As the canoes slowly emerged on the hazy horizon, community members gathered closer to the water to greet them, cheering and singing songs. They held up a large banner that read “niʕáyp kús alaʔx — we have always been here.” Story by Aaron Hemens

Travelling in dugout canoes, syilx Okanagan paddlers complete weeklong Unity Trek

‘Unity is connecting the people to each other, and connecting ourselves to the land,’ said one participant about the commemorative journey that wrapped up on Aug. 1

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That sounds hot. Is it hot?

It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is

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offered as support for education, the message seems to be that writing has nothing to do with what they actually think or that thinking involves choosing from a menu of pre-existing options. This is a strange gaslighting because at each step, Claude is telling you that you are writing this paper /6

🤖🫧💥 www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Another community burned to the ground. But yes let’s build another pipeline.

Times Colonist@timescolonist.bsky.social · 13h ago

You see it too, right?

We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.

Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again

The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".

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BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide

A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.

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“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow

Here's the deal with the pre-review study Tesla funded on turbine carnage. This is my first piece on the Data Centers Breaking Things beat. TLDR; AI training is wearing out, even breaking, a critical source of energy for AI training www.investors.com/news/turbine...

In Chile, a revived wetland is bringing economic opportunities and ecological recovery. Thanks to a UNEP-backed project, the Cahuil Lagoon now supports tourism, fishing, and wildlife, with a model for sustainable land management: https://ow.ly/WtKh50Zw28T

This is misleading. If you say the Rhine’ s “water levels drop to lowest level since 1880,” that implies that the river was this dry in 1880. But 1880 is just when we started keeping records! So what you need to say is: the river is at its lowest level since records began.

NEW: The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.

The EPA Heralds Its Omaha Cleanup as a Success. But We Found Many Yards Still Have Toxic Levels of Lead.

The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show th...

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DHS Wants To Build A Border Wall Through Tohono O’odham Land. It’s Another Instance of The US Undermining Tribal Sovereignty. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

DHS Wants To Build A Border Wall Through Tohono O’odham Land. It’s Another Instance of The US Undermining Tribal Sovereignty.

The nation says the wall would be "devastating" to its lands and people.

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"When it comes to social, economic, and environmental policy, [the Carney government] is following through on its promise to “nation-build” with a sweeping program of austerity, deregulation and cuts," writes @lukewsavage.bsky.social. #GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

James 🇨🇦@jemotluk.bsky.social · 3d ago

"In 2025 millions of Canadians rallied behind what they took to be a promise of renewed economic sovereignty and progressive nation-building. Over the past year, the government they elected has effectively delivered the exact opposite." #cdnpoli

[Commentary] Behind cheap instant coffee lies widespread deforestation in Vietnam. A new op-ed by Etelle Higonnet (@coffeewatch.bsky.social) details how Robusta production pushes tigers and elephants into shrinking habitats, calling on consumers to pressure companies for ethical supply chains.

Cheap coffee is killing Vietnam’s priceless tropical forests (commentary)

Vietnam is now the world’s largest producer of robusta, the bitter, sturdy bean behind instant coffee, supermarket blends, and the overall global appetite for cheap caffeine. But behind its meteoric…

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A paper in Nature reports that aerial imaging has detected 432 patterns called earthworks, on the ground in southwestern Amazonia. The findings were made in an area previously inhabited by the ancient Aquiry civilization of southwestern Amazonia. go.nature.com/4be3R7e 🏺🧪

A study finds that the mental health of Lahaina fire survivors is worsening, especially for children. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/08/02/s...

Study finds Lahaina survivors’ mental health worsening

University of Hawaii researchers with the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study (MauiWES) said Maui is recovering, but insecurity, housing instability, health concerns and weakening social support continue to ...

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I want signs like this all over my campus. Word on the Grapevine is, they took away the trash cans, so that people wouldn’t leave their refuse outside the buildings. So instead, they leave it in the plantings, or chuck it in the bushes.

Gracie12 📎@gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d ago

These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .

Beautiful photos of Indigenous people taken by Indigenous photographers over the course of more than a century. The perspective is so much different than settler photos of Native people. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Opinion | The photographs that complicate America’s most enduring myth

From portrait studios to tintypes, Native photographers reveal a history rarely told this way.

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Lazy cooking but make it sound fancy AF: Linguine alle cozze fra daviolo for dinner tonight.

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live

Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant

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"In turn, the program will likely ensure the prepotency of non-Indigenous researchers, methodologies, institutions, and data and benefit sharing models. It could also exacerbate Indigenous health inequities and research [] in the science and politics of genomics." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:

Tech companies could face fines if they don’t meet new requirements for AI transparency. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect

The EU made AI icons that anyone can use.

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I spoke to the BBC about @righttoroam.bsky.social and the legacy of the Kinder Mass Trespass. "We're trying to propose a more positive idea of what it means to belong, which is about having the right to connect to that land, but then also to care for it, to act as an environmental guardian" 🔓🥾🌳

Retracing the defiant walk that changed Britain

Seventy-five years after the Peak District became Britain's first national park, visitors can retrace the mass trespass that helped open the countryside to everyone.

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Hundreds of protesters chanted “Down, down with corporations” outside a northern Alberta county office on Sunday to voice their opposition to tech giant Meta’s plan to build a data centre. cheknews.ca/dozens-prote...

Dozens protest Meta's plan for massive data centre in northern Alberta county

Dozens of people are protesting tech giant Meta's plan to build its first Canadian data centre in a county north of Edmonton.

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These 4 Adobe alternatives are so good now, I'm confused why anyone still subscribes www.makeuseof.com/these-adobe-...

These 4 Adobe alternatives are so good now, I'm confused why anyone still subscribes

I stopped paying for an entire creative suite and didn't lose a single feature

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Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.