Marco Ferrari
@markfer.bsky.social
Biologist, science journalist, book author (last one: How to build an alien - Codice).
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Colossal didn't make a dire wolf. This is not a dire wolf! Stop saying it is!! I feel like I'm going mad!!!
April 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Colossal didn't make a dire wolf. This is not a dire wolf! Stop saying it is!! I feel like I'm going mad!!!
Un vero coglione.
you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher”
lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”
lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Un vero coglione.
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The author argues for Proforestation: “ ... the process of allowing existing forests to continue growing without human interference until they achieve their full ecological potential for carbon sequestration and biological diversity”. 🌰🌍
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/beyo...
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/beyo...
Beyond reforestation, let’s try ‘proforestation’
Edward Faison, an ecologist at the Highstead Foundation, stood quietly in a patch of forest that stretched for miles in all directions. Above him, the needles from white pine trees swayed — common in ...
news.mongabay.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The author argues for Proforestation: “ ... the process of allowing existing forests to continue growing without human interference until they achieve their full ecological potential for carbon sequestration and biological diversity”. 🌰🌍
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/beyo...
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/beyo...
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“TMC appears to want to pivot from seabed mining without regulations to seabed mining entirely outside of all international frameworks. A moratorium is needed to prevent this kind of international conflict, discord and chaos.” Deep Sea Conservation Coalition www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed
Environmentalists call bid to skirt UN treaty ‘reckless’ amid fears that mining will cause irreversible loss of biodiversity
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
“TMC appears to want to pivot from seabed mining without regulations to seabed mining entirely outside of all international frameworks. A moratorium is needed to prevent this kind of international conflict, discord and chaos.” Deep Sea Conservation Coalition www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🗞️ Happy news for today: Beavers have returned to England’s rivers for the first time in centuries!
Two pairs of Eurasian beavers have been released to roam freely in Little Sea, an 82 acre lake in Dorset.
This is the first licensed wild release of the once-extinct rodent since the 16th century.
Two pairs of Eurasian beavers have been released to roam freely in Little Sea, an 82 acre lake in Dorset.
This is the first licensed wild release of the once-extinct rodent since the 16th century.
"We’re still pinching ourselves": wild beavers make historic return to English rivers in first approved release
www.countryfile.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
🗞️ Happy news for today: Beavers have returned to England’s rivers for the first time in centuries!
Two pairs of Eurasian beavers have been released to roam freely in Little Sea, an 82 acre lake in Dorset.
This is the first licensed wild release of the once-extinct rodent since the 16th century.
Two pairs of Eurasian beavers have been released to roam freely in Little Sea, an 82 acre lake in Dorset.
This is the first licensed wild release of the once-extinct rodent since the 16th century.
Right wing parties and hunters are 💩💩💩, always and everywhere
Spain’s rewilding of Iberian Lynx at risk after lobbying by hunters and farmers! 😡
Only last year it was hailed as a conservation success story: Close to extinction, they had sprung back to life thanks to a two-decade-long effort to expand the population. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Only last year it was hailed as a conservation success story: Close to extinction, they had sprung back to life thanks to a two-decade-long effort to expand the population. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Spain’s rewilding of Iberian lynx at risk after lobbying by hunters and farmers
Regional governments bow to pressure from agricultural industry, often amplified by far-right Vox party
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Right wing parties and hunters are 💩💩💩, always and everywhere
Oil is making the world dirtier, in every sense of the word.
Um which article about Simeon Browner? The one where he handpicked John Carnegie for "the board of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) in December, despite Carnegie not making the cut during interviews."
Here www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
Here www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
Simeon Brown appointed prominent oil, gas lobbyist to energy savings board against official advice
A top government minister personally added a fossil fuel lobbyist to the shortlist of candidates to help govern the country's main energy-saving agency.
www.rnz.co.nz
March 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Oil is making the world dirtier, in every sense of the word.
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Almost 200 countries signed the Kunming Montreal framework to safeguard biodiversity. None of them are on track.
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...
With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss
All countries must accelerate efforts to avert the biodiversity crisis, and preserve Earth’s precious natural places for future generations.
theconversation.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Almost 200 countries signed the Kunming Montreal framework to safeguard biodiversity. None of them are on track.
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...
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This. Over and over and over. We must stand up and fight.
Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This. Over and over and over. We must stand up and fight.
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Society for Conservation Biology on one important aspect of the tragedy that is the Trump administration: conbio-northamericansection.informz.net/informzdatas...
SCB North America - Statement in Support of Scientific Integrityundefined
conbio-northamericansection.informz.net
February 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Society for Conservation Biology on one important aspect of the tragedy that is the Trump administration: conbio-northamericansection.informz.net/informzdatas...
New research: birdlife soars on nature-friendly solar farms eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...
New research: birdlife soars on nature-friendly solar farms
Nature-friendly solar farms in East Anglia support more bird species than arable land, boosting biodiversity
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
New research: birdlife soars on nature-friendly solar farms eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...
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taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
February 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
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Nice overview of the consequences of the Trump public health data purge...
🛟🧪😷sociology demography medsky health policy
www.thedailybeast.com/scientists-l...
🛟🧪😷sociology demography medsky health policy
www.thedailybeast.com/scientists-l...
Scientists Rip ‘Disturbing’ Trump Admin Health Data Purge
Doctors said the move creates a “dangerous gap” in data used to monitor and respond to disease outbreaks.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Nice overview of the consequences of the Trump public health data purge...
🛟🧪😷sociology demography medsky health policy
www.thedailybeast.com/scientists-l...
