The MAHA movement is mad about glyphosate and Trump's EPA
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-5801645/maha-epa-pesticide-glyphosate-trump
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Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more ~
Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/18/trump-federal-data-deleted-altered
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Trump’s Iran war supercharged EV sales everywhere except the U.S.
As the Iran conflict pushed gas past $4 a gallon, EV sales spiked worldwide – with Chinese automakers winning the race U.S. policy handed them
#ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #ClimateReversal #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
NEW: The First Major Overhaul of Public Lands Grazing Regulations in a Generation Looks to Cut Out Public Involvement
For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations. The new rule, which governs ranching across 155 million acres of public lands in the West, would heavily favor the livestock industry.
https://www.propublica.org/article/public-land-livestock-grazing-ranching-access?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PublicLands #Livestock #Cattle #Regulation #Native #Environment #Conservation
IF WE CAN SURVIVE ON MARS,
WE CAN THRIVE ON EARTH 💎
I've just watched a fascinating video about something that doesn't get nearly as much attention as getting humans to Mars.
GETTING SAFELY HOME AGAIN.
Mars isn't the Moon. A return journey means launching a substantial spacecraft from the Martian surface, which means an enormous amount of fuel. Carrying all that fuel from Earth adds enormous mass. Making fuel on Mars means sending machinery capable of producing rocket fuel, along with a large, extraordinarily reliable power supply, and having the whole system operate autonomously before the astronauts even arrive.
Then there is what a multi-year Mars mission might do to the human body. Months in weightlessness. Long exposure to radiation. More than a year potentially living in 38% of Earth's gravity. Then another long journey home to Earth.
And you can't simply leave Mars whenever you've had enough. The useful alignment between Earth and Mars comes around only about every 26 months.
This is difficult stuff.
But towards the end, the video makes the familiar argument for doing it anyway.
HUMANITY NEEDS A BACKUP PLANET.
An asteroid crashing into Earth. A nuclear war. A supervolcano darkening the skies. Another pandemic. Some unforeseen catastrophe that makes Earth uninhabitable.
SO WE ESTABLISH A SELF-SUSTAINING CIVILISATION ON MARS.
And that's where something occurred to me.
HAVE WE GOT THIS BACKWARDS?
Mars is already catastrophically hostile to human life.
It is freezing. Its atmosphere is almost entirely carbon dioxide and less than 1% of Earth's atmospheric pressure. There is dangerous radiation at the surface. No breathable air. No forests or plants of any kind. No oceans, lakes or rivers. No farms.
And no functioning biosphere is waiting for us.
To establish a genuinely independent civilisation there, we would have to become extraordinarily good at creating and maintaining habitable, fully enclosed environments.
We'd need to recycle our water and air and grow all of our food. We'd need to generate enormous amounts of reliable energy, protect ourselves from radiation, manufacture what we need and keep a closed human ecosystem functioning for generations.
So here's the question I can't get past.
IF WE BECOME GOOD ENOUGH AT KEEPING HUMAN BEINGS ALIVE ON MARS, HOW BADLY WOULD WE HAVE TO DAMAGE EARTH BEFORE MARS BECAME THE EASIER PLACE TO LIVE?
Even a badly damaged Earth still starts with something Mars doesn't have.
A BIOSPHERE.
Perhaps Mars really will become humanity's second home one day. I hope we go. Exploration is one of the things human beings do magnificently.
But I'm not convinced Mars is our lifeboat.
Perhaps the technologies required to survive there will teach us something considerably more urgent.
How to look after the astonishing planet we're already standing on.
https://youtu.be/ahrj83jWl-I?si=xCpgTx42MVXZFs_l
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#Mars #SpaceExploration #Science #Climate #Environment #SpaceX #NASA
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NEW: Cadillac Heights used to be a quiet neighborhood. After a historic land swap facilitated by Detroit officials, a billionaire-owned concrete plant moved in.
Now residents say they are battling air pollution so thick they can “taste the dust.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/detroit-kronos-morouns-concrete-neighborhood-takeover?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Detroit #Industry #Michigan #BlackMastodon #Pollution #Environment
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from #Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.
Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Housing #Environment #Pollution #Discrimination #Racism
NEW: Oil companies are blasting millions of gallons of toxic waste underground each year — less than a half-mile from Enid, Oklahoma’s water wells.
But to protect their city, officials must appeal to the state agency that created the problem.
https://www.propublica.org/article/enid-oklahoma-oil-gas-pollution-water-protections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Environment #Pollution #Water #Regulation
1/ It was 20 years ago that I first heard of the devastating health impacts and cancer cluster in Fort Chipewyan, home of the Mikisew Cree First Nation downstream from oil sands tailings "ponds”.
