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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 2h

. ✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell the EPA, “Protect our drinking water from polluting industries.” Click on the image below for more information and to send your email. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #CleanWaterAct #streams #wetlands

progressivesecretary.salsalabs.org

TAKE ACTION: Tell the EPA, “Protect clean water; don’t weaken Clean Water Act protections.”

Restore the protections for streams and wetlands necessary to secure safe, clean water.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 3h

. 🎯 Trump proves a 50-year-old theory about ‘stupid people’ wrecking society A 50-year-old argument posited that large numbers of “stupid people” are a powerful force that can crash societies. Trump has proven it correct and become the embodiment of its ideas. #stupidpeople #Trump

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Trump proves a 50-year-old theory about 'stupid people' wrecking society

A 50-year-old argument put forward by an Italian historian held that "stupid people" in large numbers were a powerful force that could crash societies.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 5h

. 🎯 Sure looks sketchy, doesn't it? (may also be a criminal plot to enrich the Trump family) “Since Trump’s announcement .si domain have seen MILLIONS of dollars in turn over. Much of it going to domains that were registered in the last 60 days before the announcement.” #SI #domains #Trump

rawstory.com

'Criminal plot' suspected behind Trump's latest bizarre fixation: journalist

President Donald Trump’s months-long fixation on rebranding the term artificial intelligence (AI) may be a cover for something far more sinister, according to a theory floated Tuesday by journalist an...

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 19h

. 🎯 The changes will likely mean that new cars produced will be less efficient and emit more greenhouse gases and harmful air pollutants that studies show are responsible for 9 million deaths per year worldwide. #greenhouse #air #pollution #FossilFuel

truthout.org

Trump Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards Will Deal Blows to Climate and Health

“There’s nothing Trump won’t sacrifice on the altar of fealty to Big Oil and auto polluters,” said one critic.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

. 🎯 The Trump administration wants to sell off lands wherever it can and privatize lands wherever it can’t. So this is the test case for privatization,” said Aaron Weiss, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities. #ForestService #privatization #forests

hcn.org

The Forest Service is poised to hand off one of the West’s most visited landscapes - High Country News

Pitkin County, Colorado, will take over management of the Maroon Bells scenic area, following Forest Service budget cuts and staffing cuts.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

. 🎯 The Trump administration set new standards for federal student loan eligibility: namely, by denying loans to students pursuing degrees that lead to careers that “don’t make enough money,” with programs for art, music and social work being “hit the hardest.” #StudentLoan #SocialWork #music #arts

rawstory.com

'I'm speechless, my God!' Dismay as Trump admin rolls out 'worthy' student rule

The Trump administration issued updated guidance on the rollout of a new rule that could shape the future of higher education in the United States — leaving critics dismayed about the potential ramifi...

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

. 🎯 Disobeying court orders is going to continue until someone's ass ends up in jail. Someone recognizable. Someone in charge. #orders #ContemptofCourt #jail

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

. 🎯 Where does this info go? And how is it used? This app is just not very secure. It asks for your location data in real time. It also asks for personal information, to access your #financial data, to access your messages, to access all kinds of information. #data #security #datamining

rawstory.com

Trump's White House app mines users for financial data and private messages: expert

The White House app that surged in popularity alongside the launch of Trump TV comes with security flaws that insiders say most users didn't bargain for.The app "shot to the top" of Apple's App Store ...

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

. 📌 “[Trump] wants Tehran to reopen Hormuz without Washington paying the full economic and political price Iran is currently demanding. The danger is that he is confusing Iranian pain with Iranian willingness to capitulate. Those are not the same thing.” #Iran #Hormuz

rawstory.com

Trump's new confused 'gamble' risks backfiring with deadly consequences: experts

With President Donald Trump rejecting Iran’s latest proposal to end the war on Saturday, multiple experts suspect the president is risking significant “danger” due to a fundamental misunderstanding of...

