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<p>Greenpeace is being sued for $300 million. It&#x27;s an attempt by the capitalist establishment to permanently silence them.<br>______________________________</p><p>Energy Transfer, the Big Oil company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, claims that Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International organized the 2016-2017 Standing Rock resistance. This is a false and racist attempt to erase Indigenous leadership from this historic protest.</p><p>The trial begins in February 2025. If we lose, Greenpeace USA could face financial ruin, ending over 50 years of environmental activism. But this is bigger than just us.</p><p>Energy Transfer’s lawsuit threatens our fundamental rights to organize and protest. A win for them sets a dangerous precedent – allowing more attacks on unions, activists, and journalists – and silencing our speech through intimidation.<br>______________________________</p><p>LEARN MORE -- <a href="https://greenpeaceontrial.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>greenpeaceontrial.org/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a></p>

<p>Bananas are at risk of extinction, but scientists have a plan. 🍌 </p><p>From <span class="h-card"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@popsci" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>popsci</span></a></span>: A fungus that can infect over 100 different plants is devastating the popular fruit.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/GPmKJH" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/GPmKJH</a></p><p><a href="/tags/bananas/" rel="tag">#Bananas</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#Food</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/botany/" rel="tag">#Botany</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a></p>

<p>Stay safe in the heat! Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) helps you understand how your body will handle extreme conditions. Know the flag colors and take the right precautions to avoid heat stress. </p><p>Learn more: <a href="https://airsupportproject.com/heat-illness-vs-heat-stroke-how-wet-bulb-globe-temperature-affects-your-health/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="airsupportproject.com/heat-illness-vs-heat-stroke-how-wet-bulb-globe-temperature-affects-your-health/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">airsupportproject.com/heat-ill</span><span class="invisible">ness-vs-heat-stroke-how-wet-bulb-globe-temperature-affects-your-health/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/iaq/" rel="tag">#IAQ</a> <a href="/tags/heat/" rel="tag">#Heat</a> <a href="/tags/heatstress/" rel="tag">#HeatStress</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> to propose opening <a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#California</a> Coast to <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#oil</a> <a href="/tags/drilling/" rel="tag">#drilling</a> for the first time in roughly 4 decades, acc/to 3 people.</p><p>The move would set up a confrontation with Gov <a href="/tags/gavinnewsom/" rel="tag">#GavinNewsom</a>, a <a href="/tags/democrat/" rel="tag">#Democrat</a> who has fought <a href="/tags/offshoredrilling/" rel="tag">#OffshoreDrilling</a> &amp; who has emerged as one of Trump’s chief political antagonists. Newsom is in Brazil for the <a href="/tags/un/" rel="tag">#UN</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> summit, where he is drawing a contrast between himself &amp; Trump, who denigrates efforts to fight <a href="/tags/globalwarming/" rel="tag">#GlobalWarming</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/climate/offshore-drilling-california-trump-newsom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/climate/offshore-drilling-california-trump-newsom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate/offshore-drilling-california-trump-newsom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>

<p>Want good news on the climate front? The world is making immense strides in harnessing solar energy. Some of the leaders might surprise you (we see you, Texas!) This week, author Bill McKibben on our sunnier future on Big Picture Science. </p><p>Listen here: <a href="https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/solar-good" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bigpicturescience.org/episodes/solar-good"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigpicturescience.org/episodes</span><span class="invisible">/solar-good</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a></p>

<p>“We’re having to take the burden of the drought while industries, who make profit from it, go on their merry way.” </p><p>New today: The expansion of Elon Musk&#x27;s embattled electric car company is just the latest strain on this South <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> city&#x27;s dwindling <a href="/tags/water/" rel="tag">#water</a> supply. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-water-crisis-tesla-industrial-expansion/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-water-crisis-tesla-industrial-expansion/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/corpus-c</span><span class="invisible">hristi-water-crisis-tesla-industrial-expansion/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/drought/" rel="tag">#drought</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/southtexas/" rel="tag">#SouthTexas</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="/tags/tesla/" rel="tag">#Tesla</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>

