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Greenland’s tragedy: the dream of independence now looks like a trap laid by Donald Trump | Rune Lykkeberg Denmark and its former colony have a complex relationship, but for now they must speak with one voice against US colonial ambitions, says Rune Lykkeberg, editor-in-chief of the Danish newspaper Inform...

"... They will be offered a deal by a man who neither respects any political commitment nor cares about people. He does not even celebrate human rights and political freedom in principle. He’s not transactional, he’s extractive."

Institutionalising Multispecies Justice Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Institutionalising Multispecies Justice

Our societies are failing nature. It's exciting to finally see this wonderful collaboration exploring how the Earth and its more-than-human life can be included in democracy, government, law, and business for multispecies justice. Its free! @flusterbird.bsky.social @danycelermajer.bsky.social

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Graph of carbon dioxide designed as the painting of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai.

"The Great Wave" of carbon dioxide (CO₂) #ClimateChange #ScienceArt

Graphic produced by robbieandrew.github.io

Seeing Australia’s beloved gumtrees dying makes my insides knot. If they can’t survive, how can we? | Jess Harwood Even the hardy eucalypts are finding their limits as we experience more frequent bushfires, heatwaves and droughts

Do we apprehend what we are losing? the beautiful @jessharwoodart.bsky.social illustrations in this piece will make your insides knot...

How Jordan Peterson Became a Global Anti-Net Zero Power Broker This special investigation between Canada’s National Observer and DeSmog was produced in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainability, Education and Action and TRACE Foundation. “No more…

Jordan Peterson is now a global figure in the anti-net-zero movement, connecting fossil fuel executives, politicians, and climate skeptics. @desmog.bsky.social’s investigation reveals how his Alliance for Responsible Citizenship works to undermine climate action

How the menstrual cycle shapes heart and brain health How the menstrual cycle shapes heart and brain health

How the #MenstrualCycle shapes #heart and #brain health -
@jellinap.bsky.social together with Julia Sacher @cogneuroend.bsky.social & Arno Villringer describe how these naturally occurring variations might influence #stress, mood, and long-term #womenshealth: tinyurl.com/35pu6447

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer For ecologists restoring the vast bogs of remote Karelia, wild reindeer are not just part of the environment but entwined with the ancient culture of the boreal forests

“Bringing back reindeer, however, is only one part of this rewilding project. The other components are part of an approach called “deep mapping”, which includes rejuvenating the culture and folklore associated with these animals to rebuild people’s connection to the land around them.”

Socialising Nature How we can live together without exploiting each other? This is the work of socialising nature.

“Unlike a workplace, nature cannot simply be seized by its employees & run under democratic self-management ... it is not just another factor of production... it is the condition & limit of our existence.”

Read @cominsitu.bsky.social on socialising nature 👇

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I really believe that "ecomodernist" is a misnomer. This school of thought is not distinguished by their embrace of technology (degrowth research also embraces technology). It is distinguished by their insistence on perpetual growth, ever-increasing aggregate output. That's it.

Opinion | Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.

On the day of Dr. Fauci's testimony, @nytimes.com decides to run a deeply unethical OpEd with snazzy graphics and snappy headlines about the Lab Leak.

The article itself contains multiple falsehoods and deep mischaracterizations.

Let's take every point in turn 👇🧵

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Risotto crisis: the fight to save Italy’s beloved dish from extinction After drought devastated prized arborio and carnaroli harvests in the Po valley, new rice varieties offer a glimmer of hope. But none are yet suitable for use in the traditional recipe

“Thanks to its ability to resist high cooking temperatures and absorb flavours, carnaroli is considered the “king of risotto”, but it is also extremely delicate and vulnerable to changes in the climate.”

He Wants Oil Money Off Campus. She’s Funded by Exxon. They’re Friends. The two friends, both climate researchers, recently spent hours confronting the choices that will shape their careers, and the world. Their ideas are very different.

I used to think it was no big deal that my postdoc research on climate at Princeton was funded by BP, but now I see it as BP's effort to burnish its reputation and influence research.

On balance, taking fossil fuel funding is a net negative and this kind of research should be government funded.

Agrarökonom Harald Grethe - "Wir brauchen eine Moorschutzstrategie" Die Trockenlegung der Moore sei eine kulturhistorische Leistung gewesen, so Agraröknomom Harald Grethe, aber wegen der hohen Treibhausgasemissionen klimaschädlich. Nun müsse es einen Transformation...

