H.R. 1897 is moving fast in the House and could hit the floor for a full vote as soon as tomorrow. This bill would gut the Endangered Species Act forcing economic impact considerations into listing decisions, limiting your ability to challenge bad science in court,
Delegates are arriving in New York for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples, despite the U.S. presenting challenges for attendees to secure visas.
A federal judge found Portland ICE protests were largely peaceful. The judge also found DHS had an unwritten policy to use excessive force on nonviolent protesters to chill constitutional rights. The violence was policy, they just didn't write it down.
🔥 Judge blocks deportation in 4 hours
⚖️ Pressley shatters GOP caucus on Haitian TPS
🗣️ Fired immigration judges break their silence
📈 Dems flip another House seat
The regime is cracking. The resistance is rolling.
Read it all 👇
🔥 Russia: Syzran oil refinery has been sanctioned by Ukraine.
If someone lacks sympathy for the grieving, or lacks even the simple grace of quietly scrolling past them then I know who to mute.
Nice to see it again as a clean human-friendly room without all the chintzy gold bric-a-brac.
Opalized turtle shell fossil
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota 1.1 million acres of pristine lakes, rivers, and forest. The most visited wilderness in the entire country. And tonight, the Senate is voting on whether to open it to copper mining.
WATCH — Trump HHS Sec RFK JR’s podcast guest: “why are we not using dog meat?” 😳😕 🐕
Also, @nypost today: “RFK once chopped off a dead raccoon’s penis to study later while on a family road trip”
Very normal stuff all around!
Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the country’s rivers and streams—from extinction
After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.
With 150GW solar, India achieved its target of having 50% of its total installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources in June 2025, reaching this milestone 5 years ahead of its original 2030 deadline set under the Paris Agreement www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/10/i...
“The term ‘climate crisis,’ which carries with it a more urgent connotation than the more familiar ‘climate change,’ has nearly disappeared from media lexicon.”
Arctic sea ice volume was at a record low for the time of year on April 14, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-hu...
RECORD HEAT IN JAPAN
Records keep falling every day allover Asia since weeks and yesterday wasn't an exception:
29.3C at Miyagijima Island
is a new record of April highest temperature.
Records will keep falling every day of this week.
A conservation group sued federal fisheries managers over catch limits in the pollock trawl fishery, arguing that regulations do not adequately protect northern fur seals in the Bering Sea. via @alaskabeacon.com
Until very recently we only had ice core data on CO₂ and methane concentrations for the past 800,000 years.
Ground breaking work by scientists now provides us with insight into the atmosphere of 3 million years ago!
We talked about this on Climate Chat:
www.youtube.com/live/4HIB2rL...
Scientists in Spain have developed a groundbreaking solar panel capable of generating electricity from both sunlight and raindrops.
What is he doing here... resurrecting Jeffery Epstein?
After months of secrecy, the Trump administration must turn over body-camera footage, witness interviews, and investigative files tied to the Minneapolis killing.
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
Water lilies on a pond below the tree. I thought that out of focus they made an interestingly soft choppy background.
I agree. Yesterday was the first time I had a camera handy when i've seen them in the trees. It always looks strange to see them up there.
Thanks!
Since Republicans are so concerned about sexual misconduct now, let's also have them vote to expel tony gonzales and jim jordan from Congress, impeach trump and remove kavanaugh and thomas from SCOTUS.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
A male and female Wood Duck perch on a mossy alder tree. For the #BirdoftheDay theme #woodland, birds you may see in a woodland.
