Whatcha doing out there?! Celebrating International Owl Awareness Day, of course! #BurrowingOwl #birds

Politicians are back to building political strategy on COVID. Here we go again — 2020. And it's triggering frontline healthcare workers to post photos of themselves from back then — in masks, in plastic gowns, in trash bags.

Solar development is crucial for Green Energy, but site selection is a problem. Mojave Desert tortoises are a keystone species, which means they have a higher influence over their ecosystem than other species. Habitat fragmentation is one of their biggest threats despite federal Threatened status. 🌎

Desert Tortoise Council@deserttortoise.bsky.social · 4d ago

California solar project threatens Mojave Wildlife Corridor “That’s some of the highest habitat suitability across the Mojave Desert Tortoise’s range,” said Kristina Drake, Director of Conservation Ecology at the... Photo: Kayla Thompson #Desert #Habitat #Fragmented #WhatCouldGoWrong #Tortoise

Reductions will come from only the lower basin states of NV, CA, and AZ that offered to take less? John Entsminger, NV lead negotiator on the river said of the fed plan introduced Friday “any plan built around significant reductions for only three of the seven states that share the river is flawed".

Nevada Current@nevadacurrent.com · 5d ago

The federal plan “seeks to impose unrealistic reductions on Nevada and our water users,” and “could have devastating economic and environmental impacts on Nevada,” Lombardo said.

Nevada will annually give up 50,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water over the next two years under a federal plan released Friday. With the state losing about a sixth of its share, what’s next for Southern Nevada? @ThePiperHeath reports: thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...

Nevada's expected to lose a quarter of its Colorado River water. What happens next? - The Nevada Independent

Reclamation is expected to adopt the Lower Basin states' own short-term proposal, cutting Arizona, California and Nevada's combined water use by 3.2 million acre-feet through 2028 — a 21 percent…

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The federal government's Colorado River plan is here. Doesn't say the words "climate change," but for once the Trump administration is being forced to reckon with climate change — a sign of just how serious things are at Mead and Powell: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @ianjames.bsky.social

Trump administration spares Southwest from harshest water cuts in new Colorado River plan

The Trump administration has released a 10-year plan for cutting water use to prop up the Colorado River's reservoirs, which have fallen to a record low.

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That’s bad right?

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 6d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Re-upping this six year old article. For no particular reason... #ScienceUnderSiege www.newsweek.com/climate-scie...

Climate Scientists Feel Your Pain, Dr. Fauci

I, too, have received death threats. I, too, have endured attacks from those who feel threatened by science. Yet we cannot submit to the forces of politics and profit. The stakes are too high.

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This is an outrageously false statement that ought to disqualify this wingnut from holding public office. By the way, 40 percent of the covid deaths in US could have been prevented with better management of the pandemic by Trump, according to a Lancet commission. abcnews.com/Health/lance...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Tuberville: "I'll be the governor of Alabama and I promise you we will find out if there's a possibility that we can bring him to Alabama to put him in front of a court and a jury to see if we can put this guy in prison. He killed millions of people, folks."

“The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, 'behind bars,'" apple.news/AZ6ph8SY3QSO...

Fauci Pleads the Fifth at Senate Hearing on COVID, Escalating Long-Running Clash With Republicans — TIME

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime infectious disease expert who helped lead the federal government's response to the COVID pandemic, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on Wedne...

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As Anthony Fauci faces Rand Paul in Congress and Republicans try to resurrect the Covid-19 "lab leak" debate, top virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen debunks the "ridiculous" accusations. Read @angierasmussen.bsky.social's in-depth analysis: zeteo.com/p/tulsi-trum...

An advisory council packed with Trump allies voted to weaken federal oversight of construction projects affecting historic sites. https://to.pbs.org/4vVqHIa

Board packed with Trump allies votes to weaken protections for historic sites

An advisory council packed with Trump allies voted to weaken federal oversight of construction projects affecting historic sites. Critics are concerned that this move will open the floodgates to endan...

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The Center for Biological Diversity filed an appeal challenging approval of this. Trump last year signed an executive order to streamline data center development on federal lands. Rep.Tlaib introduced a bill to prevent data centers on all federal land. 🌎 biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Appeal Challenges Public Lands Data Center in Nevada

Center for Biological Diversity: First Authorized Data Center on Public Lands Would Harm Environment, Local Community

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jae holzman@jael.bsky.social · last wk.

Big scoop: The solar permitting freeze is so bad a renewables developer — Clearway — asked Trump if they can swap an unpermitted solar farm in Nevada for a data center and gas power plant instead. My latest for @heatmap.news

🐢🌎 Need to learn about desert tortoises? This course is designed for wildlife biologists, zoologists, natural resource specialists, wildlife managers, land managers and recreation specialists and may be useful for teachers, students, professionals working with the public, and the general public.🌍🐢

Desert Tortoise Council@deserttortoise.bsky.social · 2w ago

And we thought this course sold out quickly LAST YEAR! If you’ve been putting off registering for the 2026 Introductory Course, now is the time. Registration has only been open for a... Photo: David Hedrick #desert #tortoise #mojave #california #science #biologist #conservation #field #workshop

🦣 🌎 Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument. In an arid desert wash on the northern outskirts of Las Vegas remain thousands of fossils of Ice Age mammoths, bison, American lions, camelops (a larger version of today’s camels), and sloths the size of sports cars.. 🌎 🦣 www.nps.gov/tusk/index.htm

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument - National Park Service

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Desert Research Institute@driscience.bsky.social · last wk.

