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1.3 million trees planted in 2025 alone 🌳✨

With one of our newest partners, @plantwpurpose, we’re supporting rural farmers to grow trees in cacao and coffee forests in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

Keep searching to help us plant even more trees in 2026 🌱

#ecosia #reforestation #climatehope

#reforestation #ecosia #climatehope

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““We’re operating in disaster mode everyday,” Dr. Parks said.”

Edmonton doctors call on Alberta government to declare state of emergency as hospitals overflow | Globe and Mail (gift article link)

#ableg #abpoli #abhealth

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Edmonton doctors call on Alberta government to declare state of emergency as hospitals overflow

Call follows deaths of three patients in Grey Nuns Community Hospital emergency on Dec. 22
Alanna Smith (The Globe and Mail)
#abpoli #ableg #abhealth

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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 From the other morning when the snow was at times horizontal. Thankfully that didn't last long, but now we head into some even colder weather for the weekend. In this view the grouse were writing messages to Bird Goddess in the snow...
#winter #Ablerta #nature #birds #animist #photography
#Photography #nature #winter #birds #ArtAdventCalendar #animist #ablerta

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In the Rockies, a group of protesters aims to unite Albertans: ‘Most people can agree that we need clean water’ 💧🌲
#abpoli
thenarwhal.ca/kananaskis-loggi…

Civil disobedience in the Rockies, in photos | The Narwhal

In Alberta’s Kananaskis Country, organizers set up a civil disobedience camp in response to logging plans
Drew Anderson (The Narwhal)
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Record frostbite amputations in Edmonton, Alberta

I'm ashamed of my province in a lot of ways these days but this is one of the worst

"A controversial practice in both Edmonton and Calgary has been to dismantle tents and homeless encampments. Both cities confirmed that policy will continue this winter, citing safety concerns."

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#homeless #Alberta

Number of amputations with diagnosis of frostbite

Graph from CBC article
www.cbc.ca
#Alberta #homeless
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A government scientist was prevented from speaking to the media and community groups about his research, according to 600 pages of documents obtained by The Narwhal thenarwhal.ca/alberta-stalled-…

Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal

An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show
Ainslie Cruickshank (The Narwhal)

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One of the (only) ways to protest an FCC launch filing is by showing technical infeasibility. So... I may have started writing a technical paper about Reflect Orbital last night, driven entirely by rage. Luckily I have a lot of astronomer colleagues who I think will help out with this! Because I definitely don't have time to write yet another paper... aaahhhh....

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Roger Moore

Rage can be a powerful motivator. During the CrowdStrike fiasco last year our IT people managed to mess up a computer my lab uses for government regulated work. I wound up doing the investigation, and I was in a white-hot rage when I wrote the report. We were inspected by the government regulators recently, and they mentioned that investigation as an example of how we should be doing things. I'm sure I wouldn't have done so well if I hadn't been so angry.

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Bizarre cannibalism fake news stirs up hatred and fear against refugees

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#India #Rohingya #FakeNews #refugees

What’s behind the growing anti-immigrant discourse around stateless Rohingya in India

The “Bangladeshi Rohingya” framing has become a central weapon in anti-immigrant narratives through systematic disinformation campaigns in India’s digital sphere.
Global Voices
#India #refugees #Rohingya #FakeNews
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Goldfinch and the Drop of Water

I was about to post another sparrow photo—I've got so many good ones, it’s hard to choose. But then I came across this image of a goldfinch (Spinus tristis) pausing for a drink at the birdbath, and I knew this was the one to share.

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This Beaverton ( /s ) piece is really on the nose
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Is The Temporary Foreign Worker Program working? We asked 4 Tim Hortons franchise owners, and one slum landlord - The Beaverton

The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program allows Canadian employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary jobs when qualified Canadians are not available, and that's why it is completely uncontroversial and nobody has any issues with it.
Ian MacIntyre (The Beaverton)
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Aceh Tamiang, #Indonesia
A woman stands in a waterlogged street after a flash flood.

Photograph: Yt Hariono/AFP/Getty Images

#photography
#floods
#ClimateDiary

#Photography #indonesia #floods #ClimateDiary

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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 02 (still late..lol)
Snow Mother hasn't been around that much this year, but she's starting to catch up this week. #winter #pagan #Latvian #animist #snow #garden
#winter #garden #snow #Pagan #ArtAdventCalendar #latvian #animist

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Germany’s prosthetics exports to russia hit $52.6M in 2024 (vs. $27.5M in 2023), with 100+ tons shipped - double pre-war levels.

$56.7M exported in 9 Months 2025. russia’s 2026 prosthetics budget: 98B rubles ($1.5B+), up from $621M in 2024, as 180K+ amputations drive demand.

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Germany’s Prosthetics Exports to Russia Soar as Amputations Surge From War in Ukraine

Germany's prosthetic exports to Russia surged sharply, reaching $52.6 million in 2024, amid rising demands for rehabilitation equipment.
Dariia Mykhailenko (UNITED24 Media)

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Unmasking 'Dr. Evil': The russian Prison Medic Accused Of Torturing Ukrainian POWs

Ukrainian ex-prisoners of war say they endured sadistic beatings and torture with electric shocks at the hands of a medic they called "Dr. Evil." In an award-winning investigation by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, the prison doctor was identified as ilya sorokin and now faces EU sanctions.

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