Chris McDermott
editor | fmr. managing editor at EcoWatch | animal rights | climate | biodiversity | science | oceans | biophile | Asheville, NC
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- Reposted by Chris McDermottWell done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.
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- “The fossil fuel industry was sent a powerful message by the court in this case — the health, well-being, affordability, and prosperity of our communities matters more than the industry’s profits and the hollowness of its fear mongering.” ~ Dawn Wells-Clyburn, executive director of PUSH Buffalo
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- “We found an average of seven different pesticides per butterfly, including multiple insecticides that are highly toxic to insects.” ~ Staci Cibotti, lead author of the study and pesticide risk prevention specialist @xercessociety.bsky.social
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- “What makes our discovery groundbreaking is not just its greater depth – it’s the astonishing abundance and diversity of chemosynthetic life we observed... this community thrives like a vibrant oasis in the vast desert of the deep sea.” ~ Mengran Du, IDSSE, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- “Oil and gas development in these fragile ecosystems would have devastating impacts on biodiversity, communities, land rights and the global fight against climate change.” ~ Anna Bebbington, research manager @earth-insight.org
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- “Every child deserves the chance to grow and thrive. Yet over 190 million children under the age of 5 are affected by undernutrition... This robs them of the chance to live to their fullest potential.” Catherine Russell, executive director @unicef.org , @fao.org
- “We are stretching the limits of how much ecological damage we can get away with." ~ @lewisakenji.bsky.social , @footprintnetwork.bsky.social
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- “For centuries, we’ve mapped mountains, forests, and oceans. But these fungi have remained in the dark, despite the extraordinary ways they sustain life on land.” @tobykiers.bsky.social , @spun.earth
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- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling supports the obligation of UN member states to tackle the climate crisis and outlines the consequences they could face if they fail to do so.
- “Teams are not fully functional right now because we have lost so many people... There was no efficiency in this – they just slashed it with an ax.” ~ Bobbie Scopa, retired firefighter with the USFS for 45 years
- “No one voted to turn on their kitchen faucet and serve their family tap water laced with toxic chemicals.” ~ Erik Olson, senior strategic director of health @nrdc.org
- “Unless further thwarted by counterproductive federal proposals, the northeast will see an increasingly diversified clean energy portfolio... minimizing the reliance on aging, inefficient fossil fuel power plants to serve peak demand.” @acadiacenter.bsky.social
- “The endangered Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, which has lived harmoniously with the haenyeo (female sea divers) in Jeju waters, is an important species that requires protection.” ~ Governor of Jeju Oh Young-hoon
- “Communities and states face devastating consequences when the federal government doesn’t meet its obligations to the public, and I will hold the Trump administration accountable for abandoning their safety.” ~ Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown @atg.wa.gov
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- “Acoustic interaction between plants and animals doubtlessly has many more forms and a wide range of roles. This is a vast, unexplored field — an entire world waiting to be discovered,” the researchers concluded.
