Alexander Verbeek
@alexverbeek.bsky.social
Climate action | Nature | Water-Energy-Food | Sustainability | Wildlife | Innovation | Writing about the beauty of our planet on: https://theplanet.substack.com
🎒 Walking North From Doesburg: Golden Faces, Cold War Secrets, and a Ferry Since 1269
Walking North From Doesburg: Golden Faces, Cold War Secrets, and a Ferry Since 1269
The IJssel Line was meant to flood this entire valley if the Soviets invaded. The Dutch kept it secret. The Russians already knew.
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The IPCC: Forty Years of Great Science in Understanding Climate Change #Climate
New paper synthesizes nearly 40 years of scientific data generated b...
18 June 2026 - This paper, authored by retired US Army Brigadier General and environmental engineer Dr. Wendell Chris King, argues that climate change...
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🧭 I Was in the Room with the Norwegian Prime Minister This Morning. Here Is What He Said About America, Europe, Russia, and the World.
🧭 I Was in the Room with the Norwegian Prime Minister This Morning. Here Is What He Said About America, Europe, Russia, and the World.
🧭 Morning Compass — Friday, May 29, 2026
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🧭 Europe Is Learning the New Rule: Criticize Trump and Lose 5,000 Troops. Elect His Candidate and Gain Them.
🧭 Europe Is Learning the New Rule: Criticize Trump and Lose 5,000 Troops. Elect His Candidate and Gain Them.
🧭 Morning Compass — Friday, May 22, 2026
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🧭 Trump's War Management Style and a look at one of the "most corrupt acts in American political history."
🧭 Trump's War Management Style and a look at one of the
🧭 Morning Compass — Tuesday, May 19, 2026
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🧭 Trump Posts AI Images of Nuclear War From Space. Markets Are Not Amused.
🧭 Trump Posts AI Images of Nuclear War From Space. Markets Are Not Amused.
🧭 Morning Compass — Monday, May 18, 2026
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The Candlelight Revolution: What Trump's America Can Learn from South Korea.
The Candlelight Revolution: What Trump's America Can Learn from South Korea.
Korea's candlelight revolution is the most recent proof that sustained, nonviolent mass mobilization works. The question is whether America will sustain it.
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🧭 Day 79 of Trump’s Iran War. The Front Pages Are All About a Swimming Pool.
🧭 Day 79 of Trump’s Iran War. The Front Pages Are All About a Swimming Pool.
🧭Morning Compass — Sunday, May 17, 2026
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The Island After the Trail: Home, History, a Dutch Pope, and a Cat Who Found the Best Sunlounger
The Island After the Trail: Home, History, a Dutch Pope, and a Cat Who Found the Best Sunlounger
After the Atlantic cliffs, the flat land and big sky of Zeeland — and why I find the light here nowhere else on earth
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🧭 What Trump and Xi Actually Achieved: Not Much, With One Alarming Exception.
🧭 What Trump and Xi Actually Achieved: Not Much, With One Alarming Exception.
🧭 Morning Compass — Saturday, May 16, 2026
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🧭 ”Be Bold and Courageous,” Trump Told South Carolina. He Meant: Erase the Black District. #news
🧭 “Be Bold and Courageous,” Trump Told South Carolina. He Meant: Erase the Black District.
🧭 Morning Compass — Tuesday, May 12, 2026
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The Fisherman's Trail: A Practical Guide for Anyone Over Fifty Who Is Basically Fit This is the last part of my 8-chapter series on the #FishermansTrail #walking #Armaskin
The Fisherman's Trail: A Practical Guide for Anyone Over Fifty Who Is Basically Fit
The complete practical guide: season, gear, accommodation, luggage transfer, navigation, and what to do about blisters
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If you haven’t discovered the Morning Compass written by Alex Verbeek on Substack, you should. ““This morning, Péter Magyar arrived at the Hungarian parliament building in Budapest to be sworn in as prime minister, ending Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule.
