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the cover of Time Magazine, with the headline "Extinct" crossed out in red above the text "This is Remus. He’s a dire wolf. The first to exist in over 10,000 years. Endangered species could be changed forever." by Jeffrey Kluger, and the photo of a white dog-like wolf-like animal

Colossal didn't make a dire wolf. This is not a dire wolf! Stop saying it is!! I feel like I'm going mad!!!

Un vero coglione.

Beyond reforestation, let’s try ‘proforestation’ Edward Faison, an ecologist at the Highstead Foundation, stood quietly in a patch of forest that stretched for miles in all directions. Above him, the needles from white pine trees swayed — common in ...

The author argues for Proforestation:  “ ... the process of allowing existing forests to continue growing without human interference until they achieve their full ecological potential for carbon sequestration and biological diversity”. 🌰🌍

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Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed Environmentalists call bid to skirt UN treaty ‘reckless’ amid fears that mining will cause irreversible loss of biodiversity

“TMC appears to want to pivot from seabed mining without regulations to seabed mining entirely outside of all international frameworks. A moratorium is needed to prevent this kind of international conflict, discord and chaos.” Deep Sea Conservation Coalition www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"We’re still pinching ourselves": wild beavers make historic return to English rivers in first approved release

🗞️ Happy news for today: Beavers have returned to England’s rivers for the first time in centuries!

Two pairs of Eurasian beavers have been released to roam freely in Little Sea, an 82 acre lake in Dorset.

This is the first licensed wild release of the once-extinct rodent since the 16th century.

Right wing parties and hunters are 💩💩💩, always and everywhere

Oil is making the world dirtier, in every sense of the word.

With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss All countries must accelerate efforts to avert the biodiversity crisis, and preserve Earth’s precious natural places for future generations.

Almost 200 countries signed the Kunming Montreal framework to safeguard biodiversity. None of them are on track.
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Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?

This. Over and over and over. We must stand up and fight.

Society for Conservation Biology on one important aspect of the tragedy that is the Trump administration: conbio-northamericansection.informz.net/informzdatas...

New research: birdlife soars on nature-friendly solar farms Nature-friendly solar farms in East Anglia support more bird species than arable land, boosting biodiversity

New research: birdlife soars on nature-friendly solar farms eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

Scientists Rip ‘Disturbing’ Trump Admin Health Data Purge Doctors said the move creates a “dangerous gap” in data used to monitor and respond to disease outbreaks.

Nice overview of the consequences of the Trump public health data purge...
🛟🧪😷sociology demography medsky health policy

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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

Sandeel: Brexit fishing row heads for trade court showdown The UK has banned European vessels from catching the silvery fish species in its North Sea waters but the EU is challenging the move.

🐟 Tiny fish faces giant threat 🚨 The UK is set to defend sandeels in an EU fishing showdown. The lifeblood of our North Sea, #sandeels feed puffins, seals, whales & more. A #fishing ban is critical & challenging it is a deep betrayal of our shared seas 🌊 #EndOverfishing
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Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU

Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide. Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill Exclusive: Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits

Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill. Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our study led by @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social from my lab found that especially pond vegetation is crucial if you want to provide a safe aquatic haven for the local biota in your garden - based on data from more than 800 volunteering pond owners in the #MyPond citizen science program 🔵🧪👩‍🔬🏡

Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts Persistent multiyear drought (MYD) events pose a growing threat to nature and humans in a changing climate. We identified and inventoried global MYDs by detecting spatiotemporally contiguous climatic ...

The earth gets drier and warmer, and #megadroughts have been increasing for 40 years and will do so in the future. Substantial negative impacts on #water supply, #agriculture and all #ecosystem services are to be expected. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Atlantic overturning inferred from air-sea heat fluxes indicates no decline since the 1960s - Nature Communications The AMOC is crucial for the global ocean overturning circulation and controls the climate around the North Atlantic. Here, the authors use 24 Earth System Models from the CMIP6 to demonstrate tha...

What are your thoughts about this? Thank you very much
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Climate change will NOT destroy the planet. It will end humanity.

Planet Earth will recover and all its plants and animals thrive, long after humans are gone.

Remember this. 🌍

This Nature paper will probably *not* get the same level of media coverage and hype as the doomsday stories…

Climate engineering faces hostility — here’s how scientists say it might move forwards Questions about effectiveness, risks and regulation must be answered before sun-dimming technology can be developed, according to researchers.

