Francois Bastardie

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Solving the Puzzle of Ecosystem Recovery Human activities, past and present, have a big impact on nature, affecting ecosystems in profound ways. Scientists are working hard to figure out the best methods to restore damaged ecosystems. But ec...

…explained in plain words to kids: ‘some animals that used to live in an ecosystem can take a long time to return or do not come back at all’ …. do not be overly confident about future outcomes in protecting nature later. Best not to disturb it now.

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Photo of a drop of water falling. Text reads: Water stress affects almost 1 in 3 Europeans each year Water stress is when there is not enough water for people's needs or when the quality of the water limits its use. Source: Europe's state of water 2024 - European Environment Agency

💧 Every drop counts.

Access to water is a right - on #WorldWaterDay and every day. Yet nearly 1 in 3 people in the EU face water stress.

The European Parliament has updated rules to improve the quality of tap water and encourage reuse of treated wastewater to help prevent scarcity.

Are Earth’s natural carbon sinks collapsing? This autumn, several media articles reported on a study showing the global carbon sink on land – which so far has drawn down around a quarter of human carbon dioxide emissions – took up…

When will “the global land sink will start to take up less CO₂ (…), meaning each tonne emitted will cause proportionally more warming. This means we can’t assume carbon sinks will comfortably buffer human emissions indefinitely” … #carbonSink #sinkToSource

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‘A deliberate poisoning’: how a banned pesticide haunts the French Caribbean Prostate cancer rates are among the world’s highest in Guadeloupe and Martinique, where chlordecone was widely used on plantations for more than 20 years

"Chlordecone can contaminate soil for up to 600 years."

What damage we have done to this #PoisonedPlanet - pesticides, plastics and pharmaceuticals all accumulating
#NovelEntities #PlanetaryBoundaries
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Without biodiversity, there would be no food.

Biodiversity depends on how we manage our agrifood systems and take care of nature.

Our future depends on biodiversity!

#EarthHour

A pair of jeans and a text above saying “For clothes that last longer”

We can’t afford to waste food and fibre.

Last night the European Parliament and the Council agreed to:

🍎Cut food waste by 10% in processing & manufacturing and 30% per person in retail & consumption
👖Charge producers for textile waste and short durability to fund recycling

More→ europa.eu/!34Tt76

HELCOM Stakeholder Conference 2025 - Registration opened

“Although several legacy chemicals have been banned and EU regulations have improved, the ongoing release of many compounds remains a significant threat to the Baltic Sea ecosystem.”

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@helcominfo.bsky.social

Fisheries performance indicators for assessing the ecological sustainability of wild-caught seafood products in Europe The increasing global demand for seafood has intensified pressure on marine resources and hence the need to adopt sustainable fishing practices and pr…

A contribution to build “Fisheries performance indicators for assessing the ecological sustainability of wild-caught seafood products in Europe”

#ecocertification #fisheries #sustainability
#scoring #biodiversity #seafood #protein

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Scientists on ‘full alert’ after some NOAA staff ordered to stop talking to people overseas And at other branches of NOAA, international contact was facing heavy scrutiny, raising questions about how easily they could carry out work to monitor weather and atmospheric conditions.

NOAA scientists are on ‘full alert’ for government actions targeting their work after some staff were ordered to stop all communications with foreign nationals and DOGE gained control over internal agency websites.

Scientists, my DMs are open and I'm on Signal.

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The European Environment Agency in 2020: “out of the 100,000 chemicals present on the EU market, only 500 have been extensively characterised for their hazards and exposures” – referring to 'the unknown territory of chemical risks'.”

#Health #BiodiversityLoss

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European Commission - Have your say European Commission - Have your say

The “European Oceans Pact”: A call for evidence is now open => Have your say now! #blueeconomy #fisheries #aquaculture
*How we affect the ocean
*How the ocean affects coastal communities
*The opportunities that the ocean provides us with

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Historical sources allow us to 'zoom out' beyond recent trends in abundance of fished species

A century-scale view of fisheries highlights change from diverse fishes to a few invertebrate species

From recent research on century-scale change in fishes & fisheries tinyurl.com/4veee2vt

ETC BE Report 2024/3: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainable Seafood Production in Europe’s Seas

Accelerating the Transition to Sustainable Seafood Production in Europe’s Seas www.eionet.europa.eu/etcs/etc-be/... #cfp #ices #eea

“changing dietary patterns is not only the main means of decreasing quantified health hidden costs, but also a very effective way of reducing the quantified environmental hidden costs by freeing land, reducing and sequestering greenhouse gases and reducing nitrogen emissions.”
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🌊 The Baltic Sea - balancing pressures in a changing ecosystem
We have published an updated Ecosystem Overview highlighting the pressures impacting this ecosystem.
📄 doi.org/10.17895/ice...

ℹWe talk to Carolyn Faithfull & Riikka Puntila-Dodd who led this work www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...

Preserving marine ecosystems: the case for alternative fishing methods - ESMH François Bastardie stresses the urgent need for sustainable fishing and innovation to reduce harmful impacts, notably from bottom trawling.

To which extent innovations can help mitigate (or not) bottom trawling impact on the seafloor of Marine Protected Areas?

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Atlas of the Human Planet: 50 years of population growth and urbanisation trends uncovered New Atlas analyses urban and population patterns from 1975 to 2030.

Atlas of the Human Planet: 50 years of population growth and urbanisation trends uncovered - European Commission

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Exploring the viability of innovative fishing technologies as an alternative to bottom trawling in European marine protected areas: An environmental and socioeconomic analysis | Think Tank | European ... Exploring the viability of innovative fishing technologies as an alternative to bottom trawling in European marine protected areas: An environmental and socioeconomic analysis

Exploring the viability of innovative fishing technologies as an alternative to bottom trawling in European marine protected areas: An environmental and socioeconomic analysis europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en... vía @Europarl_EN