Today and tomorrow I'm taking some of our work in the #UnrulyNatures project to new audiences, reflecting with colleagues at @sthlmresilience.bsky.social on how the links between arts and sustainability research are deepening and opening new opportunities to address conflicts and polarisation.

How many fossil fuel and petrochemical lobbyist are attending the #INC-5.2 #PlasticsTreaty in #Geneva? Wonder why stallement of substantive matter, and low ambition? Read @ciel.org new report

🛢️234 lobbyist (e.g., Dow, ExxonMobile, American Chemistry Council)
🚨19 lobbyist are in country delegation

Handbook of Social Networks and the Environment ‘This brilliant volume comprehensively explains how and why social networks are so critical to help society address environmental challenges, including the climate crisis. It significantly extends pre...

📣 Exciting news: The 'Handbook of Social Networks & the Environment' - co-edited with the brilliant Örjan Bodin - is now out!

Access here: 🌐 tinyurl.com/hb2cz9er

World's top court opens door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis International Court of Justice rules that governments have a legal duty to prevent and repair damage to the climate system

In a landmark case brought by the sinking Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, the ICJ’s 15 judges decided unanimously that governments have a legal duty to protect the climate

I am looking for a PhD student to start Feb 2026 on an Australia-South African collab project looking at protected area & SES resilience. Fully funded + international applicants welcome. Pls send CV & half-page motivation if interested. Relevant background + degree essential. www.resilient-ways.com

Ecology & Society: Welcome home! Introducing SocSES: a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research Underpinned by systemic thinking, social-ecological systems (SES) research has emerged as a critical field for addressing the challenges of the Anthropocene, marked by a cross-scale focus, inter- and ...

Thrilled to be part of this watershed moment in the field of social-ecological systems research. Coinciding w/ the launch of SocSES earlier this year, this publication takes stock of how far we've come as a community and the possibilities that lie ahead. ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss2/a...

German emissions fell 3.4% in 2024, on track for 2030 climate goals Germany's Federal Environment Agency on Friday said greenhouse gas emissions in Europe's biggest economy fell by around 3.4% year-on-year in 2024, putting the country on track to meet its 2030 climate targets.

Tyskland som satsar på förnybar energi sänker utsläppen och är på väg att nå sina och EU:s klimatmål. Sverige som under Tidöregeringen toksatsar på kärnkraft ÖKAR utsläppen rekordmycket och når inte ett enda klimatmål. Se sambandet! Framtiden är förnybar!
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Megafauna recovery and relevance amidst people and poverty in India YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

India’s megafauna—tigers, snow leopards, & megaherbivores—are making a rare comeback amidst people & poverty. What drives this recovery?
👉 Ecology, economics, & coexistence. Thanks to @ninadm.bsky.social for a great talk.

Watch the full talk on #conservation & #biodiversity #naturerecovery

We Protected Over A Million Square Kilometers Of The Pacific, And The Recovery Was Unlike Anything We Could Have Imagined Albatross were once nearing extinction here. Now, 14 million birds form the largest colony in the world.

Papahānaumokuākea has shattered assumption that MPAs don't work...
www.iflscience.com/papahanaumok...

Sverige enda landet i EU att vägra stöd. Tusentals spädbarn kan dö.

An illustration of a cityscape where all the formal parts are greyed out, and informal activities are still in colour. Bubbles highlight four examples: illegal sand mining on river banks, disaster relief during flooding, informal governance and decision-making, and unregistered groundwater abstraction.

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2️⃣ Designating people and places as informal is political, a moral exclusion from rights, services and protection from environmental risk.

3️⃣ Governance systems need support to bridge formal/informal divide, not "fix" informality but recognise that many lives and livelihoods depend on it.

Ecology & Society: Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity Informality is a distinguishing characteristic of cities in the Global South and is strongly associated with urban inequality. Yet, in pursuing resilience, urban resilience strategies and planning hav...

📣 New paper! 📣
Why and how do informal activities matter for resilience in Southern African cities? 🌊 🏘️ 🏢 🏜️
1️⃣ Informality is everywhere, but often invisible - until crises strike. Informal systems can adapt and respond quickly, but also entrench inequity.

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ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss2/a...

A leaked document reveals a PR campaign fuelled attacks on the 2019 EAT-Lancet report, which called for cutting red meat by 50% for health and climate. Scientists faced intense backlash. “I’ve never been attacked in so many ways,” said our Director Line Gordon. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Astronomers claim strongest evidence yet of extraterrestrial life Distant planet is covered with an ocean that may be teeming with microbial activity

"Now two separate instruments on the telescope have detected high levels of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) and dimethyl disulphide (DMDS)...there is no known non-biological process capable of generating DMS and DMDS in the large quantities observed"
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