As a cyclist, I make it a point to stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk. They are always grateful, and usually v surprised that I stopped for them. Sometimes you can have a good conversation that way, and meet the people in your community. #cycling#safety#manners#community
@311DCgov hi, DC. Broken #veo bike at 929 Potomac Avenue SE. Abandoned in front of school. Would you please send somebody to collect? thank you as always. Eric
“Since I started filming in the 1950s, on average, wild animal populations have more than halved. I look at these images now and I realise that, although as a young man I felt I was out there in the wild experiencing the untouched natural world, it was an illusion. Those forests and plains and seas were already emptying.”
— Sir David Attenborough
The River Po is once again at record lows. Weeks of extreme heat have slashed river flow, with seawater now pushing inland, threatening #Italy's "breadbasket" region. These mega #Heatwaves dry rivers, cut harvests and threaten food security....& we're only at the start of summer.
If we reach 1.5°C, this is what is going to happen:
‼️Every fraction of a degree matters—beyond 1.5°C, the risks and damages from extreme weather, sea-level rise, and biodiversity loss increase dramatically.
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate#climate#energy#renewables
@BaconOverlord When someone with this much to lose speaks up - the world listens.
Maybe you should shut down and be quiet and do so. While I don’t believe in politicized military - I do believe they shouldn’t keep silent when something wrong is happening.
#ClimateBrawl#ClimateCrisis
Preliminary data for June 2026 for ERA5 - Second hottest June in the database, only 2024 (hottest year on record) was warmer.
That makes this the 13th warmest month on record.
@robinmonotti Robin might be the most ignorant man alive.
No my uneducated boy, it means THE SUN'S THERMOSPHERE not the Earth's.
This is why we consider uneducated climate deniers especially the ones who quote Electroverse to be worse than idiots.
Five weeks ago, I reported the Senate gutted 20 years of protection on the Boundary Waters. 🛶
Over a million acres of pristine wilderness lakes.
The most visited canoe country in America.
Here's what happened next.
A House committee just voted to force federal agencies to reissue two mining leases that were already found to be unlawfully granted once before.
Those leases are the one thing standing between Twin Metals and permission to build a mine upstream of that same wilderness.
The plan: dig the copper-nickel ore out of Minnesota, then ship it to China. The U.S. doesn't have the smelting capacity to handle copper at this scale — and China is processing it for next to nothing, so that's where the profit is.
China processes it. Sells it on the world market. Chile keeps the profit.
Minnesota keeps the pollution risk. Minnesotans don't get the jobs.
Rep. Betty McCollum: "It makes no sense to put our waters at risk for the benefit of Chilean billionaires."
Who does Congress think these waters actually belong to?
#DemsUnited
Global: The last 2000 yrs. Recent rapid warming is clear. Source for data: PAGES2k and HadCRUT5.1. Beware of fake stripes that end in 1960 or earlier or only show one location.
When discussing the 1st, the 14th, the 27th, or any amendments in between, we need to remember that the 25th Amendment would fix a lot of s*** right now.
I had Haitian nurses when I stayed at the VA. They were knowledgeable, friendly, and spoke better English than a lot of Americans I've met.
Immigrants make us stronger.
The greatest trick coffee pod companies ever pulled was convincing people to pay more for cheap coffee wrapped in trash.
Tens of billions of single-use coffee pods and capsules are used every year. Many are made from mixed plastic, foil, aluminum, filters, lids, and wet coffee grounds, which makes them annoying or impossible to recycle through normal curbside systems. Even the 'recyclable' ones often require special collection programs most people don't have easy access to.
The pod gives you one cup of coffee, then leaves behind a tiny piece of manufactured garbage that may outlive you.
A French press, drip maker, moka pot, pour-over, percolator, or reusable pod can make coffee every morning without throwing away a plastic capsule every time you wake up. The grounds can go in your compost.
This is one of those environmental swaps that is not complicated. You don't need a lifestyle overhaul. You don't need to become a coffee snob. You just need to make the switch.
A pregnant endangered fin whale was found dead on the bow of a cruise ship in Seward, Alaska.
She was a 61-foot fin whale, the second-largest animal on Earth after the blue whale, and about six months pregnant.
A necropsy found blunt-force injuries consistent with a ship strike. She was carried into Seward on the bow of a cruise ship with nearly 5,000 people.
This wasn’t a freak accident.
Ship strikes are now the leading cause of death for fin whales.
The solution is simple: slow ships down. A 10-knot speed limit dramatically reduces the risk of fatal collisions, yet many cruise ships travel faster.
We built ships so large they can kill one of the biggest animals on Earth without anyone on board even noticing.
So why is slowing down still the exception instead of the rule?
[Source: Alaska Public Media, citing NOAA Fisheries (June 2026).]