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

. 📌 These new racks will store backup versions of climate simulations to ensure that essential work performed by US scientists for the next major U.N. climate assessment cannot be meddled with or compromised by the Trump administration. #climate

motherjones.com

Germany is building a digital Noah's Ark for US climate data

Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

. 🎯 WTF?! "Unoccupied?" The leak occurred after a subcontractor’s unoccupied flatbed truck rolled into an open excavation site for a Line 5 valve project in Iron County, striking and puncturing the pipeline. #Enbridge #pipeline #gas #leak

wisconsinwatch.org

Enbridge estimates northern Wisconsin Line 5 gas leak will cost $15M

An accident report shows emergency response accounted for nearly $10 million in costs related to the Iron County leak.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

. 🇨🇺 Leaked Army Plans Indicate Yet Another Military Invasion Is Coming SOON The leaked internal message does not mention Cuba by name, and it does not appear that any deployment orders have been issued yet. However, multiple US officials confirmed that the memo focuses on the island. #Cuba

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Leaked Army Plans Indicate Yet Another Military Invasion Is Coming SOON

Apparently one war wasn't enough for Donald Trump, as leaked Army plans indicate that he is eyeing a Cuban invasion by the end of the year.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

. ✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, “Don’t dismantle critical safety rules for drilling in the Arctic.” Click on the image below for more information and to send your email. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #Arctic #fossilfuels #drilling

progressivesecretary.salsalabs.org

TAKE ACTION: Oppose weakening regulations for drilling in the Arctic

There’s no such thing as safe drilling in the Arctic Ocean.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

. 🎯 Just a short animation. A fascinating explanation.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

. From artists/cartoonist Tim Campbell. Follow him here: @tc2oons.bsky.social #Trump #approval

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

. 📌 NOTE TO READERS: That explains a whole lot! Out of curiosity, where does he get the facts he bases his opinions on? “No, I read very little,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Raw Story. “I want my own opinion, not somebody else’s.” #Tuberville

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EXCLUSIVE: Close Trump ally admits he doesn't read — as only his opinion matters

WASHINGTON — The Republican candidate to be Alabama’s next governor admitted Thursday he actively avoids reading anything — because only his opinion matters to him."No, I read very little," Sen. Tommy...

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

. 🎯 Selling out America to corporate donors. With less than two years under his belt, the former ND governor has become one of the most environmentally unfriendly Interior secretaries in the nation’s history—rivaling even James Watt, Gale Norton and Albert B. Fall. #environment #PublicLands #DOI

hcn.org

How the Interior secretary has let down public lands and the nation - High Country News

Doug Burgum was once seen as a conservationist. Reality shows otherwise.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

. ✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to impeach the Interior Secretary for taking money from our national parks to fund Trump’s arch and “fix” the reflecting pool. Click below for more information and to edit/send your messages. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #DougBurgum #NationalParks

progressivesecretary.salsalabs.org

TAKE ACTION: Congress must impeach Doug Burgum

Interior Secretary Burgum is stealing from America’s national parks.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

. 🎯 “Anomalously warm conditions” caused by the record-shattering El Niño will resemble the higher temperatures that climate change is projected to deliver 20 years in the future … and will lead to 44% more extremely hot days than we would expect in a normal year.” #ElNiño #climate

truthout.org

Report Warns Heat May Kill 451,000 People in First 9 Months of Super El Niño

The event “is bringing temperatures climate change is projected to deliver 20 years in the future.”…

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

. 📌 Trump said his arch would “house ... Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage.” It’s apparently lost on Trump that his arch would sit sentinel over tourists who may not want snipers aimed at their heads. #Arch

sabrinahaake.substack.com

Trump now claims his decorative arch is a matter of national security

And exposes the absurdity of the ‘unitary executive’ theory

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

. ✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell Congress, “Protect people with Temporary Protected Status” Click on the image below for more information and to send your emails. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #TemporaryProtectedStatus

progressivesecretary.salsalabs.org

TAKE ACTION: Pass emergency legislation to protect individuals with Temporary Protected Status

Protect individuals with Temporary Protected Status

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

. 🎯 Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? Trump says all America needs to address AI is a smart president. Let’s take that advice in November by turning him into a barking lame duck so the adults in the room can protect us until a smart president arrives. #AI #DataCenters #LameDuck

sabrinahaake.substack.com

Trump says all we need to regulate A.I. is a smart president. Let's take him up on that.

