I was recently in a few Spanish cities, including Malaga, and it was great to see shade structures all around. The critical thing is that European cities care about people outside of cars. North American cities mostly don't. Shade matters for people walking, biking, rolling, and waiting for buses

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab@lanefab.com · 3d ago

A friend’s recent photo of civic shading in Malaga

What a phenomenal example of using your platform to raise awareness of the risks of climate change and the need for action. 10 gold stars to Gary and his human! www.instagram.com/p/DblYgQUlGI...

When did every do-it-your-selfer and backyard bbq chef suddenly feel the need to wear nitrile gloves for EVERYTHING like they're performing surgery? Unless those gloves are biodegradable, they will still be here in 100-200 years.

"Anyone born after 1990 is in a new geological era, navigating a world fundamentally different from the one Baby Boomers and Gen X-ers inherited. The chances of anyone alive today experiencing a year as cool as 1996 are effectively nil." My interview with John Vaillant. youtu.be/03prPc-Qrp8?...

BURNING PLANET - A THREATENED DEMOCRACY

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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Last: here is a trainer demonstrating what I mean by a hip grab. This is stage two. If they don’t let go of the other dog/animal in surprise when you grab the hips, you can also lift the hips off the ground like this and walk them back. The dog is too busy going “what the fuck?!?!” to keep attacking

💥 700 tons of explosives. Israel detonated 700 tons of explosives beneath Beaufort Castle in South Lebanon, in the middle of the night. A 900-year-old Crusader castle that UNESCO just listed as endangered heritage. @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

En page 3, baisse du nombre de meurtres à Montréal, attribuée à une approche moins punitive et une hausse de la prévention. En page 6, on déplore la complaisance de la justice face aux « incivilités et la violence ». Des fois, j’aimerais que les chroniqueurs lisent leur propre journal.

The rare bit of good traffic safety news. Backup cameras work, and have meaningfully reduced severe injuries among kids under 5 years old caused by backovers. We can argue that cars are too big in the first place, limiting visibility, but this is good tech.

Jalopnik@jalopnik.bsky.social · last wk.

Backup cameras have been required on new vehicles for the better part of the decade, but are they making a difference? Let's look at the stats.

It's not just the US. The UK is cutting science. Canada is cutting science. No one is cutting transfer of public wealth to big tech and fossil fuel companies though.

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"It’s beyond contestation that USAID’s destruction unleashed fresh humanitarian horrors. But the key event here is Musk continuing to assert otherwise in the face of an escalation of human suffering that’s amply documented: You can’t name these people. They never existed."

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

New paper out! Using tree rings, fire records, Landsat biomass data, and SEMs, we show that atmospheric dryness acts as a coordinating driver of boreal forest dynamics, raising questions about the extent to which growth gains can offset increasing fire-driven biomass losses doi.org/10.1071/WF25...

Atmospheric dryness as a coordinated driver of fire activity and biomass accumulation in northwestern boreal Canada

Rising vapor pressure deficit in northwestern boreal Canada is linked to increased burned area and reduced tree growth, with indirect effects on biomass ac

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On July 25th, global sea-surface temperatures set a record high anomaly of 0.80°C above the 1991-2020 mean, breaking the previous record of 0.76°C set in January, 2024. STOP SUBSIDISING & BURNING FOSSIL FUELS ‼️

A Chilean salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays. Ecoportal buff.ly/CwczkbP #ShareGoodNewsToo

An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home

An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home and were all thriving.

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En rappel | Le coût de la chaleur extrême au Québec | Le fardeau économique déjà accablant de la chaleur extrême sera de plus en plus étouffant dans les décennies à venir, conclut une étude. https://www.quebecscience.qc.ca/environnement/chaleur-extreme-cout-cher-quebec/

S'il n'y a plus rien à faire au présent, il y a encore beaucoup à faire pour l'avenir. Malheureusement, en continuant de miser sur les sables bitumineux et sur une industrie automobile qui produit des gros véhicules énergivores, le Canada choisit la voie du déni. 🇨🇦👎👎 www.lapresse.ca/actualites/n...

Gestion des forêts au Canada | « Il n’y a rien qu’on peut faire » pour empêcher les incendies

Pendant que le nord-ouest de l’Ontario brûle, le président américain Donald Trump blâme un « mauvais entretien » des forêts canadiennes pour justifier les incendies, dont la fumée affecte la qualité d...

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This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it. The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT. Let's talk about it.

Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.

Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto

A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.

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“In the particularly bad stretch from 2023 to 2025, some 8 percent of Canada’s forests burned…” (I expect we’ll be adding 2026 to that date range.) 🌎 🔥 🌲 www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn

Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control.

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“Government says it ‘inadvertently omitted’ to announce contract with controversial American tech company” Defence department to buy Palantir software for $7.4 million each year: theijf.org/article/defe...

Defence department to buy Palantir software for $7.4 million each year

Government says it ‘inadvertently omitted’ to announce contract with controversial American tech company

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Because when you're deliberately worsening a gigantic public risk, the very best way to follow that up is by also reducing the public capacity to reduce that risk. Carney seems to have a fetish for making climate harms as big as he possibly can. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...

In case you were wondering what Stephen Lecce, Minister of Energy and Mines, is doing today as wildfires rage across the province, he's complaining about the heat while making a pipeline announcement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eplp...

A native fish species is eating some of the most damaging invasive species in the Great Lakes…AND making a significant impact! Freshwater Drum: The overlooked native fish that has been crushing trillions of Zebra & Quagga Mussels in Lake Erie www.canr.msu.edu/news/freshwa...

Can we please quit with the oversized 'try AI!' popups on scientific papers that take up readable space? This popup on @newphyt.bsky.social doesn't even have a way to shrink it so I have to give up the bottom couple of inches on my screen.

Advance notice of the British Academy reports published to be tomorrow (Wednesday) and their findings. It does not make happy reading if you value UK higher education and research.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

Oregon prairie restoration helps rare butterflies recover. Fender’s blue butterfly, once feared extinct after Willamette Valley prairies were ploughed under, has been downgraded from endangered to threatened after decades of habitat restoration. The Revelator buff.ly/c7nw3xB #ShareGoodNewsToo

When the Butterflies Come Home Again • The Revelator

A philosopher tells an environmental success story that speaks to the moral necessity of ongoing work for wild beings.

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I'll say it again for the 100th time. Poverty begets crime. You cannot be "tough on crime" whilst increasing poverty faster than we've ever seen before.

Le gouvernement du Canada coupe dans les services publiques alors qu'il met pleins d'argent dans notre armée. 587 jobs seront coupés dans l'agence canadienne des inspections aux aliments. Le parti libéral n'est que libéral ds son titre. C'est un parti très conservateur et pr les riches. #polcan

most striking thing for me in this article is the apparently enormous discrepancy in reading habits between Canada and the U.S. in 2025, 79% of Canadians reported reading at least one book. www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-lei...

Esther Schindler@estherschindler.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Fewer than half of all adults reported having read a book of any kind in 2022. Only 38 percent read a novel or short story."