Two Canadians (Gloria Dickie and I) attempt an English birthday, featuring a friendly fox, a Connie the caterpillar cake and a sunny park day 🇬🇧🇬🇧🥂🥂

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After the Jasper fire. Iconic image from Parks Canada of the devastation in the Canadian Rockies right now, capturing the toll massive wildfires take on all creatures.

Huge.

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More evidence adding to the argument that sloths bears are so aggressive because they are used to fighting tigers, which I explore in my book Eight Bears. Neat! nytimes.com/2024/07/30/sci…

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Amazing year for Western Hudson Bay polar bears. About 1/2 the bears we're tracking are still on the ice! It's almost like 40 years ago. As National Snow and Ice Data Center scientists mentioned at a talk years ago, a good year (or many) don't erase the long-term trends of sea ice loss. Sobering point.

Renters across the U.S. have few protections when it comes to extreme heat, with no state requiring landlords to provide AC. Now, some lawmakers are trying to change that with max indoor temp laws — frustrating landlords. My latest deep dive for Reuters. reuters.com/world/us/us-he…

As U.S. #Heat Deaths Rise, Some Landlords Oppose Right To Air Conditioning #news #environment #climatechange @gloriadickie reports for Reuters See also: sej.org/headlines/us-h… reuters.com/world/us/us-he…

The U.S., one of the world's largest plastic makers, will support a global treaty calling for a reduction in how much new plastic is produced each year in a major policy shift — scoop by Valerie Volcovici reuters.com/sustainability…

I’m super pumped to say I’ll be a Pulitzer Center fellow covering marine carbon removal/geoengineering for Scientific American this year. Feel free to send me tips here or to alecluhn [at] protonmail [dot] com!

Reuters safety adviser Ryan Evans was killed and two Reuters journalists were injured in a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk reut.rs/3X7Mld0

Devastating news. Praying for Ryan's family and the recovery of our injured colleagues. reuters.com/world/europe/r…

Exclusive: The UN World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in Sudan over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to deliver food aid to civilians amid the nation’s dire hunger crisis reut.rs/3XhSe8x

Devastated that Hvaldimir has passed away. The "spy whale captured" my imagination when I first came across news of him in Hammerfest, and he had managed to eek out a tenuous existence for many years in Norwegian waters. thebarentsobserver.com/en/life-and-pu…

Well, that one provoked some thoughts... review coming shortly to inquisitivebiologist.com Gloria Dickie W. W. Norton UK W. W. Norton & Company #books #bookreview #bears #mammals #scicomm

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