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Registered nurses from the Kaiser Permanente and Sutter Health systems will hold an joint protest on Sept. 16 to rally for strong contracts to improve patient care at two of the Bay’s biggest hospital systems. Combined at both systems, more than 35,000 nurses are represented by CNA/NNU in active contract negotiations.

According to published reports, the Trump Administration will finalize rules to rollback carbon pollution standards for power plants, as soon as today.

Following is reaction from Meredith Hankins, federal climate legal director at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council):

“With millions of Americans facing wildfires, heat waves and deadly storms fueled by climate change, the Trump administration is cutting the biggest polluters loose to do more damage than ever.

“For the health of our families and good of our nation, this cannot stand. Ignoring the immense harm to the public from this power plant pollution is a clear violation of the Clean Air Act and of Supreme Court precedent. We will be seeing them in court."

According to reporting, Donald Trump’s administration will propose to repeal the Endangerment Finding for power plants today – a move that would permanently strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants under the Clean Air Act. This action would strip EPA of one of its most powerful tools for combating climate change. Combined with the administration’s February repeal of the Endangerment Finding for motor vehicles, today’s proposal is part of a sweeping effort to dismantle the legal foundation for federal climate regulation, leaving the EPA legally unable to act on the two largest sources of carbon pollution in the country.

The proposal is another one of Donald Trump’s attempts to bolster the profits of a struggling coal industry and deliver directly on the promises EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made to the corporate executives at a National Coal Council meeting in July, where he vowed to fulfill the industry’s “wish list.” The administration has already given more than $700 million in taxpayer dollars to the coal industry, despite the immense public and environmental harms associated with burning coal for electricity, and the well-documented evidence that clean energy is now cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable than fossil fuels.

The handouts and regulatory giveaways come as renewable energy continues to outperform fossil fuel-burning power plants in the marketplace. It is now cheaper to build new solar energy than to build new coal or gas plants–even without subsidies for renewable projects. In May, solar energy generated more electricity than coal across the entire country. That same month, Utah generated more energy from solar than any other source. Despite Donald Trump’s best efforts, the coal industry cannot compete with solar—it’s being kept on life support by taxpayer subsidies and regulatory handouts, while ordinary families pay the price in higher electricity bills, dirtier air, and more extreme weather fueled by carbon pollution.

In response, Sierra Club Chief Program Officer Holly Bender issued the following statement:

“While wildfires rage, floods devastate communities, and families struggle to afford skyrocketing electricity bills and insurance premiums, the Trump administration is handing the fossil fuel industry a license to keep polluting. This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public. The Sierra Club will fight back against this reckless and dangerous proposal with everything we have in the courts, in Congress, and in communities across the country.”

Background

The Endangerment Finding is a 2009 scientific determination by the EPA that greenhouse gasses pose a significant threat to public health and the environment. It is the legal cornerstone of the EPA’s authority to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act – the foundation upon which vehicle standards, power plant rules, and other climate protections have all been built. The nonpartisan National Academies of Sciences confirmed last year that the finding “was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence.”

Sierra Club has been at the front lines of the fight for federal climate standards longer than any other organization. In December 2002, the Club filed the first-ever climate case under the Clean Air Act in federal court, which ultimately led to the Supreme Court’s decision in Massachusetts v. EPA that the Clean Air Act covers greenhouse gas pollution and to all of the federal climate standards that followed. Now, two-and-a-half decades later, Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin are trying to destroy those hard-won victories in an effort to double-down on the fossil fuels that are harming the climate and environment, and driving up costs.

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Contact

Milagros R. Elia

Program Manager, Climate and Clean Energy Advocacy

Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments

milagros@envirn.org

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Nurses Mark National Truck Driver Appreciation Week With Call for Cleaner Trucks as a Public Health Priority

[USA] — As National Truck Driver Appreciation Week begins, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) is joining organizations across the country in honoring the professional truck drivers who keep our economy and our health care system moving — and calling on trucking industry leaders and manufacturers to invest in a cleaner future for the people behind the wheel and the communities along their routes.

