Adrien Damseaux

Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct University of Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of our food production on other species' survival around the world.

Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct

"If everyone in the UK switched to a vegetarian diet overnight, we could halve our biodiversity impact."

phys.org/news/2025-10...

27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

Nature’s 2025 PhD survey asked doctoral candidates worldwide what advice they would give to someone considering a similar degree. Respondents gave advice on choosing supervisors, managing mental health, and surviving academic culture. #Academicsky 🧪

How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🍺 Beer prices could double🪳 Pests could wreak havoc on crops🌱 Switching to a plant-rich diet could save land almost the size of Scotland@OxMartinSchool's ... Oxford professor: Five facts you need to know about climate change’s impact on food #worldfoodday

🍺🍷 What does climate change mean for your pint of beer or glass of wine?
Professor Paul Behrens from our Future of Food Programme shares five insights on how it’s transforming what we eat and why it matters this #WorldFoodDay.
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I'm excited to be speaking about Rafael Wildauer's and my new working paper (gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/51...), which estimates the climate effect of wealth taxes at the #BlueEarthSummit today!

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

Un projet très prometteur à partager ! Le futur ourworldindata.org français ?

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

Brilliant piece of journalism that shows how we are trading forests for fairways and Tesla factories

As more land is developed, we continue to lose vital wilderness and biodiversity at an alarming rate

Brilliant piece of journalism that shows how we are trading forests for fairways and Tesla factories

As more land is developed, we continue to lose vital wilderness and biodiversity at an alarming rate

Stop the EU’s Ban on “Meaty” Words for Plant-Based Foods Sign now

Stop the EU's ban on common words (like #burger, #sausage or #breast) for #plantbased foods. They help people know how to cook & enjoy #sustainable alternatives; taking them away will only create confusion and make life harder for #consumers & innovators: weplanet.yourmovement.org/p/noconfusio...

State of Europe’s environment not good: threats to nature and impacts of climate change top challenges Significant progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, but the overall state of Europe’s environment is not good, especially its nature which continues to face degr...

“Biodiversity is declining across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems in Europe due to persistent pressures driven by unsustainable production and consumption patterns, demonstrated most notably in the #FoodSystem”
#EuropesEnvironment2025
www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...

Planetary boundaries sound very abstract & high level, this year, for the first time @eraju.bsky.social & I contributed a chapter how breaching these boundaries has affected people around the world: losing lives, livelihoods, health… & for whom the limits of adaptation have been reached.

In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise This article examines the technocentric bias that characterizes climate mitigation literature, focusing on the reports of the IPCC's Working Group III…

5/ As historian of science and technology Jean-Baptiste Fressoz has recently written:

"Climate expertise must shift from tech illusions to concrete proposals on sufficiency, redistribution, sectoral degrowth and structural change—or risk delaying meaningful action."

Belgium’s first fully plant-based cookery school to open in Auderghem When Chef Corentin Crutzen began offering small plant-based cooking workshops three years ago, he never imagined the demand would lead him to open an entire school.

#Belgium: First school for #plantbased cooking opened – #cooking that can be fun, indulgent, messy or gourmet. Eating too much #meat can lead to #health problems & with #inflation meat is more expensive. The school even has a Michelin-starred chef as patron: www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1734...

Hi Alexander, great insights on the nutritional adequacy of plant-based diets for dogs. What are your thoughts on the feasibility for vegan cat diet?

A figure from the Nexus Assessment showing interactions between nexus elements.

🌐 The @ipbes.net #NexusAssessment Report reveals critical interactions among nexus elements—biodiversity, water, food, health, and climate change. 🌏🧪

🚨 Explore how cascading effects like land-use change can reduce biodiversity⤵️

Land availability and policy commitments limit global climate mitigation from forestation Forestation (afforestation and reforestation) could mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon within biomass and soils. However, global mitigation from forestation remains uncertain owing to vary...

The amount of carbon that forests can take up is much lower than previous estimates. If we don't reduce CO₂ emissions rapidly, we can say goodbye to the Paris climate targets forever.

Towards sustainable diets and farming systems through land use optimisation - npj Sustainable Agriculture npj Sustainable Agriculture - Towards sustainable diets and farming systems through land use optimisation

Our #foodsystem poses #health & #environment challenges, raising concerns about its #sustainability. Using Wallonia as a case study shows that adopting more #plantbased diets would enable self-sufficiency and spare land for alternative uses: doi.org/10.1038/s442... #diets #landuse

Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza.

Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza
FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.

Witnessing the rapid and extensive thawing of permafrost in Svalbard is truly impressive but deeply concerning

Ik raad autolobby's aan om eerst echt onderzoek te doen voordat ze hun mening geven over fietsveiligheid, bijvoorbeeld door te lezen dat

David Seymour was right to question our compulsory helmet laws There’s little evidence our mandatory cycle laws improve overall safety, and quite a bit of evidence suggesting they’re doing more harm than good.

Decades ago, I supported mandatory helmet laws for people riding bikes. Then I was convinced by evidence and the bigger picture that such laws are actually counter-productive in many ways. This NZ article explains some.

I support helmets, but not mandatory helmet laws.

Build safe infrastructure.

Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining Forests cover around 40 percent of the EU's land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10 percent of the continent's man-made carbon emissions. However, the carbon dioxide absorption capac...

🇬🇧 New #study shows: The #carbon sink function of #EU #forests is increasingly weakening and therefore the EU's #climatetargets are at risk.
Read more: bgc-jena.mpg.de/pm-en-climat...
To the @natcomms.nature.com Artikel: nature.com/articles/s41...

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’ The UN expert who first warned that Israel was orchestrating a campaign of deliberate mass starvation in Gaza more than 500 days ago, has said that governments and corporations cannot claim to be surprised at the horror now unfolding. “Israel has built the most efficient starvation machine you can imagine. So while it’s always shocking to see people being starved, no one should act surprised. All the information has been out in the open since early 2024,” Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, told the Guardian. Continue reading...

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

This should ruin your day. It should also be brought to the attention of EVERY political representative.

We are naive to believe that we can perfectly model the complex adaptive Earth System, which is inherently subject to uncertainties and surprises. We have no room or time left for error.

Warming Winters Sabotage Trees’ Carbon Uptake - Eos In temperate forests, the biomass-building benefits of warmer growing seasons are offset by damaging variability in winter weather—a disparity that climate models may miss.

Are climate models overestimating the role that northern forests play in storing carbon? New @pnas.org research says yes.

eos.org/articles/war...

Frustrating that an article about food only mentions "climate breakdown caused by the burning of fossil fuels" when various scientists explain that "up to a third of global GHG production to date can be attributed to animal agriculture" academic.oup.com/oocc/article...

Extreme Greenland melting event right now: thawing over 80% of the surface. Seen before only once in the record melt summer 2012.

See more at @polarportal.bsky.social!