🌬️🍃Did you know? Urban trees are excellent air filters, removing harmful pollutants from the air. #GreenCities

Discover 5 simple and effective ways to raise kind, altruistic children. A guide based on spiritual principles and concrete actions to nurture character and empathy. #Bahai #Spirituality #Children #Education bahaiteachings.org/ways-to-r…

Love what the Australian soccer team says about modern Australia. Seriously, watch this video, and you'll be cheering for them too.

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials: “I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match. The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars. This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.” The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle. And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters? Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line. The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”

يزد: اعتقال المواطن #البهائي، #احمد_نعيمي أفادت وكالة أنباء هرانا لحقوق الإنسان بأنه تم اليوم، السبت 13 يونيو/حزيران 2026، اعتقال المواطن البهائي #احمد_نعيمى، المقيم في مدينة يزد، بعد حضوره إلى الشعبة السادسة للتحقيق في نيابة المدينة. ووفقاً للمعلومات التي تلقتها هرانا، فقد تم اعتقال أحمد نعيمي بعد مثوله أمام الشعبة السادسة للتحقيق في نيابة يزد. وقال مصدر مطلع مقرب من عائلة المواطن البهائي، مؤكداً الخبر لهرانا: “يواجه السيد نعيمي قضية جديدة فُتحت بحقه. هو وزوجته #فلورا_صمدانى مشتركان في هذه القضية القضائية. كما رفضت النيابة الإفراج عنه بكفالة.” وكان نعيمي قد استُدعي قبل فترة إلى النيابة لتقديم بعض الإيضاحات. وحتى لحظة إعداد هذا التقرير، لم ترد معلومات عن مكان احتجازه. وكان #احمد_نعيمى قد تعرض سابقاً للاعتقال وإجراءات قضائية بسبب معتقداته الدينية وانتمائه إلى الديانة البهائية. أما زوجته #فلورا_صمدانى فقد اعتُقلت على يد القوات الأمنية في يزد بتاريخ 3 مايو/أيار 2026، ونُقلت إلى سجن يزد. وخلال العقد الماضي، تعرضت الطائفة #البهائية في #إيران لإجراءات أمنية وقضائية أكثر من أي أقلية دينية أخرى. وتشير مراجعة التقارير السنوية الصادرة عن مركز الإحصاء والنشر التابع لمجموعة نشطاء حقوق الإنسان في إيران إلى أن 62.41% من التقارير المتعلقة بانتهاكات حقوق الأقليات الدينية خلال العام الميلادي الماضي كانت تخص المواطنين البهائيين. #بهائيان_ايران #حقوق_بشر #داستان_ما_يكيست

WATCH: “We made an enormous mistake allowing the ed tech industry to come in and give every kid a computer, a tablet, an iPad, a Chromebook… and the results are devastating and we need to stop.” @JonHaidt via @andersoncooper @AC360

🌊 Big step forward in ocean cleanup 🌊 Dutch engineers behind The Ocean Cleanup have deployed large floating barrier systems in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to help collect plastic waste from the ocean surface. The goal: concentrate floating plastic so it can be removed before it breaks down into harmful microplastics that threaten marine life. It’s not a complete fix yet, but early results show real potential to scale up ocean plastic removal in the coming years. A major reminder: we’re now actively building tools to clean the ocean not just talking about it. 🌍

In the 1990s, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard made a groundbreaking discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about how forests work. While studying managed forests in British Columbia, she noticed something puzzling: when birch trees were removed to promote the growth of valuable Douglas firs, the firs did not flourish as expected, they actually struggled and grew more slowly. Determined to understand why, Simard traced the movement of nutrients using radioactive carbon isotopes. What she found was astonishing. Trees were actively sharing resources through vast underground fungal networks known as mycorrhizae. These delicate, thread-like fungi connect the roots of different trees across the forest floor, forming a complex web that allows the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients, and even chemical signals, sometimes between entirely different species. She discovered that older, larger trees often serve as central "hubs" or "mother trees," supporting younger saplings by redistributing vital resources and helping the entire ecosystem remain resilient. When these key trees are removed, the underground network weakens, and the health of the remaining forest declines. Simard’s research overturned the traditional Darwinian view of forests as battlegrounds of ruthless competition. Instead, she revealed a far more sophisticated reality: forests operate as highly cooperative systems where trees communicate, support one another, and even warn neighboring trees about threats like drought, disease, or insect attacks. What appears to the human eye as a silent, still forest is, in truth, a vibrant, interconnected living network, built not on isolation and rivalry, but on deep connection and mutual aid.

The persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran is part of a broader human rights crisis affecting people of different beliefs and backgrounds. Every person deserves freedom of conscience, justice, and dignity. #HumanRights #Iran #Bahai #FoRB

Austrian MP and Chair of the Austrian Foreign Affairs Committee at the Parliament, @petrabayr signs a statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Peyvand and Borna Naimi, alongside all unjustly imprisoned prisoners of conscience. Peyvand and Borna Naimi have been arbitrarily detained since January and March 2028, respectively. They are currently at imminent risk of losing their lives. This statement joins a growing chorus of parliamentarians and human rights advocates worldwide calling out the Iranian government's ongoing persecution and scapegoating of the Bahá'ís in Iran. #BahaiRights #PeyvandNaimi #BornaNaimi #Iran

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