DNI Tulsi Gabbard sends criminal referral over Trump’s 2019 impeachment to Justice Department | CNN Politics Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sent at least one criminal referral to the Justice Department seeking investigations of a whistleblower complaint and its handling by the intelligence c...

Good luck getting an indictment on people for following their oath of office. Meanwhile, Gabbard should be impeached for abuse of office.

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Israeli Strikes Are Destroying Farmland in Southern Lebanon Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have devastated orchards and fields. One-fifth of the country’s farmland has been damaged in the course of the war, Lebanese officials estimate.

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have devastated orchards and fields.

Lebanese officials say that one-fifth of the country's farmland has been damaged in the course of the war.

Drought takes a heavy toll on bumblebees Drought significantly reduces the reproductive success of bumblebee colonies, according to a new study conducted by a research team at the University of Würzburg and published in the Proceedings of th...

The researchers identified pollen deficits from drought as the decisive factor in the drop in births of queen bees. Not good for ecological stability.

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The funding disappeared. The flooding didn’t. » Yale Climate Connections After the Trump administration canceled a climate initiative, a Pennsylvania farmer is battling extreme rain on her own.

Canceling USDA’s Climate-Smart Commodities Program put ideology over science, and U.S. citizens pay the price.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/the-...

What Orbán’s fall from power means for research around the world Hungary’s new leader has promised to restore the system of checks and balances — but researchers say that rebuilding science will take more than reversing Victor Orbán’s laws.

Let’s hope for the same here in the USA come 2029 (or earlier).

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Nature’s role in national security The ability of a nation to protect its citizens, institutions, and interests from domestic and foreign threats is one of the foundational responsibili…

Happy to share this article (written with Brad Cardinale and Emmett Duffy) arguing for a more expansive view of security, particularly one that centers ecological disruption in its framework.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Although we humans live on the terrestrial part of Earth, the oceanic 70% of the planet demands attention from decision-makers worldwide.

Science is good. We should fund it.

Orban is the first domino to fall in 2026.

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And yet the trauma persists …

I’m practically paralyzed by fear because of my nation’s president, and I don’t think that is anything resembling how things should be. But I also believe he revels in harming people across the board.

Go Blue!

Juno (2007)

Canadian muskoxen hit by double punch of novel diseases and climate change As winter comes to the Canadian Arctic, muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) abandon the valleys and head to higher ground, where winds sweep away the snow. That’s where we go to find them, Allen Niptanatiak, ...

Wildlife pathogens and warming temperatures are a rough combination for muskox. And almost certainly not unique to them.

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Record low Colorado mountain snow won't bode well for water in the drought-stricken US West Hydrologists working high in the Rocky Mountains have measured what they say is Colorado’s driest winter of snow moisture on record.

The real question is how many states in the Midwest/West will experience extreme stress this summer/autumn. It looks grim.

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China Reports Outbreak of Livestock Disease Near Russian Regions Hit by Mass Cattle Culling - The Moscow Times China is tightening border controls and culling livestock in its northwestern Xinjiang region after detecting a small outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, Reuters reported Friday, measures that come am...

Another stressor to global food supplies arising from foot and mouth disease (FMD).

www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

I’m a Michigan and Kansas fan across sports. This Michigan men’s bball team looks better than all of those KU and UofM teams of past years. By a lot.

Making Friday night pizza from scratch, The Dukes of Stratosphear on the Sonos. Chef’s kiss (as the world burns).

Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline JAKARTA — Indonesia’s deforestation surged in 2025, rising 66% from the previous year, marking a sharp reversal after several years of decline, according to new data from the NGO Auriga Nusantara. Bas...

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Forest Service to move HQ out of DC, shutter regional offices in sweeping overhaul Employees react with tears, warn of brain drain and call the changes "a pointless exercise."

The Forest Service is relocating HQ, shuttering regional offices, and closing dozens of research stations. This is Project 2025 ideology masquerading as efficiency: disrupt the science, hollow out the institution, and call it reform. And no one asked for it.

www.govexec.com/management/2...

Poland’s poultry ‘ghost farms’ present threat of undetected disease Almost 1,000 industrial-scale poultry farms may be operating outside EU rules – and shipping chicken around the continent

🐔 Shocking investigation by @tbij.bsky.social on the spread of "ghost" animal factories in Poland & the very real danger they pose to people's health and nature.

For more stories of local communities resisting #factoryfarming & resources to help you protect your rights, visit stopfactoryfarming.eu

Phosphorus spikes linked to ancient marine mass extinctions Researchers have uncovered new evidence that short-lived spikes in ocean phosphorus may have played a major role in two of the most severe marine extinctions in Earth's history. Dr. Matthew Dodd from ...

Two of Earth’s mass extinctions were driven not by CO₂ but by phosphorus disrupting ocean chemistry. Another reminder that fixating on climate while ignoring nutrient cycles and biogeochemical feedbacks is a blind spot, and one the fossil record suggests we can’t survive.

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Record low Colorado mountain snow won't bode well for water in the drought-stricken US West Hydrologists working high in the Rocky Mountains have measured what they say is Colorado’s driest winter of snow moisture on record.

Won’t bode well for wildfires either. The signs of a wild and dangerous 2026 are blinking.

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Global Sea Surface Temperatures in the @ecmwf.int ERA5 dataset have reached 21°C❗️

These temperatures are likely without precedent for hundreds of thousands of years, until recently..

See below.
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(The ERA5 Sea Surface Temperatures referer to 10 m depth, while @noaa.gov uses "skin" temperature)

India faces second year of sugar deficit as mills close early India's sugar production is set to fall below consumption for a second straight year, as lower cane yields force mills to close faster than usual, ​trade officials told Reuters on Thursday.

More worrying signs from the climate|food|trade nexus.

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Invasive species on the march, threaten Winnipeg's ash, elm trees Winnipeg’s tree canopy is under siege. The emerald ash borer has made a resurgence — after nearly a decade of minimal spread — and another invasive insect is bearing down on elm trees, which are al...

Urban canopy loss carries real downstream effects. Higher municipal costs, weaker heat buffering, reduced stormwater absorption, and compounding stress on already-fragile city ecosystems.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Oh man! WTAF

I realized this evening that I have deeply-buried PTSD watching rocket launches live on air. I suspect that’s true for many others.

2026 Sargassum bloom on track to be the largest, smelliest season yet It would beat last year’s record of 37.5 million tons of rotten egg-scented seaweed.

It’s spring break time in North America, so time to roll out the sargassum-is-a-tourist-nuisance* stories.

* instead of a harbinger of a widespread and serious ecological regime shift in the Atlantic Ocean

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