Truck drivers perform one of the country’s most essential jobs, delivering the food, medicine, and equipment communities and hospitals rely on every day. They also spend their working lives exposed to diesel exhaust, a pollutant classified as carcinogenic. Nurses see the downstream effects of that exposure firsthand: asthma attacks, cardiovascular strain, and respiratory illness that hit hardest in communities along heavily trafficked freight corridors.

In response to National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Executive Director Katie Huffling, DNP, RN, CNM, FAAN issued the following statement: 

“Truck drivers deserve more than our gratitude, they deserve working conditions that support their health and allow them to return home safely to their families. Investing in cleaner trucks is a meaningful way to honor these essential workers while protecting children, older adults, and families in communities located near highways, warehouses, and freight corridors.”

“Nurses care for patients whose asthma, heart disease, and respiratory conditions are worsened by transportation pollution. The trucking industry and vehicle manufacturers have both the ability and the responsibility to reduce these preventable health harms. Delaying clean truck progress prolongs harmful exposures and shifts the health burden onto drivers, patients, families, and already overburdened communities.”

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The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments is the only national nursing organization focused solely on the intersection of health and the environment. The mission of the Alliance is to support nurses in promoting planetary health and equity globally by educating and leading the nursing profession, advancing research, incorporating planet-safe practice, and influencing policy. http://enviRN.org

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During National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments joins people across the country in recognizing the professional truck drivers who keep our communities, economy, and health care system moving.

Truck drivers perform essential work every day. The food on grocery store shelves, medications in pharmacies, and equipment and supplies used in hospitals and clinics reach their destinations because professional drivers transport them. Their work supports nearly every part of daily life, often requiring long hours on the road and extended periods away from their families. As nurses, we believe that appreciation should be demonstrated through meaningful investments in their health, safety, and working conditions, and in the health of the communities along the routes they travel.

For generations, diesel exhaust has been treated as an unavoidable part of working in and around the trucking industry. Professional drivers may spend thousands of hours each year inside or near diesel-powered vehicles, freight facilities, warehouses, ports, and distribution centers. This occupational exposure is compounded by long hours, demanding schedules, and limited opportunities to avoid polluted air.

Diesel exhaust is classified as carcinogenic to humans. It also contains fine particulate matter and other pollutants associated with respiratory and cardiovascular harm. Nurses witness the human consequences of air pollution in clinics, hospitals, schools, and communities from children struggling to breathe during an asthma attack to adults experiencing worsening heart and lung disease.

The risks extend beyond the people behind the wheel. Communities located near highways, ports, warehouses, and heavily traveled freight corridors often face disproportionate exposure to transportation pollution. Many of these communities are already affected by cumulative environmental hazards, inadequate access to health care, and other social and economic conditions that increase their vulnerability to illness.

The good news is that we have the technology to begin changing this reality. The transition to cleaner, zero-emission trucks can reduce harmful tailpipe pollution, improve air quality, and protect the health of drivers, freight workers, and nearby communities. Clean air is a fundamental condition for protecting health and preventing disease. 

Transition to clean technologies also presents an opportunity to strengthen the trucking industry. Investments in cleaner vehicles, charging infrastructure, workforce development, and dependable supply chains can help create an industry prepared to compete in a rapidly changing global market. Drivers must be included in this process so that the technologies placed into service are safe, practical, reliable, and responsive to the conditions they encounter on the road.

Achieving a cleaner freight system will require leadership across the entire trucking sector. Truck manufacturers must fulfill their clean-vehicle commitments and make cleaner trucks available at the scale and pace necessary to reduce pollution. Fleet operators must prepare for the transition while ensuring that workers have appropriate training, workplace protections, and a meaningful voice in implementation.

Industry associations also have an important responsibility. The American Trucking Associations should help its members prepare for a healthier and more competitive future instead of opposing policies intended to accelerate clean-truck deployment. Efforts to weaken or delay protections such as California’s Advanced Clean Trucks framework risk prolonging harmful exposures for drivers and communities while creating uncertainty for businesses already investing in cleaner technology.

