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  • 1 week ago | sammatey.substack.com | Sam Matey

    A historic UN Ocean Conference was held in Nice, France from June 9 to June 13, 2025, and a lot of amazing progress happened!The High Seas Treaty (aka BBNJ Agreement) provides a first-ever legal framework for creating marine protected areas in international waters. It’sbeen signed by 136 countries but only gains legal force once 60 countries ratify the treaty.

  • 1 week ago | sammatey.substack.com | Sam Matey |Bill McKibben

    The second Monthly Dose of Climate Hope live event took place on June 11, 2025! Sam Matey hosted an in-depth conversation with world-leading climate activist Bill McKibben. The YouTube recording is above, and below we embed and quote a selection from Bill McKibben’s many excellent recent Substack posts at ! You can join SunDay at sunday.earth.

  • 2 weeks ago | sammatey.substack.com | Sam Matey

    Hundreds of birds among the highly intelligent urban-living sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) population in Sydney, Australia have now learned to operate public drinking fountains to obtain water. The species was already known for its widespread behavior of opening trash cans to obtain food in Sydney suburbs.

  • 2 weeks ago | sammatey.substack.com | Sam Matey

    The Unmapping, by first-time novelist Denise S. Robbins, is based upon exploring the implications of one brilliantly creative premise that is also completely and utterly bonkers. The novel begins when one day, at 4 AM Eastern Time while most people are asleep, every individual building in New York City spontaneously switches its position to a spot previously occupied by a different building.

  • 3 weeks ago | sammatey.substack.com | Sam Matey

    Oxford University Press has published a milestone new paper discussing the worldwide emergence of urban rewilding, a longtime theme of this newsletter.

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