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Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the global authority on species’ conservation status. We may never see another individual of these species ever again. Or will we? Slender-billed curlew This […]

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Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the global authority on species’ conservation status. We may never see another individual of these species ever again. Or will we? Slender-billed curlew This […]

Guangzhou is quietly becoming a blueprint for sustainable cities.
The Chinese megacity has transformed urban living with vertical gardens replacing concrete, parks built over malls, and green spaces woven throughout. They're prioritizing clean transit and renewable energy while proving dense cities can actually improve quality of life.

2025 Highlight: Guangzhou Shows a Potential Future of Clean City Living - CleanTechnica
Looking back on 2025, my trip to Guangzhou in November was one of the most eye-opening experiences. I knew that the media portrays a distorted and outdated picture of China, but I really didn't grasp how much until seeing it with my own eyes on this latest trip. While visiting, my wife and I frequently talked about how it was like visiting the future. Everything was relatively new, even compared to when a friend was stationed at the embassy there a little over a decade ago. Technology was every…

Jerry Jones Speaks Out On Trevon Diggs After Departure https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-shares-thoughts-trevon-diggs/

I kinda like living among lions (mountain lions). I wish we heard (or saw) them more often. We have plenty of deer for them to eat.
(We have had mountain lions come right up to our front door, and we have heard them - they sound like a cross between a human baby crying and a domestic cat.)
There also used to be bears - both black and brown (grizzle) around here. The black bears have returned to the mountains south of us, so maybe they will return here.
It is reported tha…

Big cats, bigger protections: Santa Cruz County mountain lions now listed as threatened
Mountain lions in Santa Cruz County recently gained new protections under the California Endangered Species Act after years as candidates for listing. Protecting six distinct puma populations around the state is a win for many dedicated researchers, but the move heightens the concerns about potential land-use and livestock impacts for developers, ranchers and farmers.

Democracy in the US is essentially dead. They don't even bother to inform Congress about going to war.
"Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, was not notified of the strikes in advance, his spokesman said."

Feeling a bit excited to be sitting in on an online EU event featuring Mastodon's Philip Schroepel [@…] - about building sovereign digital public spaces - a key issue at this time.

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely
starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said,
with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.
Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of the small, black and white African penguin are left globally,
according to scientists,
and the species was listed as critically endangered last year by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Two of the most important breedi…

Study says African penguins starved en masse off South Africa
Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said, with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.

A rare desert plant in Nevada,
called threecorner milkvetch,
✅ increased from just 12 known plants to 93
after a large solar power project was built nearby.
💥Rather than clearing everything away, the project was designed in a way that allowed the plant not only to survive, but to grow in greater numbers than before
@…

Plant species near extinction mysteriously rebounded and is now thriving after a solar power project was installed
A plant called threecorner milkvetch, nearly extinct, has grown eightfold thanks to solar panels, surprising scientists and conservationists.

Barely a year ago, the moon was “a distraction” to Elon Musk,
the billionaire chief executive of SpaceX then fixated on his ludicrously ambitious project to build a self-sustaining city on Mars within 20 years.
Why bother returning to the orbiting chunk of rock humanity conquered half a century ago, he reasoned,
when the greater prize of the red planet lay tantalizingly in reach for his company’s mighty Starship rockets?
Fast forward to February 2026, and the world’s …