Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsKelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Love this classic climate dataset. Climate information is hidden everywhere you look. 04513
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsClimatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/04/2026🚨🚨🚨 March 2026 was the warmest March on record according to Prism climate data (1895-present). Previously, 2012 was far and away the warmest March, but this March beat 2012 by about half a degree Fahrenheit. This map shows how March temperatures ranked compared to all other Marches.🔥🔥🔥 1320994
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsJustin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 22/03/2026The Associated Press getting on board. "The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy."apnews.comEnergy fallout from Iran war signals a global wake-up call for renewable energyThe Iran war is exposing how much the global economy still depends on fragile fossil fuel supplies. The conflict has virtually choked off the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of the... 30575772507
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Incredibly, even *more* locations across U.S. are today experiencing their warmest March temperatures on record--many by a wide margin, with some even breaking April records. This includes most or all of: AZ, UT, CO, NM, WY, NE, KS, MO, IA, plus portions of many other states. 🫠 14399193
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Plant Native Plants or GO TO HELLLL by the wonderful @the666cat.bsky.social (now pictured in better lighting. Thanks, daytime). Get 'em at SquidFacts.net 513422
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 16/02/2026“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups… “Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”nytimes.comWith Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules 71419725
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026meanwhile www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...washingtonpost.comSee how climate change is acceleratingThe fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data. 28147
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Unsurprising yet still deeply, deeply disappointing. 010
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Some little splashes of fall color in the greenhouse these days 🍂 030
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The last big sale of the year is this weekend, and if you’re a gardener looking for native plants, there’s no better place to be. More info on that and other native plant stuff is in my latest newsletter: ozarkroots.net/2025/10/07/f... 040
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 21/09/2025For a little light reading this Sunday morning, here’s an appreciation post for the post oak, Ozark Roots’ mascot and the epitome of everything I’m trying to do with this native plant nursery: ozarkroots.net/2025/09/21/b... 030
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 08/09/2025At an alarming pace, the Trump administration has fired climate scientists, rolled back regulations, interfered in data collection, and cut planning and emergency response funds. That puts all Americans at risk. Read The Big Take ⬇️ bloom.bgTrump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous PaceThe White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk. 1112971
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 19/08/2025I’ll be back at the Bentonville Farmers Market this Saturday! More info on that and other updates is on the blog.ozarkroots.netEnd-of-summer newsletterIt’s been a hot, dry marathon of a summer, but school’s back in session, fall is on the horizon, and I’ve got several updates to share with you all. First, some dates. My summer hiatus is over, and… 000
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsOzark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 10/08/2025A little sample of the pollinators visiting the garden this week. It’s a nice reminder of the the visitors of all shapes and sizes that will come when you plant native species — there’s so much more to pollinators than honeybees and monarchs 🐝🦋 032
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 10/08/2025A little sample of the pollinators visiting the garden this week. It’s a nice reminder of the the visitors of all shapes and sizes that will come when you plant native species — there’s so much more to pollinators than honeybees and monarchs 🐝🦋 032
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Rereading Rachel Carson's THE EDGE OF THE SEA, from 1955, where she casually mentions that species are migrating northward and that this is "of course, related to the widespread change of climate that seems to have set in about the beginning of the century and is now well recognized." 14447107
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 13/07/2025In the prairie and the garden, Liatris has arrived. 0154
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsNPR @npr.org · 07/07/2025The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms. By @rhersher.bsky.social and @lsommer.bsky.socialn.prFloods are getting more dangerous around the country, not just in TexasThe deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms. 27517139
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price. 256142675467
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsClimatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Let's check in and see how summer temperatures are trending in Alaska. 🔥🔥🔥 57530
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 13/06/2025If you’ve ever wondered what baby cacti look like, now you know. It’s me, I’ve wondered. I always get a kick out of native succulents. 020
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 30/05/2025The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.bit.lySwiss glacier collapse renews focus on risks of climate change as glaciers retreat around the worldThe landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world. 5365114
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsJustine Calma @justcalma.bsky.social · 13/05/2025USDA says it will return information about climate change to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down www.theverge.com/news/666150/...theverge.comFarmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites“It feels good to win one, right?” 7500148
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 13/05/2025The Ozark sundrop, aka Missouri evening primrose, is absolutely exploding in the garden right now. Looking almost tropical with its giant yellow flowers, this lovely, tough plant grows low and sprawling in full sun and can take crappy and dry soil, too. I’ve got several seedlings in progress now. 061
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 04/05/2025April showers… ... have brought the May flowers, y'all. It's a good time to have a garden full of native plants. And this is just the first wave of the growing season.ozarkroots.netApril showers…... have brought the May flowers, y'all. It's a good time to have a garden full of native plants. And this is just the first wave of the growing season. 030
