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Disabled people belong in the environmental sciences. Disabled people can and should be ecologists, zoologists, biologist, botanists, etc. There are ways to accommodate your disabilities. There are ways to do field work while disabled. It is good for the planet to have disabled people in environmental science, as their lived experiences create unique lenses to experience and analyze problems through. Disabled people are also disproportionately impacted by environmental changes. By studying and fighting for our planet, we are fighting for the other members of our community.
when i sign up for a volunteer role or something i tell them i have experience in science communications which is not WRONG, i've done it through work, but most of it is just me texting my friends shit like this
ok im spending my lunch break learning about locusts and straight up if specific species (around 20 in the world) of short-horned grasshopper experience conditions of heavy vegetation growth after drought, leading to population booms, they become 'gregarious' and will swarm in huge numbers. their appearance and behavior changes and everything. the grasshoppers will go sicko mode and that's what a locust is. i love nature
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Today's wasp of the day is the Central American paper wasp (Apoica pallens)!
Credits: photo 1, photo 2
Also known as the banana wasp, when these wasps go out to forage at night, they explosively take off from the hive all at once! During the day, they layer their bodies over the opening of their hive and stare down anyone or thing that even thinks about messing with it.
humans will see a soft cellulose plant material or downy animal coat and say is anyone going to twist that staple fibre in order to make a cohesive thread and then not wait for an answer
Seriously, spinning as a craft is ancient. Archaeologists recently discovered three-ply fiber that’s around 46,000 years old, blowing the previous “oldest fingers” out of the water by thousands of years.
But get this: It’s made from fucking TREE BARK. Can you imagine the dedication, foresight, and experimentation involved in figuring out how to harvest and spin that? On top of everything, it’s also lace weight. What the fuck, Neanderthals?
it’s very cool that neanderthals managed to get yarn out of bark fiber, but i think you might be under the impression that all tree bark is like, oak, or sycamore, or something, and only exists in ‘thick chunk of wood’ or ‘flake of wood’ form. but there’s lots of bark like elm and cedar that peels away from the tree in long, tough strips, like so:
like, look at it. it’s string. it’s obviously string. you don’t actually have to be a genius to look at this and think ‘ah! string time :)’
i’ve picked up shed pieces of elm bark on a golf course, stripped and combed out the fiber with just my fingernails, and started hand-twisting good strong cordage right then and there as i walked. you don’t even have to soak it first, though i think if you want finer/softer cordage it helps to soak, beat, and comb the fibers.
the people of the pacific northwest, where there’s so many cedars, developed really wonderful textiles out of cedar bark fiber, pounding and soaking and combing it a bit like linen. i’ve never gotten to touch any, though i’d really like to.
Many plant fibers can be used to make cordage. Here I'll demonstrate how to process different kinds of plant fibers from the inner bark of t
here’s a whole page on all the different stems and barks that can be used for cordage! how cool is that?
so, not to denigrate the skill and intelligence of ancient people, but if you already know how to hand-spin grass and hair, then spinning bark is an extremely obvious and easy thing to do as soon as you encounter the right kind of bark.
Completed my first maintenance crawl-through of the season. Due to my shades and the vines' sprawl, I haven't been able to easily access the inner vines for a while. Despite my garden not being that big, this took me a few sessions:
Assess each plant's health, where its vines are going, and see if it has any female buds coming up soon
Take stock of how many secondary vines it has started, and choose no more than a few to be kept (determined by which ones are most vigorous and already aimed in a convenient direction)
Prune off redundant secondaries so the plant doesn't waste energy
Make extra sure to prune off the puny secondaries towards the base of the vine, not because they're sapping much energy but because they tend to become aphid magnets
Direct traffic of remaining vines to re-establish semi walkable rows and clear up crowded spots
Check undersides of leaves for pests
Remove dead fruits and yellowed, damaged, overcrowded, or low-lying leaves
Trim grass
Add more mulch in thin spots (the better I keep the sun off my soaker hoses, the more years they'll last me)
How are we more than halfway through 2026?! Wasn’t it just January yesterday? 🥴 Either way, each new month brings new positive news headlines, and July was no exception! ☀️ Come recap five good news stories from July! 🩵🌺🌊
1. ❤️🩹😷 Uganda has been declared free from Ebola!
Authorities in Uganda declared the country free of Ebola following the discharge of the country’s last patient! The country reported cases in May alongside its neighbor Democratic Republic of Congo, which continues to deal with the outbreak — Uganda, however, only ever recorded 20 cases and two deaths, with authorities finding no indication of further spread within the country! Uganda responded swiftly to the public health threat, including contact tracing and postponing potential superspreader events. Part of the reason the response was so successful was due to Uganda having experience in swiftly responding to health crises like Ebola. Uganda for now can breathe a sigh of relief as it continues to educate the public on prevention measures as well as send healthcare workers to Congo to help tackle the virus!
Uganda discharged its last Ebola patient from hospital roughly two weeks ago.
2. 📍🗺️ 7 natural wonders just became UNESCO World Heritage sites — and one country gained its very first!
These newly-christened landmarks highlight Earth’s cultural and natural diversity, from the massive ancient landscape of Greece’s Mount Olympus, to climate-resilient coral reefs in Jordan, to fossils in Denmark that provide clues into the evolution of life on Earth! Joining the World Heritage List’s 26 new sites for 2026, these natural landmarks include the first ever World Heritage site in South Sudan, which annually hosts the world’s largest land mammal migration of six million antelopes!
