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41 years of Landsat satellite images revealed that alpine zones in northeastern North America, including the Green Mountains, White Mountains, Adirondacks, and Chic-Choc Mountains, are getting greener. ⛰️ eos.org/articles/in-...

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Doodles would like to remind everyone that Caturday is a great day to check your registration and make a plan to vote.

Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. A Reuters data-driven examination of global temperatures reveals the emergence of what we call heat storms. They now swarm the planet, upending life around the world. reut.rs/4zBUXtM

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

“I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” -- Nicole Noren, 24-year ESPN veteran and winner of Emmy, Murrow, and Peabody awards. Her grandfather, father and one of my brothers "were pretty much destroyed by sports gambling addiction." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Well, actual sea surface temperatures have now passed 30°C (86°F) in the key Niño 3.4 monitoring region for the first time in this data record... 😱 Sign up for next week's state of the climate briefing: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... Bring your questions, like on this historic El Niño!

When she was in Congress, Gov. Abigail Spanberger co-sponsored a failed bill to write protection of roadless areas in National Forests into law. Now she’s telling the Trump Administration not to rescind a 25-year-old regulation protecting these conservation areas.

all cats are the same

Michael Jordan makes $10 million commitment to UNC School of Social Work in honor of his mother

The Trump administration is considering placing data centers on 17,600 acres of public land in six states: Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. Public lands belong to the American people, not to Big Tech monstrosities. Full stop.

Caturday and we are being ridiculous.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of the late Jim Henson, and since today marks one month since Dolly Parton died, here they are singing a duet (with Henson voicing Kermit the Frog) on Dolly's variety show in 1987. See you around.

This San Antonio Express-News op-ed is right: corporations mining your personal data and supercharging it with AI to set your price is sinister. It's why I wrote the first federal bill to ban surveillance pricing.

There are many reasons to oppose, but I’d also like to point out that with this location, it could very well end up being the first data center to get burned up in a range fire. The area along I-84 goes up in flames every summer.

Here’s how Idaho is caught smack dab in the middle of a trade war www.boisestatepublicradio.org/news/2026-09...

A new report shows public pride events took place in 101 countries in 2025. “State crackdowns, funding cuts, and political hostility intensified everywhere. Communities held Pride anyway, knowing the costs.” (We're recognized for our work on pages 83-84!) crushingcolonialism.org/crushing-col...

We should save the planet to save the tilcayo cat. I’ve known about Tigrino for only two days and I already love him. (the feeling is not mutual, he looks very annoyed)

Steelhead numbers are crashing again. The 2026 run, in the Snake and Columbia rivers, is on pace to be the worst on record. Annual numbers had rebounded modestly following a string of terrible years from 2017 to 2021. But here we go again. www.lmtribune.com/local-news/r...

No shit, 100% agree here.

Check your registration!

Since 2021, Fish and Game officials said they have logged 35 “reliable” wolverine sightings in Idaho in their database of self-reported observations from people on the ground.

It’s not just Flock, there is a pushback against these LPRs.

Trump continues to push to rescind the Roadless Rule, one of our most important safeguards for undeveloped national forests. The Forest Service proposes to open 45M acres of roadless public lands to logging, roadbuilding, mining and other commercial development. Sign: suwa.quorum.us/campaign/169...

If you haven't yet, please comment on the Roadless Rule... 🙏🏼 www.regulations.gov/document/FS-...

Name a non-LotR character who could resist the One Ring:

Idaho! Are you registered to vote? Check here: voteidaho.gov/voter-regist...

Parent company McClatchy Media laid off 10 journalists and three editors at the Idaho Statesman on Thursday. Michael Lycklama, chair of the Idaho News Guild, the union representing most Statesman reporters, said that’s 60% of the newsroom.

Get the facts on Prop 1: #idpol

I really hope people understand the relevant laws in their states about party consent to be recorded

Shame on ABA www.naacpldf.org/news/ldf-con...

good morning sisters/brothers, Happy Labor Day! Let us celebrate the labor movement and workers today, and honor all of them by fighting for labor and unions each and every day.

I don’t think there’s any greater indicator of how despised these cameras than Jerome County saying no.

Medicaid work requirements could kick 20K to 34K Idahoans off Medicaid expansion by 2028. Medicaid recipients will be required to re-apply every six months. Starting in January, the state can remove people from Medicaid expansion for not complying. #idpol #idleg idahocapitalsun.com/2026/09/01/i...

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

She was just so good. Just good in every way that matters.

NEW: Earth’s oceans were warmer than any day in recorded history Friday due to a combination of long-term human-caused global warming and short-term effects of El Niño. The record ocean heat is threatening marine life and will have cascading effects on global weather throughout the coming months.

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Likewise, covering parking lots In solar panels

So verrry well written!

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1910: A massive wildfire consumes roughly 3 million acres across three Northwestern states in 36 hours, killing 87 people. The Great Fire of 1910 spurred expansion of our national forests, but Trump wants to repeat the mistakes that led to this deadly blaze. /1

Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day

Still a narrow exception, but that might make the appeal more difficult.

A pack of younger dogs surrounds their older companion every time he tries to enter the pool alone, a protective instinct seen in wolves too.

Light pollution means that many do not see how littered the sky has become. Where I am privileged to live, I can see more than 5 satellites a minute. I cannot bear the thought of seeing 100 times that many and what that will do to wildlife or to our souls.