Rooney’s old account @girls_can@social.cleverlibre.org

In light of Google announcing today that they will block news, read our publisher's words on #BillC18, what it means for Canadian journalism and what it means for Tyee readers.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/06/23/News-Erased-Google-Facebook/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062923-m&utm_campaign=editorial

👉​ "Previous COVID infection is associated with an increased risk of #RSV requiring medical attention both for children age 0-5 AND specifically in infants 0-1.
More evidence that “immunity debt” isn’t real & that COVID infection puts kids at risk of worse outcomes from other pathogens."

- Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook MD FRCSC, London, ON. @placentadoc

#LongCovidKids #Covid #onpoli #ontED
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.12.23289898v1.full.pdf

#Introduction

I am a Canadian ecologist, based in #Ontario with a focus on wildlife ecology and evolution, including:

#connectivity #infectiousdisease #climatechange #mammals #genetics #genomics #hybridization

I really, deeply wish everyone would make some collective effort to unlearn the passive argumentative nature we all learned from Twitter.

Everyone always treated posts like invitations to debate or argue every point.

We deserve better than this. We don’t have to do that.

@girls_can @empiricism There is literature describing succession of above and below ground organisms following wildfire. There is also some literature describing what will happen when recovery times between wildfire disturbances decrease and when fire severity increases, as we're seeing now. I've also noticed the wildfire literature has really grown in recent years for some reason...<sarcasm> #wildfire #succession #recovery

I had my goodbye meeting with my writing mentor this morning. She loves my new short story, a #LandBack revenge tale called “The Tupilaq” inspired by my battles in Kitchener over ecological destruction. I entered it in a cli-fi contest. Not sure it’s what the judges are looking for, but I think writing contests should be looking at #IndigenousFuturism , don’t you? #Indigedon @waterlooregion #Indigenous #WritingLife @indigenousauthors

No gym for me. The air quality is too dangerous. I feel like I’m living the bad-air scenario from Total Recall or The Expanse. Worried that I won’t be able to go camping again. Worried about all the people and animals who can’t find clean air. #ClimateDiary #CanadaWildfires #AirPollution

Thames Water is on the brink of collapse. Why? Because, since privatisation, the investment funds that own it have milked it dry. Its debt levels equal the eyewatering amount of dividends paid out to investors. Renationalise all water companies now.

#water #CorporateGreed #PublicServices

https://news.sky.com/story/ministers-weigh-contingency-plan-for-collapse-of-thames-water-12910760

EXCLUSIVE: How incinerator industry tried to delay plans to close ‘loophole’ and force firms to pay for emissions.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/incinerators-emissions-trading-scheme-loophole-pollution-save-500-million-government-lobbied/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social

#Waste #Carbon #UK #Climatechange #UKlaw #lobbying #incinerators

RT Virginijus Sinkevičius
An area the size of Switzerland was cleared from Earth’s 🌍 most pristine rainforests in 2022.
Our pioneering 🇪🇺 legislation to tackle global deforestation enters into force tomorrow.
It is our legacy to ensure our supply chains are deforestation-free.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/27/destruction-of-worlds-pristine-rainforests-soared-in-2022-despite-cop26-pledge?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://t.co/WDdsccQRlW

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/VSinkevicius/status/1673985375419637760

For over a year, the Western Mediterranean has been hit by high temperatures and exceptionally low rainfall.
This combination has led to a severe drought that affected:
🔸Agriculture
🔸Water resources
🔸Energy production
The full @CopernicusEMS report: http://europa.eu/!hWkWXy https://t.co/6LiZGK4Syd

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUClimateAction/status/1673972746718527496

A zebra can't change its stripes ... but we absolutely must change these 👇👇👇

https://showyourstripes.info/l

#ClimateBrawl #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

The climate deniers who claim that climate scientists are in it for the grant money should be forced to write and submit 10 grants.gov proposals as punishment.

I remember when applying for my law license, having to disclose toll violations & parking tickets from a decade prior amounting to less than $100.

Absurd that is sitting SCOTUS justice claims a $150K vacation didn’t require disclosure or recusal.

Where is the accountability?

Time For 9 o'clock #HashtagGames hosted by @paul
Summer brings the little critters that like to sting and bite us. Let's Play

#BugBiteASong
#HashtagGames

How to play: Write something awesome, Use the Hashtag, Toot/Post and Repeat!

"Regenerating natural ecosystems may best enhance the co-benefits of carbon sequestration and biodiversity."

Revisiting the carbon–biodiversity connection - Gamon - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.16829?campaign=wolearlyview#sq_hf3z7lyxov