Warum es volkswirtschaftlich kompletter Unsinn ist entwässerte Moore landwirtschaftlich 🚜 zu nutzen & warum der Moor-Klimaschutz dem Braunkohleausstieg 🏭 eigentlich in nix nachsteht und daher ähnlich angegangen werden müsste.

👉 Super Interview mit dem Agrarökonom @haraldgrethe.bsky.social

Botanical gardens ‘most effective’ green space at cooling streets in heatwaves Researchers hope the findings will inform policymakers planning cities for a warming world

“A comprehensive review of research into the heat-mitigating effects of green spaces during heatwaves has found that botanical gardens are the most effective.”

Sustainability benefits of transitioning from current diets to plant-based alternatives or whole-food diets in Sweden - Nature Communications The authors found that replacing animal source foods with plant-based alternatives would lead to substantial reductions in environmental impacts, while meeting most nutrition recommendations and being...

Environmental impacts of a plant-based diet are broadly similar whether they are supported by a large amount of plant-based meat and dairy alternatives, or by a large amount of whole foods. The whole foods diets, however, are cheaper. Both diets are much lower impact than meat-based diets.

Internal Emails Reveal Columbia’s “Task Force on Antisemitism” is Causing Ruptures in Its Faculty. Over the past four months, senior administrators at New York City’s Columbia University have found themselves at odds with a significant contingent of their faculty and student body over prot…

This whole thing is worth a read, but one of the things that stuck with me the most is that one of the members of this faculty panel had spoken so derisively of students. Why should students believe they'd "listen" in good faith? lithub.com/internal-ema...

The Case for Climate Apocalyptic Optimism If we embrace the reality that things will get worse before they get better, we will be equipped to fight climate change.

An excerpt of my new book, Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action, was just published at TIME.
For anyone interested in the book, you can preorder here: lnkd.in/gtwJvrX9

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What's the point of giving gifts? An anthropologist explains this ancient part of being human Presents are about giving, receiving and reciprocating, and how this cycle strengthens relationships.

Always great to see anthropology in public-facing pieces. By Chip Colwell: "But of all the explanations for why people give gifts, the one I find most convincing was offered in 1925 by a French anthropologist named Marcel Mauss." theconversation.com/whats-the-po... 🏺

U.N. Warns Gaza Is Heading for Famine as Specter of Wider War Looms Officials of the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen threatened to respond to American-led airstrikes over the past two days.

This is a war crime.

"Famine experts say the proportion of Gaza residents at risk of famine is greater than anywhere since a UN-affiliated body began measuring extreme hunger 20 years ago. Scholars say it has been generations since the world has seen food deprivation on such a scale in war."

Norway to allow mining waste to be dumped in fjords Environmental campaigners say move will threaten marine life and put biodiversity at risk

Norway, we are not impressed with this abuse of fiords www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act fails to protect Sámi rights – here’s how to strengthen it Evidence of human rights abuses on the territory of the indigenous Sámi people, and accusations of green colonialism, must prompt EU politicians to amend the law by adding clear provisions on indigen...

Evidence of human rights abuses on the territory of the Sámi people and accusations of green colonialism must prompt EU politicians to amend the Critical Raw Materials Act with clear provisions on Indigenous rights, write Rasmus Kløcker Larsen and Kaisa Raitio www.euractiv.com/section/ener...

Tired of baking sourdough, this Melbourne family began an unusual lockdown project — that went vir... Andrew Rovenko's otherworldly photographs of his daughter wearing an astronaut costume attracted fans from all over the world — and now feature in a coffee-table book.

Beautiful, unsettling images

Indonesian President’s COP28 Speech Parodied Over Food Estate Failures - Greenpeace Southeast Asia Activists have parodied Indonesian president Joko Widodo’s disastrous food estate spruiked yesterday in his speech to the United Nations climate talks in Dubai

“… the activists played out a banquet scene to again send the message that the large scale food estate policy provides no solution to food insecurity, but actually exacerbates the national and global food and climate crises.”

Photography by Ulet Ifansasti for Nature

Ancient humans painted scenes in Indonesian caves over 45Kya, but the art is disappearing rapidly

Researchers are trying to find the cause of the damage and how to stop it

Humanity’s oldest art is flaking away
Can scientists save it? 🏺🧪
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