Accountability does not mean placing the burden of this transition on individual drivers or small operators. Policymakers and industry leaders must ensure that funding, infrastructure, technical assistance, and workforce protections are available so the transition is practical and equitable. The people who keep goods moving should benefit directly from cleaner vehicles and healthier workplaces.

National Truck Driver Appreciation Week is an important opportunity to celebrate the skill, dedication, and sacrifice of professional drivers. But appreciation cannot end when the week does. Truck drivers keep America moving throughout the year. They deserve an industry that values their health as much as their productivity and recognizes clean air as an essential workplace protection. Communities along freight routes deserve relief from pollution that has affected their health for far too long.

Nurses have a role in advancing this vision. We can educate patients and decision-makers about the health consequences of diesel pollution, support evidence-based clean-truck protections, advocate for equitable infrastructure investments, and elevate the experiences of drivers and communities most affected by freight-related pollution.

Investing in cleaner trucks is an investment in disease prevention, healthier workers, more resilient communities, and a stronger transportation system. It is also one of the most meaningful ways to recognize the people whose work connects our hospitals, businesses, and homes.

This week, we thank America’s truck drivers. For the years ahead, let us invest in their health—and ours.

 

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The Trump administration continues its attacks on public lands in its latest push to rescind the Roadless Rule, one of the country’s most important legal safeguards for undeveloped national forests. In August, the U.S. Forest Service moved to the next phase of its rulemaking process, releasing a dangerous proposal to put nearly 45 million acres of roadless public lands nationwide at greater risk of logging, roadbuilding, mining, and other industrial development.

In Utah, the Roadless Rule protects roughly 4 million acres of forest—from the Wasatch Front to the West Desert to southern Utah’s redrock forests—including wildlife habitat, quiet recreation, the headwaters for entire watersheds, and the large, unfragmented landscapes that make the West wild.

Please tell the Forest Service to protect our nation’s wild forests by keeping the Roadless Rule intact © Tim Peterson

Utah does not need more roads. National forests already contain hundreds of thousands of miles of roads nationwide, and there’s a multibillion-dollar maintenance backlog for these existing roads. The Roadless Rule does not close these roads, prevent people from reaching trailheads, or end outdoor recreation. Roadless areas remain open for hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, and other recreation while striking a balance that protects the wildlife and cultural resources many visitors are there to experience and enjoy.

This proposal is really about opening public lands to more industrial development, extraction, and privatization. New roads make commercial logging, mining, drilling, and other damaging development easier while fragmenting habitat, eroding soils, degrading streams, spreading invasive species, and increasing human disturbance in places that have remained largely whole. Opening these areas to new roads doesn’t address wildfire safety and may even increase ignition risk. The Roadless Rule already permits fire suppression, fuels work, and emergency roads when necessary in wildland firefighting.

In Utah, roadless national forest lands help connect Bureau of Land Management landscapes proposed for protection in America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act. Together, these public lands support wildlife migration and climate resilience across Utah’s mountains, plateaus, and redrock country. Fragmenting one part of that system severely weakens the whole.

The deadline for public comments on the Roadless Rule rescission is Tuesday, October 6. Click here to tell the Forest Service why roadless areas matter to you and to the redrock.

Thank you for standing up for Utah’s forests!

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Two national activist groups, Progressive Democrats of America and RootsAction, announced today that they will launch a campaign soon after the November midterm elections calling for Reps. Ro Khanna and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to enter the race for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.

“As the prospective field comes into view, it’s crucial to have a strong progressive at the top of the Democratic ticket in 2028,” the two groups said in a joint statement. “Most of the Democrats whose names now crowd the field have been war enablers, go-slow reformers or status quo protectors. AOC and Khanna, meanwhile, have shown a willingness to blaze unusual and much-needed trails on Capitol Hill beyond the constraints of the Democratic Party establishment and bipartisan corporatism.”

The groups said: “Majorities of voters, not just Democrats, are angry about nonstop war, runaway inflation, corporate greed and a government dominated by billionaires. The voices of Khanna and/or AOC are needed in the presidential campaign to ensure that voters hear serious solutions. Without a progressive populist advocate atop the ticket, the Democratic response would be woefully underwhelming -- enabling right-wing demagoguery to push voter unrest in dangerous and divisive directions.”

