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Erik Hoffner

@erikhoffner.bsky.social
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Editor, photojournalist & award-winning podcast producer for nonprofit news outlet @Mongabay. Member of Society of Envi Journalists & Vermont Center for Photography

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Mike DiGirolamo @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social · 15h
For the first time in 150 yrs, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington. More than 250 were successfully translocated back to the region, thanks to the efforts of the iwi (nations of Aotearoa), community members, and the Capital Kiwi Project. They join the podcast this week:
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Iwi and community-led effort return kiwi to Wellington for first time in over a century
For the first time in 150 years, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. More than 250 manu (“birds” in the Māori language) were successfully translocated back ...
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 20h
NGOs & #climate activists are saying #COP31 in November is too expensive for a robust civil society representation Accommodations in Türkiye are eye watering Researchers examined 208 properties listed on the official website, costs will push advocates out of Antalya: cop31radar.com/research/the...
What the official accommodation platform tells us about the cost, distance and visible availability of staying in Antalya for climate COP31
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Researchers w/ Wildlife & Climate Consensus have a new study out, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... In July I solicited this op-ed for @mongabay.com by them about bringing #wildlife into #climate conversations Good to see it's now 350+ signatories strong, here's why it's captured attention:
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Wildlife helps regulate the climate & this belongs in policy discussions (commentary)
When we talk about climate change and wildlife, most people think about the impact of climate change on animals. We see individual organisms struggling to find food and being pushed into new places an...
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Robert Muggah @muggah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Environmental #crime is among the world’s most lucrative illicit markets, but it’s also under-studied. Estimates suggest it generates upwards $280 billion a year in profits with social costs of between $1-2 trillion a year. Our latest with @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/09/to-t...
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To tackle environmental crime, track profits through the whole supply chain (commentary)
The world has spent a decade trying to put a price on nature. Forests have become carbon sinks, while wetlands are increasingly described as natural infrastructure. Biodiversity is also being drawn in...
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/09/2026
There were no handshakes between Ireland and Israel players before their contentious Nations League match, with the Irish team wearing black armbands for its 3-0 win.
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Ireland players wear black armbands and refrain from handshakes in soccer game against Israel
There were no handshakes between Ireland and Israel players before their contentious Nations League match, with the Irish team wearing black armbands for its 3-0 win.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you student journalists/editors.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
His supporters say he is a hero, a moral crusader who was brave enough to shine a light upon football's shadowy hinterlands www.nytimes.com/athletic/609...
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Rui Pinto, the whistleblower whose leaks prompted investigations into Man City
His supporters say he is a hero, a moral crusader who was brave enough to shine a light upon football's shadowy hinterlands
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The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Manchester City had been found guilty of nearly all the 115 breaches of the Premier League’s rules that they were charged with. www.nytimes.com/athletic/763...
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Manchester City chairman says club’s ‘confidence’ in proving innocence unchanged
Manchester City had been found guilty of nearly all the 115 breaches of the Premier League’s rules that they were charged with.
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That one reader said “It reads almost like a visit to another planet” is also a pretty accurate description for Globe staff, who barely cover western MA despite being in driving distance of Boston ~ that's why I dropped my subscription recently. Wonder if this changes their strategy 🤔
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Move over fat bear week, there's a new #conservation competition in town 🦞 With team names like Downeast Tail Pinchers, Maine's lobster fleet vies to protect populations & earn bragging rights V-notching egg-bearing females alerts other fishers not to harvest them, goal is 100K notches by today:
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Maine lobstermen compete to collect most v-notches - Island Institute
By mid-September, with just over a week left to go in the challenge, the team known as Southern Maine Future Catch … was leading the race …
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That one reader said “It reads almost like a visit to another planet” is also a pretty accurate description for Globe staff, who barely cover western MA despite being in driving distance of Boston ~ that's why I dropped my subscription recently. Wonder if this changes their strategy 🤔
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Erin Brockovich recently started a #datacenters mapping project to crowdsource new developments nationwide & raise awareness on regs &rights:
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Brockovich Data Center Reporting – U.S. AI Data Center Awareness & Issue Map
Interactive map of major AI data centers across the United States — built, being built, proposed and cancelled. Understand the community impact and report issues in your area.
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Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What it looks like is an aposematically colored insect (wasp?) emerging from a burrow in the soil!
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Grammy-winning neighbor Ray LaMontagne celebrated 20 years since his breakout record “Trouble” last night at Springfield Symphony Hall with an incredible backing band
Ray LaMontagne celebrated 20 years since his breakout record “Trouble”
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
[Good news] It was a record year for razorbill & puffin breeding as the Gulf of #Maine - which has been warming faster than 99% of the ocean - sees a pause in its heating over the last couple years, @themainemonitor.org reports Common & endangered roseate terns also did well this summer:
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Seabird researchers report good year for razorbills and puffins
Seal Island saw a record 127 razorbill nests, while Eastern Egg Rock saw a record 213 puffin burrows.