"Congress has been asleep at the wheel, and we now have a president whose ignorance regarding (AI) is truly embarrassing-" Bernie Sanders

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

. 🎯 Trump’s administration has thrown the 433 sites managed by the National Park Service into turmoil, shifting funding and workers to pet projects in Washington, slashing staff across the country and scrubbing exhibits that it says “inappropriately disparage Americans.” #NationalParks

alternet.org

America's National Parks suffer at the expense of Trump's gold statues: NYT

The New York Times reports all that gold leaf and marble that President Donald Trump is laying down in Washington, D.C., has to be paid for with something, and apparently that money is coming from the...

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

. 📌 CNN's Sunlen Serfaty described a crowd of many hundreds on a Friday night, heavy with musicians and others from the arts community. She said protesters carried signs telling Trump he is no JFK, and one suggesting Mar-a-Lago be demolished instead. #KennedyCenter

rawstory.com

'Human chain' forms around Kennedy Center with massive anti-Trump protest

Hundreds of protesters linked hands around the Kennedy Center on Friday night, days after its Trump-appointed board voted to close the building and as the president again tied his help saving it to ge...

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

. 💥 The DOD’s experimental, unpredictable use of AI nearly caused a catastrophic diplomatic incident in the middle of the Iran war this spring, when an AI-generated intelligence report suggested that a Chinese vessel in the region was carrying nuclear weapons components. #AI #DOD #China

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The Military's Bogus AI 'Almost Started a War' With China: Report

The U.S. military almost boarded a Chinese ship because of bogus intelligence produced by AI, CNN reports.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

. 📌 A recently published study ties oil and gas operations in the Permian Basin to radioactive airborne plumes near Loving, NM. Another study outlines how high levels of ozone #pollution in the same area are also a byproduct of #oil and #gas production. #drilling #airquality

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Studies link New Mexico drilling to radiation, pollution, health risks

Small towns in the Permian Basin have become a petri dish for the perils of living amid the nation’s largest oil fields.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

. ✅ TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell the Dept. of Health and Human Services, “Preserve Head Start’s high-quality early education and comprehensive services.” Click on the image below for more information and to send your emails. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #HeadStart #Education

progressivesecretary.salsalabs.org

TAKE ACTION: Stop the Trump administration from destroying Head Start

Weakening/eliminating these standards undermines safe, healthy learning environments.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

. 📌 Trump slapped his name on this building, and it drove artists and audiences away and cratered the very successful ongoing operation of the Kennedy Center. He's closing it to cover up the fact of his mismanagement. #KennedyCenter #demolition

alternet.org

Lawyer unveils real reason Trump is contemplating Kennedy Center demolition

President Donald Trump on Thursday hit a massive hurdle in his effort to remake the Kennedy Center in his image.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

. 🎯 The Thief-in-Chief is taking OUR land for his friends and donors. “The Trump administration needs to stop cutting the public out of public land management. The solution is more public notice and more opportunities for stakeholders to shape projects on the front end.” #PublicLands #DataCenters

rawstory.com

Locals blindsided by Trump's secretive plans for public lands: 'Unholy alliance'

The Trump administration is quietly working to hand over vast stretches of America's public lands to billionaires and technology companies — and the scale is bigger than known, according to a Friday i...

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

. 📌 Read the entire article. The change is meant to open the land to #mining and #drilling. The accidental killing or injuring of a protected species is no longer illegal. It doesn’t matter if the death was foreseeable or if you knew the animal was there. #ESA #EndangeredSpecies #PublicLands

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Trump Administration to Legalize Killing of Endangered Species

A memo signed by Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik rewrites the heart of the Endangered Species Act without a vote, a rule, or a single public comment.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

. 🇺🇸 Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is a federal observance celebrated every September 17 to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. #Constitution #Citizenship

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

. 🎯 The uranium sits below groundwater. Before miners can get to it, they have to pump that water out. The company’s own modeling estimates about 6.8 million gallons of groundwater every day on average, with some years reaching roughly 8.5 million gallons a day. #mining #PublicLand #groundwater

morethanjustparks.substack.com

BREAKING: Trump Administration Pushes Forward on Uranium Mine on New Mexico National Forest

Another foreign mining company wants a piece of America’s public lands. This one comes with millions of gallons of groundwater pumping and radioactive radon.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

. 📌 In a video, McConnell can clearly be heard voting "no" on the markup. Republicans, including committee chair Sen. Boozman (R-AR), could be seen leaning in and murmuring right after McConnell voted against it. McConnell then changed his vote to "aye." #McConnell #PuppetSenator

rawstory.com

Shock as Mitch McConnell changes vote after GOP colleague's whispers: 'So ridiculous'

An aloof Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was seen changing his vote after Republicans sitting next to him told him to do so.McConnell returned to the Senate earlier this week, and on Wednesday, he was see...

