On the Lady Bird Johnson Grove Trail, Redwood National Park, #California

#ThickTrunkTuesday #photography #tree #TreesOfMastodon #TreesOnTuesday #trees #NationalPark #nature #NaturePhotography

Dry Lagoon State Park, Humboldt County, #California

#MeerMittwoch #photography #californiadreaming #travel #beach #driftwood #ocean #OceanWednesday #Pacific

Fuchsia flowers in Ferndale. These seem to thrive in the Northern #California climate, they are grown everywhere there.

#flowers #BloomScrolling #photography #FlowersOfMastodon

Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui?

"Big corporations, golf courses and hotels have been taking water from locals for years. Now the fire may result in even more devastating water theft."

"All over Maui, golf courses glisten emerald green, hotels manage to fill their pools and corporations stockpile water to sell to luxury estates. And yet, when it came time to fight the fires, some hoses ran dry. Why?"

"This is a classic case of the most craven disaster capitalism: a small elite group using a profound human tragedy as their window to roll back a hard-won grassroots victory for water rights, while removing civil servants who pose a political inconvenience to the administration’s pro-developer agenda."...
by Naomi Klein and Kapuaʻala Sproat

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/hawaii-fires-maui-water-rights-disaster-capitalism
#bushfires #disasters #water #rights #theft #golf #plantations #developers #resorts #SettlerCulture

A rare and uplifting win in #longcovid medical experience, UCSD doing some quite specific long covid bio research & contacted me from their patient pool. A chat with the researcher revealed what I thought, which is that her kind-heartedness set the tone even of the form study recruitment, which started by saying "we're sorry it's been hard, we hope you are feeling well." First long covid study I've seen that includes validated parking.

Our science is so shaped by the spirit we bring to it.

Everyone has to be out by Friday at noon MDT. At least 5000 evacuees will arrive in #yyc. Flights start at 1 pm Thursday. Yellowknife Hospital is closing units and negotiating medivac flights with SK, AB, and BC… whoever can take patients.

The mayor of #Yellowknife has handed control of the city to the NWT government.

My heart goes out to everyone up north.

N.W.T. officials order phased evacuation of Yellowknife as wildfire nears city | CTV News

#NWT #nwtfires

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/yellowknife-ordered-to-evacuate-as-wildfires-approach-city-1.6522623

Preach it.

"History without discomfort is propaganda."

As scientists pull back on, or drop entirely, their Twitter presence, a lot of them are coming here.

Welcome them, follow them!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

#science @scientists