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Cacao comes originally from the Amazon Basin. It grows under shade trees. Out on agricultural frontiers in the Tropics, where rainforest is being lost, cacao in agroforestry can be a barrier to deforestation. The alternatives, cattle, Oil Palm, mean farmers cutting down all their trees.

Lists like comparisons are odious. myninebooks.com/g/78f37ee2f95b

The Colorado River is shrinking. What happens next?

This despite record global temperatures & extreme weather events. It didn't happen by accident. It's a predictable consequence of Trump/GOP assault on the media coupled w/ plutocratic capture of media outfits and platforms.

Lawyers are on the front lines of the fight to protect our democracy. Right now, @wetheaction.bsky.social is recruiting lawyers who are willing to volunteer their time to defend voting rights. Join them: wetheaction.us/guide

‘The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets’: Trump lashes out as his power wanes

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

Moving target: Congo's North Kivu province becomes new Ebola hotspot reut.rs/4dVQqKa

Philippines accuses China of obstructing resupply mission in South China Sea reut.rs/46JLapb

#FLgov @miamiherald.com www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Subscribe now! Daily posts, starting October 5th, finishing early November. Commemorating Spy magazine’s 40th anniversary. substack.com/@spymagazine...

In Peru’s Madre de Dios region, gold mining fuels deforestation and toxic mercury pollution. In La Pampa, a formalized artisanal operation is attempting to produce mercury-free "clean gold" despite facing violence, informal economies, and government neglect. Watch this report 👉️ mongabay.cc/rbodDA

Que sais-je? Michel de Montaigne, French Renaissance philosopher, whose gentle scepticism shaped European thought; died #OTD 1592. Some books originally in his library at Tour Montaigne are now in the University of Cambridge Library @theUL.bsky.social

Cut the Beef! Biggest benefit for health and to lessen deforestation of the Amazon. Everybody doesn't need to go vegan, just stop with the beef already.

Firefighters in Indonesia have intensified their battle against wildfires across the archipelago, using cloud seeding and water bombing as officials warn of the smoke and haze being produced by the blazes. On Borneo and Sumatra, more than five million people have been directly exposed to the haze

5 justices told Trump all was forgiven for tearing down the historic East Wing of the WH & he could carry on with his ballroom project while litigation about its legality proceeded. Justices Kagan, Sotomayor & Jackson joined the Chief Justice in dissent. joycevance.substack.com/p/why-cant-t...

scoop: Reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have been barred from next week's G20 meeting in Asheville, N.C. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/b...

El Niño has intensified since humans started burning fossil fuels and pumping heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, new research shows.

🚨 El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds 🚨 - "El Niño can supercharge global warming but also global warming can supercharge El Niño – that is what we are seeing" #ElNino #climatecrisis Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BREAKING: We just won an emergency request to block the US Postal Service from implementing a new rule that would give it an unprecedented and illegal gatekeeping role in determining who gets a mail-in ballot. A federal court said nope. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

The deportation is the latest example of the impact of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown on relatives of members of the U.S. military.

Public support for Supreme Court term limits comes from a simple but fundamental democratic value: No one should have too much power for too long. bit.ly/4glJ7w4

Cities that say no to driverless cars are blocking a technology that would change their residents’ lives for the better, Rogé Karma argues.

Man Keeps Looking For Right Time To Tell Family He Doesn't Like Ted Lasso"

Trump's endless bullying of the free and sovereign nation of Canada is exhausting and fucked up. Canadians despise him. And for good reason.

As animals with relatively large mouths, such as tortoises, have been extirpated from or declined on the Virgin Islands, plants with relatively large seeds have become “orphaned.” Without animals able to eat them, the seeds are not dispersed. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/KJn450Z6hqQ

Recently released court papers show how Trump and his advisers coordinated with federal agencies to cut federal funding and grants to Colorado as part of a pressure campaign to free Peters.

Disney-owned ABC files First Amendment lawsuit against FCC

A person without any govt position, who has numerous financial conflicts of interest, should not conduct US foreign policy. And that’s before we get to the fact that he uses this role to corruptly solicit money for himself. It’s wrong. Many seem to have accepted it, but I’ll never stop objecting.

'Who could've known?' Only the whole country saw that Biden was too old to run again. Pelosi & Schumer could've said it, could've pushed others to run, not sit there and let Biden do it. This is how we got Trump again, but gee somebody else should've said something... x.com/politico/sta...

Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions

Lying liars lying to lying liars.

Hong Kong just broke its all-time temperature record at 36.8 C. Climate change is real. Help.

Climate change is making the Po River, the engine of Italy’s economy, swing violently between flood and drought, and forcing farmers, engineers and industries to rethink processes built on the assumption the water would always be there.

Lung cancer patient cuts down to 1/2pack a day habit, best in years!

"The bottom line is that the group on which the Trump movement was built upon, they are shifting away and saying 'we don't like MAGA anymore'" -- Enten details how Trump has lost 32 points of support among non-college adults since 2024

Iran may have a more entrenched, more hard line regime but at least Hegseth is going to get shit canned.

What is truly "shocking" about the polling miss in Michigan is that it is completely average for a primary "The expected error on the margin between two primary candidates in a race for governor or U.S. Senate is a whopping 13.0 points." blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/2026-texas...

Record heatwave spreads across Korean peninsula, prompting emergency response reut.rs/4bq66Ez

Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

Humans are notoriously bad at telling the difference between "bad thing didn't happen to me because I minimized the risk" and "bad thing didn't happen to me therefore the risk was minimal" and Republicans prey on that.

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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The questions are no longer about whether Talarico is ahead and can he win. The answers are clearly yes and yes. Even Fox News now has him over 50%. The question is whether Texas Republicans can successfully suppress enough votes to swing the election. They are taking active measures to do so now.

I don't know how you look at everything Trump's been doing to mess with the election and think anything other than that he's trying to rig it. But whether he will succeed is a different matter, as Bob Kuttner reports. prospect.org/2026/07/28/t...

Scientists had warned us. Climate change doesn't just hurt nature, it also hurts capital. You can continue to deny it or ignore acting on it, only if you can afford to pay for the growing damages. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

With its apparent plans to remake the census, the Trump administration "could steal congressional seats and redirect potentially hundreds of billions of federal dollars." www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-tru...