Kristina Bezanson
@arboreous.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Arboriculture & Urban Forestry, UMass Amherst - views here are my own ✌🏼🌳
Check out this podcast episode of This Old Tree that features six people who have a connection with trees.🌳 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Arborists Live: Our Tree Stories
Podcast Episode · This Old Tree · 11/27/2025 · 1h
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December 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Check out this podcast episode of This Old Tree that features six people who have a connection with trees.🌳 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
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To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...
"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."
"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...
"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."
"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."
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Nature examines some of the trends with global universities: the growth of higher education, especially in less-wealthy nations; the geopolitical forces created by and shaping higher education; and how all this affects who gets to learn and what they are taught. #Academicsky 🧪
The great university shake-up: four charts show how global higher education is changing
More students than ever are studying across international borders, but where and what they learn is shifting.
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September 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Nature examines some of the trends with global universities: the growth of higher education, especially in less-wealthy nations; the geopolitical forces created by and shaping higher education; and how all this affects who gets to learn and what they are taught. #Academicsky 🧪
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DHS is barring disaster-relief orgs that receive FEMA money from offering assistance to undocumented people. Shelters, food assistance, search and rescue. A lot of these groups are faith-based, which "could create constitutional concerns." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
DHS moves to bar aid groups from serving undocumented immigrants
Disaster aid groups said the new contracts would make it harder for nonprofits to help the most vulnerable Americans in the aftermath of a disaster.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
DHS is barring disaster-relief orgs that receive FEMA money from offering assistance to undocumented people. Shelters, food assistance, search and rescue. A lot of these groups are faith-based, which "could create constitutional concerns." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
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Literally: this is fine -dot- gif
EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues
Data shows more than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Literally: this is fine -dot- gif
“If you can’t plant a tree, at least don’t cut one down.” Mahi G
This Indian rapper is spitting bars about climate justice, caste, and Indigenous rights.
In her latest single, Mahi G spotlights the outdoor workers vulnerable to extreme heat.
grist.org/arts-culture...
#Climate #India #Indian #Rap #Rapper #Music #Art #Culture
In her latest single, Mahi G spotlights the outdoor workers vulnerable to extreme heat.
grist.org/arts-culture...
#Climate #India #Indian #Rap #Rapper #Music #Art #Culture
This Indian rapper is spitting bars about climate justice, caste, and Indigenous rights
In her latest single, Mahi G spotlights the outdoor workers vulnerable to extreme heat
grist.org
July 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“If you can’t plant a tree, at least don’t cut one down.” Mahi G
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New book review:
Guha on Subramaniam, Banu: _Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism_. University of Washington Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20052808
Guha on Subramaniam, Banu: _Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism_. University of Washington Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20052808
Subramaniam, Banu. Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism. Feminist Technosciences Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. 328 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 9780295752464. Reviewed by Sumit Guha (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Environment (December, 2024) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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December 7, 2024 at 6:20 AM
New book review:
Guha on Subramaniam, Banu: _Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism_. University of Washington Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20052808
Guha on Subramaniam, Banu: _Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism_. University of Washington Press, 2024. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20052808
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Newspaper coverage of climate change around the globe dropped 6% from May to June 2025 -- and by 28% compared to June 2024, despite increasing frequency and severity of climate-fueled extreme weather events.
Read more from the @media-climate.bsky.social here: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/is...
Read more from the @media-climate.bsky.social here: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/is...
July 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Newspaper coverage of climate change around the globe dropped 6% from May to June 2025 -- and by 28% compared to June 2024, despite increasing frequency and severity of climate-fueled extreme weather events.
Read more from the @media-climate.bsky.social here: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/is...
Read more from the @media-climate.bsky.social here: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/is...
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When politicians call an extreme weather event that kills children and causes widespread devastation "an act of God" it's rarely a statement of deep faith. It's just a way of asserting virtue while denying responsibility for their own actions that contributed to the event.
July 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
When politicians call an extreme weather event that kills children and causes widespread devastation "an act of God" it's rarely a statement of deep faith. It's just a way of asserting virtue while denying responsibility for their own actions that contributed to the event.
