While the usuals suspects have already started to downplay this El Niño to sell false hope, the official forecasts are only getting worse.

Off the chart:

Oldest known recording of a whale song could unlock mysteries of the ocean Researchers say the discovery of the oldest known recordings of whale sounds could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate.

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it's the oldest such recording known.
https://to.pbs.org/47yOAfc

The corridors between: What ecology reveals about consciousness Stephen Lester invites us to contemplate the relationship between the seemingly individual self and the world—including other seemingly individual selves—merely as different perspectives within a continuous ecosystem. Ecology has taught us to see the world as an interconnected whole. In much the same way, embodied awareness can teach us that we aren't separate from the world, but instead that the objects we observe are merely other perspectives within the same consciousness we are.

Stephen Lester invites us to contemplate the relationship between the seemingly individual self and the world—including other seemingly individual selves—merely as different perspectives within a continuous, conscious ecosystem.
www.essentiafoundation.org/the-corridor...

#AI is already shaping the future of animals—and if it runs factory farms, billions of lives could be controlled by these systems.

How should we design AI when so many lives are at stake?

Watch the new documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFg...

#FactoryFarming #AnimalEthics #PeterSinger

Clearly the solution is to drill for more oil.

Australia's rarest reptile found after being considered extinct Not found anywhere else on Earth, a skink considered functionally extinct has been found in a national park in far west NSW.

Not found anywhere else on Earth, a skink considered functionally extinct has been found in a national park in far west NSW.

Las universidades y un vínculo con la sociedad que se fortalece al calor de la lucha Docentes y estudiantes de todo el país realizaron talleres, muestras, ferias y brindaron atención médica gratuita durante toda la jornada, en reclamo de la aplicación de la ley de financiamiento. Alberto Kornblihtt dará una clase pública este jueves frente al Pizzurno.

Las universidades y un vínculo con la sociedad que se fortalece al calor de la lucha

Mapped: Only One Country Can Feed Itself Fully Food self-sufficiency by country: which nations can produce a full healthy diet without imports?

Mapped: Only One Country Can Feed Itself Fully.
www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-only-...

EXCERPTS FROM KAFKA'S DIARIES 281 JANUARY 20. The end of writing. When will it take me up again? JANUARY 29. Again tried to write, virtually useless. JANUARY 30. The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you. FEBRUARY 7. Complete standstill. Unending torments. MARCH 11. How time flies; another ten days and I have chieved nothing. It doesn't come off. A page now anc hen is successful, but I can't keep it up, the next day m powerless. MARCH 13. [.] Lack of appetite, fear of getting ba te in the evening; but above all the thought that I wr

The writing life, courtesy of Franz Kafka.

Blocking bottom trawling Innovative, yet simple, solution helps protect the seas from the illegal bottom trawling that ravages the seabed in protected areas.

A simple solution to stop destructive trawling in its tracks

“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.”

Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.

The article, about "brazen behavior", uses 5 x the word "to steal" = taking w/out permission or legal right.
We abuse w/out their permission hundreds of millions of animals every day. We imposed on the planet our invention of "legal propriety".
Isn't human exceptionalism the most brazen behavior?

@wmo-global.bsky.social
- Earth’s energy imbalance is at its highest level on record
- The past 11 years are the warmest on record, and 2025 was among the three warmest globally
- The ocean is warmer and more acidic than ever in the observed record
- Climate extremes are posing growing risks to all

Argentina just ripped up its pioneering glacier law. What does this mean for millions of people’s drinking water? Javier Milei’s reforms to the law will open up high-altitude areas to mining and risk water reserves already strained by the climate crisis, say activists

Argentina just ripped up its pioneering glacier law. What does this mean for millions of people’s drinking water?

I know the 'cutest' threatened species get the attention but knowing we've collectively driven emperor penguins to near-extinction hits hard. Short of systemic change I wonder what it will take to make us stop overproducing/consuming. Threads-style docs? Corporate and personal emissions rationing?

Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable | Christiana Figueres Those facing the earliest and harshest consequences are, overwhelmingly, those who did the least to create them

Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable | Christiana Figueres

Qld premier says federal government should fast-track oil projects Queensland Premier David Crisafulli wants the federal government to fast-track environmental approvals for oil projects.

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli wants the federal government to fast-track environmental approvals for oil projects.

Blocking bottom trawling Innovative, yet simple, solution helps protect the seas from the illegal bottom trawling that ravages the seabed in protected areas.

"Marine life started blooming again"

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

The amount of untaxed wealth hidden offshore by the richest 0.1 percent exceeds the entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity (4.1 billion people).

This should be treated as a crime! Why should we pay taxes if the richest avoid it & don’t face consequences?

www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel....

Ecosystem collapse a security threat, so where is the ocean? - Oceanographic A stark new report has finally identified ecosystem collapse as a national and international security threat, yet omits role of ocean.

Was talking to a guy who started scuba diving in the 1970s and still dives regularly. I asked him what were some of the biggest changes he has seen. I expected something about dive computers & other new tech. His reply: There is so much less life now 🙁
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/ecosyst...

Hell and - even higher water? Sea level rise much worse than previously measured - raising fears of greater impacts from climate breakdown.

Sea levels around the world’s coasts are higher than modelling often assumes.

Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers

'Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temps

The temp of one lake >40C (104F) as water levels plummeted... The extreme heat triggered mass die-offs among endangered Amazon river dolphins & fish, which cannot survive in such high temps'

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global human population has surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity Global human population has surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity, Bradshaw, Corey J A, Judge, Melinda A, Blumstein, Daniel T, Ehrlich, Paul R, Dasgupta, Aisha N Z, Wackernagel, Mathis, Weeda, Lewis J Z, Le Souëf, Peter N

Global human population has surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity

"The Earth cannot sustain the future human population, or even today’s, without a major overhaul of socio-cultural practices for using land, water, energy, biodiversity, and other resources"

The extraordinary efficiency of Japan’s Edo economy | Aeon Videos Edo, modern Tokyo, transformed from a city near ecological collapse to a thriving epicentre by creating a circular economy

Between 1603 and 1868, Edo grew into one of the largest cities in the world without ecological collapse through a circular economy rooted in Buddhist values. In this Ted-Ed animation, philosopher Roman Krznaric explores what this 265-year experiment might offer today’s consumption-driven world

The Ethics of Limit by Tommaso Biagi Independent scholar of moral and political philosophy “I do not rule you, and you do not rule me.” ⸻ The Quiet Contradiction of Every Civilization Every civilization—flawless, perfect...

"Suffering does not sum. You cannot subtract someone’s hell from another’s happiness." - Tommaso Biagi

c4ss.org/content/61059

We assume our best theories are closing in on the truth about reality. | https://bit.ly/3O2OHsX

But philosopher of science Manuel Delaflor argues this assumption is not only wrong, but dangerous, and urges us to stop worshipping our models.

Cover photo of the World Wildlife Fund’s Migratory Fishes report.

Photo of a European Eel underwater.

NEW: Global Assessment of Migratory Freshwater Fishes @worldwildlife.org
www.worldwildlife.org/publications...

“Vital freshwater fish migrations are collapsing; hundreds of species need urgent, coordinated cross-border action”

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