Patrick Waeber
@powaeber.bsky.social
Scientist, conservationist, and activist exploring the intersections of nature, society, and sustainability. Passionate about diversity, complexity, and the beauty of change. Big fan of forests and their untold stories. 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇲🇬🏳️🌈
Beautiful tribute by Adam Schiff to Stephen Colbert. #StephenColbert #AdamSchiff #StandWithColbert #NoToCancellation #NoToOligarchs #NoToAutocracy #NoToHypocrisy #YesToComedy #ComedyMatters #SatireMatters youtu.be/dXAtcQfYWeU?...
As Stephen Colbert Says Goodbye, My Favorite Moments
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
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Atlantic sunset over a rewilding farm. It really doesn't get much more lovely to my eyes.
Nomura’s jellyfish can grow from the size of a grain of rice to over 6 feet wide in just six months. A marvel of the ocean with a sting that packs a punch.
Great grey owl showing off its hide and seek skills for today’s #birdoftheday #camoorcontrast. #birds #owls #markcoupephotography
Around 60 nations are gathering in Santa Marta, Colombia, to plan something the COP climate summits have failed for decades to agree - how to end the use of fossil fuels. #SantaMarta www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Countries meet in first global effort to phase out fossil fuels
Some 60 countries are meeting in Colombia as frustration grows with lack of progress in tackling climate change
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A rare win for a misunderstood scavenger. Striped hyenas just got stronger global protection. Countries agreed to safeguard them across borders. Less hunting. More coordination. They roam far. Cross borders. Without joint protection, they fall through gaps. This helps close them. #IUCN #CMS
Striped hyena gets stronger global protection
At the latest biodiversity conference in Brazil, governments agreed on stronger international protection for the striped hyena.
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A black heron using its wings like an umbrella, creating shade to attract fish, a behavior known as “canopy feeding”.
One of the most fascinating facts about the ocean, is that there are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written. Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old. Original post
We could have left fossil fuels earlier. But the system was profitable. No reason to change. The risks were far away. Easy to ignore. The alternatives were weak. Easy to dismiss. Now it flipped. Alternatives exist, impacts are real, but the system is harder to unwind. That’s the paradox.
‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says
Exclusive: International Energy Agency’s Fatih Birol, the world’s leading energy economist, also says UK should largely forgo North Sea expansion
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We keep staring at wars and more wars. And lose sight of the bigger one. Climate. Probability rising for a Super El Niño. Warm Pacific. Winds shift. Weather flips. Heat. Drought. Floods. Storms. Huge suffering. Billions for disaster repair. #ClimatePreparedness #AdaptNow #Resilience
Are we heading for ‘super El Niño’ – and what could we expect?
Experts say climate pattern could supercharge extreme weather events and push temperatures to record highs
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Galapagos marine iguana is the only lizard species on Earth that has adapted to forage for food exclusively in the ocean. These "mini Godzillas" can freedive to depths of up to 30 meters (100 ft) and hold their breath for up to one hour. IG: matiasvargas12 marine biologist
Witness the astonishing trap feeding behavior of Eden's Whale in the Gulf of Thailand. Nature's wonders continue to amaze us every day.
Rivers do not forget. Mines close. Companies move on. The pollution stays. For decades. Sometimes centuries. Cleanup costs millions. Often paid by the public. Private profit. Public legacy. #Mining #EnvironmentalJustice #PolluterPays #NoRiverDumping #MineClosurePlanning #RehabilitationFunds
In Tasmania, the mines have closed but the rivers remember
The King River snakes through some of Tasmania’s most dramatic and diverse landscape, flowing past rainforest, button grass plains and the rugged peaks of the West Coast Range before emptying into a l...
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Blame the crocodiles? No. Destroy wetlands for mining and oil palm, then act surprised when displaced wildlife appears in human space. This is not “crocodile aggression.” This is habitat loss. #HumanWildlifeConflict #Indonesia #Wetlands
Wetland destruction for mining, oil palm tied to crocodile attacks in Indonesia
BANGKA, Indonesia — Residents of a centuries-old coastal settlement in the world’s largest tin-mining outpost — Bangka Island — fear that the environmental damage over just a few decades is behind a f...
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It has taken over five years of murderous chaos for Republican voters to start to see what was obvious all along: that Donald Trump should not be trusted with a box of matches, let alone the most powerful office on Earth. That's the power of propaganda for you.
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
US “special envoys” outside formal diplomatic channels. No clear mandate. No real oversight. Private dealmaking repackaged as “peace.” That’s not diplomacy. That’s how accountability gets bypassed. #Ukraine #Diplomacy #RealEstateDoRealEstate #RespectForUkraine #PeaceNotDeals
Zelensky says failure of US envoys to visit Kyiv is 'disrespectful'
US envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner have travelled to Moscow several times, but never to Kyiv.
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"You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped-up pretext --Then-Secretary of State John Kerry, March 2, 2014 We heard it. We ignored it. Now we live it. #Ukraine #Crimea
Kerry: Russia behaving like it's the 19th century
<p>John Kerry on Ukraine</p>
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King of the who? Still hits. Harder than ever. #MontyPython #PowerAndLegitimacy #StillRelevant
King of the Who? | Monty Python & the Holy Grail | BritBox
YouTube video by BritBox
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"Which country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? It's not Iran, it's Israel... Which country in the Middle East attacked six countries last year? It wasn't Iran, it was Israel." From my Piers Morgan debate with Israeli spokesman Doron Spielman. Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkk1...
What a decent President says.
Yes. Finally. One less autocrat. Power looks permanent. It isn’t. It cracks. It ends. It falls. #Authoritarianism #EndOfPower #DemocracyWins #Panarchy
Hungary election: Viktor Orbán ousted after 16 years in power as opposition heads for landslide - follow live
The long-serving prime minister concedes defeat to Péter Magyar, who has promised closer EU ties and an anti-corruption drive.
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Entire villages erased. Not collateral. Pattern. When civilian space becomes a target, law has already failed. #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes #Lebanon #NetanyahuWarCriminal
‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again
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