Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

Elon Musk reinstating Andrew Tate only for Andrew Tate to dox himself and tip off the police to his location while trying to get into a pissing match with Greta Thunberg is such an amazing story arc. 😭

A truly good thing @ElonMusk@twitter.com accidentally did for humanity.

and he would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling kids

Hurricane Fiona is among 10 most expensive climate disasters worldwide: report

Advocates warn results of climate disasters will become unaffordable and uninsurable

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hurricane-fiona-climate-disaster-cost-1.6699148

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate

Tough... but fair.

"Also, scientific topics are often complex, and it’s generally not worth spending time and energy to understand a technical argument unless it’s particularly germane to your work.

But compounding these issues is a simple truth that has made science less impactful than it could otherwise be: Scientific papers are poorly written. And they’ve been getting worse."

https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-elements-of-scientific-style/

@IdahoLark @Flash Kathrin Swoboda https://novanaturephotography.com/

Tonight I decided to add candy eyes to our chocolate-dipped strawberries, only to learn that when it comes to desserts there is a very, very fine line between “whimsical” and “cursed”

I genuinely don't remember making you all this stupid.

The best land and ecosystem managers are natural processes.

They have very long resumes.

The second best are very humble humans with extensive general and local knowledge of ecosystems.

Mistakes will be made, but until we get the population down to a sustainable number, we need to support and rely on the latter.

#biodiversity #ClimateChange #Nature #economics #ecology #wildlife #sustainability #environment

"We can now 3D print as much wood as we want without cutting a single tree
"At number 13 on IE's 22 best innovations of 2022, we look at the world’s first lab-grown wood."

#StopClearcuting Ban #BioMass Scam.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/lab-grown-3d-printed-wood

A new modeling study by @goblinshrimp & @conservbytes predicts (among other dire things) that synergies among extinction drivers -- e.g. overexploitation of resources by #invasivespecies combined with #climatechange -- will be a major cause of global biodiversity loss by the year 2100.

Their model provides "the first global quantitative assessment of the impacts of biological invasions on planetary diversity over the coming century".

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.abn4345

The #COP15 biodiversity framework correctly recognizes #invasivespecies as a major driver of global #biodiversity loss and calls for rates of invasion to be reduced by at least 50% by 2030. This is a very ambitious target that will require innovative risk assessment, monitoring & management of pathways of invasion. Invasive species are a transboundary and multidimensional problem. Cooperation among nations, policy makers, scientists & industry will be crucial for meeting this target.

#NewJersey #lawmakers advance a bill to ban #invasiveplants revive statewide #InvasiveSpecies council.

Environmentalists who have pressed the state for years to revive a long-defunct council to fight invasive plants and animals scored a victory when lawmakers agreed the New Jersey Invasive Species Council should be reestablished.

Click to read more. 👇

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2022/12/15/lawmakers-advance-bill-to-ban-invasive-plants-revive-statewide-invasive-species-council/

"It’s worth noting that most invasive plants aren’t true invaders; they are escape artists. Every one of the invasive plants I saw in North Carolina was brought to North America deliberately in the 18th and 19th centuries, during a kind of horticultural free-for-all."

Invasive weeds are "the botanical pets of aristocrats, gone feral."

That's from a great article on weed control by Sonya Bennett-Brandt in Wired.

#weeds #InvasivePlants #InvasiveSpecies

https://www.wired.com/story/secret-life-invasive-plant-killers/

Morning legends 🤘 Surrounded by wetlands here in Busselton, Western Australia.
#justanotherdayinwa #busselton #sunrise #wetlands #photography #westernaustralia

READ THIS: Smart guy turns his cargo e-bike into a snow plow.

“I estimate that by using it instead of a trade van, I have avoided roughly 30 tonnes of CO2…

His route took him by municipal hall, where he cleared the sidewalk and the bike lane.

He wanted to make the point that the municipality needs to rethink its car-centric perspective to snow clearing, which often ignores the needs of pedestrians.”

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/victoria-cyclist-created-a-bicycle-with-a-snow-plow

@LizOzselcuk

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