🌎 Good news: One of the most biodiverse marine ecosystems on Earth, the Great Bear Sea, is Canada’s first - and the world's second largest - marine protected area network, co-governed by 17 First Nations.

⚠️ Not-so-good news: A new The Nature Conservancy Science study finds that 35% of the world already lives in areas where extreme heat limits safe outdoor activity for part of the year.

🌱 What you can do: Even small actions like planting native species or supporting community gardens can cool cities, reduce flooding, and support biodiversity.

And when we talk about climate solutions, anger and worry decreases: and hope rises! When we make climate action visible, it becomes contagious. https://www.talkingclimate.ca/p/indigenous-led-ocean-protection-in

SpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work to respond to their non-response. By Friday.

Fuck you, SpaceX.

“How sci­ence is being attacked by the rich” | Great review of our (@peterhotez & my) book #ScienceUnderSiege by Gra­ham Wroe for the Nottingham Post:

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/nottingham-post/20260217/281758455747591

Sometimes I just sit down and realise:

• Tinkering with Linux eventually resulted in my dream job
• Many FOSS tools I use are made by awesome individuals, most of them working on things on their free time
• I trust my devices more now that I use these tools
• Since I run tools like Nextcloud myself, I can trust that my data is not being misused
• I have knowhow to help my friends and family to keep their data safe (sometimes I wish they would follow my advice but anyway lol)
• Since I dont use corpo social media, none of the crap around it concerns me
• I am just generally happier since I do not have worry about any of the techbro nonsense

Makes me feel oddly sated. Calm.

Is any of it perfect? No. But I take these always over the user-hostile corpo solutions.

So people who work on all of these free tools: Thank you. :)

One of the most common objections I hear to climate action is: “But what about China?”

The person making this argument usually goes on to claim that China is doing nothing, while everyone else is making sacrifices. But that’s not what the data show.

Here’s the reality:

* As the U.S. doubles down on fossil fuels and blocks new wind and solar projects, its emissions are ticking up.

* In contrast, China’s emissions appear to have peaked — and may now be starting to decline.

* Last year, China installed a full half of all the world's new wind and solar energy.

* Over the past two years, China installed more new solar power each year than the U.S. has installed in total across its entire history.

* China's clean exports alone are cutting CO2 outside its borders by 1% year on year.

Of course no country can fix climate change on its own. But just as it's a global problem, progress in one place helps everyone.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-21-months/