Prairie trillium flowering, Maple Grove Forest Preserve this morning

Wow

Result from the Pisco Formation, please leave all your angry comments below!
The Miocene of the Pisco basin is an absolute insane hot spot for marine life, over the course of millions of years the sediments recorded dozens of large mammals, especially whales...

I’ve been thinking a fair bit about axolotls recently

Sick

African elephant genomes reveal a past of continental connectivity and a future of increasing isolation In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants to date, an international team of researchers shows that elephant history is defined by the ability to move across large distances and exchange gen...

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I’m afraid we already have

Doing data centers the not-dumb way Jigar Shah joins me to break down why powering new data centers with behind-the-meter natural gas plants is an engineering and economic disaster.

Today on Volts: I talk with my old friend @jigarshahdc.bsky.social about the headlong rush to build data centers, the lunacy of building a bunch of behind-the-meter gas-fired power plants to run them, the benefits of distributed capacity & greater grid utilization, & the need for utility innovation.

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis) When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea e...

The only thing inevitable in the deep sea is discovery.

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining.

news.mongabay.com/2026/04/deep...

‘Nothing but tree skeletons’: record-breaking wildfires devastate US cattle country Rising temperatures and extreme drought are driving more destructive spring fires across the Great Plains. This year, forces aligned to create the perfect storm in Nebraska

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I’d argue this is close to the only thing (maybe five things total) still in this category…but it is true

A giant golden statue of the Lord Buddha sitting across a canal (Khlong Dan) at Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen

You know a Nick vacation wouldn't be complete without some waterway history

Have you seen this before? It's Wat Paknam, a pretty famous Instagram spot in western Bangkok

Most focus on the giant Buddha statue

But another cool thing is that it sits at a major crossroads in Thailand's canal network

Michael Saylor

2026 is the U.N. International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. This is a great conversation about pastoral mobility, including some fascinating research about how even Elinor Ostrom's take on how people manage common resources is incomplete

artofrange.com/episodes/iyr...

very cool. up in n. New Mexico and would love to try something similar someday.

And fwiw on wind power, turbine collisions leaves out too important categories:

—transmission line collisions
—poor siting in sensitive habitat

Think it’s important that habitat loss and climate change are likely far bigger drivers of declines than any of these. E.g. USFWS has this to say but can’t put a number to habitat loss like it does cats and collisions. How we eat, manage ecosystems is a way humans kill birds

Birds do get hit by cars all the time. Well documented in songbirds.

Over 8 billion reasons to ditch fossil fuels in one photo.

Lots of jobs like this on LinkedIn lately

thank you

New Guidebook is out!

Passport to New Mexico Rivers www.nmwild.org/shop/

I wrote about 90% of this and it contains nearly 40 photos of mine.

Awesome guidebook to #NewMexico #Rivers. Check it out!

#NMwx #NMwater #NMTrue

wow cool...im curious whereabouts, what sort of grasses?

amen

I'll take it!

send some to nm pls

Needs to be at least one Great Plains town named V (for the geese, cranes, ducks)

Tbh probably exists

There's only one ocean! Open your eyes! Look at a globe and learn the truth that Big Ocean doesn't want you to know!

take was supposed to be bad

many a good savanna tree!