Texans of every background love Big Bend. It has some of the darkest night skies in the country and wildlife you can't find anywhere else.
Trump building a border wall in Big Bend won't make anyone more safe or more free.
Windflowers growing in abundance in the forest understory
That time of year when the forest helps you forget the world’s ills for a flicker.
Humans were already changing the climate at the time of the US civil war
www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/c...
“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
Outsider Animals: How the Creatures at the Margins of Our Lives Have the Most to Teach Us by Marlene Zuk. From one of our foremost experts on behavioral evolution, an entertaining exploration of what raccoons, rats, and other animal intruders teach us about intelligence, adaptability, and ourselves.
In Outsider Animals, Marlene Zuk invites us to reflect on our relationships with close-to-home creatures & the ways our lives encroach on theirs, & to draw lessons from their behavior in all its fascinating complexity.
Out now (12 May UK pub). Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
“Our empathy with the giants of the sea must be set against the fact that we are shrinking their world.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Across the West, farsighted local governments have begun preserving & connecting habitats through unsexy regulatory tools such as zoning, land-use codes, & comprehensive plans."
For @biographic.bsky.social, I wrote about planning (don't yawn!) for conservation.
www.biographic.com/living-in-th...
Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!
After 100 years of copper mining, parts of Tasmania’s King River are "biologically dead."
As the demand for minerals for EVs and AI surges, these rivers serve as a stark warning: the cost of mining lasts centuries.
@slovgren.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
Next week, we discuss how political processes become embedded in the forest and give examples of the variety of ways in which wildlife interact with human sign & infrastructure in Białowieża Forest. This marks another international seminar organized by Researchers on the Border (www.bbng.org).
Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants?
Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
‘President Connolly’s speech at the event will emphasise the importance of a strong multilateralism system and she will defend the importance of upholding international law, the United Nations and human rights.’
My review of Miriam Horn's magnificent biography of wildlife biologist and conservation scientist George Schaller from @penguinpress.bsky.social is up @science.org #wildlifebiology #conservation #primates #booksky #bookcritic 🧪
Orcas and the price of consciousness – lessons in love and loss from Earth's most successful and creative predator www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/17/o...
“We scientists are used to sticking to our knitting. But I began realizing that science needed defending,” says @samwang.bsky.social.
@nature.com talked to researchers running for office who say the "science is above politics" era is a failed business model.
Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich
Well, today we're taxing the rich...
“Batra, who is Sikh, left India after her parents were murdered during a state pogrom against Sikhs in the 1980s.
“…people with Batra’s protection still have deportation orders, they cannot be removed to where they came from.””
Participants worldwide are invited to take a brief (about 5 minutes) online survey on how people perceive forest landscapes and biodiversity conducted by Montpellier University and other institutions in France. Open until Jun 30, 2026.
www.biodiful.org#/forest
dry Alder carr where the tree roots look like the fluffy tree crowns in Dr. Seuss book The Lorax forming islands without water
Alder carr in Białowieża Forest. Something is missing.
My story on the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed is up now
2026. Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.
Viktor Orbán has congratulated Péter Magyar! #Hungary
The first American leader of the Catholic Church has fiercely criticized the war in Iran, deepening tensions between the United States and the Vatican.
💥🇭🇺🗳️ WOW! 54.14% turnout by 1pm in Hungary’s historic election (vs 40.01% in 2022), where voters could end Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Massive participation, in line with independent pollsters’ predictions – who also predicted a massive opposition win. Polls close at 7pm.
Science is good. We should fund it.
War on Iran disrupts efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah, world’s rarest big cat @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/04/war-...
“Emperor penguins, the world’s largest and perhaps most recognizable penguin species, have joined the list of wildlife endangered by global warming, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced on Thursday… largely driven by shifts in sea ice levels and food availability”
I don't think we are talking enough about the astounding historical twist that one of the most powerful institutions standing up to defend liberal democracy around the world today is the Papacy
