and wildlife crossings, this one focused on the star-crossed movement to protect Texas's ocelots from vehicle collisions. (6/6) biographic.com/no-country-f...
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No Country for Old Ocelots | bioGraphic
Can wildlife crossings save America’s most endangered feline?
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
...an exploration of bird-window collisions — why that happened, how to stop them, the animal rehabbers retrieving and saving injured victims — centered on Chicago, America's bird-strike capital... (5/6) (this one also cracked Best American Science & Nature Writing!) biographic.com/city-of-glass/
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City of Glass | bioGraphic
Meet the dedicated cadre of experts and volunteers working to protect birds from glass in the window-strike capital of the United States.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
...a deep dive into the emergent science of fence ecology and the ongoing efforts to liberate rangelands from the tyranny of obsolete barbed wire barriers... (4/6) biographic.com/entangled/
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Entangled
Laid end to end, the world’s fences would reach the sun. What are they doing to wildlife?
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The others: a piece on the abstruse but vital instruments of local government (land use codes, zoning, master plans, etc.) that preserve open space and maintain wildlife corridors in the fast-developing American West... (3/6) biographic.com/living-in-th...
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Living in the Sprawl | bioGraphic
As housing developments devour open space in the western United States, can local governments stave off habitat loss?
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That piece is the 5th & final installment in my years-long and deeply reported series for bioGraphic "on the people and projects re-envisioning infrastructure to benefit wildlife." Big ups to @sbedard.bsky.social for wrangling the grant that supported this work! (2/6) biographic.com/wildlife-at-...
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Wildlife at the Crossroads | bioGraphic
Animals often struggle to navigate the roads, fences, buildings, and other architecture girdling the planet. But as scientists and conservationists work to better understand the ways our infrastructur...
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"If eco-social anomie describes a societal forgetting, dam removal achieves the opposite—a 'collective remembering' that unshifts our baselines." This week @biographic.bsky.social published my story on the rewilding of New England rivers, a mill dam at a time. (1/6) biographic.com/death-by-a-t...
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Death by a Thousand Dams | bioGraphic
Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing ...
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
10/10 endorse. Ben deserves all the awards. 🏅
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jen see @iamjensee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is a rad story with some lovely photos of new england.
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Claire G. Griffin @polargriffin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Local stream restoration projects and all the people working on them are what give me hope in this day and age. Locally, we have people doing dam removals, large wood installations, culvert replacements. There are a lot of people, from all walks of life, who are working to help streams and rivers!
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The dam removals that get the most press tend to be superlative western ones, like the Klamath and Elwha—big rivers, big fish. For @biographic.bsky.social, I wrote about some equally vital, under-the-radar projects now restoring eastern streams, one old mill dam at a time. #AlewivesAreTheNewSalmon
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Julie Lockwood @lockwoodlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Really lovely article about the return of New England rivers.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
thanks for reading!
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tell me you're an exiled New Englander without telling me you're an exiled New Englander [--signed, an exiled New Englander who happens to manage this social media account]
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the joys of editing this was simply coming across the word Sedgunkedunk 🫶
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 22/09/2026
a fantastic article for many reasons, but it also gives me occasion to share my emotional support Wikipedia page, "List of rivers of New Hampshire." Just imagine so many of these names, lent to us from the wonderful Abenaki language, being mangled by centuries of New England accents. beautiful.
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List of rivers of New Hampshire - Wikipedia
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Jude Isabella @judeisabella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Love a @bengoldfarb.bsky.social story!
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the final story in a five-part @bengoldfarb.bsky.social series 👇 about infrastructure and wildlife. Each dives deep into a different element of the human-made world—the roads and dams, buildings and fences we’ve placed in front of animals, and how to reduce the impacts of those obstacles.
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Wildlife at the Crossroads | bioGraphic
One year after the Trump administration slashed biodiversity protections at home and abroad, people and organizations are figuring out where to go from here.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"If eco-social anomie describes a societal forgetting, dam removal achieves the opposite—a collective remembering that cures our amnesia and unshifts our baselines." A beautiful @bengoldfarb.bsky.social story about the centuries-old dams choking New England's rivers, & the people setting them free
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Death by a Thousand Dams | bioGraphic
Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing ...
