Shrinking Arctic ice raises noise levels for marine life - UVic News As Arctic ice shrinks and human marine activity increases, sound-sensitive marine life face a noisier environment.

The Arctic is getting louder, and it’s a wake-up call for marine conservation.

Learn how researchers are establishing a baseline to help set evidence-based acoustic limits for fragile marine ecosystems. @oceannetworks.ca

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The whole thread of papers (core ones per @noguesbravo.bsky.social below) is a really interesting and useful set of insights into the promises and perils of rewilding. I introduced discussion on the series in my rewilding class - next year, I'm doing a whole class on just this set of papers.

It's @ehiggs.bsky.social !

Excited to be sharing the hybrid/virtual stage with artist, Desirée Patterson, and curator Kelley Tialiou at the Capture Photo Festival on April 2, 2026 (1:00-2:30 p.m. Pacific).

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Virtual Event - Mountain Voices: Memory, Story, and Permanence 20 March 2026 - In celebration of World Day for Glaciers, join the editors of Mountain Voices for a roundtable reflection on the art, science, and history of capturing images and stories of these ever...

TOMORROW! Join us for our Mountain Voices: Memory, Story, and Permanence virtual event!

@ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ehiggs.bsky.social @peterastevens.bsky.social

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Looking forward to joining my co-editors for this conversation. Please consider joining us.

Thanks @nichecanada.bsky.social and Jessica Dewitt.

[EARLY ACCESS] FE6.9 - On Fire: Out of the Green, Into the Black | Future Ecologies Get more from Future Ecologies on Patreon

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🔥📢 Call for Papers on Wildfires in a Changing #Climate: Impacts, #Adaptation, & Policy.

This Special Issue seeks submissions that examine the economic & welfare consequences of #wildfires & smoke & evaluate policy responses.

⏰ Deadline 30 Sept 2026
🔗 tinyurl.com/ryn3epjd

#OurChangingMountains

Summit Positions Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Peter Hansen about his research on the Alps and Himalayas.

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social sky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest shorturl.at/oI5fh #EnvHist #EnvHums
@nichecanada.bsky.social

Landslide and Avalanche Debris Litter Hubbard Glacier - NASA Science Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across the frozen landscapes of the St. Elias Mountains.

NASA Image of the Day about the earthquake in December 2025, w/ comments from @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy. @geocron.bsky.social see here 🧪⚒️❄️🛰️

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What is Indigenous political ecology — and who defines the “political” and the “ecological”?

Join Dr. Hunt as she shares relational principles shaping this field, the central role of Indigenous leadership, and why Indigenous political ecology matters for environmental studies.

#UVicENVI

Laser-written glass tablets can preserve data for millennia An archive system that encodes information in modified optical properties of glass could be a fast, efficient way to store huge quantities of data.

Glass, to the rescue (again). @mountainlegacy.bsky.social depends on a remarkable and very large collection of historic photographic negatives, most of which are on glass plates, not film. Looks like glass might be the answer again. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Moving beyond the traditional "knowledge deficit" model, three core needs shared by scientists and practitioner:
Communication (esp. safe spaces to share project failures and lessons learned, rather than just successes)
Tools (interoperable, open platforms)
Adaptive Management

Identifying practitioner and researcher collaboration needs to improve ecosystem restoration in Canada - Socio-Ecological Practice Research Ecological restoration practitioners should have access to relevant science on which to base their plans, and restoration researchers should ground their science in real-world needs — but the gap betw...

New study: “Investigating Collaboration Needs in Ecological restoration.” Led by @timalamenciak.bsky.social with several @uvicenvi.bsky.social co-authors, we report on the importance of bridging the science-practice gap in restoration. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The making of novel ecosystems: A process‐based framework for measurement, analysis and application Ecological novelty is emerging rapidly due to global change drivers such as climate shifts, species introductions, defaunation, and land-use transformation. These changes challenge how we assess, ...

