Yellow and brown snail climbing on a flowering red currant in bloom with green leaves and pink flowers. In the background is a brown wooden fence.

Vine maple leaves and tiny red flowers completely inundated with water and glistening with water droplets.

Epic patch of bright green moss growing along the side of a Japanese maple on its green and tan bark.

Yellow and brown snail climbing on a Japanese maple covered with lichens.

Happy earth day from my yard. I assume these are invasive snails but they are kind of cute.

Bumped into an old friend on Whenua Hou the day before yesterday, while I was working on the webcam. #kakapo #kakapo2026 #conservation #wildlife

Two things are true on Earth Day 2026:
1. We have a long way to go, especially on carbon emissions.
2. The progress since the first Earth Day in 1970 is staggering: U.S. air pollution down 60-95% through policy, innovation, and action.

Pessimism isn’t more honest than optimism. Both are choices.

2026's Extreme Drought & Its Climate Connection YouTube video by Covering Climate Now

Here is a link to the new webinar with @coveringclimatenow.org and @climatecentral.org on "America's Extreme Drought and It's Climate Connection. It includes my comments on extreme events, #water, drought, and more.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ypO...

Reporter: Catches a blatant lie.
Administration: You are so rude.

Kudos to this journalist. This is *exactly* how you question them – if they don't answer the question, or deflect it, or answer another question, or verbally attack you – you interrupt them and ask it again.

Happy #EarthDay everyone. Here's a video of a dying glacier as seen by @planet.com satellites. ⚒️🧪🛰️

www.planet.com/stories/burr...

🌎📅Today's #EarthDay and April is Earth Month! Let's have a look at the environmental myths and misconceptions we debunked at AFP lately 👇 u.afp.com/climatelist

... and that's it for now! To learn more about climate disinformation, consult our website and take our course👩‍🔬📚: u.afp.com/climatecourse

In this screenshot of a TikTok video, a user claims E15 will be mandated everywhere in the US to cause engine failure and force people to adopt electric vehicles.

⛽And amid the US-Israel strikes on Iran, conspiratorial discourse rose about widespread usage of E15 in North America to fight inflated gas prices, some TikTok users going as far as claiming it was a scheme to force people to adopt electric cars! We clarified it here: u.afp.com/itscorn

This handout picture provided by NASA shows Earth as seen through the Orion spacecraft’s window, photographed by NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, commander of Artemis II, on April 2, 2026, after completing the translunar injection burn. Four astronauts blasted off aboard a massive NASA rocket April 1 on a long-anticipated journey around the Moon, the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years. Reid Wiseman / NASA / NASA / AFP

🛰️We also looked into whether signs of climate change can be observed from satellite-distance, amid all that space talk and as we were debunking fabricated images of the Artemis mission. Turns out, yes! Including increased drylands: u.afp.com/spacechanges

What are the facts? Scientists told AFP that despite the presence of trees from the pre-industrial age, the Arctic shows clear signs of climate change accelerated by the burning of fossil fuels.

⛰️The Arctic is warming 4x faster than the rest of the globe. The presence of ancient vegetation and warmer past times in Earth's history do not disprove this, scientists told AFP.

What's being shared? Skeptics claimed the age of ancient trees found under receding glaciers in Alaska prove humans are not responsible for climate change because they are evidence of warmer times at the poles.

🧊Posts in climate-skeptic Facebook groups this month also misused genuine research on ancient forests in an attempt to disprove the scale of warming caused by human emissions. Read more: u.afp.com/ancientforests

What are the facts? Investigations found the Nebraska fires were primarily sparked by failed electrical infrastructure. The blazes were fuelled by extended hot and dry weather patterns and dry-lightning storms.

🌳Sadly, there's no substance to this theory. The blazes fit into a very high start of the US wildfire season: 200% that of the last ten year-average. Read our story: u.afp.com/Nebraskafires

Users claimed historic Nebraska wildfires were intentionally set to make room for new data centres near a key US water source.

📛The record wildfires that ravaged Nebraska in March pushed people to believe that the blazes were intentionally set to make room for data centers. "Land grab" theories commonly surface online after major weather events!

🌎📅Today's #EarthDay and April is Earth Month! Let's have a look at the environmental myths and misconceptions we debunked at AFP lately 👇 u.afp.com/climatelist

TAKANO: Should Trump fail a mental fitness test, would you vote to invoke the 25th amendment?

RFK Jr: There hasn't been a president who is more sane--

TAKANO: Reclaiming my time. Would you invoke the 25th amendment?

RFK Jr: President Trump is the most stable--

TAKANO: Apparently not

My hot take on this is that it will only drive a renaissance for authenticity if people are willing and unafraid to be authentic.

If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.

Cartoon by Sandeep Adhwaryu

In a screenshot of a TikTok video taken on April 14, 2026, a person states all gas sold in the US after May 1 will be 15% percent ethanol blends, "killing your car engine."

⛽🌽 Amid soaring gas prices, ethanol paranoia has taken over TikTok... My latest for AFP: u.afp.com/itscorn

European Airlines Face Fuel Shortages Within Weeks If tankers do not soon begin crossing the Strait of Hormuz, airlines in Europe may not have enough jet fuel to operate all of their flights.

If oil tankers do not soon begin crossing the Strait of Hormuz, airlines in Europe may not have enough jet fuel to put planes in the sky. Here's what to know.

🟢 The energy shock is now going global This is the part many people still underestimate. Economist Steve Hanke warned the conflict has restricted the free flow of critical goods from the Gulf — including helium and fertiliser. Energy analyst Ketan Joshi suggested fuel rationing and work-from-home rules could become enforced measures as governments urgently try to reduce reliance on complex global fossil fuel supply chains. Multiple countries showed signs of the spreading impact: Sri Lanka ordered street lights, neon signs and billboard lighting switched off to cut energy consumption by 25%.

It is very fun to get google alert hits for my own name now that reveal completely fabricated statements / quotes thanks to reliance on chatbots. Absolutely wild how the choking pollution of our information environment is being powered by literal choking pollution from fossil fuelled data centres

@geomorphrachel.bsky.social Hello! I am a reporter with AFP, may we speak in DMs for a story I am working on? Thank you!

I think a lot of people don't like the idea of having to navigate normal stuff like worrying about texting a friend too much, making plans, the cost of therapy, and being held accountable by friends and mentors for bad decisions. But community takes effort, and these tensions are often worth it.

People are asking ChatGPT things I would normally just ask a friend, parent, mentor, therapist or medical professional for or about. It takes work to build and maintain those relationships, and figure out who is the right person to ask, but the alternative is a digital tool known for lying to users.

A drawing on brown paper that says Happy Tax Day! First drawing shows a binturong labeled "Bintu-right" on March 8th at 9 AM sitting dutifully at his adding machine doing complex calculations with a thought bubble saying "Carry the one..." Below it is a second binturong labeled "Bintu-wrong" at 12 AM on April 15th folding his tax form into a paper airplane and flying it. Honestly, I relate more to him right now because fuck taxes.

Old art - It's Tax Season, the worst time of year!

Old and busted: Goofus and Gallant
New hotness: Bintu-right and Bintu-wrong

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

'Earth is being slowly dehydrated by the unmitigated mining of #groundwater, which underlies vast proportions of every continent.'
www.propublica.org/article/wate...

Trying my luck on my favourite network! I am an AFP reporter seeking to write about the changes happening to USFS wildfire research. Reshare boosts appreciated! Signal handle is opossum.41 (happy to start a chat on background!)