Seems to be a lot fewer millipedes around than 50 years ago when I was hiking these same trails in Copeland Forest. The only one I spotted this year. Such a fascinating arthropod that gave me much joy when I spotted it. Photo taken with my 18 year old Fuji Finepix camera. #millipede #arthropods 📸

In the 1980s when climate scientists started warning us about the dangers of climate change, my Foundation began to fund education efforts to promote solutions highlighting renewable energy policies. Great strides have been made but too many governments continue to rely and promote fossil fuels.

This was the video I was looking for yesterday to post. I follow Joshua Wright on instagram because we are both passionate about saving old trees. This was an ancient forest valley that was recently logged on Vancouver Island. They cut down one of the largest Yellow Cedar tree in Canada. 😢

Not great news, but I do really appreciate Canadian mainstream media for saying it as it is. Plus, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is still government funded and has not been axed. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrises🌎 www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

‘Effectively irreversible’: Changes to Canada’s climate permanent, federal report says

The effects of climate change are impacting Canadians even more than scientists predicted less than a decade ago, according to a new report released this week.

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Listening to a man at the farmers market explain he’s out of eggs as “the ladies aren’t producing due to heat stress”— and another poultry vendor says he’s out, as he can’t keep them in this heat. Climate change is all around. We just have to open our eyes to see how it’s affecting our daily lives.

Sleepy Cartoon Chicken

Alt: Sleepy Cartoon Chicken

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#StampShare#Saturday. #Canada Scott #2700a to celebrate Year of the Horse in 2014. This year in 2026 is also Year of the Horse. This sheet transitions from Year of the Snake from previous year. The Horse is the seventh in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac signs #philately #YearoftheHorse.

This will likely be the last monarch to use my pollinator garden as a nursery this season. It's been steady, which is wonderful. I was just about to open the garage door to get my bike when I noticed this monarch caterpillar in the process of becoming a chrysalis. Used back door to get my bike. 🐛🦋

I make it a habit to stop and look before I step out my front door. This Eastern Garter Snake likes to warm itself in the sun on the walk in front of the door before making its rounds. I haven't seen it in a few days, but it was warmer today, so it was back. Always love seeing it around. #snake 🐍

When I was looking for an alternative search engine to Google, I discovered Karma. They use revenue to help protect animals and biodiversity on our precious planet with every search. karmasearch.org

Well spoken, Jeff. 🌎

Jeff Rice@jeffrice.bsky.social · last mo.

It's never too late to join the fight on climate change. Doesn't have to be anything too extreme; how you vote can be important. Inform yourself and vote accordingly. Also - look at joining an environmental group. Simple things done by millions = big changes. #Heatwave #Shell #ClimateChange

With the ice storm we had in late March, 2025 there ended up being a lot of damaged trees. The Northern Tooth Fungus in this photo is using a maple tree as a host. The fungus can be found on the trunks with larger wounds of hardwood trees, particularly the sugar maple.

I've lived in the same house for 34 years. We've always had milkweed to attract monarch butterflies. I don't know how they know, but the caterpillars will always chose under the soffit for their Chrysalis. Travelling as much as 20 feet to get there. It is very sheltered there. #nature #monarch 🐛🦋

Always an honour to be one of the board members of this event. 🦋

The word is called nostalgiacore. It’s a cultural coping mechanism for climate anxiety that draws on childhood memories. www.wbay.com/2026/08/16/c...

Climate anxiety is fueling 90s nostalgia

CDs, dumb phones, Furbys and disposable cameras. Many are finding joy and entertainment in a reboot of their childhood.

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I talked about wildfires, fossil fuels, clean energy and the possibility of a better future with CBC News yesterday. With a few audio cameos from Mr Jekyll 🙀 Watch here:

Climate change 'loading the dice' for extreme weather, says climate scientist

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It is wonderful to have a hiking friend who is also a great nature photographer. Article I wrote on a local gem called Tiny Marsh. #TinyMarsh #hiking #nature #photography theoldfellowgoesrunning.com/2026/08/12/a...

A Hike in Tiny Marsh Provincial Wildlife Area

Two or three times a year I’ll get together with my former co-worker friend Alicia for a local nature hike. When it comes to nature, she is a bit of a walking encyclopedia. Alicia is so knowl…

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The dry conditions meant there wasn't a huge amount in flower #bythesea at Dawlish Warren today, but there was lots of common restharrow and lovely to find the tiny flowers of what I think is lesser centaury #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

"I stepped into an avalanche - it covered up my soul." Leonard Cohen.

"Discouragement is a distortion of reality, turning us from the vertical view with God preeminent to the horizontal view where we only see the problem and our own inadequacy" ~Dr. Anthony Fortosis~

I had to get some help from a friend of my wife who is a big time birder to identify this for me. I learned it is a Fork Tailed Flycatcher. I have never seen this bird before. It is not a threatened specie, though sightings of it this far up in Canada are said to be quite rare. #bird #photography

I learned about global warming at school in the 1980s. I never imagined we’d be here, 40 years later, still increasing our GHG emissions every year I always assumed that good sense would prevail. I was wrong

Dan Snow@thehistoryguy.bsky.social · last mo.

When I was a kid we were taught that emissions were warming up the atmosphere, increasing the probability of things like wild fires, even in chilly old Britain. We drew pictures. We wrote to MPs. This was my neighbourhood yesterday My anger at the deniers, obstructionists & shills knows no bounds

I do love the sound of crickets while sitting outside on these August evenings. Though it is a sign here in this part of Canada that summer will be soon winding down. #August #CanadianSummer

I Hear Nothing But Crickets

Alt: I Hear Nothing But Crickets on a Giffy with a picture of a cricket.

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First Day cover issued 44 years ago this past August 4th on 1982. Scott catalogue number 968. Perf 12.5. Commemorating the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. Established in 1839, is one of the world’s most prestigious rowing events. #StampShareSaturday #philately #firstdaycover #stampcollecting

"...this skin and bones is a rental and no one gets out alive."

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Always nice to get back for a hike in Copeland Forest. #ForestFriday #trees #nature #Ontario #forestbathing

A Northern Leopard Frog posing for a photo on some gravel in Tiny Marsh in Simcoe County, Ontario. There are eight known species of leopard frog that live in North America. The northern leopard frog is the only leopard frog species found in Canada. #frog #nature #TinyMarsh #Amphibians #photography 🐸

Canada registered cover dated Dec. 14, 1992 with $3.27 postage. From Jan. 1, 1992 - Dec. 31, 1992, the $3.27 covers 42 cents letter rate + $2.85 registration fee (no indemnity). Stamps are high value architecture Scott #1181 & 1182, low value mammals #1156 & 1161 #stampsharesaturday #philately

This section of ferns only last for a couple hundred meters. I always love going on this trail this time of year. 😀

For checking dogs, its really important to check their paws very carefully, especially if they are swimmers and have webbed toes as we think of it. It’s as if ticks know that’s the best hiding place. We just went through getting ticks off me and the pooch #Dogsky