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#wethepeople of Massachusetts are #wickedpissed #nokings #resist #donotobeyinadvance #peacefulprotest #northampton
June 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
#wethepeople of Massachusetts are #wickedpissed #nokings #resist #donotobeyinadvance #peacefulprotest #northampton
Out window shopping for last minute #mothersday gifts and couldn’t help myself from rearranging mugs on the shelf at Anthropologie. #fdt #donotobeyinadvance #resist for #mom
May 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Out window shopping for last minute #mothersday gifts and couldn’t help myself from rearranging mugs on the shelf at Anthropologie. #fdt #donotobeyinadvance #resist for #mom
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I helped with the 2014 National Climate Assesment and am angry in grieving this loss.
Well, it's official. We just received notice that all authors on the Sixth National Climate Assessment have just been released from their roles.
The NCA is a vital, Congressionally mandated resource for our nation as we prepare for the impacts of climate change. This is a huge loss.
The NCA is a vital, Congressionally mandated resource for our nation as we prepare for the impacts of climate change. This is a huge loss.
April 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I helped with the 2014 National Climate Assesment and am angry in grieving this loss.
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How a tree's chemical defense could spark future medical breakthroughs
->Earth.com | #Forest #Tree | More info from EcoSearch
->Earth.com | #Forest #Tree | More info from EcoSearch
How a tree's chemical defense could spark future medical breakthroughs
Trees in tropical forests, which thrive in some of the most biologically rich ecosystems on Earth, are known for their staggering diversity. But a new study shows that the chemical diversity hidden within those trees may be just as impressive...
www.earth.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
As an older person who grew up in Massachusetts, I am saying this all the time to younger folks: It's not as cold and snowy as it used to be in the winters. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/03/s...
Yes, New England really was colder when you were a kid. Climate change makes snowy winters feel like a treat. - The Boston Globe
We finally experienced a snowy winter, but this season didn’t come close to the hallmark bitter cold winters of Boston and the rest of New England.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
As an older person who grew up in Massachusetts, I am saying this all the time to younger folks: It's not as cold and snowy as it used to be in the winters. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/03/s...
Finally enough snow and frozen river ice to ski on. I relocated back to New England in 2018 and I really miss the winters with snow pack and backyard skiing. I can’t afford to pay the outrageous prices for a lift ticket so I relay on natural snow. ❄️✌🏼❄️
January 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Finally enough snow and frozen river ice to ski on. I relocated back to New England in 2018 and I really miss the winters with snow pack and backyard skiing. I can’t afford to pay the outrageous prices for a lift ticket so I relay on natural snow. ❄️✌🏼❄️
Greetings from Dallaska. 🤠⛄️
January 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Greetings from Dallaska. 🤠⛄️
Take to the Trees A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests by Marguerite Holloway. This book features many of my fellow arborists and favorite people. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy in May!
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Take to the Trees
An empowering journey into the overstory with the arborists and forest experts safeguarding our iconic trees., Take to the Trees, A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Fo...
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December 14, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Take to the Trees A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests by Marguerite Holloway. This book features many of my fellow arborists and favorite people. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy in May!
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
New England is warming faster than any other region in the USA according to NOAA. For people caring for plants & combating invasive species we know how rapid our landscape has changed. Phenology has been altered, how can we look at opportunities for managing plants: necasc.umass.edu/news/new-ris...
New RISCC Research to Practice Paper: Shifting Phenology and Windows of Opportunity for Control : NE CASCUMass Collegiate MSeal of The University of Massachusetts Amherst - 1863
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November 27, 2024 at 3:54 PM
New England is warming faster than any other region in the USA according to NOAA. For people caring for plants & combating invasive species we know how rapid our landscape has changed. Phenology has been altered, how can we look at opportunities for managing plants: necasc.umass.edu/news/new-ris...
Can’t wait to read The Serviceberry - one of my favorite trees. I have planted hundreds of them from ME to VA and love sharing the berries with the birds.
November 18, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Can’t wait to read The Serviceberry - one of my favorite trees. I have planted hundreds of them from ME to VA and love sharing the berries with the birds.