The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never thought that would happen here.”
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors....
Today In #GoodNews
Scaffolding going up......
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🚨 Experts suggest the #US framework for regulating #DeepSeaMining is basically being written on the back of a napkin. 🌊📝
If the safeguards are bare-bones before it even starts, imagine the oversight once the machines hit the seabed.
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When languages go extinct, so does the ecological knowledge they contain. therevelator.org/extinction-l...
“Rights of nature” initiatives face counterattacks, bans, corruption, cooptation by NGOs & — in some cases — sizable victories
New #RightsofNature Report rounds up the state of this 20-year old movement, which has made big strides
But didn't know that 4 US states [OH, FL, ID, UT] actually ban it:
Great piece by @bengoldfarb.bsky.social today at @mongabay.com about #wildlife crossings on roads
--> a global effort to reconnect ecological corridors so animals can find food, water, a mate — and escape increasingly frequent wildfires & extreme weather events: news.mongabay.com/2026/06/the-...
A ruling by Brazil’s highest court allows a grain railway to cut through Jamanxim National Park.
The megaproject threatens Indigenous territories and key jaguar habitats in an area already heavily impacted by illegal land grabbing and deforestation.
@schroder.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
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Cities are expanding faster than at any point in human history, and wildlife is adapting in remarkable ways. We often talk about visible changes like animals becoming bolder, shifting their diets, or…
For the past week, Albanians have protested Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s plan to pave a protected nature reserve and turn it into a luxury resort—a plan which, protesters say, could put the pink birds in jeopardy.
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Erik Hoffner
Erik Hoffner
More than 2,000 Indigenous languages are at risk of disappearing this century — and with them we could lose vitally important traditional ecological knowledge.
This first edition of CELDF's State of Rights of Nature Report represents yet another important contribution from CELDF to those studying, documenting, or actively working for rights of nature.
Great to hear that Canada has moved to welcome Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan to officiate #worldcup matches there
He was denied entry into the US by border agents, which was a real "own goal" by that administration & another black eye for its policies, www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brazil's Supreme Court ruling revives a controversial Amazon railway and sets a precedent about protected areas.
This is part 2 of a two-part series examining the U.S.’s efforts to begin deep-sea mining in federal waters. Part 2 examines the regulations that would govern the industry. Part 1 explored the process...