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks for reading and sharing!
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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This thread is beautiful, and this article is excellent (and important)!
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The maximum amount of plastic recorded in a sable shearwater chick was 67.4 grams, made up of 644 individual plastic fragments. That’s the equivalent of an average American man walking around with 9.86 kilograms--or 21.7 pounds--of plastic in his stomach. biographic.com/how-much-pla...
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How Much Plastic Does it Take to Kill a Seabird? | bioGraphic
For the first time, researchers uncover how eating plastic trash may impact seabirds at the population level.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵 (6/6) This is the kind of content that AI can’t generate. It's laborious, time-consuming, and expensive. But that’s what makes it worth your time to read. If you want to support more reporting like this, please consider donating below.
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Support Us | bioGraphic
It’s never been more important to have reporting like the kind we publish at bioGraphic—deep, nuanced, trustworthy stories that inspire people to reconnect with nature. The money we raise goes directl...
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵 (5/6) Finally, the story was published--including crucially, an abridged version in Spanish in La Nación, meaning this reporting can reach local people in Patagonia.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵 (4/6) Finally, our art director beautifully laid out the story using original images and video, on our newly redesigned website that allows our stories and videos to shine, without being diluted by ads or paywalls.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵 (3/6) Then came the writing. (Painstaking!) And the editing. (Many rounds. By multiple editors!) And the fact-checking. Bilingual fact checker Daniela Hirschfeld consulted 35 documents and called more than a dozen sources to verify that every detail was correct.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵 (2/6) Next, she and photojournalist Kat Pyne traveled to Patagonia and spent 10 day driving 700 kilometers around the region, talking with numerous sources and witnessing what's happening on the ground.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Want to know what happens behind the scenes to make a single bioGraphic feature story? Buckle up! A 🧵(1/6) For this feature, @judeisabella.bsky.social started out by securing funding through @pulitzercenter.org and collaboration with @lanacioncom.bsky.social and @thefern.org ...
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The Unwilding of Patagonia’s Pollinators  | bioGraphic
In a region synonymous with wilderness, native bumblebees are being replaced by industrial worker bees—and ecosystems are paying the price.
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
bioGraphic isn’t owned by a billionaire or backed by a media conglomerate—we’re independent. And last year, a quarter of our funding came directly from reader contributions. Will you help us raise $20,000 by October 2? Every bit helps.
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Support Us | bioGraphic
It’s never been more important to have reporting like the kind we publish at bioGraphic—deep, nuanced, trustworthy stories that inspire people to reconnect with nature. The money we raise goes directl...
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 19/09/2026
This weekend on The Shoots: • The world's busiest passenger airport has its fourth oil spill in 2026... • ... and three more very different stories about dirty water in urban areas • Our friends at @biographic.bsky.social are back!... • And a powerful collaboration by solo indie climate journalists
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Priorities, Priorities, Priorities
Dear Reader, Happy weekend! Here are the top stories on the world’s most pressing health and environmental disparities. Best regards,Alex IpPublisher and...
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
thanks for the shout out!
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
thank you, Colin 💙
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you like your science news free of advertisements, written and reported by real humans without use of AI, and vetted by experienced editors, check out the first news story published on our shiny new website, below. And stay tuned for more!
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Story by @gregnoone.bsky.social
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Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A wild stat from this news story I edited: The maximum amount of plastic recorded in a chick was 67.4 grams, made up of 644 individual plastic fragments. That’s the equivalent of an average American human man walking around with 9.86 kilograms *** or 21.7 pounds*** of plastic in his stomach (!)
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sable shearwaters have long been the avian face of plastic pollution. But no one knew exactly how these birds' predilection for plastic impacted their survival. Now, research quantifies how much plastic it might take to kill a seabird--and how our trash impacts species at the population level. 🐦🧪
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How Much Plastic Does it Take to Kill a Seabird? | bioGraphic
For the first time, researchers uncover how eating plastic trash may impact seabirds at the population level.
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Very relieved to have bioGraphic still in the world!
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