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Every single adult human *could* choose kindness. In case you’re wondering why human society is so cruel; our choices literally make our society. And when we happily choose violence against nonhuman animals, expect violence against human animals too. We are all #animals, in the end. #vhemt #vegan

Brazil has created the South Atlantic’s largest marine protected area, spanning about one million hectares. Supported by Conservation International, the reserve—roughly the size of Jamaica—aims to safeguard biodiversity, fisheries, and critical ocean ecosystems.

After migrating north they gather all the way up to Point Pelee in Ontario Canada for the flight back to Mexico in the Fall 🇨🇦🦋🇲🇽

It's finally time! Always my first bloom; Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) in the forest. I can breed them indoors, the minute I put them out unguarded....eaten. I shall continue to enjoy them in their natural environment until I figure out the secret plant keeping them safe in the wild.

The world just lived through the 11 hottest years on record — what now? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We’re at teen art club again 😎

Whooooaaaa

Cladonia sp #lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Snowshoeing the central barrens of the Bay de Verde Peninsula, #Newfoundland, Canada. #hiking #snowshoeing #trail #backpacking

Ontario scraps Endangered Species protection and hands responsibility to the Federal Government environmentaldefence.ca/2026/04/01/o... #ONpoli

Sauces that pair nicely with eating the rich

The fact that food banks even exist is proof that successive governments have failed in their duties. Food banks are a privately funded bandaid used to cover inadequate government programs. That the bandaid itself is now failing means the government is failing Canadians more than ever before.

My bloodroot is blooming!! Native Americans, including the Cherokee, Algonquin, and Ponca, used the orange-red sap of bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) primarily for dyes, body paint, and traditional medicine.

An incredibly tranquil morning in January on the North Shore of Lake Superior. #sunrise #landscape #Minnesota #PhotographersUnited

In a momentary break from al the Costa Rica pics it's #WoodpeckerWednesday with a Northern Flicker showing off ifs spots. 🪶

Many weather stations across the southern two thirds of the U.S. are already logging a record number of 80°F (and even 85°F+) days this year. This really highlights to me the extreme nature of the warmth in March, with many areas already seeing summer-like heat. Graphic from: sercc.com

Viola nuttallii, our Nuttall’s Violet, blooming now on the Mesa Trail #nativeplants 🌿

On this day in 1987, Fraggle Rock aired its final episode after five seasons. Filmed in Toronto, using primarily Canadian puppeteers and cast, it remains a beloved show for many. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/joR6Xnd

The Boss is awake! Warm weather is just around the corner. He's estimated to be about 28 or 29 years old and has fathered half of all the grizzly cubs in Banff National Park. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

🚨 My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has now been updated with 2025's data. We are rapidly losing ice. Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... More info: wgms.ch/global-glaci...

Have you seen this yet? This is wrong. Parliament is supposed to be a civic space — the one room in this country where every faith, and no faith, stands on equal ground.

A few more looks at my furry little friends. I have at least three red-backed voles who have made a home in the giant snowbank next to my back deck. They come out at dawn and dusk. Taken while sitting on the deck with my big lens balanced on my knee so I could manually focus. #mammals 🌿

An agreement between the Mi’kmaq and Parks Canada will allow both parties to govern almost all of Nova Scotia’s parks and historic lands together. Announced in December 2025, the Toqi’maliaptmu’k Arrangement comes after decades of relationship-building. thenarwhal.ca/mikmaq-parks...

Politicians are clambering to ship oil from Manitoba's Port of Churchill. But how feasible is it to build a new pipeline across warming permafrost? And how has it been done before? @jsrutgers.bsky.social dives in: thenarwhal.ca/pipeline-nor...

Orange Rock Posy Lichen. NWT, Canada. Lichen is about 1.5cm in diameter. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Red Kite and Raven at Fawsley yesterday. There were two very vocal Ravens, neither of whom came close. My Red Kite sightings may all have been of the same bird, but I got the feeling there was more than one around. #OnePlaceStudy #Birds #UKWildlife 🌿

Making more frogs at the frog factory (aka the little pond in my yard) (Wood Frogs) #herps 🌿 #FrogFriday

There’s a political push for more water-guzzling AI data centres in Canada. And uh, it looks like - at least in Alberta - they’re planning to plop most of them in high water stress areas. For @nationalobserver.com, let’s cover @rorywh.bsky.social and @natashabulowski.bsky.social’s scary findings:

In a panel discussion yesterday, the journalists behind The Narwhal’s Generating Futures series shared what they learned about the First Nations communities leading the way on renewable energy in B.C. Watch the event: thenarwhal.ca/generating-f...

GOB www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🌻 yellow trout lily 🌿 Erythronium americanum immature shoots have 1 leaf; flowering shoots have 2 leaves. a colony may have hundreds of shoots, only a small percentage blooming each year #nativeplants #ecoregion71

A pregnant whale shark swims through the waters of the Galápagos Islands as two sea lions swim beside her #WildlifeWednesday

Each line represents one year of #Arctic sea ice volume from 1979 [dark blue] to 2025 [dark red]. This year is shown in yellow - now updated through February 2026 More visuals of thickness and volume: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Shout out to this Cooper's hawk for letting me try out my new camera on something interesting! #birds #hawk #wisconsin

Say hello to my little fren. I can usually only watch him from inside the house, but today, I decided to try standing very still on the deck. It took a while, but then this happened. Red backed voles are the cutest. #mammals 🌿

There are some 3,000 patients on dialysis machines in Cuba who are at risk of dying from a prolonged blackout.

#NativePlants new foliage popping up in my garden just before this week’s snow. #4 Thalictrum dioicum (Early Meadowrue) I believe based on location plus looser form & purplish stems, though it can look similar to young Aquilegia foliage. #gardening #NoSpray #ecosystem #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱

#NativePlants new foliage popping up in my garden just before this week’s snow. #1 All the Aquilegia everywhere. #gardening #NoSpray #ecosystem #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱

One B.C. photographer spent the past decade documenting the forests he works in. His images capture the beachcombers, arborists and tugboat workers behind a changing industry. https://macleans.ca/culture/reave-dennison-wood-work-bc-forestry/

Each year, Mexican conservationists track eastern monarchs by the area of the forest they use while overwintering. This year, they covered 7.24 acres, which is 64% more than last year. While still less than the 15+ acres common in the 1990s, we're glad to see improvement! xerces.org/press/easter...

Le budget canadien consacré à la conservation devrait passer de plus d'un milliard à 366 millions de dollars l'année prochaine, constituant un revers majeur pour les objectifs en matière de climat et de biodiversité. La nature mérite mieux que cela. snapcanada.org/le-temps-pre...