Our new paper presents a framework for analysing the processes that generate novel ecosystems, discussing different conceptual and practical approaches across ecological disciplines. You can read it, open access, in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

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A new Nature #ClimateChange Focus Issue on #OurChangingMountains brings together research on:

❄️ Accelerating #GlacierLoss
⛰️ Changing slope vegetation dynamics
💧 #WaterSecurity for billions
⛷️ Tourism & cultural transformation

Read more 📖 bit.ly/4aeccHV

#MountainsMatter #MountainResearch

Looking forward to next Thursday’s (Feb 12, 7 p.m.) event with Kula: Library Futures Academy @uvic.ca to celebrate Mountain Voices, a collection of essays and photographs from @mountainlegacy.bsky.social. @uvicenvi.bsky.social Please register—seating limited.

Feeding, Fuelling, and Building the Foundations of Toronto: Sources for Exploring Historic Urban Metabolism Using harbour ledgers, the "Assembling a City" project reconstructs Toronto’s nineteenth-century urban metabolism, tracing fruit, coal, and stone flows linking city and hinterlands.

"Feeding, Fuelling, and Building the Foundations of Toronto: Sources for Exploring Historic Urban Metabolism" by Andrew Watson is the 8th and final post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

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Are You The Tyee’s New Biodiversity Reporter? | The Tyee We’re looking for a sharp journalist to join our team. Apply by Feb. 8.

The Tyee is hiring a reporter for a biodiversity beat! #journalism #journalismjobs

More info here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

It was a treat to interview Laura Govers, a seagrass and intertidal restoration wizard based at the University of Groningen. Dr. Govers visited @uvicenvi.bsky.social last spring.

My guest interview with @lauralgovers.bsky.social just dropped on @futureecologies.bsky.social today. It’s part of the Hyphaedelity series in which FE invites past interviewees to speak with someone whose work inspires.

Jeanine Rhemtulla is a co-founder of the Mountain Legacy Project and we stood together at Powerhouse Cliff for the first time doing repeat photography in 1996.

There was a lot going on all at once yesterday, including some strange network issues in EcoViz Studio, where my team works. I was putting out a lot of fires! By the time we got to the holiday celebration this photo summed it up!

Mountain Voices A new book featuring the Mountain Legacy Project has just been published. By Eric Higgs To celebrate International Mountain Day 2025 we are thrilled to share a new book, Mountain Voices...

A new book featuring the Mountain Legacy Project has just been published!
mountainlegacy.ca/2025/12/11/m...

Join me tonight at @uvic.ca for a conversation of climate, connection, and fighting for change.

🕖 7:00–9:30 p.m. PST (doors 6:30)
📍 University of Victoria

🔗 Event details & tickets: tinyurl.com/RLAG-uvic
🎥 Livestream: tinyurl.com/RLAG-uvic-live
@picscanada.bsky.social

Mountain Voices and Echoes from NiCHE's Archive Western Canada’s mountains emerge as dynamic landscapes of knowledge, danger, leisure, infrastructure, and change, illuminated through NiCHE’s diverse historical perspectives.

Today our editor, @gabtm.bsky.social, combed our archive for Mountain Voices and Echoes to help promote the latest collection in our @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment open-access book series.

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#envhist #cdnhist #books #mountains

Join us for the #UVicENVI Colloquium on Nov 26, 11:30–12:30 in DTB B255.
Dr. Katherine Achacoso shares work on Surigaonon ecological knowledge, anti-colonial resistance, and futures beyond extractive systems.

Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...

Do you appreciate that we take care of a large archive of research and writing that goes back nearly 20 years?

If so, help us keep the lights on, donate to our fundraising campaign. Still stuck at 60%! Can you help us move to 65%?

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#envhist #cdnhist #envhum

Still buzzing from the Mountain Voices launch event in Banff at the Whyte Museum on Friday. Thrilled to share the stage with Senator Karen Sorensen, Bill Snow, Ali Criscitiello, Leanne Allison and a dozen more contributors—mountain royalty! @mountainlegacy.bsky.social
@ucalgarypress.bsky.social

Informed, inspiring text. Beautiful, illuminating pix.

Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!

@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social

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