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👨🚒 Juste une immense gratitude et un respect infini et éternel à tous les pompiers qui luttent de toutes leurs forces en ce moment ! Vous êtes les gardiens de ce monde ❤️
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JUST IN🚨: In a historic environmental turnaround, Costa Rica has doubled its rainforest canopy over the last few decades, making it the very first tropical nation to fully reverse deforestation.
What the actual f…
They're the largest living things on Earth. Some of them have been standing since before Rome was a republic. 🌳
Now Congress wants to "save" them. By logging them.
It's called the "Save Our Sequoias Act." And it does the opposite of what it says. S. 4103 just passed the House and sits in the Senate right now, and it would let logging companies cut down mature, thousand year old sequoias, no limit on how many, no limit on their size or age.
It does this by carving out a new exemption from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), our bedrock law requiring environmental review and public input before major logging projects.
It wouldn't stop at the groves. The bill also amends the Wilderness Act itself, opening the door to human intervention (planting, "vegetation control," possible roads) inside land that's supposed to stay untouched by law.
This applies inside Yosemite. Inside Sequoia and Kings Canyon. Inside the Giant Sequoia National Monument. Inside land Congress designated as Wilderness specifically to keep humans out.
Who do you trust more to keep a 2,000 year old tree alive? The forest that's survived every fire for two millennia, or a logging company with a 3,000 acre permit and no one watching? 🌳 What are your thoughts? Sound off below👇
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ALT A person walks along a forest trail between towering giant sequoia trees. Massive reddish-brown trunks rise high into the canopy, with sunlight streaming through the grove and illuminating the bark. A fallen log crosses the path in the distance, emphasizing the immense scale of the ancient trees.
Earth lover retweeted
Madrid is building 74km forest belt of half a million trees 🌳 around the city to fight extreme heat, air pollution & climate change.
We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #climate #energy #renewables #biodiversity #IPCC
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Someone should invent a self-replicating machine that removes pollution from the air and produces food and oxygen. Oh shit hang on, that's just a tree.
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JUST IN🚨: Korean Scientists Create ‘INVISIBLE SOLAR PANELS’ That Allow Windows To Generate Electricity.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This transparent solar technology was developed by researchers at MIT and Michigan State University, not Korean scientists. energy.mit.edu/news/transpare… snopes.com/fact-check/are…
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As the bulldozers roll into Big Bend to build miles of needless border walls, roads and vehicle barriers, I want to remind you just how horrific it was to spend years watching walls go up across protected public lands in Arizona.
We watched DHS bulldoze ancient saguaro cacti that were older than the border itself. They dynamited Indigenous gravesites in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument—I was there watching the shockwaves rattle cactus arms as O'odham tribal members wept. We watched them pump up millions of gallons of precious desert groundwater, permanently altering fragile desert springs.
We can't allow this to happen to Big Bend, where DHS's own statistics say virtually nobody crosses the border. We can't let this happen to Texas' crown-jewel national park, its Congressionally protected wild and scenic river. We'll never stop fighting to save the last best place left in the borderlands.
Ignorance has always been the biggest opposition to science. Scientists won’t stop being scientists just because of a job, it’s a lifestyle, it’s a purpose, it’s what keeps us progressing towards a safer and better future.
In defiance of political censorship, laid-off federal scientists have successfully resurrected a massive, shuttered climate data site.
When the federal climate.gov website was shut down and hundreds of researchers were laid off, a dedicated team of former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employees refused to let decades of public science vanish.
Led by Rebecca Lindsey, the former program director of the original government site, these scientists launched a monumental counter-effort. Rallying over 80 volunteer researchers, the team successfully launched climate.us, a new, independent website that painstakingly recataloged and restored more than a thousand vital climate reports and datasets previously hidden from public view.
This grassroots resurrection was made possible by a powerful mix of public solidarity and collective action. Nearly 2,500 small-scale donors crowdsourced $250,000—covering one-third of the operational budget—to safeguard critical environmental data.
Climate scientists have lauded the project for helping everyday citizens connect global climate patterns directly to their local communities.
By bypassing political interference, these scientists have established a protected, permanent refuge for the public data necessary to understand and combat our changing world.
source: Bonasia, C. (2026). Fired Scientists Revive the Climate Website Trump Shut Down. The Energy Mix.
ALT In defiance of political censorship, laid-off federal scientists have successfully resurrected a massive, shuttered climate data site. When the federal climate.gov website was shut down and hundreds of researchers were laid off, a dedicated team of former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employees refused to let decades of public science vanish. Led by Rebecca Lindsey, the former program director of the original government site, these scientists launched a monumental counter-effort. Rallying over 80 volunteer researchers, the team successfully launched climate.us, a new, independent website that painstakingly recataloged and restored more than a thousand vital climate reports and datasets previously hidden from public view. This grassroots resurrection was made possible by a powerful mix of public solidarity and collective action. Nearly 2,500 small-scale donors crowdsourced $250,000—covering one-third of the operational budget.
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There exists a "magical machine" that pulls CO₂ out of the air, improves air quality, significantly reduces street temperatures and is a haven for wildlife & biodiversity
It also costs almost nothing, and builds itself.
We need to fall in love with trees
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The extraordinary courage of the elephant, facing down this loud, terrifying machine in defense of their territory.
How will it end? Asian elephants are already endangered and declining—hundreds are killed on purpose every year.
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We protect 100-year-old buildings as historic treasures, then cut down 500-year-old trees for furniture. That's insane.
An old-growth tree isn't just some big tree. It is a living carbon bank, seed source, cooling system, water filter, fungal network, bird nursery, insect factory, and archive of centuries of weather, fire, drought, and survival.
The older it gets, the more jobs it does. Big old trees store enormous amounts of carbon, and research has found they can keep adding carbon faster as they grow larger. Some ancient trees add more carbon in a single year than an entire mid-sized tree contains.
They also make habitat younger trees can't cough up. Cavities for owls and bats. Broken limbs for nesting birds. Dead wood for beetles and fungi. Mossy bark for lichens and invertebrates. Cool, damp microclimates for salamanders and seedlings. Fallen logs that feed the soil for decades.
A thousand-year-old tree is not 'renewable' in any meaningful human timeframe. Cut it down for furniture, flooring, paper, or profit, and the ecosystem it carried does not come back when someone plants a replacement seedling.
We already protect old churches, courthouses, barns, bridges, and battlefields because they connect us to the past. Old-growth trees do that too.
Imagine the colors that would be on land if humans hadn’t destroyed 80% of its biodiversity.
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