DRI's Conservation Ecology Lab Botany Volunteer Training at Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument prepared a group of community scientists to help protect two of the Monument's rarest plants—Las Vegas bearpoppy and Las Vegas buckwheat! 🌿🌼 #DiscoverDRI #TuleSprings #NPSVolunteers #PublicLands

My latest: How Trump helped turn a solar farm in Nevada into a large data center by claiming both projects have essentially the same impacts, allowing the AI infrastructure to bypass new environmental review For @heatmap.news

How the Trump Administration Turned a Solar Farm Into a Data Center

The local government of Boulder City, Nevada had previously rejected a proposal for the computing facility, which would draw power from the existing electricity supply.

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Las Vegas and Reno are the two fastest-warming cities in the U.S. And last year, 513 people died from heat in Clark County alone. On Mon. July 27, Rep. Maxwell Frost is hosting a virtual town hall on what young people across #NV can do about it! RSVP → bit.ly/4figyjG

Youth Climate Townhall with Rep Maxwell Frost · Climate Action Campaign

Right now, young people are being forced to inherit a climate crisis they didn’t create while the Trump administration treats our future as expendable. The good news is countless young people are…

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The reduction will come from the lower basin states of Nevada, California, and Arizona that have all offered to take less. Nevada offered a reduction of 28% from its total annual allotment from the Colorado River, because S. Nevada, (primarily Las Vegas) recycles almost all of it.

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's a federal plan for the Colorado River. @ianjames.bsky.social has leaked details. It's two years, and there are no mandatory cuts for the Upper Basin. www.latimes.com/environment/...

“I think there’s an evil in us, in humankind. Trust denies it. Leaps across it. Leaps the chasm. But it’s there. And everything we do finally serves evil, because that’s what we are. Greed and cruelty.” This is the 1st part of the quote in Ursula K. Le Guin’s 2001 fantasy novel “The Other Wind” /2

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

I look at the world, at the forests and the mountains here, the sky, and it's all right, as it should be. But we aren't. People aren't. We're wrong. We do wrong. No animal does wrong. How could they? But we can, and we do. And we never stop.

New climate models are good and show that, the planet continues warming at the current pace, a snow drought as severe and widespread as last winter’s could occur every third year by 2050, and nine out of 10 years by the end of the century in the western U.S. insideclimatenews.org/news/2207202...

Global Warming Unmakes Winter in the US West - Inside Climate News

A new climate attribution study shows that heating from greenhouse gases could drive extreme snow droughts in the region every third year by 2050.

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Dr. David Blight appreciation post. (Thanks to @civilwarmemory.bsky.social) for sharing this in his Substack post this morning.)

WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Denise was a regular poster here: @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social, and a staff writer at Daily Kos: www.dailykos.com/user/denise-... I highly respected her and she was really interested in my work when I joined Kos to write about the armed Bundy Standoff w/the BLM in 2014, because I worked out there

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2w ago

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

The Trump Admin claims that removing Endangered or Threatened Species habitat protection from the federal ESA gives states the ability to do it themselves. The Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies, a nonprofit that represents state wildlife managers, disagrees. 🌎 nevadacurrent.com/2026/07/20/r...

The feds no longer protect endangered species habitat. States say they can’t pick up the slack. • Nevada Current

The Trump administration is removing protections from the key places where endangered species live, saying states can keep the areas safe. But experts say states aren’t equipped for the task. Earlier ...

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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

All right, when are you doing your residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas? That’s what we all want to know. Well, OK, that’s what I wanna know. You must do this or the world will break, and you will have to sing about that. Those are the rules.

Radiohead@radiohead.wastehq.social · last mo.

KID A MNESIA in 6-point surround sound, tuned to a custom-built room. Final week in Brooklyn. Tickets at kida-mnesia.com.

One of the things I love about Bluesky is the fact that Chris Frantz, The Drummer for the Talking Heads, is here.

Chris Frantz@chrisfrantz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sleep Tight.

This could be a crazy take but I think the weaponization of federal debarment against scientists will probably turn out to be a long run problem for us. Just my two cents

Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tonight, he goes after the National Academy of Sciences, regarding climate change:

Tonight, he goes after the National Academy of Sciences, regarding climate change:

Biden conserved more lands and waters than any President in history, creating the largest corridor of protected lands in the lower 48 states; the Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor. Trump is undoing it w/ the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monument reductions 🌎 www.npca.org/articles/644...

#Spain (pro-E.U. and multilateralism) defeats #Argentina (right-wing Trump-aligned President) #WorldCup