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1 APR 1940 | Wangarĩ Maathai born | Kenya

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U.S. President Donald Trump has moved to reopen the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing, arguing it won’t harm marine species and will support the industry.

Conservationists say the protected area is a vital sanctuary — and warn of wider rollbacks affecting other U.S. marine monuments.

by Edward Carver
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/trump-opens-only-us-marine-national-monument-in-atlantic-to-fishing-again/

#news #biodiversity #environment #environmentalpolicy #environmentalpolitics #fishing #marineprotectedareas

Trump opens only US marine national monument in Atlantic to fishing — again

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Feb. 6 to open a marine protected area off the northeastern U.S. to commercial fishing, in his latest move to deregulate the country’s waters and fisheries. The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, a 12,725-square-kilometer (4,913-square-mile) area roughly 209 km (130 mi) southeast of Cape Cod, […]

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The-14 Jan 12

Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science
#Greenland #Environment #Arctic #ClimateScience #SeaLevelRise #IceSheets #GlobalWarming #ClimateScience #ClimateResearch #PolarScience #EnvironmentalPolitics #ClimateRisk #ClimateChange #Trump #USA
https://the-14.com/why-greenland-is-indispensable-to-global-climate-science/

Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science | The-14

Greenland is vital to climate science: its ice reveals sea-level risk, ocean change & warming history.Political control could end global research access for all

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Paul Healey Oct 8, 2025

‘If someone did a study on humans but did it inside a prison using the prison population as subjects, we would instantly reject it.’ But if it’s on wolves – we just swallow it whole.’ https://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2025/10/02/open-thread-october-2-2025/ And yet those in power financed by the ultra wealthy seek to normalise hierarchial divisions that favour Apartheid: men against women, ethnic supremacy against ethnicity, sex against gender, neurotypical against neurodiversity, and corporations rights against interests rights. #Authoritarians against #democracy. Is not the elephant in the room and the enemy within: mechanised experimentation against reason and sensation as it is the basis of the fascist tech that is driving ecocide? #TruthToPower #LiarsDivisions #ProofAndDemonstration #JaneGoodall
#EnvironmentalPolitics #Ecocide

Open Thread October 2 2025 – Politics Plus

Brewminate Jul 14, 2025

🌋 Nature doesn’t recognize borders.
In the 1800s, it rewrote them.

Rivers shifted course. Earthquakes cracked claims of sovereignty.

Maps trembled on unsteady ground — and so did empires.

🧭 https://brewminate.com/unsteady-ground-how-19th-century-borders-buckled-under-natures-shifting-hand/

#Brewminate #ClimateHistory #EnvironmentalPolitics

19th-Century Borders and Natural Disasters

Explore how earthquakes, floods, and erosion reshaped borders and challenged empire in the 19th century and beyond.

Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas

sr+ sustainable resources Apr 26, 2025

#EnvironmentalPolitics
Take less than a minute and a half to listen to some of Senator Cory Booker’s Senate speech about "The Threats Trump Poses to the Environment and Energy Prices." Remember, not everyone is aboard the dismantling of environmental regulation and legislation that Trump, Doge and his Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum commit to accomplish as Trump orders agencies to ‘sunset’ environmental protections and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Link:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VoGgLuxZW7Y
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