- “The mountains are issuing a distress call." ~ United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, @un.org
- “This pace of change and clustering of consecutive records is not a natural variation in our climate. Numerous studies have shown how human emissions of greenhouse gases are warming the atmosphere and changing the weather we experience on the ground." ~ Mike Kendon @metoffice.gov.uk
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- “These environmental changes can affect everything from photosynthesis and growth rates to the synthesis and storage of nutrients in crops.” ~ Jiata Ugwah Ekele, doctorate student @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
- “Plastic pollution of the marine realm is widespread, with most scientific attention given to macroplastics and microplastics... Our findings suggest that nanoplastics comprise the dominant fraction of marine plastic pollution.” @dusanmateric.bsky.social, @ufz-cite.bsky.social
- “Our study provides the first evidence in dolphins for a wider repertoire of shared, context-specific signals, which could form the basis for a language-like communication system.” @whoi.edu
- “Glaciers tend to suppress the volume of eruptions from the volcanoes beneath them." @pmorenoyaeger.bsky.social , @uwmadison.bsky.social
- “Other countries have banned diquat, but in the U.S. we’re still fighting the fights that Europe won 20 years ago. It hasn’t gotten to the radar of most groups and that really says a lot about the sad and sorry state of pesticides in the U.S.” ~ Nathan Donley @biologicaldiversity.org
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- “These products are useful — waterproof stuff is nice to have, and there are other uses like medical and military uses that are very important... preventing jet fuel fires is essential. But the price that we pay for all of that is the contamination in these communities.” ~ @rachelfrazin.bsky.social
- "It's a constant therapy through action... Even if you don't know how to act right away." ~ graphic artist Christophe Blain
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- "We haven’t found a way to destroy PFAS, but our findings open the possibility of developing ways to get them out of our bodies where they do the most harm." ~ @indraroux.bsky.social, @mrc-tu.bsky.social
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- "... a transition to a renewable energy-based economy [is] now cheaper and safer for our economics and a healthier option for our societies… [it] seems radical and unrealistic because fossil fuel companies have been so good at making it seem so.” ~ UN special rapporteur on human rights Elisa Morgera
- "Today, we stand together in dissent against the current administration's focus on harmful deregulation, mischaracterization of previous EPA actions, and disregard for scientific expertise,” the declaration states. @standupforscience.bsky.social
- “We’ve recorded butterflies at several new sites, including areas where they haven’t been seen since the 1990s.” ~ Jenny Plackett, South West England conservation manager @savebutterflies.bsky.social
- “The substances do not penetrate the animals’ cells, but rather stick to the surface of the animal. This physically affects the animal, making it unable to move as well, and it impairs its ability to ingest food.” ~ Hans Sanderson, Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University
- “There is no denying that PFAS contamination is a national crisis. Our latest sampling confirms that it’s widespread and persistent, threatening waterways and public health across the country." ~ Marc Yaggi, CEO of Waterkeeper Alliance
- “All major energy sources, including nuclear and hydro, hit record consumption levels (for the first time since 2006), a reflection of surging global demand." ~ Dr. Nick Wayth, CEO of London-based Energy Institute
- “We knew China’s rush to install solar and wind was going to be wild but WOW." ~ @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
- "We need international cooperation, revamped for our era." ~ @clubdemadrid.bsky.social
- “We were amazed when we first noticed this behaviour.” ~ @drwhale.bsky.social , @whaleresearch.bsky.social
- “The recovery effort was a success – every bee hotel was used, with native bees occupying more than 800 nests in total… clear proof that properly designed bee hotels can support natural recolonisation and accelerate population recovery.” ~ Dr. Kit Prendergast @unisq.bsky.social
- “The Government needs to do more to ensure people see the benefits of climate action in their bills. Given increasingly unstable geopolitics, it is also important to get off unreliable fossil fuels and onto homegrown, renewable energy as quickly as possible." ~ @piersforster.bsky.social
- “There’s something in organic that every one of us can be excited about... If you want to talk about lowering our healthcare costs, well, it starts with what we’re eating. Food is medicine. And Rodale is saying that healthy food starts in healthy soil. And healthy soil is birthed on organic farms."
- “Asia is the continent with the largest land mass extending to the Arctic and is warming more than twice as fast as the global average because the temperature increase over land is larger than the temperature increase over the ocean." ~ @wmo-global.bsky.social
- “The roadless rule is one of our country’s most important conservation achievements, and we’ll fight like hell to keep these protections in place.” ~ Randy Spivak, public lands policy director @biologicaldiversity.org
- “It’s long past time for Alabama to align its water quality standards with current science and protect communities from these harmful toxic pollutants.” ~ @charlesmiller.bsky.social , @alabamarivers.bsky.social
- “This is the end of coal in Ireland and the start of a cleaner energy future." ~ Paddy Hayes, chief executive of ESB (Electricity Supply Board)
- “If you want to understand the climate crisis, and prepare for its impacts, you need this kind of data and this kind of analysis... our climate does not care what people wish it to be, it only responds to our actions.” ~ Christian Jakob, professor of climate modeling @monashuniversity.bsky.social
- “The human response to the climate crisis is being obstructed and delayed by the production and circulation of misleading information about the nature of climate change and the available solutions." ~ International Panel on the Information Environment
