1. “Most People Are Disgusted by These Animals. These New Yorkers Are Filling Their Homes with Them,” Benji Jones

“Jones shows how giving them respect, love, and the space to heal has, in turn, enriched these people’s lives.”

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Sometimes it's worth telling it like it is: Climate change will put an end to coral reefs as we know them. Period.
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'You may think urban animals are gross, but we are the ones filling the city with trash.'

Benji Jones Vox #longreads

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Have you ever seen a baby opossum? 🥹

These guys are ~ 4-weeks old. They were rescued after they lost their mom (she was likely hit by a car).

On this Earth Day, we have an exciting project at Vox that explores how we can have a more sustainable relationship with our home planet.

These stories show how climate change will impact us and what we can do to make life better. vox.com/climate/241309…

I spent several weeks this spring meeting people in NYC who have filled their apartments with pests — pigeons, squirrels, opossums. Even rats.

They are an odd bunch. They also have something valuable to teach us.

Meet the rehabbers of NYC:
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The extent AND severity of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in 2024 is by far the worst ever recorded.

It would make you weep (again).

Biden moves to limit oil drilling and mineral mining in Alaska, in latest win for greens ow.ly/L3jQ105pZup

Sauron had a lot of problems, but he knew how to manage a wetland. The Dead Marshes were one of the environmental gems of Mordor, and an impressive nature-based solution to help remediate the environmental damage caused by the corpse issue after the Battle of Dagorlad

was taking pics of pigeons in thompkins sq park with a big lens and as soon as i walked out of the park someone asked if i was paparazzi which feels like an only in nyc series of events

the tripod fish. this thing is real

📷: Schmidt Ocean

i wrote about a couple of hopeful things in an otherwise very grim new analysis of the world's rainforests.

it's not exactly good news but a reminder that there is actually stuff that works to protect tropical forests
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Yet another North Atlantic right whale has been found dead — a mother of six, and one of the few reproductive females left on Earth.

This species is completely savable, yet it continues slipping closer towards extinction. What are we doing.
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the best kinds of fortune cookie fortunes are the ones that are definitely not fortunes

'anthropomorphizing' is perhaps the least elegant word in the English language