Progressive Democrats of America launched the “Run, Bernie, Run” campaign in 2013, which successfully drafted independent Senator Bernie Sanders to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 -- a campaign that sparked a big part of the contemporary progressive movement.

In November 2022, RootsAction launched the “Don’t Run Joe” campaign calling for President Biden not to seek re-election. RootsAction was the first national group to announce support for Zohran Mamdani in his successful run for mayor of New York.

The joint statement called Khanna and Ocasio-Cortez “proven leaders and voices of clarity at a time of grave peril for our country and the world.” The groups said “we believe their presence in the race is crucial to foster debate on healthcare, jobs, AI, militarism and the U.S. relationship with Israel, along with many other issues important to a wide range of voters.”

Progressive Democrats of America and RootsAction commented: “The announcement of this campaign will come as a surprise to both Khanna and Ocasio-Cortez. We did not give them any advance notice of it, and they have never suggested to us that we do any such thing.”

“Our organizations do not always agree with Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Khanna, and no doubt they don’t always agree with us,” the groups said. “But we definitely want to see one or both of them in the race.”

Both RootsAction and PDA are committed to helping the Democratic Party win the midterm elections, after which this campaign will launch. The groups added, “Party unity will be stronger with the expectation that the party’s full spectrum of views will be well-represented on presidential debate platforms in 2027 and ’28.”

PDA executive director Alan Minsky said today: “The success of progressive candidates across the country was the story of the 2026 primary season. Yet almost all of the high-profile prospective Democratic presidential candidates are Big Money-backed status quo centrists -- at a time when the Democratic voting base overwhelmingly supports progressive policies that lift the lives of working people. We need at least one progressive champion on the presidential debate stage to counter the corporatists’ cacophony of bland incrementalism. Americans want change. Reps. Khanna and Ocasio-Cortez are two brilliant advocates for an America as great as its promise."

RootsAction senior strategist India Walton commented: “Working people are hungry for leadership that works for all of us, not just the wealthy and well-connected -- leaders who do not capitulate to corporate power, who reject endless wars, and embrace policies that mean we can live healthy, happy lives. AOC and Ro Khanna can bring that vision to the presidential stage."

TXNM unwound a Blackstone stock sale ruled illegal, but the state Department of Justice is seeking more information related to potential indirect costs to PNM ratepayers.

Eliminating federal limits on power-sector emissions could undermine local climate goals and increase risks to infrastructure and public health, city and environmental leaders warn.

This is a guest blog by Rodrigo Leitão, environmental lawyer and member of Coletivo Pororoka, and Alexandre Anderson, of Rede Ahomar — a nationwide organization representing fishermen and fishing communities in the Guanabara Bay region, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and throughout the country. On October 7 2026, Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) is set to hold its next oil block auction — including further expansion of exploration areas in the Foz do Amazonas basin.

The confirmed discovery of oil off the coast of Oiapoque, at the mouth of the Amazon in northern Brazil — an area known as the Foz do Amazonas basin, puts the region on a slippery path that fishers in Guanabara Bay already know well. A path that, once travelled, leaves marks impossible to erase.

Rodrigo Leitão is an environmental Lawyer; member the Amazonian organization Pororoka and Representative of the Brazilian Institute of Environmental Law (IBDA). Photo: AHOMAR

Guanabara Bay, in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, knows what it looks like when the oil industry arrives. The story began in 1954, when the Manguinhos Refinery started operating. In 1961 came the Duque de Caxias Refinery, known as REDUC. After that came the pipelines, the terminals, the petrochemical plants, the support structures for the offshore industry, the vessels and the new facilities. Decade after decade, the industry took up more of the Bay, competing for space with the people who already lived there. 

Separate licences, accumulated impacts

In Guanabara Bay, the destruction caused by oil didn’t happen all at once — it built up slowly, one project at a time. Each new project was licensed on its own, so no one ever assessed the full, combined impact. By the time the damage became visible, a great deal had already been lost. 

