Comment - The Nature Record Now it’s our turn to shape what comes next. A new project. A mission years in the making.

It looks like they have built quite decent infrastructure for listening to public comments on the draft:

#Naturalsecurity is national security.

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Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

"The report explores not only actions that harm nature, but also how people are affected by nature and its loss, with chapters on human health, the economy and national security."

#Naturalsecurity is national security.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...

Relevant again because a private effort has resurrected the cancelled National Nature Assessment, launched via a Biden Exec Order, as the Nature Record, which is open for public comment until 30 May.

#Naturalsecurity is national security.

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This makes the conservative economic value of clean air $1T annually in the U.S.

And then you would have to add the damage from other sources such as manufacturing and use of chemicals such as aerosols, etc.
#naturalsecurity

Related.

#NaturalSecurity is national security.

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Our technology and trade thereby support a previously unimaginable quality of life for a previously impossible number of people. Humanity has kept Malthus at bay through centuries of growth. Yet our increasing numbers impose a load that is now impacting nature's capacity to support human societies. This stress comes at a time when ever-larger numbers of humans demand more: more food, more clean water, more energy, more education, more entertainment, more more. Increasing human demand raises the question of supply, and of the costs of meeting that supply. How we choose to spend or to conserve land, water, and air to meet our needs clearly impacts other organisms that also depend on these resources. Nature has intrinsic value for many people in the form of individual species, ecosystems, and wilderness; nature also constitutes critical infrastructure in the form of ecosystems that keep us alive. That infrastructure has quantifiable economic value. Consequently, nature, and the change we induce in it, is clearly interwoven with our economy. That is, the security and health of human societies depends explicitly upon the security and health of natural systems. Therefore, as economic security is now officially considered as part and parcel of national security strategy, it is time to expand our understanding of national security to include natural security. Source: From national security to natural security https://thebulletin.org/2013/12/from-national-security-to-natural-security/

From national security to natural security
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Robert Carlson | December 11, 2013

(That meeting at Cambridge on developing common ground between conservation biology and synthetic biology feels like a long time ago.)

#naturalsecurity
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Ocean Damage Nearly Doubles the Cost of Climate Change - Inside Climate News The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study published Thursday by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scr...

"The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought...Global coral loss, fisheries disruption and coastal infrastructure destruction are estimated to cost nearly $2T annually."
#bioeconomy
#naturalsecurity
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Hologram Labels: Nature's ultimate security feature. Using the physics of light as a key. Like butterfly wings, it's a dynamic, multi-dimensional effect that standard printing cannot reproduce. 

#NatureInspired #NaturalSecurity #Holoseal #HologramLabels

https://holoseal.in/hologram-labels/

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#naturalsecurity
#batsareawesome

This is a great story.

#ecovoltaics #naturalsecurity 🔌💡

Makes me wonder about working the bats into the business model.

Subscription bats?

B/c bats pollinate ~40% of food crops, provide 10's of $B in insect control services to US farmers, and save human lives by obviating the use of pesticides.

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

#SyntheticBiology for the win.

“Using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, the researchers then engineered the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce these sterols [to produce bee nutritional supplements] in a sustainable and affordable way.”

#naturalsecurity

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There’s life in Seattle’s new waterfront — if you know where to look Above the rebuilt Seattle seawall, people walk, bike, sit, chat, read and generally carry on. But come with us for a dip below.

Small steps in restoring aquatic habitats around #Seattle.

#naturalsecurity

Seattle's new waterfront is alive — if you know where to look
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Do we have #salmonsky or #riversky yet?

Also definitely a #naturalsecurity story.

#biosecurity #naturalsecurity

Scientists discover ‘potential breakthrough’ in protecting salmon from urban killer The scientific discovery is gratifying for those who have watched in agony as coho salmon have died in urban streams for decades.

Revisiting the toxic tire dust story, there may be some hope to save #salmon by filtering road runoff.

#naturalsecurity

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#deextinction #naturalsecurity

The power of a logjam: A vision of the Northwest’s rivers of old A mighty heap of logs can provide many benefits to salmon and people along the Lower Elwha River.

Very nice piece from Lynda Mapes in the Seattle Times on restoring salmon habitat after taking down the Elwha River dams.

Lots of interesting info on the structure of natural river flow, logjams, and engineering same.

#bioeconomy #naturalsecurity #climatesky

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The Other Side of the World’s Largest Dam Removal | Hakai Magazine Removing dams from the Klamath River in Northern California seems like a clear win for fish and rivers. Why do some locals hate it?

The Other Side of the World’s Largest Dam Removal

Removing dams from the Klamath River in Northern California seems like a clear win for fish and rivers. Why do some locals hate it?

#naturalsecurity

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How Gophers Restored Plant Life to a Volcano-Ravaged Mountain - in One Day. - Slashdot When a volcano erupted in 1980 about 70 miles from Portland, "lava incinerated anything living for miles around," remembers an announcement from the University of California at Riverside. But "As an ...

Intriguing story of how, in a single day, gophers ecologically transformed barren plots on Mt. Saint Helens into thriving ecosystems that have persisted for decades.

(I don't recall any lava flowing in that eruption, though. Just hot mud.)

#naturalsecurity

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From national security to natural security Why the world should begin exploring the possible use of synthetic biology to counter the worst effects of climate change.

Earlier:

From national security to natural security
By Robert Carlson | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | December, 2013

#naturalsecurity

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About damn time.

#naturalsecurity

How a bat disease may have led to the death of more than 1,000 kids A new study in the journal Science found the decline of bats in the United States had come at a deadly cost to humans.

The loss of insect control services from a decline in bat populations has led to an increase in pesticide use by farmers, which is in turn killing kids in the US.

Bring back bats.

#naturalsecurity

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Researchers discover eelgrass superpower in Puget Sound Already highly valued as nurseries for sea life, researchers have discovered a new eelgrass superpower, as living systems that reduce human pathogens in seafood.

Healthy #eelgrass beds not only provide habitat for commercially important aquatic species, but also "reduce human pathogens in seafood by as much as 65%".

#naturalsecurity

Researchers discover eelgrass superpower in Puget Sound
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Nature has value. Could we literally invest in it? | Analysis Some environmentalists, money managers and philanthropists are starting to believe nature won’t be well protected unless it is assigned a value in the market.

Interesting discussion of the pros and cons of “natural asset companies”. #naturalsecurity

Nature has value. Could we literally invest in it? Via @seattletimes www.seattletimes.com/business/nat...