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243d

In more "recycling is just shipping your plastic overseas where it actually doesn't get recycled"

LA Times: Malaysia will stop accepting U.S. plastic waste, creating a dilemma for California

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-26/malaysia-bans-us-plastic-waste-what-will-california-do

#plastic #environment #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle

221d

Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from #Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.

Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Housing #Environment #Pollution #Discrimination #Racism

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217d

Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches
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A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-musk-spacex-rocket-launch-environmental-regulation-rollback?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Environment #Aviation #SpaceX #Space #ElonMusk #Regulation #Trump

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214d

The Drying Planet
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A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Science #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Water #Earth

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221d

We’re proud to welcome to the Observer masthead @candicequestions and Mary Tuma as special investigative correspondents, joining @stevanzetti as freelance reporters helping us tackle the #environment, reproductive rights, and #extremism respectively: https://www.texasobserver.org/home/staff/

#ReproductiveRights #abortion #healthcare #ClimateChange #news #fascism #journalism #nonprofit #media #environment

A composite image of two headshots of Candice Bernd and Mary Tuma. Candice has blonde hair with brown highlights and is posed in front of a full bookcase. Mary Tuma is wearing black plastic glasses and bright pink lipstick.

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216d

Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show.

“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.

https://www.propublica.org/article/thacker-pass-lithium-mine-nevada-indigenous?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Indigenous #Environment #Surveillance #Nevada #ThackerPass #FBI

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244d

Introducing the July/August 2025 issue of our magazine, with reporting from Sandy West on predatory adoption agencies, Chilton Tippin on international #politics and natural resources, and much more.

Become a member of the Texas Observer and get the best of our journalism, starting at just $3/month: texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join

#journalism #Texas #nonprofit #culture #news #USpol #environment #water #children

The July/August 2025 issue of Texas Observer magazine shows a Black woman in a suburban home, children's photos, and paperwork along with the headline: "New Mom? In Distress? Sign Here. Private adoption agencies are targeting vulnerable mothers who end up in messy custody disputes. by Sandy West." Other headlines: The Great Texas-Mexico Water Standoff by Chilton Tippin, Remembering Ronnie Dugger by Joe Holley.

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212d

Beyond food and people

Nietzsche shows us how to embrace our connection with nature – without denying its essential conflict, strife and suffering

By Nicholas E Low

https://aeon.co/essays/nietzsches-startling-provocation-youre-edible-and-delicious?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=da597c7b26-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Nietzsche at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779

#Books #environment #bioethics

Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882; One of five photographies by photographer Gustav Schultze, Naumburg, taken early September 1882.

Nietzsche sits formally dressed in a dark jacket and high collar, with his thick mustache and sharp gaze..

His slightly turned pose and direct yet distant gaze convey a mix of introspection and solemnity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche#/media/File:Nietzsche1882.jpg

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237d

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS.

Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in funding for “forever chemicals” research.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-pfas-drinking-water?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Environment #EPA #PFAS #PublicHealth #ForeverChemicals #Trump

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211d

“Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye’re sleeping.”

—The Laird of Dumbiedikes, on his death-bed, to his son (in THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN, by Walter Scott)

28 July is World Conservation Day. Here’s “Dumbiedikes”, by James Robertson – you can listen to him read the poem online here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z2ZrMu__OY

#Scottish #literature #poetry #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage #WalterScott #WorldConservationDay #environment

Dumbiedikes
James Robertson

“Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye’re sleeping."
—The Laird of Dumbiedikes, on his death-bed, to his son
(The Heart of Midlothian, by Sir Walter Scott)

Hoo mony trees tae prent a thoosan buiks?
Hoo mony buiks tae pulp a thoosan trees?
Hoo mony trees tae launch a thoosan boats?
Hoo mony boats tae sink a thoosan trees?
Hoo mony trees tae licht a thoosan fires?
Hoo mony fires tae smoor a thoosan trees?
Hoo mony trees tae mak a thoosan kists?
Hoo mony kists tae yird a thoosan trees?
Jock, when I’m awa, dae this for me –
howk oot a hole and in it stick a tree.
I carena gin it’s birk, beech, aik or rowan,
Sae be’t when ye’re sleepin, Jock, it’s growin.
Its canopy will spreid, its seeds will faw;
it micht be hame tae mavis, merle or craw;
speeders will hing their brigs on it, I doot,
and peerie-weerie beasties venture oot
upon the mappa mundi o its bark,
while kail-worms mak a denner o its sark.
Amang its ruits the glunchin taid will rest,
the frettin, fykie yird-moose bigg her nest,
and dentylions and puddock-stools upheeze…
In sair times, Jock, we’re sair in need o trees.
Stick in a tree, stick in a thoosan mair,
and mind o me when I’m nae langer there.
Hoo mony daiths afore the planet dees?
Tae gie the planet braith, hoo mony trees?

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211d

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
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Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.
https://www.propublica.org/article/groundwater-fresh-water-depletion-research-science-advances-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Science #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Water #NASA #Data

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210d

ClimateJustice.social is a Mastodon server for climate justice activists and those concerned about global warming and the current environmental crisis.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters and has been operating since 2020.

https://climatejustice.social

You can find out more at https://climatejustice.social/about or contact the admin @PaulaToThePeople

cc @climate

#FeaturedServer #Climate #Environment #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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It’s not the crack you expect.
It’s more a soft whump,
then an elegant leaving, like
a grand piano dropped
from a silent-movie window…

—Karen Ashe, “The Sound of an Iceberg Calving”
in SOUND OF AN ICEBERG: New Writing Scotland 37 (ASL, 2019)

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws37/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #globalwarming #environment

Karen Ashe
The Sound of an Iceberg Calving

It’s not the crack you expect.
It’s more a soft whump,
then an elegant leaving, like
a grand piano dropped
from a silent-movie window,
a slow-motion school bus
over a soap-opera cliff,
Falling Man falling
forever on prime-time news
then the kettle clicks to a rapid boil
as a small finger presses a button,
the screen flickers and blurs,
and the iceberg is replaced
by slimming ads and payday loans,
super-fast fibre-optic wifi,
high-speed trains, and the tea
bleeds into the water and milk
delivered unseen in early hours
from cows in distant misty pastures
stays fresh for nine days
in fat plastic bottles
that go in the recycling
and the baby shudders inside
half a month from completion
and the buy-now-pay-later sofa
is wobbly in the leg already
and the interest-free 42-inch telly is frozen
on an ad for wonga.com
and the dunked biscuit dissolves
in the tea in the time it takes
to change channels
and in some faraway dark cold country
of slavering bears and wandering herdsmen
the iceberg
is still
calving.

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200d

The Southwest is rapidly losing groundwater due to overpumping and climate change, study finds

They found the Southwest U.S. – including Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Nevada, Colorado, Utah and California – has lost massive amounts of groundwater. That’s due to overpumping by cities and farmers & persistent drought

https://knpr.org/2025-08-07/the-southwest-is-rapidly-losing-groundwater-due-to-overpumping-and-climate-change-study-finds

#Arizona #NewMexico #Nevada #Colorado #Utah #California #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #pollution #environment #climate