Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
Love the arborescent Haws! Here is a probable G3 PA Haw (Crataegus pennsylvanica) growing over Ames Limestone, w/ the original logotype locale (Stowe Twp, Allegheny Co PA USA) visible in distance. PA Haw should be the flagship taxon for Pittsburgh/Allegheny Co. Hug a hawthorn today! #crataegus #tree
Do you feel safer that this administration has decided to bypass nuclear protocols in order to build a bunch of experimental nuclear reactors? Do you think they are competent to create a safe and successful program? 🗽
🚨 UPDATE: Omni 767 (tail: N351AX) departs Arizona on apparent long-range ICE transport flight, possibly carrying Iranians ⛓️🇮🇷
Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word.
I told the White House the state must lead the investigation.
Let state investigators secure justice. As we process the scene, stay peaceful and give them space.
The State has the personnel to keep people safe – federal agents must not obstruct our ability to do so.
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
One of the most powerful things anyone can do about climate change is talk about it, says @katharinehayhoe.com.
Grateful for this life
Thrilled to have been in the room for Dr David Wagner’s R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Insect Double Feature @ CarnegieMuseum of Natural History Pittsburgh—talks on Insect Declines in the Anthropocene and Caterpillars: Their Use in Biosystematics, Diversity, and Ecology Studies! Thanks Kevin Keegan
“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home www.democracynow.org/2025/11/27/i_m_not_going...
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
Late flowering Helianthus hirsutus-Hairy Sunflower-brings some Halloween cheer to SW PA landscape. BONAP NAPA map shows distribution. Sunflowers are keystone plants for Lepidoptera and Bees. They host at least 36species of specialist bees in E USA (per J Fowler). Have a safe Halloween everyone
🔥 Experience a prescribed burn and explore the role of fire in Florida’s ecosystems this Saturday at the Lake Wales Ridge Fire Fest, a day of learning, demonstrations, and community engagement. The festival is free with the $6 entrance fee to Highlands Hammock SP. visitsebring.com/event/fire-f...
Release the Epstein files.
*sound on* Sorghastrum nutans brings the crackle during Allegheny County PA’s first controlled burn at, and made possible by, Pittsburgh Botanic Garden.
Safe, intentional, beneficial fire has been returned to the landscape after a too long absence. Hooray PBG!
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The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.
Want to know why?
Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.
Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
Black and Gold Bumblebees on Field Thistle. About gave myself heatstroke spending way too much time watching the bees today.
#pollinators #bees #nativeplants
And they smell like cheese to go with the wine
Well, this is flattering. I may add "Deranged BUM" to my profile
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And they said we can’t agree on anything these days!
The Global Plastic Threat: Research Finds Plastics Can Lead to Disease, Disability & Premature Death
Great write up. Thank you
Tom, in SW PA for the past 30years of my observations, two flushes of growth have been normal (seemingly early wood and late wood correlates), with additional flushes occasional but reliable in rainy years and on fertilized/irrigated landscapes. Look forward to your account of how this has changed
Lithospermum parviflorum Marbleseed volunteer in the garden in Pittsburgh PA. These uncommon calciphiles feed threatened Long-Tongued Bumblebees like Bombus fervidus and B pensylvanicus. Extinct Megafauna (and bison) may have moved the seeds. Known from Bridgeville PA. Grow some!