🛟🧪😷sociology demography medsky health policy
www.thedailybeast.com/scientists-l...
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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽💻
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽💻
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🐟 Tiny fish faces giant threat 🚨 The UK is set to defend sandeels in an EU fishing showdown. The lifeblood of our North Sea, #sandeels feed puffins, seals, whales & more. A #fishing ban is critical & challenging it is a deep betrayal of our shared seas 🌊 #EndOverfishing
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sandeel: Brexit fishing row heads for trade court showdown
The UK has banned European vessels from catching the silvery fish species in its North Sea waters but the EU is challenging the move.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🐟 Tiny fish faces giant threat 🚨 The UK is set to defend sandeels in an EU fishing showdown. The lifeblood of our North Sea, #sandeels feed puffins, seals, whales & more. A #fishing ban is critical & challenging it is a deep betrayal of our shared seas 🌊 #EndOverfishing
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide. Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide
Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide. Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill. Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill
Exclusive: Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill. Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Our study led by @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social from my lab found that especially pond vegetation is crucial if you want to provide a safe aquatic haven for the local biota in your garden - based on data from more than 800 volunteering pond owners in the #MyPond citizen science program 🔵🧪👩🔬🏡
Excited to share our new paper on garden pond biodiversity 🐸🐦⬛ resulting from our citizen science project MyPond. Dive into the details here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@bartabarbara.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @schneiderbea.bsky.social @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social
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Effects of urbanisation, habitat characteristics, and management on garden pond biodiversity: Findings from a large-scale citizen science survey
The rapid expansion of urban areas often leads to degradation, fragmentation, and loss of natural habitats, threatening biodiversity. While urban pond…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Our study led by @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social from my lab found that especially pond vegetation is crucial if you want to provide a safe aquatic haven for the local biota in your garden - based on data from more than 800 volunteering pond owners in the #MyPond citizen science program 🔵🧪👩🔬🏡
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The earth gets drier and warmer, and #megadroughts have been increasing for 40 years and will do so in the future. Substantial negative impacts on #water supply, #agriculture and all #ecosystem services are to be expected. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts
Persistent multiyear drought (MYD) events pose a growing threat to nature and humans in a changing climate. We identified and inventoried global MYDs by detecting spatiotemporally contiguous climatic ...
www.science.org
January 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The earth gets drier and warmer, and #megadroughts have been increasing for 40 years and will do so in the future. Substantial negative impacts on #water supply, #agriculture and all #ecosystem services are to be expected. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Climate change will NOT destroy the planet. It will end humanity.
Planet Earth will recover and all its plants and animals thrive, long after humans are gone.
Remember this. 🌍
Planet Earth will recover and all its plants and animals thrive, long after humans are gone.
Remember this. 🌍
January 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Climate change will NOT destroy the planet. It will end humanity.
Planet Earth will recover and all its plants and animals thrive, long after humans are gone.
Remember this. 🌍
Planet Earth will recover and all its plants and animals thrive, long after humans are gone.
Remember this. 🌍
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This Nature paper will probably *not* get the same level of media coverage and hype as the doomsday stories…
Has the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) weakened over the last decades? In our new study, we combine state-of-the-art CMIP6 models and observation-based estimates of the air-sea heat flux in the North Atlantic to show that the AMOC has not declined since the 1960s! 🌊
Atlantic overturning inferred from air-sea heat fluxes indicates no decline since the 1960s - Nature Communications
The AMOC is crucial for the global ocean overturning circulation and controls the climate around the North Atlantic. Here, the authors use 24 Earth System Models from the CMIP6 to demonstrate tha...
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This Nature paper will probably *not* get the same level of media coverage and hype as the doomsday stories…
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Climate engineering faces hostility — here’s how scientists say it might move forwards www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Climate engineering faces hostility — here’s how scientists say it might move forwards
Questions about effectiveness, risks and regulation must be answered before sun-dimming technology can be developed, according to researchers.
www.nature.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Climate engineering faces hostility — here’s how scientists say it might move forwards www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Une étude australienne montre que les oiseaux peuvent réguler leur température grâce à un contrôle de l'irrigation sanguine des pattes ! Un avantage en ces temps de changements climatiques.
Too hot? Too cold? Birds use their legs as a thermostat
Animals could evolve longer legs as the globe warms
www.science.org
January 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Une étude australienne montre que les oiseaux peuvent réguler leur température grâce à un contrôle de l'irrigation sanguine des pattes ! Un avantage en ces temps de changements climatiques.
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Ice cores finger obscure Pacific volcano as cause of 19th century climate disaster
Ice cores finger obscure Pacific volcano as cause of 19th century climate disaster
The 1831 eruption of Zavaritskii volcano in Kuril Islands sparked cropped failures and famines
www.science.org
December 31, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Ice cores finger obscure Pacific volcano as cause of 19th century climate disaster
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@ESA And @NASA Deliver First Joint Picture Of #Greenland #IceSheet #Melting
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #cryosphere #CryoSat #satellite #ICESat2 #spatiotemporal #glacier #ice #radar #laser #iceloss #climatechange #altimeter
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December 31, 2024 at 12:51 AM
@ESA And @NASA Deliver First Joint Picture Of #Greenland #IceSheet #Melting
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alturl.com/zbsa3
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doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #cryosphere #CryoSat #satellite #ICESat2 #spatiotemporal #glacier #ice #radar #laser #iceloss #climatechange #altimeter
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alturl.com/zbsa3
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doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #cryosphere #CryoSat #satellite #ICESat2 #spatiotemporal #glacier #ice #radar #laser #iceloss #climatechange #altimeter