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Forests across the planet are under threat. We need to act urgently to not only protect our existing forests, but to allow forests to return where they once were.

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Forests Forever @forestsforever.bsky.social · Nov 28

The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic. Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. Exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity.

Includes a quote by @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social

The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic

Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. As the new field of environmental neuroscience proves, exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity

www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 1d

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 14, 2025 ~ When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang.

“Efforts to protect forests don’t stand a chance as long as our economic system keeps rewarding quick profits from forest destruction..."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 7d

Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 2d

global warming potential of gypsum drywall, gypsum fiber drywall vs clay board
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gwp for gypsum board (high), gypsum fibre board (higher), clay board (low, almost nothing in comparison) ökobaudat data

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 21h

Aloyce Mwakisoma, a renowned plant expert from Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains, was struck and killed by a bus on Oct. 6 near the village of Sanje.

Mwakisoma, who was born and raised in the Udzungwas, had an encyclopedic knowledge of the plants and animals found in his home in the Eastern Arc.

Tanzanian conservationists mourn death of plant expert Aloyce Mwakisoma

Tanzanian conservationists are mourning the tragic death of renowned plant expert Aloyce Mwakisoma, who played a critical role in forest restoration and recently helped identify and describe a giant…

news.mongabay.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 9h

"New, devastating flood risk facing nearly all UK. Flooding predicted to become so bad that some towns may need to be abandoned, and it’s not even campaigners raising the alarm – but insurers"
#climate
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Wednesday briefing: The new, devastating flood risk facing nearly all of Britain

In today’s newsletter: Flooding across Britain is predicted to become so bad that some towns may need to be abandoned, and it’s not even campaigners raising the alarm – but insurers

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 9h

Iron is the limiting nutrient at the very base of the ocean food web. It enables photosynthesis, is essential for all marine life and enables significant carbon capture. Fisheries, whaling and pollution reduce the available iron for these vital processes.
drtomharris.substack.com/p/paying-the...

Paying the Iron Price

Iron is a critical part of life in the oceans. It's a limiting nutrient for primary production which sits at the base of the food chain and absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere. Should we be adding more?

drtomharris.substack.com

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 8h

Just a nice calm look at 321 hours out from the GFS.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 19h

Folks! Just started a new YouTube channel. Please subscribe for new climate and weather content!
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Thanks!

Earth has a fever! #climatechange #globalwarming #weather #stem #science #sciencefacts

YouTube video by Weather Professor Jeff Berardelli

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d

A stick, hanging in mid-air?
What's going on?

Hazel glue fungus!

Keeping a dead twig attached to a living stem allows the glue fungus to break it down without competition from the many other fungi that work at ground level. Nature is *so* amazing!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

www.monbiot.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 20h

48% of Ireland's waterbodies are so polluted, contaminated with chemicals, choked with algae, deprived of oxygen, lacking in species variety or physically altered and damaged that they fail to meet minimally acceptable standards.

And it's getting worse.
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Half of Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries in unhealthy state as standards slide again

Agriculture, sewage, chemicals and physical damage all threatening nature’s waterways

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13h

Too much bracken is a sign of severe ecological imbalance, caused by prolonged overgrazing. It can be a serious barrier to the return of trees and a richer, natural ecosystem like rainforest.

But it is a native fern, and turns a very beautiful blend of russets, oranges, and yellows in the autumn.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 1d

The Pope, the Terminator, and a Wicked Problem walk into a bar.

If you told me 2 yrs ago I'd spend a week in the Vatican w them I'd say you were nuts. But then if 20 years ago you told me the Catholic Church would be standing up for climate science vs denialist freaks I'd have you committed.

Confessions of a Climate Pilgrim at the Vatican

The Pope, the Terminator, and a Podcaster walk into a bar...

news.wickedproblems.uk

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Worldview Earth Data 🌍🌱 @wed-explorer.bsky.social · 3d

Satellite imagery reveals thick smoke spreading from #wildfires in #Bolivia over #SantaCruz, drifting toward #Argentina. Bolivia has declared a national emergency as repeated dry seasons, land-clearing fires for agriculture (“chaqueo”), and #climate stress fuel this crisis. 🌬🔥🌎

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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 3d

This is what we're up against. People still removing woodlands when we've already lost so much

www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 6d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 5d

My new video…

How Ongoing Ocean Stratification is Already a Really HUGE Deal and Will Mess Up Our Future
youtu.be/MO2VTLgNNxY?...

#climate #ClimateCatastrophe #weather #oceans #seas #humanity #Future #FutureTech #FutureReady

How Ongoing Ocean Stratification is Already a Really HUGE Deal and Will Mess Up Our Future Prospects

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

"Microplastics have been detected in the brains of dementia patients, and in arterial plaques from people with heart disease"

And the response of the plastics industry is......

....to massively ramp up plastic production

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

www.theguardian.com

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 3d

Great one minute summary of the climate impact from decreasing maritime stratocumulous clouds.

Above warmer oceans, clouds evaporate faster, exposing the dark ocean to direct sunlight, leading to even more warming.

And decreased air pollution from ships reduces cloud droplets and their size:

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

V good @business-humanrights.org summary of the current state of benefit sharing in the renewable energy sector

It is really wild how underdeveloped this model is, but there is also a massive amount of opportunity.

www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/bene...

Benefit sharing in wind and solar projects must become the norm. The Just Transition Work Programme is a unique opportunity - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

www.business-humanrights.org

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Democracy is not a spectator sport! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 9d

Drones To Deliver Millions Of Mosquitoes to Prevent Bird Extinctions In Hawai‘i

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#mosquitoes🦟 #Birds🦉 #EndangeredSpecies #ornithology🪶 #entomology #Hawaii #conservation🌎 medium.com/discourse/dr...

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 3d

Use it as material, not as fuel to make materials / to make stuff go.

Bunch of drywall solutions from plant fibers, straw, hemp, typha

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 3d

The guiña, a small wildcat, has been moved to least concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Found only in Chile and Argentina, this small cat was previously listed as vulnerable.

But the threat downgrade isn’t a sign of conservation success, researchers say.

IUCN downgrades guiña threat status, prompting conservation warning

The guiña, a small cat species found only in Chile and northern Argentina, has just been reclassified as of least concern by the IUCN. Until recently it was listed as vulnerable to extinction.…

news.mongabay.com

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 3d

It was hard to find a small miscanthus plant that would fit into the showcase. This is a small one. It's a perennial crop (multiple years).

From left to right. Miscanthus, Dinkel wheat, Wheat, Barley, on top a 70 year old straw from a house, a hemp stem

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 3d

The Northern Hemisphere used to radiate more heat to space than it absorbed from the sun, but this changed over the past 20 years.

More later today on Climate Chat:
www.patreon.com/posts/northe...

Northern/Southern Hemisphere Warming Asymmetry | Leon Simons

Get more from Leon Simons on Patreon

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