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April 30, 2021 Update — Yesterday apnews.com reported “California officials will again truck [‘more than 16.8 million’] young salmon raised at fish hatcheries in the state’s Central Valley agricultural region to the Pacific Ocean because projected river conditions show that the waterways the fish use to travel downstream will be historically low and warm due to…

April 20, 2021 Update — According to dw.com in Germany, President of Russia Vladimir Putin will attend U. S. President Joe Biden’s April 22/23 Climate Summit. Sustraitstimes.com in Singapore reported Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping will also attend. It was widely reported U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has been in China trying…

Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion. A 2018 article in The Guardian by Patrick Barkham noted “[Dr. Mayer Hillman] is anxious we are not side-tracked by his best-known research, which challenged the supremacy of the car.”   The article quoted Hillman, “With doom ahead, making a case for cycling as the primary mode of transport is almost irrelevant…

Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion. Michelle Nichols at reuters.com reported “Attenborough, 94, the world’s most influential wildlife broadcaster, addressed a virtual meeting of the 15-member council on climate-related risks to international peace and security, chaired by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.’If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that…

Dave Borlace, noted as best “explainer” in my “Updated Best Practices for Climate Crisis,” posted a helpful video on 1/27/21 Is it too late to avoid 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming?. His video notes on 1/8/21 “the European Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) published a climate update [ . . . . ].” Borlace says we may reach 1.5…

  Artworks (Left to Right): Keri Oberly, Photograph of Quannah Chasinghorse Potts and Jody Juneby Potts, 2020 (Partial View); Bill Hanson, ​Broken Blue Ruins at Low Tide​, Digital Image from series “Southeast Alaska: Changing Climate, Changing Landscapes, Changing Life” (Partial View) and; Apay’uq Moore, ​Gram and Girl​, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020 (Partial View). Text and images require…

Thanks to Columbia Riverkeeper for an email about “Representative Mike Simpson [‘s] (R-Idaho) historic proposal to remove the four Lower Snake River Dams and create jobs and prosperity throughout our region. Rep. Simpson’s proposal would save Snake River salmon from extinction; protect the rights of Tribal Nations; help starving orcas; and re-invest in infrastructure, agriculture,…

Congratulations to many activists who helped stop, for now, the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay, Oregon, and proposed world’s largest Kalama, Washington methanol refinery. According to Ted Sickinger, at The Oregonian/OregonLive, Pembina Pipeline Corp. can reapply to build the LNG terminal, but recently “Federal regulators deliver[ed] [a] potentially fatal blow” to their plans. According to Troy Brynelson…

Order here. Dakota/Salish Artist Robert “Running Fisher” Upham wrote “Tahlequah is an orca, part of the ‘J Pod’ which spends part of each year off the northern coast of Washington State. Her story became known to the human community in 2018, when she carried her calf for 17 days, refusing to let her baby go to…

The video below is a repost of my May 20, 2018 list “Climate Scientists Expressing Nightmare/Anger/Fear/Gratitude/Other Feelings.”   I was reminded of it after reading Hanna Krueger’s December 4, 2020 Boston Globe article “‘Makes you ask why the hell we even bother.’ Infectious disease experts face disillusionment as COVID-19 pandemic worsens.” Krueger’s article quotes a former Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka, epidemiologist…