Adrien Damseaux

Tree Regeneration After Unprecedented Forest Disturbances in Central Europe Is Robust but Maladapted to Future Climate Change

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REVEALED: The EU spends hundreds of times more public money on high-emissions beef and dairy than legumes and nuts through its common agricultural policy (CAP) subsidies, according to new figures published today by Foodrise.

Read the new report: foodrise.org.uk/CAPCrossroads/

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

There's one thing most of us can do, especially in the Global North, to address the polycrisis: shift to a plant-based or plant-rich diet. Prof Johan Rockström, shown speaking in the post below, explains here why it's so important and brings many benefits: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened. The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

We don't know what's happening, but there's no good news here. As long as we keep burning fossil fuels, the world will continue to become more dangerous and chaotic.

We're hiring! In the Future Forests excellence cluster, we're looking for a postdoc in participatory modelling. If you like modelling but are also interested in transdisciplinary research and co-creation with stakeholders, this position is for you! 🌲🤝🧑‍💻 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

The UK is a rich country built on mass poverty Record levels of very deep poverty expose the true cost of austerity, inflation and the concentration of power at the top.

Politicians tell us they can fix poverty with economic growth, or labour market reforms, or easy money.

But all of these fixes just obscure the fact that the poverty of those at the bottom is a direct consequence of the wealth of those at the top. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-...

New research - Including carbon emissions from permafrost thaw and fires reduces the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5C by 25%

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the first capital in the world to prohibit such ads...

🙌 Major climate win! 

Amsterdam has become the first capital in the world to legally ban meat and fossil fuel advertising.

🌍 More than 50 cities worldwide have now pledged to ban the advertising of fossil fuels.

www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a...

Brilliant paper that shows how progress in model complexity (fully coupled-models) is essential for estimating what our future will look like 👏

Recovering tropical forests grow back nearly twice as fast with nitrogen, new research shows

“Our study is exciting because it suggests there are ways we can boost the capture and storage of greenhouse gases through reforestation by managing the nutrients available to trees.” - Priestley member Wenguang Tang, PhD researcher

🌳 Tropical forests can recover twice as quickly after deforestation if they have adequate soil nitrogen, according to new research led by the Uni of Leeds and Priestley members
climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/nitroge...

This tool reminds me of Ingrid Robeyns’ "Limitarianism": being born is largely a roll of the dice. Some get lucky, others don’t, and that’s something we should collectively take into account.

‘Meat tax’ could have significant impact on environmental footprint, study finds Full VAT on meat products could cost EU households as little as €26 a year but cut impact by 3-6%, says paper

‘Meat tax’ could have significant impact on environmental footprint, study finds

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Germany’s dying forests are losing their ability to absorb CO2. Can a new way of planting save them? Vast swathes of the country’s trees have been killed off by droughts and infestations, in a trend sweeping across Europe. A shift towards more biodiverse cultivation could offer answers

Germany’s dying forests are losing their ability to absorb CO2. Can a new way of planting save them?

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Ce pays, comme tant d’autres, nous tient parce que nous dépendons de leur gaz et de leur pétrole.
Il est urgent de sortir des énergies fossiles, c’est la seule solution pour arrêter de dépendre de dictateurs comme Trump ou Poutine.

#MyTop2025

🎬 Out of Love - Nathan Ambrosioni
🎶 choke enough - oklou
📚 Limitarianism - Ingrid Robeyns
🔬 High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide - Schöngart et al.

a world map with locations of extreme weather event studies by WWA in pink & yellow dots

Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...

NOAA has started terminating grants to UCAR under the UCAR/NOAA Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program (CAMP).

Beautiful from the Guardian. Climate change is making food systems more fragile. Extreme weather, poor harvests, and rising prices threaten everyone's food security

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Delighted to see the UK rejoin Erasmus.

From my own experience, it’s about far more than studying abroad; it’s about confidence, connections, and horizons widened.

A real win for students and the future.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

I hope this doesn't happen, but if it does, it will be a tragic day for climate research

The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite.
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

Fewer than 60k people—0.001% of the world’s population—control 3x as much #wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity; the richest 10% own 75% of wealth and the bottom half just 2%. The top 10% of #income -earners earn more than the other 90% combined… (1/2) www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Was there an online stream and I missed it?

One Battle After Another as a musical/comedy (instead of drama) suggests they’re choosing genres with a dartboard

Living Report: Regenerative Agriculture vs. Rewilding A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed evidence on regenerative grazing vs. rewilding through dietary shifts that reduce land use and restore soil, water, climate, and biodiversity

🌎 Livestock dominates global land, yet yields little food.
🐄 Regenerative grazing can't scale without a major cut to beef & dairy.
⚠️Regenerative grazing: short-lived soil gains, long-lived CH4.
🌳Removing livestock revives ecosystems.

FULL REPORT:
iffs.earth/living-repor...

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.

This (1.48C) is a bit higher than our best estimate of human-induced warming to-date (~1.4C) in the recent Forster et al paper (essd.copernicus.org/...), despite 2025 being characterized by weak La Nina conditions (which would typically push down global temps.