Lake Powell on the Colorado River is set to receive 13% of its normal spring runoff, the lowest amount from upstream snowmelt on record.
#climatechange
#water

https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/09/lake-powell-forecast-water-flows-record-low/

This 4 minute video celebrating David Attenborough’s 100 year birthday is simply wonderful.

https://youtu.be/I1D9YF0YapQ?si=h4HVZ63SSIrT18ns

The land footprint of food

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond

Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.

Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.

#climatechange #climate #timeisup #theworstisyettocome

The web is disappearing 🕳️
According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.

But that’s not the whole story.
In a new study published in VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.

Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.

VANISHING CULTURE 🕳️
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new

"Pure DC is building the city’s largest data center in Amsterdam Westpoort, with Microsoft as its sole tenant. The complex consumes 420 million liters of industrial water per year for cooling. Its electricity consumption is equivalent to that of nearly all Amsterdam households combined."

https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/140589/data-center-for-microsoft-consumes-up-to-420m-liters-of-industrial-water-a-week/

You can now join our Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS TestFlight using the following public link:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/M12n4GyM

Any data collected by EFF as part of this project is covered by EFF’s privacy policy: https://www.eff.org/policy. Data collected by Apple or any other third parties is covered by their respective privacy policies.