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Native plants looking gorgeous in the garden amid all this rain. 0111
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I take the same type of picture every spring, but I just never get tired of it. Look at the incredible root system on this tiny purple coneflower sprout. That’s the special sauce for many native species: building in drought tolerance, absorbing carbon and pollutants, and holding onto soil. 020
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Happy #EarthDay! It’s the perfect time to remind folks that no matter what environmental issue they care about — climate, pollution, birds, bees — native plants can help solve it. And I’ll be at Botanical Garden of the Ozarks’ big spring garden market is this Saturday to sell some. See you there! 010
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsMark Shapiro @mhshapiro2.bsky.social · 21/04/2025🧪Pope Francis had a scientific background. He understood the threat to humanity posed by #ClimateChange, and he was not afraid to speak out on the issue. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...nytimes.comHow Pope Francis Helped Inspire the Global Movement Against Climate Change (Gift Article)Francis framed climate change as an urgent spiritual issue and helped push the world to take action. 56317
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsNPR @npr.org · 18/04/2025The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.npr.orgThe State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rightsThe agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses. 1321624829
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsPaul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.science.orgTrump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agencyWhite House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted 11621351653
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Just a reminder for Saturday, which is looking beautiful. Come see me at the Bentonville square for some native plants! 021
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 08/04/2025My first sale is coming up quick! Come on down to see me this Saturday morning, if you’d like, at the Bentonville Farmers Market in and around the downtown square. This year’s new sprouts are still too small, but I’ve got hundreds of plants from last season ready to go. 🌱 020
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/04/2025"nothing could have prepared us for the breadth or intensity of the assault on climate action that Trump has unleashed during his first months back in office." I know it's hard to keep Trump's horrors straight, but in the fullness of history, this is likely to be seen as the worst.bloomberg.comYears of Climate Action Demolished in Days: A TimelineTrump’s environmental directives are gutting basic protections for Americans and the agencies designed to deliver them. 43845381
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 01/04/2025OzarkRoots.net 2.0 Welcome to the upgraded OzarkRoots.net! My name's Dan Holtmeyer, and I'm a Rogers resident who founded this little native plant nursery in 2023. Here you'll find information about all of the operation's essentials, including its mission, upcoming sales and plant species in…ozarkroots.netOzarkRoots.net 2.0Welcome to the upgraded OzarkRoots.net! My name's Dan Holtmeyer, and I'm a Rogers resident who founded this little native plant nursery in 2023. Here you'll find information about all of the operation's essentials, including its mission, upcoming sales and plant species in stock. For those who are new to this endeavor, an introduction: I started Ozark Roots because native plants are a source of hope for me in the whirlwind of environmental problems that we're causing. 010
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsJames Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025*"Mission Accomplished" banner* www.axios.com/2025/03/26/c...axios.comClimate change missing from U.S. threat assessment for first time in over a decadeClimate change has been included in annual threat assessments since 2009, in one form or another. 0158
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsAntonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025US tech giant Meta included a section on its sustainability webpage last summer about “leading the way on climate change” and “tak[ing] bold climate action”. These references have been removed. www.ft.com/content/f100...ft.comUS multinationals purge website references to climate changeWalmart and Kraft Heinz among big corporations deleting or rewriting statements as Trump climate attacks intensify 02013
Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I can’t believe spring is almost here! But it is, so I’ve got seeds from more than 50 #nativeplants species soaking up water and sunshine and already starting to germinate. I always feel like a new parent at this stage, all anxious and excited about every sprout. Big news coming soon, so stay tuned! 080
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Just saying- planting native plants does not need to be hard. You don't need to entirely re-landscape your whole yard. Figure out which milkweed is native to your area, and get some in the groud this spring. Water it, it'll be fine! Here's a place to buy plants: www.prairiemoon.com 40571158
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsClimatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 07/03/2025What year did the A) warmest and B) coolest Dec-Feb periods occur in during the last 85 years? Hint: red colors are more recent and blue colors are older. 2283
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsWild Ones @wildonesnatives.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Join Wild Ones on Thursday, February 20, at 6:00 PM CT for our free webinar "Bees Beyond Honey: Understanding the Roles of Native and Managed Pollinators." Learn how native, solitary, and honeybees support ecosystems, the challenges they face, and how to help. Register: wildones.org/understandin.... 1347
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsDonna's in the Food Forest @oncontour.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Purple Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe involucrata) is a very popular plant in the native food forest for the amusement value alone. Bumble bees roll in the flowers, shaking them like tiny carnival rides. Seedheads of Eastern Beebalm also in view. 🌱 #NativePlants #Pollinators #BugSky #Insects #Permaculture 3787
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native PlantsClimatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Let's check in and see what percentage of the global land area was in the upper 1/3 (red), middle 1/3 (gray), and lower 1/3 (blue) of the climatological temperature distribution in all years since 1940. In 2024, 90% was in the upper 1/3, 8.5% was in the middle 1/3, and 1.5% was in the bottom 1/3. 37921
Reposted by Ozark Roots Native Plantsgardening_kristi @gardeningkristi.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Solidago nemoralis is an excellent addition to smaller gardens. Shorter and showy. 1192