A2 (Anthropocene Alliance)

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Good news alert! Wolf populations in Europe are steadily increasing, due to strong protections in countries where they had almost gone extinct.

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Good news alert! By protecting its big cats from poaching and habitat loss, India was able to double its tiger population in just a decade.

Today in History: On May 25, 2023, the Sackett v. EPA Supreme Court ruling changed the landscape of water protection in the U.S. by stripping federal safeguards from millions of acres of wetlands.

A new study finds that nearly half of all US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution.

Today in History: The filling of the Chan-75 dam in 2011 submerged ancestral Ngöbe lands, displacing entire communities and permanently altering the Changuinola River Valley.

Good news alert! A recent study in Ecuador has found that tropical rainforest biodiversity has rebounded by 90% in the past 30 years.

Today in History: The Walkerton water crisis began in Ontario, exposing fatal flaws in public utility management. This tragedy claimed seven lives and sparked a complete overhaul of Canada’s drinking water safety laws to ensure such a failure never happens again.

We're making a podcast! In Times Like These brings listeners to the front lines of climate and environmental disaster, where the harms are immediate, personal, and impossible to ignore. [Link to trailer in thread] 1/

🔈 New Edition of the A2 Times! In Cleveland, A2 member Cleveland Lead Advocates for Safe Housing (CLASH) is fighting for proactive inspections, mandatory remediation, and lead-safe housing before children are harmed. 1/

Snow across much of the West is dangerously low this year. Less melted snow means less water for cities, farms, and rivers, and a higher risk of drought and wildfires.

🚨 Over 70% of marine protected areas worldwide are contaminated by sewage—undermining conservation efforts and making coral reefs more vulnerable to climate change. We can't protect our oceans without fixing what flows from land.

Survivor Climate Change Edition.

Great white sharks are overheating from climate-driven ocean warming, disrupting food webs as they flee to cooler depths.

Every time they say “climate change is a hoax”… another community floods, another heatwave breaks records, another insurance policy disappears. denial isn’t harmless—it’s deadly. 🌎🔥

Good news alert! In 2025, Texas generated more solar electricity than coal for the first time.

Today in History: On April 17, 1951, American Steel and Wire Co., a U.S. Steel subsidiary, settled about 130 lawsuits over the 1948 Donora, Pennsylvania smog disaster for a reported $235,000. The suits stemmed from a toxic air inversion that killed around 20 people and sickened thousands.

Good news alert! Sometimes climate and environmental news feel all doom and gloom—so here's a little good news to brighten your Wednesday!

New research shows that the US has has $10 trillion worth of climate damage since 1990.

Nope.

Wrong.

Incorrect.

False.

Well, you're wrong.

Today in History: Exxon Mobil forced to pay for poisoning groundwater with MTBE.

🚨 A2 Times Alert! 🚨 LEAN used an EPA grant to map air pollution across Louisiana’s Cancer Alley with Aclima’s sensor cars, collecting 50 million data points, spotting 27 hotspots, and then installing cheaper stationary monitors that feed real-time data to communities.

Bunnies multiply. So do emissions.

Fungi are Earth’s hidden heroes. They feed most plants, trap billions of tons of CO2 yearly, and fight germs, but they are dying from habitat loss!

A new global air quality report finds most people on Earth are breathing unhealthy air, driven by climate-fueled wildfires, dust storms, and fossil fuels—yet governments are still easing standards and cutting monitoring.

It’s World Theatre Day! And, we’re honoring the work of Britton & The Sting. Theater has always been a place where communities come together to grieve, celebrate, and imagine different futures; today, in a time of climate chaos and water crisis, that role feels more urgent than ever. 1/

In 2025, the United States spent an estimated $34.5 billion to subsidize the fossil fuel industry.

It's Waffle Day! The waffles are hot, but the planet is hotter.

112 bird species have lost more than 50% of their populations in the last 50 years due to the impacts of climate change.

Reminder: when your energy system runs on oil, your economy runs on war and geopolitics.

Thermal drone footage reveals Elon Musk’s AI company xAI running unpermitted gas turbines to power a data center—violating the Clean Air Act.

Turns out letting polluters guess their own emissions means the air is way dirtier than they claimed — shocking, I know. Maybe it’s time the EPA stopped taking the industry’s word for it.

Bees are dying faster than ever. In 2025 alone, 62 % of U.S. commercial honeybee colonies vanished.

Turns out one of the ocean’s deadliest predators is plastic—and we’re the ones feeding it. From discarded packaging to microplastics in everyday products, human waste is infiltrating marine ecosystems, choking wildlife, and disrupting the delicate balance of our oceans.

Just released: a new report shows that 36 fossil fuel giants are responsible for half of the world’s CO₂ emissions. Thirty-six. While communities are fighting to survive floods, fires, and record heat, a handful of corporations are driving the crisis and cashing the checks.

Double, double, oil and trouble, fires burn and oceans bubble. We wrote the spell—now it’s time to break it.

Last week, the A2 team held an in-person staff retreat. We trained with Wade Rathke of ACORN International, met with Amy Stelly of the Claiborne Avenue Alliance, visited Sankofa Wetlands Park, and toured Cancer Alley with Tish Taylor of Concerned Citizens of St. John. 1/