RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116283581814451849

Swiss pollution monitoring company IQAir found...

"air quality is deteriorating globally, largely due to human-caused climate change. Wildfire smoke, in particular, drove poor air quality in 2025, along with dust storms and other extreme weather events intensified by the burning of #FossilFuels"

The WHO set safe limits for PM2.5 or fine particulate matter due to their associated health risks -- tiny, inhalable PM 2.5 particles can travel deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream.

"They have been linked to respiratory issues, cardiovascular diseases, and long-term illnesses like cancer."

#ClimateChange

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Utah’s new study aims to kill ‘as many cougars as possible’

https://www.hcn.org/articles/utahs-new-study-aims-to-kill-as-many-cougars-as-possible/?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2026-03-24-Newsletter

#utah #cougars #resistance #raiseyourvoice #takeaction #learnsomething #biodiversity #nature #conservation #wilderness #wildlife #endangeredspecies #indigenous

NO KINGS 3

RALLY AND MARCH

SAT. MARCH 28
ALAMEDA PARK
SANTA BARBARA

11 AM: MEET OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
12:30 PM: RALLY AND SPEECHES
1:30 PM: MARCH TO DE LA GUERRA PLAZA

https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblesb.bsky.social/post/3mhjio5jmxc22

read this somewhere:

"the money spent going to war for oil could have been spent eliminating the need for oil."

SAVE Act wants everyone to get passports & birth certificates in order to vote. Passports & Birth Certificates are delivered by US mail…because US mail is trustworthy enough to deliver those. SAVE Act also wants to outlaw voting by US mail…because US mail is untrustworthy for votes?

SAVE Act is voter suppression by another name. And a poll tax. GOP can't win without banning some people from voting. Logic, ethics, & Justice have nothing to do w/SAVE Act. Stop pretending otherwise.

#USpol

We already see this.
I'm part of an international team of water scientists giving lectures on freshwater to Chinese university students. The first class has 1,500 students and they expect 10,000 to take the course. 10,000!
Just on #water issues.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00618-5

With a stroke of his pen, Trump made the oil flow on behalf of Sable Offshore 
— oil that hadn’t flowed for 10 years.

It began flowing from underwater oil wells located seven miles out to sea.

It flowed up to what used to be Exxon’s massive industrial plant along the Gaviota Coast.

And, ultimately, it flowed into two old pipelines that caused the 2015 massive oil disaster,
-- pipelines so corroded that Sable had to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to patch them up in 188 places.

That’s a whole lot of Band-Aids.

Trump did for Sable what Sable could not, and would not, do for itself.

Get the necessary permits to restart the major integrated oil facility along the coast of Santa Barbara

 — a place, by the way, where residents have learned that when it comes to oil production, there’s no such thing as being too careful
https://www.independent.com/2026/03/18/why-trumps-order-to-restart-oil-production-along-santa-barbaras-coast-may-not-be-the-final-word/