NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov

Robin Wall Kimmerer: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025 Find out why Robin Wall Kimmerer is on this year’s list

"During a time of tremendous environmental fear and uncertainty, we have found, to our immeasurable relief, our master teacher," writes Elizabeth Gilbert of Robin Wall Kimmerer.

I didn't expect that result, but it's true. Comes up Gulf of America.

This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie

A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler Octavia Butler was an author of moving and prophetic science fiction novels. She wrote an essay in 2000 for Essence Magazine that teaches us the capacity we have to understand the future, as well a…

“I didn’t make up the problems,” I pointed out. ‘All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.’"

- Octavia Butler (2000)

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In his Farewell Address on January 14, 1981, President Jimmy Carter worried about the direction of the country. He noted that the American people had begun to lose faith in the government’s ability to deal with problems and were turning to “single-issue groups and special interest organizations to ensure that whatever else happens, our own personal views and our own private interests are protected.” This focus on individualism, he warned, distorts the nation’s purpose because “the national interest is not always the sum of all our single or special interests. We are all Americans together, and we must not forget that the common good is our common interest and our individual responsibility.” Carter urged Americans to protect our “most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land which sustains us,” and to advance the basic human rights that had, after all, “invented America.” “Our common vision of a free and just society,” he said, “is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater even than the bounty of our material blessings.”

This is the Jimmy Carter piece you want to read today. @hcrichardson.bsky.social has a full look at the former President from his humble beginnings to his remarkable post-White House work on democracy & human rights.
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Bringing my pinned Tweet along with me as I migrate here because this still matters & because we cannot normalize what Trump intends to do to DOJ. Justice should never be a political tool for presidents & their pals.

I tend to skim the written version but listen to your recordings paying closer attention. Thanks for taking time to do them.

Letters from an American Podcast · Heather Cox Richardson · Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

If you are not listening to @hcrichardson.bsky.social “Letters from an American” you are missing out. She masterfully weaves historical context into today’s political climate in a way like no other.

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House Finch with leucistic white cheeks. December 2024 in Jensen, Utah.

We call this leucistic House Finch “White Cheeks”. He’s been visiting our feeders in Jensen, Utah for over a year! 🪶#addbirder

A Matter of Degrees Government Podcast · 2 Seasons · Updated Semimonthly

I just listened to the most recent podcast episode. The conversation was refreshing and gave me a sense of optimism that I haven’t felt for awhile! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Missed last night's program honoring the great @leahstokes.bsky.social? All our live shows are archived on our YouTube channel:

I keep reading that this is a place for kinder people, but gentle souls have always been among us. We just couldn’t hear them anymore. Perhaps our gathering here is proof that we missed those voices. What a wonderful thing to believe about ourselves. It can be a bold move to choose kindness.

I’m ignorant! What does this chart refer to?

Today's #artadventcalendar !
A pencil illustration of a Pied-billed Grebe for a previous issue of Bird Observer. 🪶

At our garden center, people often asked for those "popular trees".

St. George has cut a slice of turf from its golf game — and is eyeing more Water conservation is vital to southwest Utah’s future and removing irrigated grass at many of its golf courses would be a big step toward stretching that supply. But efforts have struggled to gain tr...

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It’s astonishing to me that currently one in ten gallons of water distributed in the region serves golf courses.

The image presents a comparison between two types of lawns to promote #NoMowMay. On top, titled "Why have a lawn like this?" it displays a grid of uniform green squares representing a plain, regularly mowed lawn. Below, titled "When you can have a lawn like this?" the grid intersperses colourful icons of a sunflower, a pink flower, a ladybug, a frog, a bee, a butterfly, a white flower with a yellow centre, a tulip, another sunflower, a red mushroom with white spots, and additional flowers, symbolising a lively, biodiverse lawn encouraged by letting grass grow naturally during May and beyond.

#NoMowMay has begun! 🌼

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

I remember when Olestra was being touted as the latest, greatest thing.

This is an essential and immensely clarifying piece.

You should read anything and everything Dara writes, but this in particular.

The Really Dark Truth About Bots YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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POLIO IS CONQUERED newspaper headline

Sigh.

Great Horned Owl with moon and Venus

A really clever visualization of ignoring climate change