Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future The tree mix matters. Near Chesapeake Bay, scientists have been experimenting with mini-forests for over a decade. The surprising results show how biodiversity pays off.

Many tree-planting commitments have a critical flaw: They rely too heavily on monoculture plantations – vast areas planted with just a single tree species. Plant * forests* with full biodiversity!

#EarthDay #EarthDay2026 🌏🌍🌎

No pay wall.

Pierre Samson, dessinateur engagé dans la satire, s'est vu fermer son compte Facebook, et on sait bien que c'est pas pour de la nudité... Soutien aux dessinateurs...

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

NIH grants mentioning women dropped 31% in 2025, hitting research into conditions like endometriosis and ovarian cancer—fields already underfunded and poorly understood. The decline signals a sharp contraction in attention to women’s health research.

An official NASA portrait of astronaut Sunita Williams wearing a full white Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit. The bulky suit displays an American flag patch on the left shoulder, a mission patch on the right, and various controls on the chest pack; she holds the gold-visored helmet. With long dark hair framing her smiling face, she poses confidently in front of a large draped American flag against a cloudy Earth-toned backdrop, symbolizing American space exploration.

A color photograph of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams captured mid-stride running on a treadmill in zero gravity, secured by a white harness and bungee cords attached to her waist and shoulders. She wears a navy blue sleeveless top and shorts, athletic shoes, and gray socks, with her curly dark hair floating weightlessly. The busy ISS module around her features blue handrails, equipment racks, cables, monitors, and various floating items.

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams completed the #BostonMarathon in 2007 in 4:23:46 from the International Space Station while orbiting the Earth at ~17,500 mph. First person to run a marathon in space.

She qualified for Boston on Earth with a time of 3:29:57 in the Houston Marathon.

#WomenInSTEM

Heavy traffic on the M1 in Bedfordshire, UK. Exhaust fumes contribute to air pollution.

Air pollution making people in UK get long-term illnesses earlier, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/17/...
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Ocean warming weakens the sea–land breeze in coastal megacities - Nature Climate Change The sea–land breeze acts to counter urban heat in many coastal cities. Here the authors simulate how this circulation changes with warming ocean water, showing that it decreases in most of them, addin...

A new Nature Climate Change study finds global warming is weakening sea breezes in coastal cities by reducing land–sea temperature contrast. Fewer sea breezes mean less natural cooling, worsening heat, pollution buildup, and urban livability risks.

Oh.

They need a women to appear inoffensive to wome

“In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan.”

Count ’Em on One Hand: Trump’s Global Friends Are Disappearing Fast His dear buddy Viktor Orbán got crushed at the polls. And even Nigel Farage wants nothing to do with him. The upshot: This helps the domestic opposition.

In Germany, officials of the far-right Alternative for Deutschland, have reportedly discouraged party members from publicly touting their visits to the United States to meet with Trump-aligned Republican politicians. trib.al/QukEYm1

Les hospitalisations évitables par la vaccination ont plus que doublé au Canada Le taux d’hospitalisations pour des maladies respiratoires pouvant être évitées grâce à la vaccination a plus que doublé par rapport aux niveaux prépandémie. La COVID-19 est responsable de 40 % de ces hospitalisations, montrent des données publiées jeudi par l’Institut canadien d’information sur la santé (ICIS).

Les hospitalisations évitables par la vaccination ont plus que doublé au Canada

Coral reefs are nearing extinction. 2026 must mark a turning point | Jason Momoa At 1.5C of global warming, up to 90% of coral reefs could be lost. The next few months could be a defining moment

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843 000 litres de fluide de bitume déversés en Alberta L'incident est survenu sur un pipeline de la pétrolière l'Impériale, qui a annoncé qu'une enquête était en cours pour en déterminer la cause.

Plus de 800 000 litres de fluide de bitume déversés en Alberta

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Mamdani’s DOT Responds to Astoria Bike Lane Backlash … With an Even Longer Bike Lane

Victoria has made public transport free – NSW hasn’t. Has there been any difference in uptake? Public transport access, travel time and familiarity with the network all play a role in how many people switch away from driving.

Is making public transport free “effective?”

“…the relatively small difference between Victoria and NSW suggests price is not the main constraint on mode shift. Access, travel time, service reliability and the ability to make specific trips appear to matter more.”

Via @theconversation.com

Quelle surprise

Accros au bitume et à l’essence

Chronique | Nos économies sous pression sont prisonnières d’un modèle à la dérive.

Un rabais à la pompe qui coûtera des milliards aux finances publiques

À raison d’un plein par semaine, un automobiliste peut s’attendre à une économie hebdomadaire d’environ 5$.

If I wrote for SNL…

Democracy prevails in Hungary 🇭🇺

Stephen Harper, Pierre Poilievre are key members of the International Democracy Union that focus on getting hard-right leaders elected, & one of their friends Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán just lost big time 🍾

HPV-vaccinated women may require fewer cervical cancer screenings | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Women vaccinated against human papillomavirus at a young age may need only two or three screenings for cervical cancer over the course of their lifetimes, according to a new study by Norway's University of Oslo and Harvard Chan School.

Women vaccinated against human papillomavirus at a young age may need only two or three screenings for cervical cancer over the course of their lifetimes, according to a new study by Norway’s University of Oslo and Harvard Chan School.

Pssst: Pass it on.

He posted the horrific video overlayed with hateful speech. It is a known form of psychological attack.

Such horrific videos trigger the "Amygdala" part of your brain to shunt critical thinking and make the human mind more vulnerable to suggestion.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

#Psyops

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Jeffries: "When you attack diversity, equity, and inclusion, you attack the United States. When they attack DEI, it's not about celebrating merit, they're trying to elevate mediocrity. Just look at who they put in charge of the attack on DEI - Pete Hegseth. This guy can't organize a two car funeral"

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service.

All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

Insolite / Hongrie / Le gouvernement d'Orban a proposé son aide à l'Iran en 2024. (Cette information a été rapportée par le Washington Post , qui a examiné les transcriptions d'appels entre des responsables hongrois et iraniens.) www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Key ocean current is slowing at locations around the Atlantic Measurements by buoys at four latitudes in the western Atlantic provide the strongest evidence yet that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is weakening

Direct buoy measurements across multiple Atlantic latitudes now show the strongest real-world evidence yet that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—a key climate-regulating current—is weakening,reinforcing concerns that human-driven warming is destabilising a critical Earth system