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Rainforest Conservation, Cacao Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Nature is not your Carbon Sink. Projects in Amazon and Indonesia IG: @conservationcacao

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/10/2026
The Colorado River is shrinking. What happens next?
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The Colorado River is shrinking. What happens next?
Lake Mead is at its lowest level since it was filled nearly 90 years ago, Lake Powell also at a historic low
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This despite record global temperatures & extreme weather events. It didn't happen by accident. It's a predictable consequence of Trump/GOP assault on the media coupled w/ plutocratic capture of media outfits and platforms.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lawyers are on the front lines of the fight to protect our democracy. Right now, @wetheaction.bsky.social is recruiting lawyers who are willing to volunteer their time to defend voting rights. Join them: wetheaction.us/guide
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
‘The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets’: Trump lashes out as his power wanes
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‘The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets’: Trump lashes out as his power wanes
Trump tries to dominate at the UN as his approval ratings plummet and even some Republicans distance themselves from him
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 25/09/2026
Moving target: Congo's North Kivu province becomes new Ebola hotspot reut.rs/4dVQqKa
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Moving target: Congo's North Kivu province becomes new Ebola hotspot
All 29 beds were full this week at the Kitatumba Ebola treatment centre in Congos North Kivu province, where surging cases have overwhelmed health facilities even as the deadly virus shows signs of easing elsewhere.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 25/09/2026
Philippines accuses China of obstructing resupply mission in South China Sea reut.rs/46JLapb
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Philippines accuses China of obstructing resupply mission in South China Sea
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) accused China on Friday of obstructing a resupply mission for ​troops on board a grounded World War ‌Two-era warship in the South China Sea, saying the action "put Filipino personnel at risk."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#FLgov @miamiherald.com www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Subscribe now! Daily posts, starting October 5th, finishing early November. Commemorating Spy magazine’s 40th anniversary. substack.com/@spymagazine...
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Coming Soon — Spy at 40
Spy Magazine’s Anniversary Chronicle of a Certain Short-Fingered Vulgarian
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 16/09/2026
In Peru’s Madre de Dios region, gold mining fuels deforestation and toxic mercury pollution. In La Pampa, a formalized artisanal operation is attempting to produce mercury-free "clean gold" despite facing violence, informal economies, and government neglect. Watch this report 👉️ mongabay.cc/rbodDA
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AblativMeatshld @ablativmeatshld.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I see no way this goes horribly wrong.
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Que sais-je? Michel de Montaigne, French Renaissance philosopher, whose gentle scepticism shaped European thought; died #OTD 1592. Some books originally in his library at Tour Montaigne are now in the University of Cambridge Library @theUL.bsky.social
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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cut the Beef! Biggest benefit for health and to lessen deforestation of the Amazon. Everybody doesn't need to go vegan, just stop with the beef already.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 01/09/2026
Firefighters in Indonesia have intensified their battle against wildfires across the archipelago, using cloud seeding and water bombing as officials warn of the smoke and haze being produced by the blazes. On Borneo and Sumatra, more than five million people have been directly exposed to the haze
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
5 justices told Trump all was forgiven for tearing down the historic East Wing of the WH & he could carry on with his ballroom project while litigation about its legality proceeded. Justices Kagan, Sotomayor & Jackson joined the Chief Justice in dissent. joycevance.substack.com/p/why-cant-t...
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Why Can’t the Supreme Court Tell Trump No?
I suppose the title for this piece is a purely rhetorical question at this point.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
scoop: Reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have been barred from next week's G20 meeting in Asheville, N.C. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/b...
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Treasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance Meeting (Gift Article)
Specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 29/08/2026
El Niño has intensified since humans started burning fossil fuels and pumping heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, new research shows.
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Not purely natural: El Niño is more intense because of climate change, study finds
The new research comes as the world is experiencing an strong El Niño that is likely to break records.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds 🚨 - "El Niño can supercharge global warming but also global warming can supercharge El Niño – that is what we are seeing" #ElNino #climatecrisis Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds
‘Godzilla’ event currently brewing could push 50 million people into acute hunger before the end of next year
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: We just won an emergency request to block the US Postal Service from implementing a new rule that would give it an unprecedented and illegal gatekeeping role in determining who gets a mail-in ballot. A federal court said nope. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
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Federal Court Grants Emergency Relief Blocking USPS From Implementing Newly-Finalized Mail Ballot Rule For November Election
The temporary restraining order will remain in place for 14 days while the parties brief the pending motion for a preliminary injunction BOSTON — This evening, a federal court granted voting rights or...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 25/08/2026
The deportation is the latest example of the impact of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown on relatives of members of the U.S. military.
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Wife of active-duty US Army sergeant is deported
The deportation is the latest example of ‌the impact of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown on relatives of members of the U.S. military.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 23/08/2026
Public support for Supreme Court term limits comes from a simple but fundamental democratic value: No one should have too much power for too long. bit.ly/4glJ7w4
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Supreme Court Reform Gathers Momentum
The public wants a better Court, and politicians are listening.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/08/2026
Cities that say no to driverless cars are blocking a technology that would change their residents’ lives for the better, Rogé Karma argues.
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Democrats Are Failing the Waymo Test
Cities that say no to driverless cars are blocking a technology that would change their residents’ lives for the better.
