Great blog post from Ted Sommer on a quarter century of science and dedication to turn good ideas into reality, increasing access for native fish to the super-productive habitats on floodplains.
@ucdaviswater.bsky.social
californiawaterblog.com/2026/02/15/a...
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Today is #WorldWildlifeDay - a good time to celebrate that wildlife also includes swimmers, e.g., Irrawaddy Dolphin, from Mekong (Laos) in 2013 (dolphins now gone from Laos).
Rivers are also essential for wildlife that walks, for habitat & corridors (elephants along Zambezi)
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Big Battery Energy? Yes, America boomed in 2025. 🔋 Batteries are one of the 6 technologies outlined by Sr. Scientist Amanda Smith, PhD. that will make up the cleaner electric grid of the future.
Read more in Wired: https://bit.ly/4tTTk8Z
Read more from Amanda Smith, PhD.: https://bit.ly/4tOZI10
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On this day in 1968, Ohio became perhaps world’s first gov't to legislate system of protected rivers: Ohio Wild and Scenic Rivers Act preceded U.S. Wild & Scenic by 10 months. Little Miami River was first
Grand River was the second protected river
Luca kayaks on the Grand, summer 2022.
Tell me the truth...I'm ready.
New IPBES report finds that $220 billion were directed to conservation & restoration of biodiversity in 2023...
yet $7.3 trillion flowed toward subsidies that directly harm nature.
IPBES Business & Biodiversity Assessment www.ipbes.net/business-imp...
@ipbes.net
New report from IPBES finds that $220 billion were directed to conservation and restoration of biodiversity in 2023...
yet $7.3 trillion flowed toward subsidies that directly harm nature.
We need a better world.
IPBES Business & Biodiversity Assessment; www.ipbes.net/business-imp...
@ipbes.net
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
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Reflecting on warmer months ahead
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A few days ago was National Random Acts of Kindness Day...
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There are some gulls on the Cuyahoga River
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A major thaw after a month of cold…ice breaking up on the Chagrin River
Blog post about opportunity to use tools from Hydropower Sustainability Alliance -including the Hydropower Sustainability Standard & the new tool Hydroselect - to deliver some of the insights & benefits of system-scale planning to promote sustainable power systems
www.hs-alliance.org/blogs/system...
In honor of Valentine's Day, a short romantic comedy for #NatureBasedSolutions (below)..
and a blog post on Forbes on how maybe the best example of a large-scale, effective #NBS has been right before our eyes this whole time...
www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
Proponents of #NatureBasedSolutions need to make the case that #NbS can be effective at large scales. For that, there may be no better example than the Yolo Bypass (CA). As it's almost Valentine's Day, I make that case with the language of rom-coms. #floodplain
www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...
#WaterYear celebrates International Day of Women & Girls in Science!
Wren studying benthic ecology, Chagrin River 2013
#WomenInScience2026
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HAPPY WORLD WETLANDS DAY 💧🙌
Canoeing with the family through Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia.
#WorldWetlandDay
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Small stretch of flowing water on otherwise frozen Chagrin River, while snowshoeing.
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Snowshoeing on the frozen Chagrin River
Right, okay, so, Springsteen and Morello playing Ghost of Tom Joad at First Avenue in Minneapolis at a concert for the resistance. Just saying. You got time for this right?
Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
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The falls of the Chagrin in Chagrin Falls are nearly frozen
Someone needed to write this…Powerful, angry and moving words from Springsteen.
River need greater protection, but to date our methods for tracking protection status have been limited. In this post I describe a new method from @oldenfish.bsky.social @americanrivers.bsky.social and Conservation Science Partners - the Protected River Index
www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...
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A swan in a small area of open water in a pond mostly covered by thin film of ice. Pond is in the park behind the Karlsruher Schloss (Karlsruhe Palace) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Record heat is the new normal, says WWF's @stephanieroe.bsky.social, as 2025 ranks among the three hottest years ever. The good news? Climate solutions are breaking records too. Rapid emissions cuts are possible. More here: t.co/Ph4h3mU6i8
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I love the boardwalk at @audubon.org Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in SW Florida. Such a great way to experience a range of wetland habitats and to see wildlife close up
“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” - Gandalf (Tolkien)
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White ibis at @audubon.org Corkscrew Swamp near Naples, Florida. Took the photo with iPhone lined up with binoculars.
