Third Planet Watch
@thirdplanetwatch.bsky.social
Focusing on efforts to maintain a healthy sustainable planet where people and governments work together to protect our environment and life support systems for ourselves and future generations.
We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time. Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned. Remember this.
Time for all states to end their addiction to oil and coal and natural gas to reduce global warming and dependence on fossil fuels. Let's do it. Solar, wind and conservation all move us in the right direction.
Rhuta Bhayga@rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 4w agoCalifornia will NOT be bullied to stay stuck in the past. www.yahoo.com/news/science...
Hello 👋 I adore Owls so today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #AwesomeOwls 😊🦉 Any owl from the two owl families. Here's a gorgeous Long-eared owl that I was fortunate enough to see 🤎 📷 🪶 Alt: #BirdNameG any bird whose common name starts with the letter G! Happy Thursday 🕊️ #Nature #Photography #ECK
A moment in the pond with fish, painted turtles and a curious snapping turtle. 💚
Trump is going the opposite direction to set highest Federal Budget deficit! Help vote out his #GOPMAGACult members that continue to empower him in the US House and Senate! #VotingMatters
@randy39.bsky.social · 3w ago
Out walking Sam folks. I will absolutely be back today to give Helen a hand with BOTD. Sun is shining so 10 minutes ago I took this. Mother Nature at her Finest! 1/2500th of a second and still the wings blur. #Bees #BloomScrolling #MacroMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #photography #ECK
…and war is further disrupting supplies. The combined impact is not only hurting producers and inflating costs for consumers, it is pushing people already experiencing severe food insecurity into acute hunger.
Global food prices at three-year high as heatwaves and wars push up crop costs
UN index says weather is affecting wheat yields while conflicts in Ukraine and Iran hit exports and drive up prices
theguardian.com
“The impact that the seas have on our day-to-day lives should not be underestimated.” As heatwaves hit countries and make headlines across Europe, another less obvious effect of climate breakdown is no less critical - the heatwaves happening in our oceans.
Carbon pollution has fuelled ‘massive expansion’ of marine heatwaves in Europe, study finds
Hottest periods this year in most sea regions would have been ‘virtually impossible’ in a preindustrial climate
theguardian.com
Fog, light and Scots pine trees in the Caledonian forest for world photography day! #worldphotographyday #naturephotography
A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird sips nectar from a Zinnia at a botanical garden.
One of the many Monarch butterflies flying over an alfalfa field.
It's spreading -
Serene Doomer@serenaribena.bsky.social · 2mo ago'Microplastics have been discovered in the bodies of deep-sea organisms living at depths exceeding 2,000m. …plastic pollution from human activities can affect not only the ocean’s surface & coastal areas but also deep-sea ecosystems where sunlight does not reach.' www.chosun.com/english/indu...
Life can be full of surprises. Ones like this are great.
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2y ago
Trump continuing to put economic profits and greed over environmental and sustainability goals for a future diverse healthy planet. Support Democrats to remove #GOPMAGACult in Congress letting Trump tear apart our environment.
Mongabay@mongabay.com · 3mo agoA new executive proclamation opens parts of three Pacific marine national monuments, including Rose Atoll and Papahānaumokuākea, to commercial fishing. The Trump administration cites economic opportunity, while conservationists and Native Hawaiian groups warn of severe threats to endemic wildlife.
Another source of plastic, eg microplastics, entering our environment, water, air, food, our bodies. When will we wake up and say enough?
Sue@suegreenlady.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhy else would a sensible Gov not ban plastic grass for lawns, play or sport. www.change.org/p/ban-the-pr...
My wife and I are currently reading “Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID.” by Nicholas Enrich, USAID’s lead official for global health at the time of the DOGE disaster. We’re only a few chapters in, but it is well worth reading.
No compassion or concern from MAGA, their cult is self centered on what in it for them and their donors seeking more wealth.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
“As it evolved, capitalist civilisation became a snowball of self-fraud: humans created products they didn’t need, jobs they didn’t like, and places they couldn’t live in. Life became a supermarket, and we became the products”
If the Bible is going to be taught in school then science needs to be taught in church.
A critical analysis of how the fossil fuel industry infiltrated the academic community and influenced efforts to address climate change by downplaying efforts to reduce consumption of fossil fuels as being critical to success.
Maddie Stone@themadstone.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.
42% of burned area across WesternUS in 2001–2024 occurred in assoc w/heatwaves, & burned forest areas have increased 2.5-fold (amid ~ doubling of # of heatwave days). ~64% of burned-area increase coincided with heatwave, but w/o increases in the nonforest areas. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
If a tree falls in the forest there are other trees listening.💚 ― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees #ForestFriday #scape #forestbathing #trees #rocks and #moss #photography #EastCoastKin
Less of a presidency than a heist movie. Literally unprecedented corruption.
Molly White@molly.wiki · 3mo agoStriking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“Who would benefit from the proposed [OMB] rules? For one, politically connected industries — including those that may want to obscure scientific links between their products and harmful health effects.” Good op-ed in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Assaults on Scientific Research Just Got Worse
nytimes.com