Climate engineering faces hostility — here’s how scientists say it might move forwards www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Too hot? Too cold? Birds use their legs as a thermostat Animals could evolve longer legs as the globe warms

Une étude australienne montre que les oiseaux peuvent réguler leur température grâce à un contrôle de l'irrigation sanguine des pattes ! Un avantage en ces temps de changements climatiques.

Ice cores finger obscure Pacific volcano as cause of 19th century climate disaster

@ESA And @NASA Deliver First Joint Picture Of #Greenland #IceSheet #Melting
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Quantifying land use as one method of anticipating a planetary state shift. The trajectory of the green line represents a fold bifurcation with hysteresis12. At each time point, light green represents the fraction of Earth’s land that probably has dynamics within the limits characteristic of the past 11,000 yr. Dark green indicates the fraction of terrestrial ecosystems that have unarguably undergone drastic state changes; these are minimum values because they count only agricultural and urban lands. The percentages of such transformed lands in 2011 come from refs 1, 34, 35, and when divided by 7,000,000,000 (the present global human population) yield a value of approximately 2.27 acres (0.92 ha) of transformed land for each person. That value was used to estimate the amount of transformed land that probably existed in the years 1800, 1900 and 1950, and which would exist in 2025 and 2045 assuming conservative population growth and that resource use does not become any more efficient. Population estimates are from refs 31–33. An estimate of 0.68 transformed acres (0.28 ha) per capita (approximately that for India today) was used for the year 1700, assuming a lesser effect on the global landscape before the industrial revolution. Question marks emphasize that at present we still do not know how much land would have to be directly transformed by humans before a planetary state shift was imminent, but landscape-scale studies and theory suggest that the critical threshold may lie between 50 and 90% (although it could be even lower owing to synergies between emergent global forcings). See the main text for further explanation. Billion, 109. "Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere"; https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11018

Drivers of a potential planetary-scale critical transition. a, Humans locally transform and fragment landscapes. b, Adjacent areas still harbouring natural landscapes undergo indirect changes. c, Anthropogenic local state shifts accumulate to transform a high percentage of Earth’s surface drastically; brown colouring indicates the approximately 40% of terrestrial ecosystems that have now been transformed to agricultural landscapes, as explained in ref. 34. d, Global-scale forcings emerge from accumulated local human impacts, for example dead zones in the oceans from run-off of agricultural pollutants. e, Changes in atmospheric and ocean chemistry from the release of greenhouse gases as fossil fuels are burned. f–h, Global-scale forcings emerge to cause ecological changes even in areas that are far from human population concentrations. f, Beetle-killed conifer forests (brown trees) triggered by seasonal changes in temperature observed over the past five decades. g, Reservoirs of biodiversity, such as tropical rainforests, are projected to lose many species as global climate change causes local changes in temperature and precipitation, exacerbating other threats already causing abnormally high extinction rates. In the case of amphibians, this threat is the human-facilitated spread of chytrid fungus. h, Glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro, which remained large throughout the past 11,000 yr, are now melting quickly, a global trend that in many parts of the world threatens the water supplies of major population centres. As increasing human populations directly transform more and more of Earth’s surface, such changes driven by emergent global-scale forcings increase drastically, in turn causing state shifts in ecosystems that are not directly used by people. Photo credits: E.A.H. and A.D.B. (a–c, e–h); NASA (d).

The Earth’s climate system is highly nonlinear

The above is again getting the attention it deserves...

Significance: we have no idea what we are in the process to trigger, as our current models can't simulate non-linearity...

In the comments some studies on the matter

#climate #uöäü1non-linear

La parolina magica è irreversibile.

The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled

"We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis." academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Billings’s diagrammatic representation of an environmental complex. “Solid lines show factor-plant relationships. Dashed lines show relations between factors. Arrows show the general direction of the eftect. If the effect is reciprocal, arrows are placed at both ends of the line. Time is indicated by short inward-pointing arrows just inside the border of the diagram.” From “The Environmental Complex in Relation to Plant Growth and Distribution,” p. 256.

William Dwight Billings was born OTD in 1910.

A founding figure in physiological ecology, he was committed to a view of ecosystems as “holocoenotic’—the ecosystem conceived as a network of radically interconnected relationships among biotic and abiotic elements.

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