Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage

Glaciers set to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years

- #climatecrisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritage

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Using seed addition experiments in areas variably impacted by fires, the authors explored whether a trait-based approach could be used to guide the selection of tree species in active restoration projects in deforested areas🌲🌳

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New estimates of surface temperature change since the late 18th century Releasing an observation-based global temperature dataset extending back to 1781

The new GloSAT temperature dataset extends our observational estimates of global temperature change back to 1781

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Serra-Marin et al. develop an Automated Camera System (ACS) that integrates Raspberry Pi hardware with YOLOv5, to detect pollinators in plant communities 🐝 🌱 Read more here 🌍 🧪 👇

🌵 In tropical dry forests, drought avoiders (isohydric) thrive in dry sites with fast growth, while tolerators (anisohydric) dominate wetter areas, boosting biomass non-linearly 👇
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Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach - Nature Ecology & Evolution A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...

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A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas More than half of Cambodia and Laos’ tree cover loss in 2024 was recorded inside protected areas, Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn reports. The findings were a result of Mongabay’s analysis of satellite data…

More than half of Cambodia and Laos’ tree cover loss in 2024 was recorded inside protected areas, Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn reports.

In Cambodia, 56% of the nation’s tree cover loss was recorded within its protected area network last year. In Laos, the figure was 64%.

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Yan et al. develop a new wood–leaf separation algorithm designed to achieve both high classification accuracy and structural completeness from the trunk to high-order branches🌳🍃 Read the article here 👇

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Mauritius rethinks coral restoration as reefs suffer from another mass bleaching PORT LOUIS, Mauritius — Seeing coral reefs can color one’s monochrome view of the ocean forever. In the pink of health — and red, blue, green and purple — corals resemble underwater fireworks,…

Mauritius is home to nearly 250 kinds of corals, but saw 80% of its corals bleached in the latest mass bleaching caused in part by climate change.

The island nation's predicament highlights concerns raised by scientists who question whether coral restoration works in the face of mounting threats.

In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone LILONGWE — Four years ago, a U.K.-based charity, SolarAid, set out to provide solar-powered electricity to every home in Kasakula, a village around 90 kilometers, or 56 miles, from Malawi’s capital,…

A UK-based charity has installed solar photovoltaic systems in all 9,000 households of a rural village in Malawi.

The nonprofit has trained local technicians to maintain the systems — and says it retrieves damaged or retired batteries, as no system for safely recycling these exists there currently.

5  Raster-vector interactions – Geocomputation with Python An introductory resource for working with geographic data in Python

Working with raster + vector together in Python? 🗺️🌍🐍

Chapter 5 of geocompx talks about:

- Cropping & masking rasters with vectors
- Extracting raster values via vector data
- Raster ↔️ vector conversion (polygonize & rasterize)

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CO2 from wildfires increases by 9% as climate crisis supercharges infernos Greenhouse gases from wildfires at sixth highest level on record after blazes in large areas of the Americas and Africa

Matthew Jones of University of East Anglia, co-author of the State of Wildfires report, said the excess in carbon emissions caused by wildfires was akin to the emissions of more than 200 countries: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Frozen Flora: 25 years of the Millennium Seed Bank Preserving and restoring rare and important plant species...

🌱 Studying seeds is vital for work on restoring lost species to semi-natural UK grasslands

UKCEH plant ecologist @wagnermarkus.bsky.social chats to the Naked Scientists for their podcast on 25 years of @rbgkew.bsky.social's Millennium Seed Bank #MSB25

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Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Exceptional heat in AUSTRALIA

In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.

Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C

🎉🆕📰🎉: Everchanging range: how the changing environment has influenced the genetic diversity and differentiation of an iconic North American palm species
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Removing rats helps revive forests, birds & coral in the Marshall Islands On Bikar Atoll and Jemo Islet of the Marshall Islands, seabirds are returning, forests are regrowing and coral reefs are recovering. And it all stems from the removal of a single invasive pest: rats.…

On Bikar Atoll and Jemo Islet of the Marshall Islands, seabirds are returning, forests are regrowing and coral reefs are recovering. And it all stems from the removal of a single invasive pest: rats.

