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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My hot take on AI and climate change is that I would not like to be killed by either of them

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026

Climate change is a moral catastrophe because countries like Nepal who are least responsible for causing it suffer the most.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

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Tracie McKinney @mckinneymonkey.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Amazing work by @peopleprimate.bsky.social member Jo Leen

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Following INTENSE public pressure, GOP Leadership in the US House pulled its scheduled vote on the ESA Amendments Act (aka the "Extinction Act"). That's you and everyone else who called and wrote their reps and said, NO, we stand for the Endangered Species Act and protecting our precious wildlife.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

absolutely incredible example of AI making up problems to solve that aren’t real problems nobody needs “inspiration” on how they like their coffee??????? are you serious????? I’m asking ChatGPT to tell me what tastes good??? “computer, what do I want for breakfast?” this is dystopian actually

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We can’t unring the bell of an American president threatening to do genocide

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

[Nonprofit news impact] After a @mongabay.com investigation exposed a loophole in regs on hunting of Maltese falcons & other #birds, authorities reacted Egypt’s Ministry of Environment banned hunting in two key regions, the New Valley & Lake Nasser, key areas for migratory & resident birds 🦅

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Mongabay’s investigation into illegal bird hunting spurs policy change in Egypt - Environmental Journalism and Education

A 15-month-long investigation exposed the cracks in international conservation efforts around the hunting of Maltese falcons and other species in Egypt. Despite millions of euros flowing from European...

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Society for Conservation Biology @society4conbio.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

SCB's Art, Science + Conservation WG is seeking members! We bring together artists, researchers + conservation practitioners to explore how creative arts can support biodiversity conservation. forms.gle/af6xkoosh7Yn...

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SCB Art, Science and Conservation Working Group - Expression of Interest

Thank you for your interest in joining the new Art, Science and Conservation Working Group of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)! The Art, Science and Conservation Working Group brings togeth...

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Igor Adameyko @adameykolab.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

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Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island

Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/01/2026

Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 26/12/2025

Peru’s high-altitude Polylepis forests are vital to the Andes’ water cycle. In Aquia, a 2022 review found restoration succeeds when communities lead—through participation and formal agreements. Groups like ECOAN and Accion Andina are now scaling that progress across the range.

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Project sees long-term success restoring forests in the high Andes: Study

High in the Andes, Polylepis trees, with their stunted gnarled trunks and twisted limbs, cling to steep mountain slopes, boulder fields and sheltered ravines. Growing at altitudes of up to 5,000…

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Do you guys realize that we do not have to accept generative AI? Do you realize that the world still exists and people still exist and relationships exist and all of those things matter?

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 30/11/2025

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social] In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, rich with macaques, gibbons & hornbills, Indigenous youth continue practicing Arat Sabulungan — a belief that every part of nature holds spirits. Rituals before cutting trees or fishing remain a way to keep balance.

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How religious beliefs may help protect Mentawai’s forests

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the Mentawai Islands…

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Annie M Leonard @anniemleonard.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

By the end of the spring semester, Gwen reached a breaking point with AI. “I felt like I didn’t deserve to be a Yale student,” she said. She thought that she was throwing away her education and the scholarship paying to support it.

She decided to quit using ChatGPT altogether. She didn’t ask AI to help her sentences flow or to strike the right tone. She didn’t even use it to brainstorm. “I think that’s a skill you need to have on your own. That’s the core of being original, anyway.”

Gwen recalled completing her final assignments without AI, sitting in the middle of a crowded library so that she felt watched. “I struggled. And they weren’t very good.”

It was only then, she said, that she started to understand just how much learning she had missed out on. ∎

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

every time i try to be late to something im still somehow early, chronic midwesterner ahhhhh

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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 17/10/2025

According to the latest update of the IUCN Red List, 20 species have seen a positive change in their status: they’ve moved farther away from the threat of extinction, thanks to effective conservation measures or reduced threats.

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20 animal species on the road to recovery: IUCN Red List update

From three species of Arctic seals to more than half of all birds globally, several animals have slipped closer to extinction, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List. However, 20 species…

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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🦒Biologists are often drawn to charismatic species but they do not always have the opportunity to study them. This study reveals some fierce competition in certain academic fields, and illustrates unequal social distribution of research opportunities➡️https://buff.ly/kjYUIBg

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/10/2025

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Dr. Cassie Freund @cassiefreund.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Does anyone out here know what's going on at Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research? Papers languishing with no communications whatsoever, despite me reaching out at least 10 times. Any intel would be great.

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Rhett Ayers Butler @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Jane taught us that every day we live, we make an impact. The choice is ours as to what kind of impact it will be. Her life proved that one person, rooted in compassion and sustained by hope, can change the world. Now it is up to us to carry that light forward—not as a farewell, but as a promise.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Anyway, learning another language is good for you because you die a thousand deaths of embarrassment and then you come out more humble and even more aware of your various human failings

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Dr. Cassie Freund @cassiefreund.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Incredible photo essay that highlights the impact of sea level rise + subsidence in Java. These communities seem to be so resourceful, but the effects are devastating.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 20/07/2025

stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏

wsj push alert that says: In a stunning moment of self reflection, ChatGPT admitted to fueling a man's delusions and acknowledged how dangerous its own behavior can be

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

46 states have fewer people than the number who will die because Trump, Elon, and Rubio illegally destroyed USAID.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 03/05/2025

This year’s Whitley Awards, commonly dubbed the “Green Oscars,” have been presented to seven conservationists from three continents working to protect and revive a diverse range of threatened animals and plants, including jaguars, yew trees and orchids, frogs, monkeys, gibbons, elephants and cranes.

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Winners of 2025 Whitley Awards, the ‘Green Oscars,’ are announced

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Dr. Cassie Freund @cassiefreund.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Submitting a review for a deserving paper by a first-time author is always a great way to start the day ✨

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 11/04/2025

This is the biggest and best development on fighting climate change in a long time.

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Society for Conservation Biology @society4conbio.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

New study in @consletters.bsky.social reveals #peatlands are dangerously under-protected. Covering just 3% of Earth’s surface, these terrestrial #wetlands store 600 billion tons of #carbon — more than all the world’s #forest biomass combined — yet only 17% of peatlands fall within a protected area.

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New study reveals carbon-rich peatlands are dangerously under-protected - Water Magazine

A new study has revealed that peatlands are dangerously under-protected, putting the global climate at risk.

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Dr. Cassie Freund @cassiefreund.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Big career announcement! We've relocated from Miami to San Diego, and on Monday I start as the Conservation Portfolio Strategist @sandiegozoo.bsky.social. This is a pretty perfect role for me, driving conservation impact at an amazing institution, and I can't wait to get started 🐼🦁🦍

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

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