<p>Saying goodbye to comet A6 Lemmon. It&#x27;s getting very low, and clouds are increasing in southern New Mexico.</p><p>It was a remarkable run of many clear nights.</p><p>This is a single exposure on a fixed tripod. </p><p>There&#x27;s a blurred silhouette of a power line, and satellite trails in this image. They belong in the frame because this is the world we have created. It&#x27;s getting increasingly difficult to escape to pristine nature.</p><p>Perhaps the phrase &#x27;pristine nature&#x27; is now an oxymoron?</p><p>When is the first No Kings General Strike? </p><p>We all need to help with community building and boosting civic engagement. These activities have atrophied for decades, and it shows.</p><p><a href="/tags/newmexico/" rel="tag">#NewMexico</a> <a href="/tags/comet/" rel="tag">#Comet</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> <a href="/tags/astrophotography/" rel="tag">#Astrophotography</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#Nature</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#MAGA</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/anthropocene/" rel="tag">#Anthropocene</a></p>

<p>SETI Institute communications specialist Beth Johnson welcomed Professor Dagomar Degroot, environmental historian at Georgetown University, for a discussion on his new book Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, released October 28, 2025. The book reframes the solar system as a dynamic network of interacting environments—a system in which planetary, solar, and cosmic processes continuously influence Earth’s history and humanity’s trajectory.</p><p>Learn more: <a href="https://www.seti.org/news/ripples-on-the-cosmic-ocean-an-environmental-history-of-our-place-in-the-solar-system/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.seti.org/news/ripples-on-the-cosmic-ocean-an-environmental-history-of-our-place-in-the-solar-system/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.seti.org/news/ripples-on-t</span><span class="invisible">he-cosmic-ocean-an-environmental-history-of-our-place-in-the-solar-system/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a></p>

<p>The sun is the largest nuclear reactor we know. We now have momentum, harnessing its power at scale. From Texas to Pakistan to China, hear how cheap solar is toppling fossil fuel with author Bill McKibben on Big Picture Science.</p><p>Listen here: <a href="https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/solar-good" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bigpicturescience.org/episodes/solar-good"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigpicturescience.org/episodes</span><span class="invisible">/solar-good</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a></p>

<p>This is a terrifying article. </p><p>Methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, is increasing fast in our atmosphere — both from industrial emissions AND from &quot;natural&quot; sources triggered by global warming, which then cause more global warming, and so on, and so on...<br>_______________________________</p><p>New research shows that feedbacks in the climate system are boosting methane emissions from natural sources, especially tropical wetlands. </p><p>Scientists say that an abrupt surge in methane emissions in the early 2000s is probably due mainly to the response of wetlands to warming, with additional contributions coming from fossil fuel use, “implying that anthropogenic emissions must decrease more than expected to reach a given warming goal.”</p><p>Increasing rainfall, a well-documented impact of global warming, is making wetlands larger and wetter, and a warmer world fosters more plant growth, which means more decomposing material that emits methane.</p><p>About 60% of methane emissions are from fossil fuel use, farming, landfills, and waste, with the rest coming from rotting vegetation in wetlands in the tropics and Northern Hemisphere.</p><p>A new trouble spot is in the Arctic, where scientists recently found unexpectedly large methane emissions in winter. And globally, the increase in water vapor caused by global warming is slowing the rate at which methane breaks down in the atmosphere. <br>_______________________________</p><p>FULL ARTICLE -- <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28082024/surging-methane-emissions-major-climate-shift/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="insideclimatenews.org/news/28082024/surging-methane-emissions-major-climate-shift/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">insideclimatenews.org/news/280</span><span class="invisible">82024/surging-methane-emissions-major-climate-shift/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a></p>

