Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊

I was a sophomore at Bowdoin on 9/11... I remember talking to my dad on the phone that evening, him telling me in tears to be careful as the first news of mobs attacking Muslims, Sikhs and brown people started to filter in... but today a #Bowdoin alum became the first Muslim Mayor of NYC. #ZOHRAN 🥹🎆

“Water is the canary in the coalmine of climate change. We receive distress signals in the form of increasingly extreme rainfall, floods and droughts which wreak heavy toll on lives, ecosystems and economies”
- WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo.

news.un.org/en/story/202...

#water #climate 💧☁️

Water is ‘canary in the coalmine’ of climate change: WMO

The year 2023 marked the driest year in over three decades for rivers around the world, according to a new report coordinated by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

“It is pure villainy,” said Mann. “A crime against the planet – arguably, the most profound of all crimes.”

#water #climate #thefifthrisk

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

White House ends funding for key US climate body: ‘No coming back from this’

Nasa cuts contract that convened USGCRP, which released assessments impacting environmental decision-making

"You can't start at a home depot and then claim you were there to go after pedophiles and murderers..." @ktla.com

"The water in the dam is very low. We are drilling everywhere to find water. And we’ve told our young people there’s a risk that we’ll drill in the ground and not find any more water... The earth is dying because man himself is killing it."

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #water #climate

‘There are days when the school closes because children don’t have water to drink’ – This is climate breakdown

Until the 1960s it rained a lot. We ate wild game, fish, there were plenty of rivers, but since then they’ve been drying up. This is José’s story

#POWERFAILURE 🌊 #BADBUNNY 🤩 #AMERICANS ✊🏽
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“Drought has got a very, very slow way to kill everything. Your hopes, your dreams, your self-esteem, your financial independence. A body can take only so much, a mind can only take so much… when a farmer goes quiet, then you need to worry.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#water #climate

‘Disaster is about caring. I’m not selfish any more’ – This is climate breakdown

We are used to seasonal droughts in the Karoo. But this did not stop. This is Sybil’s story

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Super stoked for my friend @natalielshorter.bsky.social who just delivered this speech at the DNC Officer Candidate Elections for Aisha Dew! Watch here: jmp.sh/5lD1yjYX

So proud of everyone mobilizing to defeat a proposed #datacenter in #Coachella and protecting this valley's precious #water resources. Tune in now: www.coachella.org/city-governm...

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves - WIRED @dell.bsky.social @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Praying it still exists Monday.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Inside Trump’s purge at the agency that saves millions of lives

USAID has become a testing ground for dismantling government agencies, agency employees tell Vox.

"We’re spending most of our money on water. That’s how we’re surviving... I tell my children to study hard for their future, because we don’t know what the government or anyone will do to help us..."

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #water #climate 💧☁️

‘When the water subsided, I saw our house was gone’ – This is climate breakdown

We were shocked by how quickly the water rose. My children panicked and I didn’t know what to save first. This is Leoncia’s story

“The idea seemed to be: How can we do this as cheaply and brutally as possible?”

INSIDE ICE’S LARGEST DETENTION CENTER
On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.

Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center — The New Yorker

On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.

“The state of dysfunction of the detention centers is alarming,” said Shepard. “They are being used as a deterrent and also as a punishment for immigrants” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A year after ICE raids terrorized Los Angeles, a rattled city counts its scars: ‘The arrests never really stopped’

Thousand of arrests last summer led to mass protests and some deaths – across the city, communities still bear the scars

Brilliant reference to one of the best album covers ever.
Please let’s stay immersed in & inspired by what we’re fighting to save - especially at the darkest times.
It inspires and resonates on such a deeper level, and reminds us that not looking away can bring out the best in us 💙
#unknownpleasures

Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

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“the insurance industry is largely predicated on the idea that if a home is damaged or destroyed a comparable structure should be rebuilt on the same spot. This model will have trouble accommodating land changed beyond recognition no longer able to host a dwelling.”
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

The 30-Year Home Mortgage Isn’t Designed for Climate Chaos — Bloomberg

The lending and insurance industries are not adequately accounting for rising climate risks threatening American homeowners. And US taxpayers bear the burden.

TURN THE VOLUME UP!

“…the only signs of the big brown algae were a few loose floating pieces and some decaying holdfasts on rocks near the shore — a sign that kelp had been there in the recent past, but no longer.”
#LAFires
www.latimes.com/science/stor...

'Like someone put a blanket over the ocean': Kelp could be among fires' casualties

Divers recently sought evidence of the Palisades fire's underwater toll, particularly its effect on a vital anchor of the coastal ecosystem: kelp.

Sea water floods S.F.’s Embarcadero amid predictions of record summer tides

www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti... #water #elnino26

Sea water floods S.F.’s Embarcadero amid predictions of record summer tides

The National Weather Service issued a coastal flood advisory through Wednesday for San Francisco Bay, with up to 2 feet of inundation in low-lying areas.