In January 2000, a ruptured of a pipeline spilled around 1.3 million litres of oil, roughly 340,000 gallons, into Guanabara Bay. Mangroves, beaches, fish, birds and thousands of fishers were hit. But the violence against small-scale fishing did not begin at that moment. It had  already been under way for years: in the shrinking fishing grounds, the exclusion zones, the traffic of large vessels, the dredging, the pollution and the steady transformation of the territory.

A participatory mapping carried out with small-scale fishers in Guanabara Bay showed the scale of that loss. The study by Carla Ramôa Chaves, developed at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), found that only 12% to 25% of the bay remained free of restrictions on fishing. The oil industry stood out as the largest single user of the water surface.

Territory and life

Losing a fishing territory is not simply losing an area on a map. Territory means income, food, knowledge and spirituality. Even the definition used by Brazil’s Federal Government recognizes that life in these communities is organized around the waters and their cycles. It took many generations to learn the right time to take from nature what nature offers. And for that, fishers depend on mangroves, rivers, estuaries and seas that are still alive.

So when a fishing territory disappears, what disappears is far more than an economic activity that could easily be swapped for another source of income, as many people assume. It is a form of violence, because it wipes out a way of life handed down from parent to child, built in community and in respect for nature. It is violence because it destroys what people learned to love and to value, in the name of a development that never arrived and never will.

It is impossible to look at this history and not think about the mouth of the Amazon.

Fishing industry leaders from Rio de Janeiro join forces with leaders from the Amazon against well drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River. Photo: AHOMAR

Block 59 is only the first

On August 14 2026, Petrobras confirmed that it had found oil in the main well of Block FZA-M-59 – the first confirmed discovery of oil in the mouth of the Amazon River. As soon as the news broke, several foreign oil companies applied for permission to drill in the area. The block, with four wells planned, can be presented as an isolated business venture 175 kilometres (about 109 miles) off the coast of Amapá. But we are not talking about a single project.

In 2025, contracts were signed for 19 new blocks in the Foz do Amazonas basin, at the mouth of the Amazon River. In June 2026, Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) listed another 36 blocks in the same basin for study, with a view to including them in future auctions. What these facts show is the opening of Foz do Amazonas basin as a new frontier for oil exploration.

Once production begins, what comes with it are support vessels, shuttle tankers, helicopters, subsea structures, safety zones, logistics bases, port facilities, fuel, waste, workers, storage, pipelines and terminals.

That is how the occupation of Guanabara grew, little by little, until it stopped being a set of separate projects and became a permanent dispute over territory.

Fishers in the Foz do Amazonas basin do not need to wait twenty or thirty years to find out what fishers in Guanabara learned over the course of their own lives: oil does not only occupy the seabed. It moves into living territories and destroys them.

A mangrove that wraps around the planet

Unlike the generations before us, our greatest challenge is no longer to control nature. It is to join it, if we want any chance of surviving climate change. In the delicate balance of the world, mangroves play a key role. They are important sinks for carbon dioxide, one of the gases responsible for global warming. At the mouth of the Amazon lies the largest mangrove belt on the planet and most of Brazil’s mangroves, stretching across the states of Amapá, Pará and Maranhão – a huge carbon sink.

Mangroves are also fundamental to local life. They are nurseries for countless marine species that provide food and income for traditional communities, something already recognized by Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment. IBAMA, the federal environmental agency, has classified the region as extremely sensitive in social and environmental terms, pointing to Indigenous Lands and protected areas that shelter Indigenous villages, threatened species and one of the greatest concentrations of biodiversity known.

IBAMA has also warned that assessing a project in isolation, as in the case of Block 59, does not answer the question of whether the region is suited to receiving the entire oil production chain.

“May the wind blow strong in Guanabara Bay”

That is the motto of the Association of Men and Women of the Sea of Guanabara Bay (AHOMAR), a kind of omen that comes before a great victory. AHOMAR, founded in 2007, today brings together 11 associations and around four thousand fisherpeople who are fighting for formal recognition of their community territories and against the steady loss of fishing grounds in Guanabara Bay. The group stands up to chronic pollution, to the pressures created by REDUC’s operations and by the logistics expansion linked to COMPERJ, the Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex project, in a context of serious socio-environmental conflict and threats against fishers.