<p>How Halloween pumpkins contribute to the climate crisis</p><p>But there’s a sinister side to the fun</p><p>After Halloween ends, people throw their pumpkins away, and they’re hauled off to landfills. Pumpkins in landfills rot — &amp; when they do, those gourds expel gas</p><p>methane is at least 28 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in Earth’s atmosphere over a century-long period</p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/halloween-pumpkins-climate-crisis-b2606240.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/halloween-pumpkins-climate-crisis-b2606240.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.independent.co.uk/climate-</span><span class="invisible">change/halloween-pumpkins-climate-crisis-b2606240.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/halloween/" rel="tag">#Halloween</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/globalwarming/" rel="tag">#GlobalWarming</a> <a href="/tags/globalburning/" rel="tag">#GlobalBurning</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/iceland/" rel="tag">#Iceland</a>’s relatively mild <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> is shaped by a crucial network of currents that winds its away around the <a href="/tags/atlantic/" rel="tag">#Atlantic</a> Ocean transporting heat northward — without it, the island would be much icier &amp; stormier. As evidence mounts these currents could be on course for <a href="/tags/collapse/" rel="tag">#collapse</a>, Iceland’s govt has designated the risk a <a href="/tags/nationalsecurity/" rel="tag">#NationalSecurity</a> threat, prompting a a high-level response into how to prepare for this “<a href="/tags/existential/" rel="tag">#existential</a> threat.”</p><p><a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <br><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/climate/iceland-warming-current-amoc-collapse-threat?cid=ios_app" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/climate/iceland-warming-current-amoc-collapse-threat?cid=ios_app"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/climate</span><span class="invisible">/iceland-warming-current-amoc-collapse-threat?cid=ios_app</span></a></p>

<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Reflections on the impact of digital infrastructure and racism in traditional communities</p><p>&quot;After 29 versions of agreements and negotiations far from the planet’s greatest tropical socio-biodiversity, this conference must be broad and unrestricted, analysing all inequalities imposed since the earliest colonisation, still persistently referred to as “development”.</p><p>----&gt; New on APC.org: <a href="https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/reflections-impact-digital-infrastructure-and-racism-traditional-communities" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.apc.org/en/pubs/reflections-impact-digital-infrastructure-and-racism-traditional-communities"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.apc.org/en/pubs/reflection</span><span class="invisible">s-impact-digital-infrastructure-and-racism-traditional-communities</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a> <a href="/tags/amazonia/" rel="tag">#amazonia</a> <a href="/tags/brazilianamazon/" rel="tag">#BrazilianAmazon</a> <a href="/tags/traditionalcommunities/" rel="tag">#Traditionalcommunities</a> <a href="/tags/development/" rel="tag">#Development</a></p>

<p>Alaska and vicinity seasonal 50-year temperature changes (ºF) updated through autumn 2025, all in one graphic for your convenience. A whole lot of warming going on. <a href="/tags/akwx/" rel="tag">#akwx</a> <a href="/tags/alaska/" rel="tag">#Alaska</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/arctic/" rel="tag">#Arctic</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@Climatologist49" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Climatologist49</span></a></span></p>

<p>Hurricane Helene is one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region, and has devastated areas of Georgia and the Carolinas too. Garden &amp; Gun has created this list of local and regional organizations that are providing help, with details on how to donate. </p><p><a href="https://flip.it/xU9baA" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/xU9baA</a></p><p><a href="/tags/hurricanehelene/" rel="tag">#HurricaneHelene</a> <a href="/tags/florida/" rel="tag">#Florida</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/northcarolina/" rel="tag">#NorthCarolina</a> <a href="/tags/extremeweather/" rel="tag">#ExtremeWeather</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a></p>

<p>Sign up for this great event on October 17th. FREE on Zoom! <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="/tags/globalwarming/" rel="tag">#GlobalWarming</a> </p><p><a href="https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlc-6rpjsqGNZjXju7K65BDBdMH8En6bOM?_x_zm_rtaid=eOyJYaJ5RR22Lig3airdng.1727269698520.bb2e4d20ac742f2748f0fb55de477143&amp;_x_zm_rhtaid=466#/registration" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlc-6rpjsqGNZjXju7K65BDBdMH8En6bOM?_x_zm_rtaid=eOyJYaJ5RR22Lig3airdng.1727269698520.bb2e4d20ac742f2748f0fb55de477143&amp;_x_zm_rhtaid=466#/registration"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/t</span><span class="invisible">JIlc-6rpjsqGNZjXju7K65BDBdMH8En6bOM?_x_zm_rtaid=eOyJYaJ5RR22Lig3airdng.1727269698520.bb2e4d20ac742f2748f0fb55de477143&amp;_x_zm_rhtaid=466#/registration</span></a></p>

<p>The World’s Oldest Glaciers Are Buried Under South African Gold</p><p>2.9-billion-year-old evidence could be proof of a lost ice age—the first “Snowball Earth.”</p><p>by Gemma Tarlach via @atlasobscura</p><p><a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oldest-glaciers-lost-ice-age" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oldest-glaciers-lost-ice-age"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.atlasobscura.com/articles/</span><span class="invisible">oldest-glaciers-lost-ice-age</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/geology/" rel="tag">#geology</a> <a href="/tags/glaciers/" rel="tag">#glaciers</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a></p>

