Rob Marchant

Colombia deforestation surges 43%, Amazon region worst hit – DW – 08/01/2025 Colombia recorded a sharp uptick in deforestation in the country's Amazon rainforest for last year. The expansion of livestock farming and illegal construction were among the factors authorities blame...

"Colombia deforestation surges 43%, Amazon region worst hit. The expansion of livestock farming and illegal construction were among the factors authorities blamed for the increase." 🌍 www.dw.com/en/colombia-...

🌍 There's wet in the dry, and it's extremly important for it but vanishing fast dangerously unnoticed!
Examples:
💧the Aral Sea: today a barren landscape with shattered ecosystems and broken economies
📉 Lake Chad is drying up, endangering fish populations and livelihoods.

Peatlands are at the forefront of the climate change challenge. The good thing is we have choices to support and restore these peatlands, the bad think is we continue to make the wrong choices 🙄

Contrasting biological production trends over land and ocean - Nature Climate Change The authors jointly assess the changes in land and ocean net primary production from 2003 to 2021. They show contrasting trends, with overall planetary increases (0.11 ± 0.13 PgC yr−1) driven by terre...

🌍 Green gains, blue losses

From 2003–2021, plants on land grew more, but ocean productivity declined, likely due to climate warming.

Land is boosting Earth’s carbon uptake, but oceans are showing signs of stress.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ClimateCrisis #SciComm 🧪

Biodiversity conservation requires integration of species-centric and process-based strategies | PNAS Conservation science and policy are geared primarily toward the preservation of species and habitats, with priority often given to the rarest, most...

Biodiversity conservation requires integration of species-centric and process-based strategies | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Useful thread about last week's Parliamentary debate on banning fossil fuel advertising.

Classic govt response: "we are not in the business of banning things."

Yet this government is banning adverts for junk food and vapes... so why not this?

📢 Call for Panels: @eadi.bsky.social / IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local solutions?
📅 29 June – 2 July 2026
📍 @iobua.bsky.social , University of Antwerp, Belgium
⏰ Deadline for submissions: 7 September 2025
www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

Indeed, the same for much of Cornwall, Wales, and northwest UK - 99% lost, 100% restorable…

A new study documents land use and land cover change in three forest reserves since 1966 North Central Nigeria. Odu forest, with strong community-based management, still has a decent amount of forest whereas the other two have all but been lost😞 @uoyenvironment.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.tf...

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Mangrove adaptations and importance

Last video explains the neat adaptations of mangroves to their difficult environment, why mangroves are so important and why so many restoration projects fail.
youtu.be/Kwv6t9cKCFY?...

Lovely to see our butterfly ‘farm’ in full production although they are running out of food fast 🙄

Beautiful

The image shows a firefighter in protective gear looking at a smoky forest with burned trees in the background. The text reads: “Humans have blown past 6 of 9 ‘planetary boundaries.’ Lead author for upcoming Global Environment Outlook 7 on shared responsibility for solutions.”

Human activities put pressure on the environment, causing degradation that needs comprehensive solutions.
Ahead of #GEO7 report launch at #UNEA7 in December, the lead author emphasizes importance of our shared responsibility to take care of the planet: sustainablebusinessmagazine.net/circularecon...

Tropical response to ocean circulation slowdown raises future drought risk - Nature An Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown drives widespread shifts in tropical rainfall through the propagation of high-latitude cooling into the tropical North Atlantic.

We all know an AMOC slowdown impacts tropical rainfall, but how exactly? DiNezio et al. point to cooling in the tropical Norht Atlantic as the main pathway. Today in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On Controlling Fire, New Lessons from a Deep Indigenous Past For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's forests. In an e360 interview, ecologist Lori Daniels talks about the long history of Indigenous burni...

"It’s a little bit sad, and a little bit of an indictment of our society, that until the tree rings verified those oral histories, there was resistance from our dominant colonial culture to believe that Indigenous people used fire to steward the land." e360.yale.edu/features/lor...

How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore By 2050, an area of land twice the size of India will be converted to agriculture. A four-pillared approach can ensure the world meets growing demand for food and fuel without destroying the environme...

The world is facing a global land squeeze as food, feed, fiber and fuel demand rises. How to manage it? 🧪

- PRODUCE more food and fiber sustainably on existing working lands
- PROTECT remaining natural ecosystems
- REDUCE waste and growth in demand for land-intensive goods
- RESTORE degraded lands

UNESCO Launches Free Online Course to Tackle Climate Disinformation In response to the escalating climate crisis and growing threat of disinformation, UNESCO and its research institute, the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development

🎓 UNESCO have launched a free online course to help tackle climate disinformation through media and information literacy.

Learn more:

#Wetlands are among nature’s most powerful climate allies. Despite their immense value, wetlands remain in peril. As we look towards #COP30 please sign the letter linked below for the sake of #conservation, #biodiversity and #climate change action.
forms.gle/ZKjgLgHxLxtc...

Happy #MangrovesDay @livingoceans.bsky.social @cifor-icraf.org @blueventures.bsky.social @mongabay.com @mongabaylatam.bsky.social @amnh.org @myzerocarbon.org @unep.org @sciencesetavenir.bsky.social @wcs.org @wcscanada.org @greenclimate.fund @eib.org @sheldricktrust.bsky.social

Happy #MangrovesDay @livingoceans.bsky.social @cifor-icraf.org @blueventures.bsky.social @mongabay.com @mongabaylatam.bsky.social @amnh.org @myzerocarbon.org @unep.org @sciencesetavenir.bsky.social @wcs.org @wcscanada.org @greenclimate.fund

Coordinating with Banki,s tailor 😜

The changing economy of the Yorkshire Dales landscape - old lead mining workings and grouse moor making way for mountain bikers as more than 10,000 people turn up for the annual #Ardrock festival @yorkshiredales.org.uk @britishcycling.org.uk

An exciting day as I get inducted into the African Academy of Sciences as a new Fellow at the same time celebrating the graduation of a new PhD holder from Nigeria @uoyeducation.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

A shame to see a great science nation under such pressure - hopefully will just be an orange bump in the road before it can be great again

Not ever day you get to see dolphins and pirates just of the Yorkshire coast @bridlington.bsky.social @savingoceans.bsky.social @whalesorg.bsky.social

One great use for allotments that one can’t be bothered to grow fruit and vegetables is to let the butterflies and bees thrive #pollinators

A great analogy and certainly Teams is my least favourite of the bunch. Certainly, none of these compare to in person meetings where great things can happen but they have a use…

Although it is good to be away from the constant zoom, teams, Webex and Googlemeet these platforms have made the world more connected @mueg.bsky.social

SCCS 2026 has opened for applications!

📣Spread the word!

It will be our 25th conference in Cambridge and will take place between 31 March – 2 April 2026. Check out the website for more info and to apply: www.sccs-cam.org.