Good news happening behind all the bad news.

Cartoon showing Darwin's Tree of Life with several species of fish, mammals, birds and reptiles visible in the branches. We also see apes that slowly evolve into humans on a lower branch. The fully evolved human has made a ladder to climb down from the tree, where we see two businessman discussing a document that shows an equation with a picture of the tree on one side and a dollar sign on the other. Two worker are operating a giant saw, cutting down the tree.

Tree of life. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl.

#greed #humanity #life #nature

Intricate black and white cityscape

This year, various exhibitions in Scotland call attention to the climate crisis.

Read how Scottish artists are confronting a fragile future 👉 artuk.org/discover/stories/after-t...

🧑‍🎨 Ade Adesina (b.1980) © the artist. 📷 RSA

The Corpus Christi Water Crisis Isn't Exceptional. It's Early. When drought cycles outpace infrastructure planning, a water emergency is not a surprise—it’s a forecast.

Great read about how a drought in Texas is a warning bell, not an isolated problem.

And The Express…
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2188...

A ditch in Roseland, Louisiana, seven months after an oil facility exploded here.

NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty.

The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...

This sucks

The ocean off California keeps breaking heat records The marine heat wave of 2026 is simmering the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, and experts are warning that it could lead to a warm, humid and stormy summer.

The ocean off California keeps breaking heat records - Los Angeles Times

Another long-term dataset from Japan: tracking the omiwatari, ice ridges formed in cold weather on Lake Suwa. They have become less frequent in recent decades.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

“We’re losing some of the most precious species on Earth. I can go back to places that have been monitored over a period of 20 years, and the change is significant,” says naturalist Martyn Stewart. cbsn.ws/4tRVpBb

Inside the planet’s most urgent climate warning | Global Warning E1 | Featured Documentary YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

Grönlannin jäätiköt sulavat, AMOC vaarassa pysähtyä, Afrikassa sään ääri-ilmiöt luovat tuhoa, arktisen alueen ikirouta sulaa - se mitä tapahtuu nyt tuolla ja heille, tapahtuu kohta täällä ja meille.

Graphic produced by Climate Central showing daily global sea surface temperatures in °C for all years since 1982 with the long-term mean and 2026 annotated.

Global ocean sea surface temperatures have surged to the highest on record for this time of year!

Join me in our monthly webinar next week to discuss these recent global climate extremes, as well as reviewing the historic March heatwave.

➡️ Register here: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

More than 40% of ships globally transport fossil fuels. Nearly all of them run on fossil fuels too.

Groups Sue Administration Over Approval Of Ultra-Deepwater Oil Drilling Project In Gulf Five Gulf and environmental groups have sued the Trump administration over its approval of BP’s new ultra-deepwater oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico.

"BP’s first completely new oilfield in the Gulf since the company’s Deepwater Horizon disaster 16 years ago.

It will be deeper than Deepwater Horizon, and in riskier waters... drilling 6 miles below the sea floor, deeper than the height of Mt. Everest"

www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/04/grou...

words projected on the front of the USIP building that say “Trump destroyed this Institution, imposing his name on the building, a narcissistic attempt to associate himself with peacemaking.”

New — This was projected on the US Institute of Peace building this evening ahead of the first meeting tomorrow of Trump’s farcically-named “Board of Peace.”

Photo taken by person who was over there tonight. Unclear who’s behind the projection.

Peter Broelman in Canberra Times

Tuesday is THE LAST DAY Virginians can vote on redistricting. If you haven't yet, please make the time! And vote yes too, please.

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

Insurrectionist Roberts

Despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, nearly every ship attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz today turned back.

Dear Media:

Blindly quoting the President without fact-checking or context is just misinformation with a press pass.

We don’t need stenographers; we need journalists. Do your job.

eminent domain

Something needs to be done about the rampant corruption in our government and their families.

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...