The experience of Guanabara can help strengthen a wide alliance of small-scale fishing in the Foz do Amazonas basin: to map fishing territories, to record traditional fishing spots and routes, to track changes in the quantity and quality of the catch, to monitor impacts, to produce information through the communities themselves, and to fight so that these peoples have a voice before decisions are taken and not only after the damage is done. To fight so that an economy that may last a few decades does not destroy a socio-bioeconomy that has sustained generations and could sustain many more.

Alexandre Anderson de Souza is a fisherman and president of the Association of Men and Women of the Sea (AHOMAR). Photo: AHOMAR

May the wind blow strong in Guanabara Bay, and may it reach the peoples of the mouth of the Amazon.

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Declaração sobre Autonomia, Democracia Radical e Autodeterminação [ English ] [ Español ] [ Français ] [ Português] Emitida na “Confluência Global sobre Democracia Radical, Autonomia e Autodeterminação”, Port Edward, África do Sul, 2-6 de fevereiro de 2025. Organizada pela Global of AlternativesGTA

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Revelator readers enjoy a love of wildlife and wild places around the world. Our September Gallery showcases readers’ wildlife and landscape photos, artwork, and other creative efforts. Enjoy these beautiful images from our readers — and read to the end to find out how to submit your work for future galleries.

 

Denise Blough
American Bumblebee
Mirrorless photography
© copyright Denise Blough

American bumblebee on saltmarsh mallow. I was so surprised and pleased to find this one covered in pollen in one of the photos I took a few weeks ago of Virginia saltmarsh mallow (Kosteletzkya pentacarpos) at Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples, Florida.

 

 

 

 

 

Denise Blough
Limpkin/Green Heron
© copyright Denise Blough

Limpkin/green heron: While on a casual walk with my camera, I noticed a green heron (Butorides virescens) quietly foraging atop lily pads. Suddenly, a limpkin (Aramus guarauna) flew over and picked a territorial fight with the heron, which is how I captured the resulting image. This was at Powell Creek Preserve in North Fort Myers, Florida.

 

 

 

 

Emma Smith
Waiting for Mom
Near entrance of East Glacier National Park in Montana.
Species: Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis)
© copyright Emma Smith

My friend and I spotted a black bear before taking a hike in East Glacier. As we drove out of the park, we saw two grizzly bear cubs with this backdrop of mountains. I quickly snapped the picture, staying in the car. It felt symbolic to see two grizzly bear cubs, presumably waiting for their mom, considering we had gone hiking after seeing a bear, which is not recommended.

 

 

 

 

Emma Smith
Room With a View
Napili Beach on Maui, Hawaii
Species: Critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi)
© copyright Emma Smith

 

I’ve come to this beach over 100 times and could likely walk it with my eyes closed. I had never seen a critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal there before. This is Kalea, a roughly 250-pound monk seal. She’s one of 10 or 11 living on the island of Maui. There are only 1,600 living in the wild. I was at the beach with my family when I first saw her. I eventually went back to the hotel, grabbed my camera, and came back to take this picture of her sleeping in “her bedroom,” according to a volunteer with the Marine Mammal Center.

 

 

 

 

Emma Smith
Line in the Sand
Species: Critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi)
Napili Beach on Maui, Hawaii
© copyright Emma Smith

Kalea, a roughly 250-pound Hawaiian monk seal, rests on Napili Beach on Maui in Hawaii. Legally, there is a line in the sand between beachgoers and monk seals: You cannot get closer than 50 feet to the critically endangered marine mammal on land or in water. As Kalea is one of 10 or 11 living on the island of Maui, volunteers were a bit on edge.

 

 

 

 

Emma Smith
Within a Thumb’s Distance
Species: Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)
Highline Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana
© copyright Emma Smith

A bighorn sheep walks along the Highline Trail, an 11- to 13-mile hike in Glacier National Park. [When I was] going to college in Montana, people who grew up there taught me that you are at a safe distance from ungulates and other animals when you can visually place your thumb over them while hiking. I took this image to highlight the importance of appreciating these species from a distance, especially as national parks experience overcrowding from a record number of visitors post-COVID. My friend and I were the only people at a thumb’s distance from this bighorn sheep.