(Scare quotes justified because even 20 years ago those toxic lakes were so vast they could be seen from space.)
Dr. John O’Connor, a physician who worked in the community, became a whistleblower - and was vilified and targeted for that work.
Today, according to the First Nation, cancer rates in the community are at least 25% higher than the rest of Alberta, but we don’t know exactly how much because the UCP government stopped publicizing that vital public health data in 2022.
And now the Alberta Energy Regulator, clearly captured by the industry, is going to let Suncor release oil sands tailings directly into the Athabasca river, without environmental assessment.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/news/alberta-oilsands-tailings-suncor-regulator
https://youtu.be/iPHyZ_X8N5w?si=IAgHALdmT0ORIRLO
#NepalFlood #Nepalfloods #TibetFlood #China #ClimateChange #buddhism #vajrayana #TibetanBuddhism #Tibet #ai #datacenters #himalayas #Bhutan #India #GlacialFlood #glaciallakes #geopolitics #watercrisis #environment
Pursuit of wealth and power is destroying the earth.
Lets get real.
For starters, anything 'disposable' should be illegal.
And the marketing of disposability as a 'feature' should be a crime punishable by death.
Because that's what the flesh dripping ghouls profiting on deliberately-designed waste are doing to humanity.
Burn them.
Hang them.
Tar and feather them.
An example has to be made.
Before they make one of us, the first species to knowingly hasten its own extinction.
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Yellowmargin Moray Eel, aka Puhi, hanging out at an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
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Green Sea Turtle, aka Honu, cruising over an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
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Cone Shell Hermit Crab, aka Unauna, crawling out of its flipped over shell on an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
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Washington has joined 20 other states around the country in filing two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s changes to the Endangered Species Act.
https://www.kuow.org/environment/2026-09-09/wa-sues-to-prevent-federal-changes-that-would-undercut-endangered-species-act
#KUOW #News #EndangeredSpecies #Environment #Government #LawAndCourts #TrumpAndTheNorthwest
NEW: The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly potent greenhouse gas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/methane-gas-epa-proposal-stripper-wells?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Environment #Energy #Methane #Climate #ClimateChange #EPA
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ecologistas/117252102062002552
Otro Real Decreto para centros de datos hecho a medida de las corporaciones. Por eso nos sumamos a respaldar las alegaciones presentadas por diversos colectivos vecinales, ecologistas y en defensa del territorio, como @tunubesecamirio @nocentrosdedatosaragon @ecologistas ✊🔥
«La eficiencia no basta si el consumo total de agua y energía sigue creciendo sin límites»
#IA #centrosdedatos #AI #datacenter #tech #technology #energy #environment #water #Spain
A Caramel Nudibranch, aka Moana, crawling over an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
Prints available - DM me. #caramel #seaslug #Sunday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef
Yellowmargin Moray Eel, aka Puhi, at a human-made accidental ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
Prints available - DM me. #pipe #eel #Monday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef
Green Sea Turtle, aka Honu, flying over a sandy patch of ocean. Your #sealife #photooftheday
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Why do certain motorists hate bicycles?
Because bikes disrupt the fantasy sold with today's absurdly huge, energy-wasting, toxic, pedestrian-crushing, hyper-powered adult baby carriages.
And because bike hatred helps ameliorate the weight of the monthly bill for a shiny capital asset and ego cocoon that mostly sits doing nothing.
On the road, these folks need to feel in command; it's owed to them they figure.
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#cycling #cars #auto #environment #climatechange #health #science #marketing
Fellow's Nudibranch, aka Pūpū Lehua, crawling over an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
Prints available - DM me. #white #slug #wednesday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef
Wondering if people would sign this petition. There is a proposed massive #datacentre on the beautiful banks of the Menai Straits in N #Wales. There's so much wrong with this. It's a SAC (special area of conservation). The nationalised water company Dwr Cymru have raised objections that there isn't a plan for the water... one director of the company has previous charges for 6 environmental crimes... read more on the link! Boosts welcome.
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Ornate Wrasse, aka Hīnālea, swimming over a sandy patch of an ocean reef. Your #sealife #photooftheday
Prints available - DM me. #multicolor #fish #thursday #creature #ocean #sea #marinelife #animals #nature #wildlife #environment #earth #photo #photography #underwater #AIFreePhoto #Oahu #Hawaii #reef
