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Make a sustainable choice: Buy GMO food sfchronicle.com/opinion/articl… via @sfchronicle

The Rise of Bad Science in the Twenty-First Century | David Robert Grimes x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

While the world obsesses over an F-35 🇺🇸 emergency landing, Ukrainians 🇺🇦 are quietly turning eastern Zaporizhia into the cemetery of Russia’s spring offensive. After more than 3,200 Russian 🇷🇺 losses in 48 hours, Moscow still cannot point to a single new meter.

How did California's Mono Lake revolutionize environmental law? Caroline Tracey (@ce_tracey) explains how the "lonely lake" drove pivotal legal battles over water use, air quality regulations, and tribal resource rights. zps.la/4bpq4OK

Leonardo da Vinci invented the self-supporting bridge, which works like this, between 1485-1487

In a loss for Apache women, Justice Kagan refused to pause a massive copper mining project set to turn a sacred religious site into a 2-mile-wide crater Under SCOTUS rules, apps that are denied by a single justice can be renewed with another justice courthousenews.com/last-hope-to-s…

New: RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters. propub.li/47HEZCR

Meningitis is one a few diseases where your child can be well in the morning and dead by the evening And if you’d ever seen it happen, you wouldn’t be debating whether to vaccinate or not Tragic and horrifying

As the winter visitation season ends, spring plowing operations begin! To prepare for the upcoming peak season, our crews spend about 3 months plowing over 180 miles of park roads that have been compacted with a winter's worth of snow. Here's a peek at what our crews face while they get our roads ready for the busy summer season.

Old-Growth Forests Store Far More Carbon Than We Thought ift.tt/qQ5ePzF

The Pentagon blackballed its own newspaper from covering its own press conference? Reminder, Stars & Stripes employees are US Army civilians. Their editorial independence is protected by Congress specifically to prevent political leaders from feeding troops propaganda.

Would you like LSD in your Wheaties? 🧪 Toxicologist @DrLizaMD breaks down a surprising public health win: Pesticides help keep ergot fungus (LSD's natural cousin) from turning your cereal into an accidental trip. P.S. ergotism used to kill 20-40K people at a time. 🪦

Sub-Saharan Africa has made incredible progress on Malaria. And there is still so far to go. The world really is getting better. And the work is so very far from finished.

The Colorado River's future is being negotiated by people who haven't stood on its banks together in decades. Photographer Pete McBride has a simple suggestion: get in the boat. Float it together. Don't leave until you have answers. buff.ly/cPFrUB6 #ColoradoRiver

Here are current annual snowpack levels across the west compared to yearly averages. Rough. On yesterday’s show, I covered the Western Governors Association’s comments on ways they are trying to enhance the collective snowpack across the American West to reduce wildfire risk.

To whom it may concern: stop applying Jena experiment results to crop production. -Farmers use managed, intelligent species selection; mixtures must beat the best monocultures, not the average of all monocultures as ecology measures it. -Biodiversity benefits in ecological research take 3–5+ years to emerge in perennial systems; this tells us nothing about annual crops or cover crops. -Ecological research finds that biodiversity correlates with benefits, not what causes them, and without knowing the mechanism, farmers have no basis for action.

The Pacific Northwest doesn’t forget. It buries evidence. Along the coasts of Washington and Oregon, scientists keep finding thin bands of ocean sand inside freshwater marsh. Miles from the shoreline. They show up where they shouldn’t… then show up again. Each layer marks a moment the Pacific moved inland in minutes. Tsunamis. Between those layers are roots, peat, and soil…. years of quiet life. Then another band of sand. In some places, the pattern repeats again and again. A coastline living normally… then erased. At the same time, entire forests dropped suddenly below sea level. Cedar and spruce killed where they stood. Still there today… gray trunks rising out of tidal flats. They drowned. Because during a full Cascadia Subduction Zone rupture, parts of the coast can drop several feet almost instantly and the ocean follows. In past events, water has pushed miles inland. Fast enough to leave debris tangled high in tree lines and saltwater buried deep in the soil. No warning. No time to run. Indigenous accounts describe nights where the ground shook and the ocean came in fast, swallowing villages. Those stories weren’t metaphor. The ground says the same thing. The last full rupture was January 1700. Every buried layer before it says the same thing: This isn’t a rare disaster. It’s a repeating one. So the real question isn’t if it happens again… it’s how close we are right now.

In Brief: @US_FDA changes its stance and agrees to review @moderna_tx’s mRNA flu vaccine after the biotech amends its Biologics License Application nature.com/articles/s4158… rdcu.be/e83HZ

Ever wonder how geologists date rocks? These colorful volcanic layers in the Brian Head Formation (SW Utah) are ~38 million years old! Learn more in this Glad You Asked article–geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey… #utahgeology

bradshawfoundation.com/news/45.php A 40,000-year-old #mammoth #figurine from Vogelherd Cave in #Germany could hold clues to the origins of written language. #Archaeology

Debate explodes over age of key South American archaeological site | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…