On March 1, 1872, President Grant signed the bill creating the nation’s first national park. The founding of @YellowstoneNPS began a worldwide national park movement. Today, more than 100 nations contain some 1,200 national parks & preserves.
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Sandhill cranes are starting to make their way toward summer breeding grounds. Have you seen any lately? This one was spotted over northern Illinois.
📷 courtesy of Gordon Garcia
Exxon knew, to the tenth of a degree, how much they were going to warm the planet.
Important and sad new study from @NaomiOreskes@GeoffreySupran@rahmstorf
https://t.co/PH2KpXnYD9
"The ChatGPT-generated abstracts sailed through the plagiarism checker: the median originality score was 100%, which indicates that no plagiarism was detected."
A magnetic powder mix could help decontaminate drinking water by sucking out all the microplastics and then being removed itself with magnets https://t.co/RoZP0mBOET
✨ASTROQUIZZICAL : The Illustrated Edition @Jillian_Scudder✨ is a finalist for the 2023 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books @aaassubaruprize
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Attention undergrads — Applications for the Hollings and EPP/MSI scholarships are now open! Are you an undergrad interested in a 2 year scholarship and paid summer internship with @NOAA? For more info and how to apply:
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#ClimateChange makes storms more destructive, creating an insurance crisis. Premiums for insurance —if you can get it — are going sky high, becoming unaffordable. We need more tools to reduce heat-trapping emissions, like a #PriceOnCarbon.
@ByTomFrank
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.@senrobportman , thank you for voting to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol and phase down global production and consumption of HFCs, super-polluting chemicals that are potent, short-lived greenhouse gases. Great support for our climate! #grassrootsclimate
.@sensherrodbrown , thank you for voting to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol and phase down global production and consumption of HFCs, super-polluting chemicals that are potent, short-lived greenhouse gases. Great support for our climate! #grassrootsclimate
With more than 2,000 species of fireflies, adaptation to different levels of darkness may mean different responses to light pollution. But so far there is no wavelength of light that all of them can ignore. https://t.co/VB2vZBX5IG
James Lovelock obituary https://t.co/Rjf49yV0dt Marvelous obit on this magnificent human and scientist. Read on, then turn to some of Lovelock's writing. This one is a particularly urgent call for change: https://t.co/4eHjTRCA0e
Shark Conservation is Essential to Tackle Climate Change https://t.co/FiHYA0ugxH Fewer sharks=more dugongs,overgrazing of seagrass,collapse of ecosystem,biodiversity disruption,unforeseen negative consequences over which we despair. Global warming hurts.
Mangrove Tree Offspring Travel Through Water Currents. How will Changing Ocean Densities Alter this Process? https://t.co/w6PYCGMcNM See also this USGS Fact Sheet on climatic threats to mangroves https://t.co/0Ue1SUbR5U
more cool info on scaling in life forms: Why Size Matters: from bacteria to blue whales https://t.co/PVSBDZE3c2 and Randomness in Evolution https://t.co/2pPAnWOmfd
This is a heartbreaking setback, but giving up is not an option. There's an election coming up, and those who wish to have a seat in Congress must get the message that #ClimateChange has to be a top priority.
@LFFriedman#Manchin
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Two Lakes, Two Streams and a Marsh Filed a Lawsuit in Florida to Stop a Developer From Filling in Wetlands. A Judge Just Threw it Out of Court https://t.co/UM6bPFb09c The will of the voters overturned by a judge. Background reading: https://t.co/eliSYLbaNt