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

. 🎯 Ken Paxton Faces the First Lawsuit Over a Death Linked to an Abortion Ban “Tierra Walker is dead and those responsible must be held accountable. At every turn, Texas’s political and medical establishments not only failed but actively harmed Ms. Walker.” #KenPaxton #abortion #Texas

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Ken Paxton Faces the First Lawsuit Over a Death Linked to an Abortion Ban

“Tierra Walker is dead and those responsible must be held accountable,” the lawsuit reads.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

. ✅ TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to listen to the seventy-one percent (71%) of Americans who oppose data centers in their communities. Click below for more information and to edit/send your messages. Follow us, “Like,” & share. #moratorium #ArtificialIntelligence

progressivesecretary.salsalabs.org

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to pass the “Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act.”

Pause construction until we know more about these data centers.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

. 🎯 What's with Wyoming? Looks like the proverbial sore thumb. #Trump #approval #Wyoming

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

. 🎯 The Biden administration halted a single transfer of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel in 2024. Trump lifted the pause despite warnings that Israel’s frequent use of the bombs in civilian areas amounts to war crimes. #Israel #Gaza #WarCrimes

truthout.org

Report: Trump Transferring $3B Worth of Bombs to Israel, Funded by US Taxpayers

The administration has also notified Congress of a $5 billion sale of bombs to Saudi Arabia.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

. 📌 Two-thirds (2/3) of Utah voters support restoring the boundaries of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to their previous boundaries, before Trump reduced them to less than a quarter of their original size. #Utah #BearsEars #GrandStaircase-Escalante

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Utah’s voters would like their national monuments back, thank you

More than two-thirds favor full restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, polling shows.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Check your registration, and register if you haven't yet: www.nass.org/can-i-vote/r...

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

. 🎯 NOTE: For the midterms. Who knows what's in store for elections after that. On Monday night, #SCOTUS blocked the Postal Service from imposing new restrictions on #voting by mail this November, delivering a fatal blow to Trump’s attempts to inject more White House control over the #midterms.

truthout.org

Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Mail Ballot Restrictions From Taking Effect in 2026

The ruling leaves open the question of whether the restrictions are legal overall and can be implemented in the future.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

. 🎯 What will happen to the Grand Canyon as water levels drop? This summer, and for the foreseeable future, the canyon is changing. Beyond increasingly catastrophic seasonal floods, a warming climate means the Grand Canyon will more often have too little water. #climate #water

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What will happen to the Grand Canyon as water levels drop? - High Country News

Everything from sand to summer vacations is projected to change in the Grand Canyon as the river’s flows are reduced.

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

. 📌 “Over the decades, toxicologists, chemists, atmospheric scientists, modelers and engineers worked in concert with academic colleagues on behalf of the American people—not on behalf of industry.” Now, though, that work force has been gutted. #EPA #AI #DataCenters

motherjones.com

Former EPA officials: Trump is letting data centers make you sick

“Families shouldn’t have to pay for the AI boom with their health.”

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🎯 This is what happens when 71 million+ people elect a president who has no experience in international relations, no knowledge, and no interest in learning anything. #Trump #Hormuz #SaudiArabia #Babal-Mandeb #Russia #Iran

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Progressive Secretary @progsec.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

. 🎯 During strong El Niños, global air and ocean temperatures spike, and precipitation patterns shift dramatically – flooding rains deluge places that are normally dry, and drought strikes some of the wettest locations on earth. #ElNiño #deluge #drought #climate #commerce #economy

juancole.com

2026’s El Niño will be More Severe than any ever Recorded, affecting global Shipping, Fish Behavior and Heat

By Steven Paton, Smithsonian Institution...

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