 

 

 

 

Emma Smith
River Jaws
Species: Sea lion
Willamette River, Oregon
© copyright Emma Smith

A sea lion, known as “Jaws of the Willamette River,” surfaces with a fresh bite of salmon in its mouth. Currently sea lions are being trapped and euthanized in this region to protect native salmon and steelhead populations that are being threatened with extinction. Wildlife experts have also tried relocating them to the coast but many of them swim right back to falls and continue feeding.

 

 

 

Emma Smith
Honu Rising
Species: Honu green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Maui, Hawaii
© copyright Emma Smith

My love for storytelling began in Hawai‘i, where I had the privilege of growing up and snorkeling with the Honu or green sea turtle, who are sacred animals there. Each time I’ve gone, I’ve tried to capture what makes them so special. This photo I feel depicts their quiet and peaceful beauty.

 

 

 

 

Ted Zukoski
Yellow-Headed Blackbird
© copyright Ted Zukoski

Yellow-headed blackbirds are spring-summer migrants in Boulder County, Colorado, where their cheery, cacophonous calls fill the marshes. We go birdwatching at these and other nearby ponds to enjoy the sights and sounds of our avian neighbors. This one was at Teller Lake No. 5.

 

 

 

 

 

Ted Zukoski
Osprey
© copyright Ted Zukoski Osprey with dinner. Teller Lake No. 5, Boulder County, Colorado. We watched this one catch the fish in the lake and fly to this snag to consume it. Ted Zukoski
Red-Winged Blackbird
© copyright Ted Zukoski

A female red-winged blackbird in a tiny wetland in a sea of prairie on the Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado. The males are much showier, but I loved spotting the little reddish splash on the female’s shoulder. We visit the grasslands annually from our home in the foothills to be amazed by the variety of wildlife — Burrowing owls! Dung beetles! Tadpole shrimp! Pronghorn! — in this sometimes-overlooked landscape that makes up almost half the state. 

 

 

 

 

 

Ted Zukoski
Pelicans on Post
Tulum, Mexico
© copyright Ted Zukoski

Pelicans on posts. Near Tulum, Mexico. Terns perched here during the day, but toward evenings, the pelicans ruled the roost. I enjoyed the geometry of this view.

 

 

 

 

Janet DeWoskin
Close Encounter
Photograph
© copyright Janet DeWoskin

Barred owl and white-tailed deer fawn across the creek from my backyard in Durham, North Carolina. Photograph captured by my trail camera.

Curator’s question: Did the fawn get away?

 

 

 

 

Janet DeWoskin
Close Encounter 2
Photograph
© copyright Janet DeWoskin

The deer did get away! The next image one second after the previous photo shows the fawn still running and no owl! You can see the fawn has veered to its right — still running, and there is no sign of the owl. The camera was practically in my backyard and I never saw any sign of a kill or even a scuffle.

Curator: Thank goodness! I was on the edge of my seat!

 

 

 

 

Janet DeWoskin
They Wait With Bated Breath
Fish are peering out from behind coral that is starting to bleach around the edges. They wait anxiously to see what we will do.
Painted from my imagination in my art studio in Silver Spring, Maryland
Acrylic on stretched canvas
© copyright Janet DeWoskin

 

 

Guidelines to get your masterpiece into the Revelator Gallery:

• • Original photos and art from you
  • No AI-generated or enhanced images
  • Images can be horizontal, square, or vertical
  • We accept only .jpgs and .png files
  • No limit on submissions
  • No people in the images, just wildlife and landscapes (animals, plants and trees, insects, sea life…look below for examples)

Send your submissions to ccrary@biologicaldiversity.org with the following information:

• • Your name
  • Title of image (if applicable)
  • Species of wildlife
  • The location (where it was created)
  • A brief description of what inspired you to capture or create this image
  • Medium: Photography (many types, be specific), painting, drawing, pottery, sculpture, textiles/fabric art, mixed media, glass, etc.
  • Let us know if you want us to include a specific copyright notice “©”

All submissions are considered intended for publication; submission does not guarantee publication. Monthly galleries will be distributed to our partner publications under a Creative Commons license, but you retain the copyright on your individual images. There’s no prize or payment, just  bragging rights.

