Charis Sideropoulos

Special Issue: Transformative Partnerships for a Better World: Earth Stewardship <em>Earth Stewardship</em> is a sustainability journal publishing a wide range of scientifically and technologically innovative contributions on how we can protect our planet.

For #EarthDay, it seems like a great time to share @esajournals.bsky.social Earth Stewardship's special issue, *Transformative Partnerships for a Better World*, which will continuously update as more papers are added to it esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Airborne microplastics enter plant leaves and end up in our food Evidence for a previously overlooked route for microplastics to enter crops and reach plant tissues has implications for ecology and human health.

Evidence for a previously overlooked route for microplastics to enter crops and reach plant tissues has implications for ecology and human health

https://go.nature.com/4iblIwc

White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled (Gift Article) A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.

Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. scim.ag/4ctpT4Z

New publication.

Sideropoulos, C., & Troumbis, A. Y. (2025). Conservation Culturomics 2.0 (?): Information Entropy, Big Data, and Global Public Awareness in the Anthropocene Narrative Issues. Earth, 6(2), 22.

doi.org/10.3390/eart...

The wildfire that swept through Altadena, California, in January burned houses and cars as well as vegetation, generating smoke that contained a complex mix of toxic chemicals. Weeks later, these chemicals still cling to the soil and remaining structures. Researchers are working intensively to understand the lingering hazards of such urban wildfires.

After wildfires burned houses and brush alike in Los Angeles, researchers have mobilized to understand the health risks posed by urban conflagrations.

Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3DV7GR4

This is figure 2, which shows two perspectives on land use as a driver of biodiversity loss and disease emergence.

Introducing Nature Reviews Biodiversity! This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene. https://go.nature.com/42fzUQk 🧪

Air pollution and brain damage: what the science says Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine how pollutants do their damage, and how much harm they cause.

People in poor communities, who often breathe the worst-quality air, are likely to have more risk factors for brain disorders, stress, lower educational attainment and obesity, compared with those in higher-income areas

https://go.nature.com/3WiPFC9

Precipitation anomalies may affect productivity resilience by shifting plant community properties By exploring the impacts of both drought and wet extremes, our work uncovers how precipitation events, which may not necessarily impact productivity directly, could still cryptically influence resili...

💦While #precipitation events (drought & wet events) do not necessarily directly impact primary productivity, they may still cryptically influence productivity resilience via shifts in resilience-promoting #plant community properties: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The cost of recovering Australia’s threatened species Nature Ecology & Evolution - An estimated AU$583 billion per year cost of in situ recovery of terrestrial and freshwater species in Australia, including through habitat restoration and...

The cost of recovering Australia’s threatened species rdcu.be/d5rpJ

Reside et al estimate that the total cost of implementing all strategies to recover threatened species in their in situ habitat across Australia summed to an estimated AU$583 billion per year

This is figure 1, which shows the incidence of T2D and CVD per 1 million adults attributable to sugar sweetened beverages intake among adults (20+ years) in 184 countries in 2020.

Approximately one in 10 new cases of type 2 diabetes and one in 30 new cases of cardiovascular disease worldwide in 2020 may be attributable to the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, according to a study in Nature Medicine.
https://go.nature.com/4h0ZJrn 🧪

Name: Messier 57 (aka M57 or the Ring Nebula) Type: Planetary nebula Constellation: Lyra Distance: 2,000 light-years Apparent Magnitude: 8.8 Discovery: 1779 by Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix Source: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-night-sky/hubble-messier-catalog/messier-57/ What is a planetary nebula? A planetary nebula is a glowing cloud of gas and dust that forms when a star similar to the Sun reaches the end of its life. The outer layers of the star are ejected into space, creating a colorful, ring-like appearance. Image Description: A swirling nebula, its outer ring ablaze with fiery red and orange, while its core shimmers with a cool, celestial blue. Media Credit: @ESA / @esa_webb, @NASA & @csa_asc, M. Barlow, N. Cox, R. Wesson NASA, ESA, and C. Robert O'Dell (Vanderbilt University). Transparency: This account is intended solely for educational purposes. It is not affiliated with the creditor(s) or source(s) referenced herein, nor does it assert ownership of the distributed media or imply endorsement by any of the aforementioned entities.

Messier 57 (aka M57 or the Ring Nebula) is a planetary nebula around 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra.

Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, et al

Afforestation helps soil microbes maintain nutrient balance amid land use changes Jingmei Zheng, Jiao Feng, Shuhai Wen, Yanting Song, Zhongwen Liu, Dailin Yu, Qiaoyun Huang, Yu-Rong Liu This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found …

📰Published📰 Afforestation helps soil microbes maintain nutrient balance amid land use changes

https://buff.ly/4gDhKfb

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Plant–soil feedback drives the ‘nursing effect’ on Sitka spruce 🌲 🌏

Provides a mechanistic explanation for both long-held observations of nursing effects in forestry systems and for biodiversity effects in natural woodlands 🌱 🧪

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California Storms Recharged Watersheds, Geodesy Data Reveal - Eos The atmospheric rivers that soaked the state in early 2023 released enough water to warp the ground and douse a deep drought.

Atmospheric rivers caused more than $3 billion of damage in California in 2022–2023. But those storms also filled the state’s underground watersheds, causing the ground to warp with its weight.

Invasion stress mitigates climate stress in a brackish marsh amphipod 💦 🌏 🧪

Found that amphipods raised under Phragmites conditions had...
👉better chances of survival
👉greater stores of protein
👉similar body mass and stores of glycogen

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Conceptual framework for our current understanding of tree stem CH4 fluxes

Virtual Issue: Methane emissions from tree stems

Papers that contribute to our understanding of #methane #emissions from tree stems and set out challenges and opportunities for future research.

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1469-8137.Methane-emissions-from-tree-stems

Starry night over Banff

Credit: Yin Hao

Meteor Shower and Orion in Mongolia 🇲🇳