Global warming is cutting the production of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic, undermining the entire food web and limiting its ability to soak up carbon, a new study reveals. Looks serious….
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Scarab, 1980–1648 BCE. Egypt, Middle Kingdom (2040–1648 BCE), Dynasties 12–13. Blue-green glazed steatite, gold mount; overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.746
“We are living in necrocapitalism, and genocide is part of it. This economic death cult operates at optimal level only when every resource, species, product or human is sold, used, destroyed and discarded as expediently as possible so that demand continues and production resumes”
Hold on to your rice paddies, NASA satellites are detecting a major sea-level rise across the tropical Pacific as the Super El Niño rapidly strengthens. If forecasts verify, late 2026 /2027 will see extreme floods and crops impacted. The climate system is sending another warning.
New Anthropocene paper. Earth still operates in "Holocene logic", buffering heat imbalance. Anthropocene = Pressure. But, BAU, reaching 3°C in 2100 & we get "stuck" in a Hothouse trajectory for 1000 years. Anthropocene risks turning into a state. No Good.
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🚨 A devastating report reveals that Earth lost half of its wild animal populations in just 40 years, driven by unsustainable human consumption and habitat destruction.
A critical report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London has delivered a stark wake-up call, revealing that global wildlife populations plummeted by 50% between 1970 and 2010.
By tracking 10,000 distinct populations across 3,000 species, researchers created the Living Planet Index to measure the catastrophic scale of human impact on the natural world.
Freshwater ecosystems suffered the most devastating blow, with animal numbers crashing by 75% due to severe pollution, excessive water extraction, and river fragmentation by dams. Land and marine species have fared similarly poorly, with both groups seeing their populations tumble by 40% as habitats are cleared and species are overexploited for food.
The biodiversity crisis is fundamentally fueled by humanity's swelling ecological footprint, with global consumption rates requiring 1.5 Earths to sustainably support our current lifestyle.
However, this resource strain is heavily skewed; the report highlights that it would take four planet Earths to sustain the average consumption level of a United States resident, and 2.5 Earths for the United Kingdom [1]. While wealthier countries may point to local conservation gains, researchers warn they are simply outsourcing ecological damage by importing goods tied to deforestation and habitat loss in developing nations.
To curb this decline, experts insist on an immediate global pivot toward sustainable food production, resource equity, and aggressive habitat protection.
source: Carrington, D. ( September 30). Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF. The Guardian
Egyptian Bronze Statue of Selket, 664 BC
The scorpion on her head identifies Selket, the ancient Egyptian goddess linked to venom, healing, and protection.
She guarded the living from deadly stings and watched over the dead in funerary belief.
The Lost City You’ve Probably Never Heard Of…
Hidden deep in the mountains of southern Peru lies Choquequirao—an ancient Inca city many call the “sister” of Machu Picchu, yet far fewer have ever seen it.
There are no crowds here, no easy roads—only a long, quiet journey through wild landscapes. And maybe that’s why it feels so different. Almost untouched.
Stone terraces cling to steep hillsides. Empty plazas sit in silence. Every corner feels like it’s holding a secret from centuries ago.
Built in the late 15th century, this vast city is still mostly unexplored. What’s still hidden beneath the earth?
Some places you visit… others make you feel like you’ve discovered them first.
female Great Curassow (Crax rubra). The female exhibits a striking curly black crest. She typically has a reddish-brown body with barred tail feathers, although some females can be entirely black or striped. These large, pheasant-like birds are native to the Neotropical rainforests, ranging from eastern Mexico
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World has never been found, and almost nobody asks why.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are the most famous wonder we have no archaeological evidence for, after over a century of excavations at the site itself.
Nebuchadnezzar, the king who supposedly built them, stamped his name on individual bricks across the city and left detailed inscriptions about his projects, but he never once mentioned the gardens.
🔹Never found at Babylon
🔹Herodotus never mentioned it
🔹Nebuchadnezzar never wrote of them
🔹No Babylonian source places them at Babylon
🔹Greek accounts appear centuries after the fact
To put the gap in human terms, Nebuchadnezzar reigned 43 years and left some of the most extensive royal inscriptions in the ancient world, yet not one mentions the wonder mainstream credits him with building.
And the thing most people miss is that Stephanie Dalley of Oxford has argued for decades the gardens were never at Babylon at all.
She places them at Nineveh, 300 miles north, built by Sennacherib a century before the traditional date.
Her case rests on Sennacherib's own inscriptions, a palace bas-relief showing tiered terraces fed by aqueduct, and an Assyrian water-raising system matching the Greek descriptions.
How does the most famous garden in the world become the subject of a debate over which city it was in?