<p>Oct 2</p><p>4 min</p><p>I R learn english one day (I drop a lot of conjunctions from the script, bad me). Video sketch of what I&#x27;ve been grousing about here for the last few days.</p><p>Helene is an ecological disaster. Doubly so an economic one.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHV73ZLR_8" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHV73ZLR_8"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHV73</span><span class="invisible">ZLR_8</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a> <a href="/tags/helene/" rel="tag">#helene</a></p>

<p>Disastrous plan to allow fracking on South Australia’s Limestone Coast is a broken promise, one of many from Labor..</p><p>On Thursday Labor premier Peter &#x27;Santos&#x27; Malinauskas revealed plans to overturn the ban on unconventional gas fracking in SA with laws set to be introduced to the state parliament this week</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/18/fracking-south-australia-limestone-coast-peter-malinauskas-labor-broken-promise" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/18/fracking-south-australia-limestone-coast-peter-malinauskas-labor-broken-promise"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/environmen</span><span class="invisible">t/2026/may/18/fracking-south-australia-limestone-coast-peter-malinauskas-labor-broken-promise</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/corruption/" rel="tag">#Corruption</a> <a href="/tags/environmentalterrorism/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalTerrorism</a> <a href="/tags/laborfail/" rel="tag">#LaborFail</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/activism/" rel="tag">#Activism</a> <a href="/tags/adelaide/" rel="tag">#Adelaide</a> <a href="/tags/southaustralia/" rel="tag">#SouthAustralia</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a></p>

<p>Not Pollution. Not Global Warming. Not Corruption. Not Corporations that won&#x27;t pay taxes.<br>It&#x27;s migrants who are at fault for all the troubles in your life. Since you&#x27;re not man enough to shoulder life&#x27;s responsibilities, your start picking on a vulnerable group, like migrants, and you start bullying them, like a coward. Try helping people for a change!</p><p><a href="/tags/migrantsrights/" rel="tag">#MigrantsRights</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/corporategreed/" rel="tag">#CorporateGreed</a> <a href="/tags/dirtypoliticians/" rel="tag">#DirtyPoliticians</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/globalwarming/" rel="tag">#GlobalWarming</a></p>

<p>Latest comic on Big Tech&#x27;s climate hypocrisy</p><p><a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#climatecrisis</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a></p>

<p>Experts sound alarm as North America’s bees start swarm season unusually early.</p><p>After record losses last year, beekeepers report a warm winter has led to bees ‘waking up earlier’ this year. <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="/tags/globalwarming/" rel="tag">#GlobalWarming</a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/17/north-america-bees-early-swarm-season" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/17/north-america-bees-early-swarm-season"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/environmen</span><span class="invisible">t/2026/may/17/north-america-bees-early-swarm-season</span></a></p>

<p>The <a href="/tags/greatpacificgarbagepatch/" rel="tag">#GreatPacificGarbagePatch</a> is a <a href="/tags/plastic/" rel="tag">#plastic</a> <a href="/tags/trash/" rel="tag">#trash</a> nightmare. It is also part of a much bigger, problem.</p><p>Out in the <a href="/tags/pacificocean/" rel="tag">#PacificOcean</a>, between <a href="/tags/hawaii/" rel="tag">#Hawaii</a> &amp; <a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#California</a>, is the Great <a href="/tags/pacific/" rel="tag">#Pacific</a> <a href="/tags/garbage/" rel="tag">#Garbage</a> Patch, a swirl of <a href="/tags/plastictrash/" rel="tag">#PlasticTrash</a> &gt;2X the size of Texas. As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, they break down into particles tiny enough to be borne aloft on the wind [&amp; inhaled].</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/environmentallaw/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalLaw</a> <a href="/tags/microplastics/" rel="tag">#microplastics</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <br><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/climate/microplastics-nanoplastics-air-global-warming" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/climate/microplastics-nanoplastics-air-global-warming"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/climate</span><span class="invisible">/microplastics-nanoplastics-air-global-warming</span></a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/safewater/" rel="tag">#safewater</a> <a href="/tags/safeair/" rel="tag">#safeair</a></p>