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The Drip @therealdrip.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Man Keeps Looking For Right Time To Tell Family He Doesn't Like Ted Lasso"
A father on the sofa with his wife and kids looks like he wants to say something
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trump's endless bullying of the free and sovereign nation of Canada is exhausting and fucked up. Canadians despise him. And for good reason.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 01/06/2026
As animals with relatively large mouths, such as tortoises, have been extirpated from or declined on the Virgin Islands, plants with relatively large seeds have become “orphaned.” Without animals able to eat them, the seeds are not dispersed. In PNAS: ow.ly/KJn450Z6hqQ
Critically endangered Puerto Rican amazon parrots (Amazona vittata) consuming fruits of Aiphanes minima, a large-fruited palm endemic to the Caribbean region. 
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/08/2026
Recently released court papers show how Trump and his advisers coordinated with federal agencies to cut federal funding and grants to Colorado as part of a pressure campaign to free Peters.
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A MAGA County’s Top Election Official Wants to Hire Election Denial Superstar Tina Peters
Tina Peters was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024. Now, she’s fielding an offer from a county that’s become a hotbed of voting-related conspiracy theories.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 18/08/2026
Disney-owned ABC files First Amendment lawsuit against FCC
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Disney-owned ABC files First Amendment lawsuit against FCC
Disney's ABC has sued the FCC claiming its investigation and early broadcast licenses renewal are a 'retaliatory campaign' due to its programming.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A person without any govt position, who has numerous financial conflicts of interest, should not conduct US foreign policy. And that’s before we get to the fact that he uses this role to corruptly solicit money for himself. It’s wrong. Many seem to have accepted it, but I’ll never stop objecting.
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Kushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza Plan
The president’s son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader.
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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
'Who could've known?' Only the whole country saw that Biden was too old to run again. Pelosi & Schumer could've said it, could've pushed others to run, not sit there and let Biden do it. This is how we got Trump again, but gee somebody else should've said something... x.com/politico/sta...
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POLITICO (@politico) on X
Pelosi said those close to Biden during his reelection campaign should have shared what they knew about his mental acuity. “When you think of the debate and how sad that was, that’s really when we le...
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Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions
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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Lying liars lying to lying liars.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 09/08/2026
Hong Kong just broke its all-time temperature record at 36.8 C. Climate change is real. Help.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 09/08/2026
Climate change is making the Po River, the engine of Italy’s economy, swing violently between flood and drought, and forcing farmers, engineers and industries to rethink processes built on the assumption the water would always be there.
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Italy’s Record-Low Po River Forces Farmers to Weigh Crop Switch
Massimo Salvagnin has the seeds ready. He just isn’t sure whether to put them in the ground.
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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Lung cancer patient cuts down to 1/2pack a day habit, best in years!
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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I had not thought of it in these terms but yes, the drive to make us think "correlation is cognition" clear.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/08/2026
"The bottom line is that the group on which the Trump movement was built upon, they are shifting away and saying 'we don't like MAGA anymore'" -- Enten details how Trump has lost 32 points of support among non-college adults since 2024
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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Iran may have a more entrenched, more hard line regime but at least Hegseth is going to get shit canned.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 05/08/2026
What is truly "shocking" about the polling miss in Michigan is that it is completely average for a primary "The expected error on the margin between two primary candidates in a race for governor or U.S. Senate is a whopping 13.0 points." blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/2026-texas...
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Do we really know who's leading the Texas Senate races?
Primary polls have historically been rather unreliable, and a surge in new primary voters means turnout assumptions matter more than usual
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/08/2026
Record heatwave spreads across Korean peninsula, prompting emergency response reut.rs/4bq66Ez
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Record heatwave spreads across Korean peninsula, prompting emergency response
A record heatwave is gripping the Korean peninsula, sending temperatures soaring across South Korea and North Korea as authorities expand emergency measures and residents seek relief in cooling shelters, beaches and water parks.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
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Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...
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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering
These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 03/08/2026
Humans are notoriously bad at telling the difference between "bad thing didn't happen to me because I minimized the risk" and "bad thing didn't happen to me therefore the risk was minimal" and Republicans prey on that.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The questions are no longer about whether Talarico is ahead and can he win. The answers are clearly yes and yes. Even Fox News now has him over 50%. The question is whether Texas Republicans can successfully suppress enough votes to swing the election. They are taking active measures to do so now.
Fox News poll showing Talarico ahead of Paxton
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I don't know how you look at everything Trump's been doing to mess with the election and think anything other than that he's trying to rig it. But whether he will succeed is a different matter, as Bob Kuttner reports. prospect.org/2026/07/28/t...
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Yes, Trump Will Attempt a Coup - The American Prospect
If we are vigilant, he won’t pull it off.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Scientists had warned us. Climate change doesn't just hurt nature, it also hurts capital. You can continue to deny it or ignore acting on it, only if you can afford to pay for the growing damages. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Heat Pushes Rhine Toward 36-Year Low in Risk to Energy Supplies
The Rhine River’s water levels risk dropping to an unprecedented low as heat waves grip Europe, creating a bottleneck for the delivery of coal and fuels inland while raising shipping costs.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/07/2026
With its apparent plans to remake the census, the Trump administration "could steal congressional seats and redirect potentially hundreds of billions of federal dollars." www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-tru...
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Inside Trump’s Stealth Trick to Rig the Census—and Congress
The administration’s latest power grab is disguised as boring technical guidance.
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This week's YouGov/Economist poll gives Donald Trump a net approval of -28. Lowest of any YouGov/Economist presidential approval since the poll began in 2009
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