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Breaking News: The U.S. will allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining tracts of pristine wilderness in the country. nyti.ms/3JeEaIU
RT @silverpebble: Fractal patterns occur in many places nature: the patterns in plants & tree branches, river deltas, in our lungs & blood…
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Because this post has upset so many people, I'm posting it again.
I invite you to share it too.
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We can also reveal that the frequency of Scottish Water’s testing for the chemicals has dropped sharply in the past year – from more than 200 samples a month to roughly 30.
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🔴 NEW: Lochs in Orkney, the Highlands and the Outer Hebrides are among waters containing high levels of toxic pollutants with health risks known as ‘forever chemicals’.
Our latest investigation: bit.ly/3KAfw5T
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There are 26,000 polar bears left on the planet. By the end of the century, climate change could bring them to extinction as the melting of the Arctic increases: buff.ly/3HnL4Yi
There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #biodiversity #rewilding #SDGs
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We are literally witnessing a live-streamed mass kidnapping of 497 PEOPLE from 46 COUNTRIES by Israel in international waters
I feel like I’m losing my mind! The world has gone mad
World leaders - Israel is abducting YOUR OWN citizens right now! WHERE THE F*** ARE YOU?!
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'I don't want to die': Down's Syndrome man 'starved to death' in hospital
Disabled man died after not being given any food for 9 days whilst being treated in an NHS hospital
Family said “we thought he was having nutrition, but they were starving him”
1/2 itv.com/news/2025-10-01/i-do…
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More than half of Altadena’s trees are gone after the Eaton Fire. #CSUN’s Urban Forestry Project is raising funds to plant 300 trees and offer hands-on training in urban forestry.
Support the effort by Nov. 1!
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Younger daughter and I have been working on prototypes for the small portable museums that will be in my Etsy shop soon. We’ll be making a wooden grid in each tin for the finds, there’ll be a handwritten catalogue of finds & a booklet about the neuroscience of how collecting & arranging your finds improves mental health.
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The impact dinosaurs had on Earth was so big that their extinction seems to have caused dramatic and wide-ranging changes to the planet’s landscapes, such as by shifting rivers. newscientist.com/article/249…
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Great news: After more than 20 years of talks, the @WTO agreement to #StopFundingOverfishing has entered into force!
The deal will enable countries to protect vital fish stocks that coastal communities rely on.
Next step? Strengthening the deal.
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It appears to me we have passed a major tipping point in the climate with huge impacts to Antarctica. This magnitude of temperature anomaly (image) is astounding and is likely to be part of a new long term trend. This is not about merely the possibly record stratospheric warming event over the South Pole that is starting today. It’s part of a longer term trend not thought possible and completely missed by global climate modelling. Warming of the North Atlantic Ocean’s uppermost layer has translated cross hemisphere via the Indian Ocean and now through the atmosphere into the Antarctic interior which was over + 8 degrees C (+ 15 degrees F) above the average for the date for the entire month of August (image) and is even warmer today.
This makes one wonder where most of the excess heat from the current record mega marine heatwave in the North Pacific (which is likely a new permanent annually oscillating major climate phenomenon with global climate impacts on the order of the El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO)) will go. Obviously much will go into the atmosphere this winter but a good deal will likely be transported through the atmosphere and the ocean via unusually strong mid latitude cyclones and increasingly meridional polar jet stream flow to additionally warm the already rapidly warming Arctic which saw surface air temperature anomalies of + 10 to + 15 degrees C (+18 to + 27 degrees F) above the average for the date for *3 months running* this past winter.
“Summer warming in the East Antarctic interior triggered by southern Indian Ocean warming” from Nature:
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“Warming Band in Southern Ocean’s Indian Sector: The Role of Remote Atlantic Buoyancy Forcing via Poleward-Shifting Circulation Response” from the Journal of the American Meteorological Society:
journals.ametsoc.org/view/jo… via John Scheve
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EU Commission may actually withdraw EU Deforestation Regulation because it will be so weak it will be worthless
EU Deforestation Regulation, that aims to set mandatory rules for tracking and reporting on forest loss and degradation across EU, has been delayed by a year and members now trying to water it down so essentially it will be useless birdlife.org/news/2025/09/12…
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“ExxonMobil made 51 heatwaves at least 10,000 times more likely than in an unheated world”
ExxonMobil knew they were cooking our world 50 years ago, & CHOSE to spend decades funding doubt & denial.
People made this choice.
People who will be responsible for billions of deaths.
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The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments. :- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Incandescent speech on Gaza by Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov at last night’s Proms: “What’s happening is atrocious, horrific on a scale that’s unimaginable. We cannot let this go on any longer, every moment that passes puts the safety of millions at risk”
archive.ph/428PT
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I will stay here in Gaza City for no reason other than that I know very well that this time, leaving it would be without return. I will stay here in Gaza not out of love for death, although I have sought it, yet it has repeatedly gone astray from my path. I will stay here in Gaza because I want my words to do what the camera could not: I will document the eyes of people as they rush to find their place, and I will write about the last tree I took shelter under, about the last building, and about the last family who lived in that building, and about my torn tent when winter falls upon it.
Now, in these moments, the madness of this occupation has erupted, demolishing entire towers and residential blocks. People lie exhausted in the streets, not knowing where to go in the darkness of this night.
I will stay here in Gaza to turn memories into a testimony that does not die. After my death, these words will stand as witnesses to what my heart has endured over the past two years.
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We're loving the amazing submissions rolling in on the Memory Cloud Atlas 2025! 👏
Check out this Cumulonimbus spotted over Jilin, China by Andy G.
Keep them coming: memorycloudatlas.org/index.p…
#memorycloudatlas #cloudappreciationday #cloudappreciationsociety #memorycloudatlas25
