I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

If anyone deserves flags at half staff it’s Jane Goodall

One of the authors, Dr. Lindsey Swierk, is on our board! And this research was done during one of our field programs for teachers! 😍😍😍

Economic loss from the White House's NSF FY 2026 Proposed Budget

New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget.

Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide.

Report: osf.io/e8rnc

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Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails. The end of an era.

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

We had an amazing summer field session in the Peruvian Amazon and are getting ready to open registration for 2026! Learn more and register for info night on Sept 29th www.morphoinstitute.org/professional-development

#amazonrainforest #skyenceteacher #edusky #teacherPD #K12Ed #EfC

Hey educators! We had an amazing summer field session in the Peruvian Amazon & are getting ready to open registration for 2026! Learn more & register for info night on Sept 29th www.morphoinstitute.org/professional-development

#amazonrainforest #skyenceteacher #edusky #teacherPD #K12Ed #EfC

They're all entry points for place-based inquiry that leads to conservation learning. The Educator Academy in the Amazon gives educators the lens to connect it all. 🐸💧👥 #SystemsThinking #EducationForConservation #STEMforGood

The Educator Academy in the Amazon bridges the gap between biodiversity education and conservation action. Through fieldwork and professional development, teachers become agents of change aligned with the goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework. #EducationTransforms #GBFGoals #ForPeopleAndPlanet

In the Amazon, every sound, leaf, and muddy trail becomes a question waiting to be explored. This week participants in our annual Educator Academy in the Amazon learn to spark place-based inquiry that inspires conservation action. 🌱🔍 #EducationForConservation #PlaceBasedLearning #RainforestInquiry

The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) calls for transformative education to halt & reverse biodiversity loss. Today we are bringing this to life - immersing educators in the Amazon & equipping them to take action in their classrooms & communities. #GBF #NaturePositive #BiodiversityEducation

GOP budget bill could transfer wealth from young Americans to older generations, study finds Older, wealthier Americans would see the biggest lifetime benefit from the Republican budget bill, while younger generations could see losses, a new analysis says.

Gen Z and millennial Americans have bore the brunt of rising costs, income inequality, and stagnant wages in this country.

Republicans' Big Ugly Bill would further transfer wealth away from them to enrich the ultra-wealthy.

Enough is enough. We must stop this bill.

The surprising power of your nature photos Scott Loarie has a challenge for you: go outside and take a picture of a living thing. He introduces the global community of people building a living atlas of the natural world by sharing their nature...

we are headed to the #amazonrainforest with 40+ teachers and researchers next week and are ready to get our iNat on! This is a great #tedtalk from the director of @inaturalist.bsky.social
www.ted.com/talks/scott_...

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

This #WorldRainforestDay, we’re reminded that conservation doesn’t always require high-tech tools—sometimes it just takes time, patience & a closer look. #PlanetWalkers #WorldRainforestDay #amazonrainforest

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

No Kings In The USA Ole! No Kings · No Kings In The USA · Song · 2025

A toe-tapping protest song for your No Kings Day activities open.spotify.com/track/5MfArL...

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

What part of "I am Senator Alex Padilla" did they not understand?

(Just a guess--they thought he didn't "look" like a Senator)

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

RFK Jr. guts the U.S. vaccine policy committee The system is becoming unrecognizable.

This is whacked. Just whacked open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Does spectacular wealth excuse depravity? Some thoughts on Elon Musk and moral character.

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In the latest NSF budget, they're proposing a 75% cut to the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), which funded the project at Cornell University that produced the Merlin Bird ID app.

NIH, NASA, NSF budget cuts, FY 2026 - catastrophic. https://joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-house-vision-for-dismantling

The White House Vision for Dismantling Science in One Simple Plot

(Proposed NIH, NSF, and NASA budgets would be catastrophic for innovation and discovery. But they aren’t reality yet. The time to speak up is now.)

joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-...

Conservation tech without Indigenous knowledge and local context has limits (commentary) Technology can be a powerful ally in conservation, but it’s not a silver bullet. Too often, tools like drones, GPS apps or satellite imagery are introduced as standalone solutions, disconnected from…

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Tools like drones & GPS apps allow local & indigenous communities to track deforestation & respond to territorial threats quickly.

But these tools must be introduced with local realities and cultural wisdom in mind.

** The views expressed are author's, not necessarily Mongabay's.

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