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has followed advice from IUCN, as the official advisor on nature, to inscribe seven new sites on the Wor
3. 🚫🧪 Sweden plans to ban all forever chemicals in everyday products by 2028!
PFAs, or “forever chemicals,” are synthetic chemicals that take thousands of years to degrade and pollute the environment, all while being linked to harmful health impacts. The ban’s prohibition of PFAs in commonly-used products like kitchen appliances, clothes, and cosmetics is a victory for both the environment and human health!
Sweden plans to ban forever chemicals in kitchen appliances and clothing by 2028. When will the EU follow suit?
4. 💧🌱 Water is returning to the African Sahel!
Groundwater reserves are rising after decades of drought in the region, restoring water to dried water sources! While part of the shift unfortunately comes from increasingly stronger rainfall due to climate change, it is also largely in part to rain-water harvesting. From Ethiopia to Senegal, the drought of the 1970s and 1980s fueled hunger and disease, but as monsoons now grow stronger, today the region shows a vastly different story — near-extinct wildlife are resurging, farmers are planting thriving trees and harvesting higher-yielding crops, and wells and new ponds are filling! One of the most notable transformations can be seen in Lake Chad — one of Africa’s largest bodies of water before drying up during the droughts, the lake is now almost as big as in the 1960s, and is 10 times its mid-1980s size!
Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alon
5. 💉🍼 Childhood immunization continues to grow globally!
Despite vaccine efforts being threatened by conflict and vaccine hesitancy, in 2025, 90% of infants globally received at least one dose of a diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine, and 85% completed the full three-dose series, an increase from 2024. Compared to 2024, the number of unvaccinated children with no doses fell by nearly 750,000! These numbers reflects the strides made in protecting children's health — in just the past 25 years, government investment, community efforts, and public trust have reduced the annual number of unvaccinated children by 40%!
Zero-dose children fell by nearly 750,000 in the past year, but drop-out numbers high and stagnant, increasing risk of disease outbreaks
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An earthship is a building that's built out of recycled materials (glass bottles, old tires, cans, etc..) and mostly Cob walls with solarpanels, wind turbines, greenhouses, and large water capture system to ensure all you need within the walls. All these components help regulate the temp for both plants and you creating a proper oasis from all of itnall
Here's a good dissection of one to give you an idea
The most famous one, and one of the first ones ever made back in the 1970s by a small off grid group working together is The Phoenix which was built as the model for how cool these guys could be its now a place you can take tours or rent-
But now there is so many different styles and cool ideas for it! Now some of these are merely concepts
But you can adapt them to any weather for your particular light/weather/energy conditions.
The main thing about Earthships is typically they are illegal to build as the US government considers them waste sites due to the materials their built out of.
i never know how to phrase this so it doesn't sound like "just stop being scared around wasps lol" but literally Just Stop Being Scared Around Wasps. i mean stop acting scared. you see a wasp and you start making erratic movements and loud noises to chase it off? congrats, you made it worse! don't do it.
and then, when you force yourself to instead act Very Calm and make slooooowww movements, the wasp will not sting you. it might even land on you and walk around a bit and it will not sting you. and it will happen again and again and you're going to feel stupid, like "was i seriously afraid when nothing happened at all?" and you are me. i know this because i did it. Just Stop Being Scared Around Wasps. it's that easy.
Some people have mentioned gently blowing on the wasp to get it to leave and I just want to advice against that actually. The CO2 in our breath can trigger the panic response in the wasp and make it react defensively. Instead just very gently wave them away if you must or lead it away with getting it to walk on a stick or object if you don't want it crawling on you.
When you encounter a lone wasp its usually out foraging and so they're just curious if there's any goodies for them to gather and at most just want to get a quick drink of your sweat. Setting out a shallow dish of water (or even just a couple drops of your drink) or a sacrificial piece of food can keep everyone happy.
Also time of year can make a difference as hives are at peak activity and on crunch mode towards the end of summer so the wasps get extra defensive. Oh and the color black! Black can signal aggression for wasps and bees (hence why bee suits are usually white) so sometimes they get confused upon encountering a large dark object and may be more likely to sting.
a few hours ago I opened the cable box on the side of my house, turns out there's a dozen wasps and a nest in there
I politely closed the box and apologised, I was not attacked
Several times in the past, I've picked up a 5-gallon bucket in the garden and found an active wasps nest inside- I put them down carefully and apologised
most of the time they will be happy to just exist in the same space
Calm and Beautiful Bald Faced Hornet, loudly chewing on the sunchoke trellis
I built with these sunchoke/sunflower stalks in part to provide housing for pollinators in the winter, but I didn't consider how they'd also be good materials for other types to use in housing or search for food
It's that time of year again! (The time of year when people who had me out to prune their trees in winter call me to tell me to come out and pick some fruit)
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friendly reminder to not feed wild animals. “but they’re in the wild and alone so they must be hungry!” The wild animal is fine. It gets its own food. Please please PLEASE do not food condition wild animals, it is terrible for them. I can’t believe people still have to say this.
Adding to this (in complete agreement) to say that if wanting to feed animals is important to you- plant a wildlife safe garden and don't chase off the critters that do things like eat the seeds on your sunflowers or the ripe strawberries, blueberries or blackberries. Find out what native plants are missing from your area and put them in that garden if you can. Use a plant saucer and make a permanent puddle that you refresh and clean every week.
The issue is specifically that you do not want wild animals to see -you- as a direct source of food. That food cannot come from your hand, but you can use your hands to grow critter food that they can find by themselves on plants and in bird feeders.
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