BigEarthData.ai Launches as a Biosphere-First Environmental Intelligence Platform

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BigEarthData.ai Launches as a Biosphere-First Environmental Intelligence Platform

New York, New York – Dec. 27, 2025

BigEarthData.ai has launched as a new environmental intelligence platform dedicated to protecting the environment, climate, and people for global ecological sustainability. The platform helps the public, researchers, journalists, and decision-makers better understand the accelerating climate and ecological crisis through real-time data, science, and AI-assisted synthesis.

A first-of-its-kind Deep Ecology GenAI tool is online now at: https://bigearthdata.ai

BigEarthData.ai is an initiative of Big Earth Data, a long-standing environmental and AI research organization founded by environmental scientist and deep ecologist Dr. Glen Barry. Big Earth Data builds on the legacy of EcoInternet, one of the earliest global environmental information networks, which helped pioneer deep ecology informed online ecological advocacy and reporting from 1990 to 2020.

BigEarthData.ai integrates millions of global news articles, peer-reviewed scientific research, and continuously updated environmental data streams into a single searchable system. The platform combines advanced AI semantic search with a generative AI interface, Lil Dr Glen EcoChat, to provide evidence-based, biosphere-centered responses to urgent ecological questions in Dr. Barry’s voice.

"Humanity is facing a rapidly narrowing window to stabilize Earth’s life-support systems, and artificial intelligence has emerged just as the stakes could not be higher,” said Barry. "BigEarthData.ai exists to cut through noise, denial, and fragmentation, and to ground public understanding in the best available science and real-world environmental signals."

Unlike conventional news or AI tools, BigEarthData.ai is explicitly biosphere-first. Its design reflects a core premise: modern civilization, the economy, and artificial intelligence itself depend entirely on a functioning biosphere. The platform treats ecological integrity, planetary boundaries, biodiversity protection, and climate stability as non-negotiable baselines for understanding global events and policy choices.

BigEarthData.ai provides:

- AI semantic search across climate, environment, science, biodiversity, Indigenous issues, and related global topics

- Lil Dr Glen EcoChat, a generative AI system grounded in curated environmental news and scientific research

- Continuous updates via RSS feeds and APIs, with new content added 24/7

- Source transparency that allows users to trace AI-generated responses back to underlying evidence

- A Bluesky social media stream providing real-time environmental intelligence and commentary at https://bsky.app/profile/bigearthdata.bsky.social

BigEarthData.ai is built around a simple reality: planetary systems are destabilizing faster than institutions and public understanding can adapt. Grounded in the recognition that humanity is undermining Earth’s life-support systems, the platform integrates science, data, and journalism to help society understand and respond to escalating, interconnected ecological risks shaping the human future.

"Technology has a role to play in protecting the living Earth," Barry said. "But only if it is aligned with ecological reality rather than short-term optimization or abstract growth."

BigEarthData.ai is now live and publicly accessible. It is an independent project of Dr. Barry and does not represent the views of his employer.

Contact:

Dr. Glen Barry
Founder, Big Earth Data
drgbarry@gmail.com
https://bigearthdata.ai

Have You No Sense of Decency, Mr. President?

"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" -  Joseph Welch, Army-McCarthy hearings

"A generation has been taught that decency is a weakness and power excuses anything." - Dr. Glen Barry

It is deeply disheartening to be an American patriot and bear the vile, filthy indecency of the current American president.

This little, sick man brags about grabbing women, mocks a disabled reporter, demeans women’s bodies, and is a convicted felon. He belittles prisoners of war, jokes about sexual assault, separates families, and cages migrants. He tear-gasses peaceful demonstrators, praises authoritarian leaders, disparages allies, and attacks journalists. He labels facts fake, insults judges, uses racist language, and calls neo-Nazis "fine people."

He encourages violence, neglects a deadly pandemic, rejects scientific guidance, and politicizes public health. He calls fallen soldiers "losers," retaliates against whistleblowers, and fires inspectors general. He deploys troops against American cities, prosecutes political opponents, pressures courts and juries, and undermines confidence in our ballots. At every turn, our democratic institutions are weakened and bloodied.

There has long been a nativist streak in America, even as the nation itself was forged on stolen and conquered land. But there is no precedent for the bloated, cartoonish buffoonery of the current President.

This crisis is not simply about policy differences. Disorderly flows of people are disruptive. The LGBTQ agenda has, at times, overreached. Taxes are too high. Government is too large. But none of this legitimizes the level of jackassery to which Trump has dragged the country.

Yet other key policies threaten environmental collapse, a fascist future, and the very fall of the nation. We see bad policy making in the reckless dismissal of climate change as the world burns, the crushing inflation brought on by erratic tariffs, and the needless brutality of ICE.

These are not just 'differences of opinion'; they are deep, structural wounds to our economy, ecology, and humanity. Trump’s unprecedented assault on the environment that sustains us is eroding our ability to maintain basic needs, democratic liberties, and healthy ecosystems.

What is being lost is not just good manners, but the basic moral ground a democracy stands on. A republic cannot survive when cruelty is a directive from the top. When truth becomes optional, the foundation cracks. 

A generation has been taught that decency is a weakness and power excuses anything. Several episodes so clearly and blatantly overstep these bounds that they reveal his character in its plainest, ugliest form.

We see it in the chilling sight of American troops patrolling our own cities—a move of political theater that crosses a bright line and signals the Fall of American Democracy. This betrayal is compounded by the fascistic, seditious treachery at the Capitol, where he goaded white nationalist forces to overturn a fair election.

Even the "People’s House" has been bulldozed to make way for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom—a staggering act of vanity, as American families struggle to afford groceries and keep the lights on.

And at the most vicious personal level, what kind of vulgar person mocks a brutal double murder and belittles the slain Rob and Michele Reiner? To suggest their deaths were a result of their political convictions is an ogreish indecency from a sick mind, marking exactly how far President Trump has diminished the nation's character.

Have you no sense of decency, Mr. President? Clearly not.

These words echo a turning point in American history. On June 9, 1954, during the Army-McCarthy hearings, attorney Joseph Welch famously asked Senator Joseph McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" It was the moment the nation collectively realized that cruelty and demagoguery had gone too far. Today, we face a similar reckoning.

Decency is not a luxury or partisan. It is the minimum requirement for a free society to hold together. When indecency becomes the point, the damage spreads far beyond one man. It corrodes trust, poisons civic life, and leaves the nation weaker and more divided.

America must not double down on extremes with more rage, more purity tests, or more performative outrage. The path forward is a return to restraint, proportionality, shared reality, and the broad political middle.

The task before us is not victory over one another, but the repair of American Democracy, which until recently was truly exceptional.