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Experts sound alarm as North America’s bees start swarm season unusually early.
After record losses last year, beekeepers report a warm winter has led to bees ‘waking up earlier’ this year. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming
#Trump #MafiaState #Imperialism
Cuba's oil reserves have run dry, its government said, potentially plunging the country into more debilitating #blackouts.
A long-running #EnergyCrisis in the island nation reached a breaking point this week, when government officials said they had run out of reserves.
This whole world runs on #FossilFuels, how stupid is that?
#geopolitics #climate #ClimateCrisis
nytimes.com/2026/05/14/world/a…
A look back at ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ 20 years later.
Al Gore’s famous documentary has mostly stood the test of time. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming
The coming #ElNiño could be the strongest in over a century.
Warming water in part of the #PacificOcean is raising the odds for the biggest El Niño on record. The #weather pattern could fully form by July.
It could lead to record high global #temperatures & #food shortages, & shift patterns of #droughts, #floods, humidity & #SeaIce across the planet.
#ExtremeWeather #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
washingtonpost.com/weather/202…
The #GreatPacificGarbagePatch is a #plastic #trash nightmare. It is also part of a much bigger, problem.
Out in the #PacificOcean, between #Hawaii & #California, is the Great #Pacific #Garbage Patch, a swirl of #PlasticTrash >2X the size of Texas. As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, they break down into particles tiny enough to be borne aloft on the wind [& inhaled].
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #microplastics #PublicHealth #health #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
cnn.com/2026/05/04/climate/mic…
If somebody hasn't done so already, I think Solnit's article (referenced in Cory's blog/post) is worth surfacing:
meditationsinanemergency.com/t…
#Energy #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #USpol #Iran #StraitOfHormuz
Truth, Consequences, Climate, and Demand Destruction
"This is how the attack by one petro-state (ours) on another (Iran's) may be turning out to be very bad for petroleum, because the only thing history loves more than a surprise party is irony.Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)
Exclusive: Shell Subsidiary Paid Queensland Museum More Than $10m to Shape Children’s Climate Education - DeSmog
The educational materials distort how fossil fuel pollution has caused the climate emergency, new report finds.Ellen Ormesher (DeSmog)
L’Europe n’a jamais autant brûlé qu’en 2025, alertent les scientifiques
reporterre.net/L-Europe-n-a-ja…
Fonte des glaces, canicules marines, feux géants... L’Europe a enregistré nombre de records en termes de phénomènes catastrophiques en 2025 dus au réchauffement climatique, selon un rapport publié le 29 avril.
California’s wildlife bridge became a target for the right. Now it’s eyeing the finish line.
Unhindered by critics who called the $114m project ‘a bridge to nowhere’, a gigantic bridge allowing animals to cross a busy freeway is close to completion. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…
California’s wildlife bridge became a target for the right. Now it’s eyeing the finish line
Unhindered by critics who called the $114m project ‘a bridge to nowhere’, a gigantic throughway allowing animals to cross a busy freeway is close to completionKatharine Gammon (The Guardian)
"many Amazonian communities aren’t connected to the grid. In remote areas...transmission lines are difficult to build and maintain. Instead, they depend on polluting diesel fuel for electricity.
"Diesel, transported by boat, is burned by about 160 local thermal plants and thousands of generators...
"Now, #solar panels and lithium batteries are beginning to transform the region, supplementing or replacing diesel altogether."
Bloomberg finance.yahoo.com/sectors/ener…
#Science #ClimateCrisis
Now we are incentivizing burning the planet faster with "AI" string prediction engines.
"devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets"
blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the…
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
