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Black Death Research Reveals People & Nature Thrive Together 🌍
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Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome Understanding the pre-Homo sapiens baseline of the temperate forest biome is crucial for interpreting present-day biodiversity patterns, ecosystem fun…

Dense European forests are a modern creation🌍🌲🌳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Overlooked and overexploited: Extensive conversion of grasslands and wetlands driven by global food, feed, and bioenergy demand | PNAS Natural ecosystems are increasingly threatened by global agricultural supply chains, and a narrow policy focus on forests has fueled agricultural e...

Overlooked and overexploited: Extensive conversion of grasslands and wetlands driven by global food, feed, and bioenergy demand @pnas.org 🌐 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Conservation by the People Biodiversity loss now ranks alongside climate change as a threat to human survival. The United Nation’s secretary general has declared that “huma...

"We need biodiversity democracy"....
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Conservation by the People @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026205209...

Global forest dataset incongruence creates high uncertainties for conservation, climate, and development policy A comparison of 10 global forest datasets showed that technical differences created substantial uncertainty in estimates in forest carbon, forest-poverty relationships, and forest biodiversity habitat...

How much forest is there?
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Scientists agree on only 26% of global mapped forest area @cp-oneearth.bsky.social www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

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Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration More than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai...

Bring Back America’s Perfect Tree! 🌎🌳
Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.

Clean Energy Shift to End the Climate Crisis… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Reframing Energy for the Age of Electricity | Ember We need to count energy from the perspective of the consumer in order to understand the changes sweeping the energy sector. There are four battles in the energy system and electrotech is set to win th...

Four Key Battles for the Future of Clean Energy @ember-energy.org
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Wolves & Willows in Yellowstone:
Debunking Ripple etal (2025) 🌎
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On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared Recent studies have highlighted evidence of human impact on landscapes dating back to the Late Pleistocene–long before the advent of agriculture. Quantifying the extent of vegetation transformations b...

Neanderthals & Mesolithic foragers reshaped Europe’s ecology long before agriculture… 🌍 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

“When looking at Central American forests today, we must reckon with the fact that ancient humans affected everything,” www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

A Psychological and Linguistic Analysis of “The 2024 State of the Climate Report: Perilous Times on Planet Earth” Abstract. A traditional goal of science and environmental communication, including climate communication, has been to encourage disinterested or uninformed

Nota Bene…
Scientific Warnings Don't Work:
Climate Messaging Needs a Rethink @aibsbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

A Psychological and Linguistic Analysis of “The 2024 State of the Climate Report: Perilous Times on Planet Earth” Abstract. A traditional goal of science and environmental communication, including climate communication, has been to encourage disinterested or uninformed

Scientific Warnings Don't Work:
Climate Messaging Needs a Rethink @aibsbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Irreversible?

So motivating!

Thank you Scientists!

Ordered it!

Share your comments on NCAR with NSF Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March

@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...

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What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

Save NCAR!
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To address corporatocracy it helps to clarify what to support:
Clean yes, fossil no.

Making every option equal is the problem, not the solution.

Life on New Earth: biodiversity change and humanity in a novel future Abstract. Accounting for ecological novelty, gains and past human experiences through social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) can help society navig

Are narratives of total biosphere collapse helpful?

Is ecological 'novelty' necessarily bad?

What can the past tell us about the human capacity to mould and adapt to future conditions?

Red more in our new paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

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Target everything everywhere all at once?

We are blasting past 1.5.
Net zero is overwhelmed by fake carbon offsets.

Time to focus on the direct solution to the climate crisis:
Ending fossil fuels by shifting to a 100% clean energy economy.

The Reinvention of Progress Can progress be redefined to bring people and nature closer? Pedro Conceição calls for hope-driven choices that let humanity and the planet grow together, not apart.

The Reinvention of Progress
@pedrotconceicao.bsky.social www.genevapolicyoutlook.ch/the-reinvent...

We could produce a lot of electricity on the land used for biofuels About enough to meet current global electricity demand.

We could produce a lot of electricity on the land used for biofuels - very useful analysis by @hannahritchie.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...

Do we really need more reminders of failure right now?

What for?

As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.

"We argue that the main focus of climate action in 2026 and beyond should be on accelerating the clean-energy revolution. And the rate at which clean energy displaces fossil fuels in the global economy should become the key measure of climate progress."

I have mixed feelings about this.

Book giveaway for Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change in 50 Questions and Answers by Hannah Ritchie Jan 23-Feb 06, 2026 Enter to win one of 5 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jan 23-Feb 06, 2026. We can’t afford to delay climate action, but with all the shouting ...

My new book — Clearing the Air — comes out in the US on February 19th 📚

Goodreads is running a giveaway, in case you want to enter and have a chance of getting a free copy!

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As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets Nature - Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.

As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy:

As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.

Unlike chasing intangible temperature targets, cleaning up the energy sector is a more-focused battle that the world can win

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