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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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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 22/09/2026
Researchers in Yellowstone National Park are using AI and bioacoustic recorders to decode "wolfish", the complex vocal language of wolf packs. By isolating over 8,000 hours of continuous wolf calls, the tech offers new insights for wildlife conservation & remote tracking. Justin Catanoso reports.
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‘Don’t shoot. Listen’: The AI-aided quest to understand Yellowstone’s wolves
Jeff Reed wasn’t raised to hate wolves. But as a child he bought into the Little Red Riding Hood myth regarding their villainous nature. You see one, you shoot it. But not on a night on his Montana…
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H2O Radio @h2oradio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is SO cool! Amazing to see how many creatures availed themselves of the beaver's engineering.... and w/ no toll! Congrats on your award, Erik!
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rickhutzell.bsky.social @rickhutzell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The autumnal equinox is at 8:05 tonight. The cree-cree, cree-ek of the osprey disappeared from Annapolis skies a month ago. I’m not the only one who noticed that something is out of balance. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...
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Hutzell: Finding balance on Chesapeake menhaden, the most important fish in the bay
COLUMN | The autumnal equinox is at 8:05 p.m. The cree-cree, cree-ek of the osprey went silent in the skies above my house near Annapolis a month ago. I’m not the only one who noticed that the Chesape...
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Last night my film won the Ashfield Film Festival’s natural world category 🏆🥂 "The Storm" chronicles #wildlife movement forced by a major nor-easter that dumped 5" of rain on our region Here’s what I captured via #trailcam on a beaver dam, which animals use like a bridge over rising water:
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The Storm
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“The behavior suggests that sperm #whales are able to respond to changes in their environment or physiological state during resting dives,” a researcher told @mongabay.com Pretty intelligent behavior, all I can do during sleep is snore
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Sperm whales blow bubbles to stay afloat while resting, research shows
Sperm whales are the only whales known to rest vertically, floating steadily just below the ocean’s surface. Scientists have hypothesized that the whales release air bubbles to help them stay neutrall...
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Last night my film won the Ashfield Film Festival’s natural world category 🏆🥂 "The Storm" chronicles #wildlife movement forced by a major nor-easter that dumped 5" of rain on our region Here’s what I captured via #trailcam on a beaver dam, which animals use like a bridge over rising water:
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The Storm
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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What is LinkedIn?
The rise of mindful slop
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Glad to share that this project by @mongabay.com's video team has won a 🏆 Covering Climate Now Award 🏆 for its "tender, gracefully filmed short doc" about Mexico's first #climatechange -displaced community The government has resettled them far inland, but their livelihoods are still on the water:
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This village was swallowed by the sea. What happened after?
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
124 more land defenders lost: New Global Witness figures bring the total killed & disappeared since 2012 up to 2,375 Colombia & Brazil accounted for 52% of the 2025 figure 3/4 of those killed were small-scale farmers, Indigenous, or Afro-descendant peoples: globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
An Indigenous activist holds smoke bombs, tear gas canisters and other projectiles used by Guatemalan state authorities to prevent peaceful protest against a hydro-electric project. Photo: James Rodriguez / Global Witness
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 17/09/2026
With 45% of migratory bird species in decline and 1 in 9 facing extinction, over 100 organizations signed the Nairobi Flyways Declaration. The landmark agreement aims to integrate bird flyway conservation directly into global development planning and finance. Wilson Odhiambo reports for #Mongabay.
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Decline of migratory birds spurs calls for coordinated conservation
NAIROBI — The decline of many migratory bird populations is a red flag that ecosystems around the world are under increasing pressure, conservation experts warn, adding it’s time for governments to…
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
124 more land defenders lost: New Global Witness figures bring the total killed & disappeared since 2012 up to 2,375 Colombia & Brazil accounted for 52% of the 2025 figure 3/4 of those killed were small-scale farmers, Indigenous, or Afro-descendant peoples: globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
An Indigenous activist holds smoke bombs, tear gas canisters and other projectiles used by Guatemalan state authorities to prevent peaceful protest against a hydro-electric project. Photo: James Rodriguez / Global Witness
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Alexandre de Santi @alexdesanti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In January 2027, five of the nine Amazonian countries could be run by right-wing or far-right parties, posing new risks to the world’s greatest rainforest, experts say. @lucas-berti.bsky.social on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/09/righ...
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Brazil election could put 95% of the Amazon under right-wing governments
With 60% of the rainforest hanging in the balance, Brazil’s upcoming election could seal the Amazon's fate.
