"... they felt 📦ed in by two traditional ways to arrange galleries: chronologically or thematically." They chose "a hub+spoke approach. 'The Chazen will be anchoring each gallery with a single, deeply rsched focus object, around which we’re drawing out certain themes thru a constellation of other 🎨"
Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.
A pangolin covered in overlapping brown scales walks across a sandy landscape. Text on the image reads “Sponsor a pangolin for just $5 a month,” with the Fauna & Flora logo in the corner.
Well, there goes my retirement fund.
My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.
The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.
The Antelope Valley has so much potential, esp. considering the metro and future HSR. This is the kind of advocacy the AV needs and deserves.
Should be the baseline permitted density in 100% of LA County
Yes even Palmdale
A woodland swamp with shallow water relflecting through a forest in early spring. Green mosses line the perimeter and cover logs laying in the water.
A shallow woodland swamp. A log completely covered in bright green mosses lies across the water.
Mucky swamp water seeps over the leaf litter in a forest.
A round pool of water surrounded by green sphagnum mosses with trees reflecting in the water. A large log rests behind the pool.
It’s always very curious how quick people are to dismiss swamps and yet when asked to describe the things they love about nature, they end up describing a swamp. #naturesky #wetlands
Always excited when Sam posts a new list of books. People writing amazing work!
'People spend days without food': Kenyans suffering malnutrition due to recurring droughts
->Irish Examiner | More on "Kenya drought malnutrition Turkana pastoralists" at BigEarthData.ai | #Drought #Water #Food #Malnutrition #Climate
This isn't just an environmental, corruption, sovereignty, and public-access disaster - it goes deeper. The Forest Service is an original kernel of the administrative state - more than any other, it's where the expert, nonpartisan civil service began. It's been a target of oligarchs for a century.
Historians: The Trump administration wants to issue oil and gas leases across the greater Chaco landscape. They've given the public ONE WEEK (till 4/7) to weigh in on the future of this immensely important place. Please tell them what you think: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...
“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“
Becoming a member of the bat conservation trust is a great way to start learning more about bats and supporting our vision of a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Individual membership is only £3.25/month
www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...
Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.
We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist
I’m at an art gallery show featuring college student artist/scientist teams creating new works about climate hope and I just saw an exhibit on decomposition of fallen trees as a fertile home for other organisms that says “There Is No Death In This Ancient Forest” and it hit so hard I had to sit down
"Fresno has explored the potential for light rail systems multiple times in the last 60 years...But this time, the potential of the high-speed rail station’s arrival could provide an extra push for the effort."
In the Netherlands, public AC charging points are increasingly being used as a temporary power supply. This is a major advantage of having a dense network. For example, they can be used to power mobile polling stations.
Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)
Do insurers like sustainable builds?! Nobody wants to get to the end of a project and then struggle to get their new home insured. So find out how the whole game works with Dr. James Glockling.
www.houseplanninghelp.com/395
#SelfBuild #Housing #NewHome
Next up, @biographic.bsky.social executive editor @judeisabella.bsky.social very helpfully answers the question: How did we get here? How and why was the U.S. such a big financier of global conservation in the first place?
The Ghosts of Conservation Past
www.biographic.com/the-ghosts-o...
"The quiet revolution that both books will further charge is of potentially planet-changing importance."
Super-proud of this joint review of my book The Lie of the Land and @righttoroam.bsky.social's Wild Service, in the Journal of Historical Geography (£):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The 375 sq-mile Grassland Ecological Area is a mosaic of private, state, and federal wildlife areas located in Merced County, Central Valley, California. Its the remnant of the vast 4-million-acre wetland that stretched across the Central Valley until ~150 years ago.
www.ppic.org/blog/a-netwo...
Hey what can we do instead of numbing ourselves to the despair being pushed down from the highest levels of this country? We can build from below, which is what organizers are showing us in the public power movement. Check this out if you need a dose of optimism (backed with real life examples!)
not only this but i think mostly tourism is different because it leads to increased housing competition and general real estate scarcity in a way other industries usually don't, leading to crowding out via RE and housing costs bsky.app/profile/publ...
Starting a band with my dog.
Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/w...
A large male Steller sea lion sits on the edge of dark, calm water. His face is upturned but he seems to be looking at the camera. Behind him, we can see rock formations.
The Trump administration is aggressively pushing to open more than 100 million ocean acres off the coast of #Alaska to seabed mining.
Stop Trump's irresponsible rush to do untold damage to the ocean's food web and other complex natural systems for short-term gain ➡️ bit.ly/3OQcITX
It is interesting how Mexico’s 1.2M housing policy mirrors Soviet shoe production incentives:
-Standardized 645 sqft homes 2BR/1BA
-Massive estates built wherever to meet quotas
-No construction in high-demand cities
-USD35k price cap, so long queues for desirable locations or better-quality homes
‘The building’s historical value is crucial… There’s so much about that building that feels like a time capsule, like you’re back in the 1930s – the décor, the feeling when you walk in.
“I’d love that feeling to be more inclusive… and to see a bigger nod to contemporary Kenya, and Nairobi...”’