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On Tuesday evening, Sept. 22, Food Tank will host “People-Focused. Climate-Friendly. Food-Forward New York City” at Climate Week NYC 2026, in partnership with the New York City Mayor’s Office, Strong Roots, and Support + Feed. The summit will explore how New York City’s food future can best promote the health of people and planet. 

“We all rely on a complex food system in order to eat, counting on the network of those who harvest crops, ship food into our city, sell groceries, deliver takeout, and cook meals,” says Siddhartha Sanchez, Executive Director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Food Policy. “When climate change disrupts our food system, strengthening those relationships creates resilience and helps communities stay fed.”

Food systems are not all created equal—or equitably—and the solution is more inclusion on and off the menu. The summit will investigate how equity and inclusivity are foundational to a food system that promotes the health of people and the planet, featuring city agencies pioneering innovative, nutritious, delicious meal programs that support their unique populations’ well-being and reflect their cultures. 

“This Climate Week, we’re elevating the voices of people across City agencies who are championing better ways to serve New Yorkers. Understanding the power of food to nourish our bodies, connect us to our communities, and contribute to climate solutions, together we’re realizing our shared vision for a healthy and sustainable food system—designed by and for New Yorkers,” says Sanchez.

The evening will include culinary student spotlights, fireside chats with food policy leaders, conversations about food and climate justice, and a food stories art exhibition. 

Discussions will also explore the power of plants in a more nutritious and equitable food system.

“For a week that puts climate at the center of the conversation, we believe the role food, and particularly the role vegetables can play in building a more climate-friendly food system needs to be firmly on the table too,” says Emma Curtis, Managing Director at Strong Roots, a plant-based frozen foods company. “At Strong Roots, we believe food can be better. We are in the business of making vegetables exciting and constantly innovating to inspire people to eat more of them, more often. We are frozen and veg-based not because we think it’s cool but because we believe it’s the right thing to do.”

Strong Roots and Support + Feed, a non-profit organization that addresses food insecurity and the climate crisis by promoting plant-based diets, are together donating 6,200 meals and pantry items to the local community in New York City during Climate Week.

“We’re excited to be joined by our long-term community partners and friends at Support + Feed, who are doing incredible work across local communities—providing plant-based meals, pantry items, education, and redistributing rescued produce to those who need it most, while highlighting the important connection between our plate and personal and planetary health,” says Curtis. 

The event will kick off at WNYC-NPR Studios’ The Greene Space in New York City at 6:30pm with light food and live musical performances, followed by a reception until 9:30pm.

Confirmed speakers include Maggie Baird, Founder and President, Support + Feed; Emma Curtis, Managing Director, Strong Roots; Shyria Donawa, Program Specialist, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Ora Kemp, Senior Policy Advisor, New York City Mayor’s Office of Food Policy; Kevin Nakagawa, Community Organizer and Food Stories Lead, Open Doors; Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank; Norman Priester, Executive Director, Nutrition Service Division, NYC Department of Correction; and Siddhartha Sanchez, Executive Director, New York City Mayor’s Office of Food Policy.

“People-Focused. Climate-Friendly. Food-Forward New York City” will feature a special musical performance by Kaitlyn Davidson, a Broadway actor and singer currently appearing as Helen Pritt in Schmigadoon!, with previous Broadway credits including Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella and Nice Work If You Can Get It. She will be joined by Maria Caputo, a New York-based composer, pianist, vocalist, music director, and Broadway music copyist whose work spans musical theatre, jazz, classical, and contemporary music.

This summit will be streamed live on FoodTank.com and Food Tank’s YouTube channel, here. Join the Food Tank newsletter list for reminders, and click here for Food Tank’s full lineup of events at Climate Week NYC 2026.

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Iceland is one of just three countries, along with Norway and Japan, that still allows commercial whaling in its waters, but that may be about to change. The Icelandic government will put forward a bill in February that could ban the practice.

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