Gene flow can reveal ghost lineages Abstract. Ghost species, encompassing extinct, unknown, and unsampled taxa, vastly outnumber those typically included in phylogenetic analyses. This hidden

Here, the potential of horizontal gene transfer detection methods were explored, based on phylogenies, to detect & quantify ghost diversity. What did they find? Read the full paper to find out (2/2)👇🧪🌍
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India’s agroecology programme, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’, delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields - Nature Ecology & Evolution Analysis of crop yields, farmer income and bird species abundances identifies multiple positive outcomes of a large-scale Indian government-incentivized agroecology initiative.

Analysis of crop yields, farmer income and bird species abundances identifies multiple positive outcomes of a large-scale Indian government-incentivized agroecology initiative. 🧪

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Growing trees on farms boosts nutrition in rural Malawi Planting fruit trees on farms improves dietary quality, according to new research from Malawi that tracked nearly 1,000 households over 10 years. The study, published in Conservation Letters, found…

Trees improve nutrition through direct consumption of fruits, boost crop production and potential sales income, and provide cooking fuel.

Researchers recommend including food-producing trees in Africa’s reforestation programs and shifting agricultural policies to include diverse, nutritious crops.

I am pleased to share two exciting opportunities to join our excellent Millennium Seed Bank Partnership team in Madagascar: Senior Botanist, and Restoration Technician. Please share widely!

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Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world

“Much as they have paid the price for their promotion of lies regarding the 2020 election and voting machines, it’s time for outfits that attack science and scientists to pay the price for the threat they pose to human civilisation.”

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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
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To save humanity and nature we must tackle wealth inequality, says Cambridge researcher Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological and environmental collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years, which have come to be dominated by a small circle of elites hoarding…

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Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological & environmental collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years.

Today, instead of an isolated collapse, we face a global one, says Luke Kemp, a researcher at University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Soil carbon: Crucial ally or potential threat to net-zero commitments? The daily destruction of nature’s carbon stores is happening right before our eyes, as forests are ravaged by catastrophic wildfires and vast tracts of wildlands are cleared for agriculture. But even…

The daily destruction of nature’s carbon stores is happening right before our eyes, as forests are ravaged by catastrophic wildfires and vast tracts of wildlands are cleared for agriculture.

But even greater stores of carbon lie hidden beneath our feet, and they too are under threat.

New study pinpoints tree-planting hotspots for climate and biodiversity gains Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but scientists warn that planting trees indiscriminately isn’t effective. Its success depends on how and, crucially, where it’s done. A…

Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done.

A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits, while avoiding negative trade-offs.

Liberia has a new plan to protect its rainforests. Can it work? Around half of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in the small coastal nation of Liberia. They’re home to species like western chimpanzees and pygmy hippos, valuable stands of hardwood — and…

Half of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in Liberia, but in 2024, it lost more than 94,000 acres of humid primary forest, according to Global Forest Watch.

A new project will make “area-based payments” to 28 communities in exchange for commitments to protect some of their customary forests.

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

Whether we aim to reduce atmospheric CO₂ by carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) or CO₂ removal (CDR), we must store the carbon somewhere durably. This new study, led by @gidden.bsky.social, showed that global geologic carbon storage capacity is 10 times less than previous estimates. Not good.

Social media post sparks rediscovery of endemic Sri Lanka rainforest plant COLOMBO — In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List delivered a grim verdict on endemic Pini- Beraliya, the towering dipterocarp Doona ovalifolia (syn. Shorea ovalifolia) tree by categorizing it as…

In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List delivered a grim verdict on the endemic Pini-Beraliya tree by categorizing it as “extinct in the wild.”

Then in May 2018, a Facebook group post caused members to wonder: might the Pini-Beraliya still exist in the wild?