Europe Opens Its First Elephant Sanctuary and The First Two Captive Giants Are Heading Home
Europe Opens Its First Elephant Sanctuary and The First Two Captive Giants Are Heading Home
Plus: what centenarian families eat, Alaska's record tsunami, Klimt's ceiling up close, and a lost koala species found
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The Iran war is pausing. A cruise ship hantavirus outbreak is spreading. White House demolition debris dumped on a golf course tests positive for lead and chromium. The Caspian Sea is vanishing. And Rubio quoted Cypress Hill at a press briefing. Morning Compass is up in More. ☕️
Morning Compass — Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Here is your compass for today.
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The American who saved Orwell, and what he knew about fascism before America did #georgeorwell
The American who saved Orwell, and what he knew about fascism before America did
The man Orwell called "the American" saved his life in Spain, survived Soviet imprisonment, served in Greenland, and stormed Normandy; yesterday I met his son in an Oslo cemetery
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How to Show Anything From Your Phone on Your TV (Without Cables, Without Stress)
How to Show Anything From Your Phone on Your TV (Without Cables, Without Stress)
Plus: the difference between mirroring and casting, two free apps for the living room, and the single check that solves most TV-mirroring problems
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After Tear Gas and Protests, 1,500 Beagles Finally Find Their Homes
After Tear Gas and Protests, 1,500 Beagles Finally Find Their Homes
Plus: Americans reclaiming Canadian citizenship, the joy-o-meter measuring animal happiness, gene therapy restoring a child's hearing, and shooting stars from Halley's comet
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How Your Morning Coffee Is Protecting Your body From Aging
How Your Morning Coffee Is Protecting Your body From Aging
Plus: the American WWI Coast Guard ship found after 107 years, kiwi birds return to Wellington, why enjoying your food may beat dieting, and pangolins recovering in China
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When a King Reminded a Republic What it Stands For
When a King Reminded a Republic What it Stands For
A European perspective on what the King said — and what Congress heard
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One year ago, I wrote about Trump's game of chicken. He's still playing it
One year ago, I wrote about Trump's game of chicken. He's still playing it.
The Buy Me a Coffee article that frustrated me enough to start Daybreak Notes & Beans
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The Shared Photo Albums That Connect Families Without the Texting Mess
The Shared Photo Albums That Connect Families Without the Texting Mess
Plus: the difference between iCloud Shared Library and Shared Albums, two free family-only apps, and the comment feature grandparents quietly love
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Trail of Tides, Part 6: A Frenchman's Iran, Trump's Iran, and a Bridge That Didn't Exist #FishermensTrail
Trail of Tides, Part 6: A Frenchman's Iran, Trump's Iran, and a Bridge That Didn't Exist
Wind that turned walking poles into booby traps, a Frenchman who taught in Iran before the revolution, and three Californians who arrived just in time
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Another victim of Trump’s war: four million Afghan refugees no one mentions
Another victim of Trump’s war: four million Afghan refugees no one mentions
A veteran Norwegian humanitarian lays out the cost of Trump's war in plain numbers
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After 2,000 Years, Homer's Iliad Emerges From a Mummy
After 2,000 Years, Homer's Iliad Emerges From a Mummy
Plus: Rachmaninoff's last pupil dies at 101, a Mexican axolotl turns up in Wales, an asteroid named for the god of chaos, and why forgiving ourselves is so hard
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The Crowd That Toppled a Dictator — and the Warning Trump's America Needs to Hear Now
The Crowd That Toppled a Dictator — and the Warning Trump's America Needs to Hear Now
THE FALL Part 4: When Marcos was removed in 1986, the structural conditions that made him possible remained. This is the lesson America needs.
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Orbán Is Gone. Trump's Closest European Ally Just Lost. Here Is What History Teaches Next.
Orbán Is Gone. Trump's Closest European Ally Just Lost. Here Is What History Teaches Next.
During unwinnable, expensive wars, the crack appeared inside the military. Not at the top. In the middle.
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