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Emily Johnson @emilyrj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
News outlets using generative AI to write public editor responses will keep blowing up in publishers’ faces and wreck subscriber bases If EICs listened to social media managers (the de facto public editors) about this at all during the last decade, this wouldn’t keep happening
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 13/09/2026
People just come off with stuff like this don't they. "Journalism? AI now babe!" As a journalist, this is wrong. While some journalists ARE using AI for certain tasks (I'm not), publications are actively asking me to avoid AI for most things for good reasons: accuracy, accountability, style, etc
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Came upon some live news after a hike last night 👀 Trailer full of hay had caught fire so I helped keep traffic away & keep burning bales out of the woods before it got totally out of control with tires blowing out as fire trucks arrived & police closed the highway
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"as the world changes our elites are changing, becoming more fascist, attracted to ideas justifying that only some people are going to make it. it’s the job of a credible left to put forward a vision of the future for how we live together well on this planet." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nice news that my entry for the Ashfield Film Festival has been *selected* for screening 🥂💥 "The Storm" chronicles #wildlife movement forced by a nor-easter that dumped 5" of rain on our region This clip shows just a bit of what I captured via #trailcam on a beaver dam, watch as the water rises:
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
People who continue to pursue a technology under these circumstances are either massive liars or truly believe this and are persisting anyway, and either way they are rotten people who should be removed from all forms of power and access.
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Most powerful image of 9/11 I've ever seen Top documentary #photographer Dona McAdams was at jury duty & dismissed in time to see this scene, pulled out her camera She'd never exhibited or shown it until recently, seemed too painful Relevance of the billboard message to what came next is wild:
911 image by photographer Dona McAdams
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026
"EPA paid staffers roughly $200 million to not work last year as part of its effort to ultimately slash the agency’s workforce by thousands of employees." Cool cool cool.
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POLITICO Pro: EPA spent $200 million for staff not to work
President Donald Trump's efforts to reduce and reshape the federal workforce took a toll at the agency, newly obtained records show.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Move over, pumpkin spice: September belongs to the BOG HARVEST. While many flock to apple orchards, the world’s peatlands are hitting their peak. Far from muddy swamps; bogs are the secret agricultural powerhouses you didn't know you needed. Join me in protecting these undervalued landscapes! 🧵 1/
Photograph of ripening cloudberries on a bog surface.
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Adam Welz @adamwelz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Interesting to see how a wild species can become the symbol of an uprising www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...
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Flamingo Revolution: The Albanians protesting to bring down the elites – video
Thousands of protesters are flooding Tirana in Albania’s biggest unrest since the collapse of communism. Matthew Cassel travelled to Albania to see how this environmental fight has escalated in a poli...
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Alexandre de Santi @alexdesanti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The project risks depleting fragile springs in a municipality where around 80% of the territory faces water conflicts and demand already exceeds 100% of available groundwater reserves. Naira Hofmeister on @mongabay.com, in partnership with @intercept.com.br news.mongabay.com/2026/09/huge...
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Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil
As water wells turn to dust, local leaders learn of the massive facility firsthand from reporters.
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A guy from Boston wants to sink #datacenters in the deep strait next to Eastport Maine, homeland of the Passamaquoddy people and where minke #whales, humpbacks, seabirds & lobster boats have other ideas Public comment period is open: www.quoddytides.com/ferc-begins-...
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A US Congress subcommittee has launched an investigation of 19 “radical environmental groups unscrupulous tactics to profit from taxpayer dollars” “These extremist environmental organizations function as taxpayer-funded law firms” Named are Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Cascadia Wildlands & more:
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Committee Investigates Radical Environmental Groups Profiting From Taxpayer Dollars
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wow. Based on underwater footage and firsthand observations, scientists conclude orca whales, which have been ramming boats off the coasts of Portugal and Spain, aren’t trying to harm humans. Instead, they probably just want to play. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Are these killer whales out for revenge on humans—or just trying to play?
Iberian orcas have been ramming boats off the coast of Portugal and Spain. But what looks like vengeance may have a more benign explanation
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1st episode of podcast season 5 is live! @billmckibben.bsky.social and I interviewed Dr. @leahstokes.bsky.social to reflect/debrief on the IRA, bemoan the absurdity of climate hushing, and hear her pitch for abandoning the term “carbon footprint.” ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/climate-hu...
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Climate hushing, EVs 🔌 and creating “The Carbon Wave,” with Leah Stokes
We are live with podcast Season 5 🎙️✨
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Chris Gloninger @climatechris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Lowell passes about 100 miles west of Hawaii tonight. Hurricane warning for Kauai and Niihau, statewide emergency, up to 10 inches of rain in the forecast. Same week, LA got its first measurable rain in months, in September, off Marie from 770 miles out. Climate change is the threat multiplier.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New carbon offsets just dropped
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The Latest Wealth Flex: Big Trees (Gift Article)
More than ever, rich property owners are spending huge sums on full-grown oaks, palms and baobabs. They don’t have the time or patience to watch them grow.
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Everyone's reporting on this looming horror show for #astronomy etc, now @the-independent.com too: "A runaway chain reaction known as the #Kesslersyndrome could see cascading collisions create a cloud of debris so dense that launching rockets becomes impossible – effectively trapping us on Earth."
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A million satellites are heading to space. They could change the night sky forever
AI firms and governments are planning space-based data centres and Elon Musk claims it will take us closer to a sci-fi utopia. That maybe so, but it could also cost us our stargazing past, writes Anth...
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Trail camera below the house shows this bruin passed by at 9:05am during its Monday morning commute:
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