Mineral extraction in the Congo basin is the source of so many human rights abuses, endangers wildlife like gorillas, and causes ecological devastation that increases disease outbreaks.
In the latest play from Project 2025, the Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of more than 900 instruments that continuously monitor the ocean. This is a deliberate destruction of critical scientific infrastructure.
What can plastic fragments found in an animal’s digestive tract tell us about the geographies it has traversed?
For Places, @maxliboiron.bsky.social wrote about the different world animals reveal through their appetites.
“The heart of gut forensics is not classification, but learning how to see.”