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Forests Forever
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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
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d
On this October day, it is a timely moment for this deep reflection from American artist Andrew Burt about the ongoing situation.

Please watch and share:
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 1d
Stories about people randomly saving owls are one of my favourite type of stories. Please share your owl saving stories.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d
Calling all nature people and orgs, please consider adding your name to Naturalists for Palestine.

It's essential we recognise that ecocide and genocide are two sides of the same coin, and resist both.
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Naturalists for Palestine
Naturalists for Palestine is a call from individuals and organisations in the UK nature sector to stand for an end to the genocide in Gaza, and to the suffering and oppression of the people of Palesti...
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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 1d
A new paleoclimate study links stronger ocean stratification to past ‘lukewarm’ interglacials, but points to lower ocean carbon sequestration in the future.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#climatechange #oceans #stratification #sequestration #paleoclimate #interglacial
Enhanced deep Southern Ocean stratification during the lukewarm interglacials - Nature Communications
Lead (Pb) isotopes from a ferromanganese crust reveal that during lukewarm interglacials before the Mid-Brunhes Event, stronger deep Southern Ocean stratification limited CO2 release, helping keep atmospheric CO2 levels lower.
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d
Common grackle presents a gorgeous profile
#birds 🌿
Close-up portrait in profile of a metallic blue-bronze-purple bird with a bright yellow eye and large, pointy downward curved beak. The background is soft focus green leaves against a blue wall.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d
News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
www.theguardian.com
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 1d
If the US says it's justified in attacking boats from Venezuela suspected of being part of a plan to get Americans hooked on harmful substances, then anyone else is justified in taking out LNG tankers leaving US ports openly part of a plan to get rest of world hooked on a harmful substance. Right?
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 1d
I recently wrote about how the US natural gas (methane) producers desperately need the world to get hooked on LNG imports. They need new markets for their gas. Why? From @ember-energy.org :

"global gas generation also fell (-6.3 TWh, -0.2%)"

The world is using less gas.
Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d
This scene looks attractive, until you realise that only a single thing – a wild sessile oak to the rear – is native here.

It's fake 'nature', and virtually worthless to wildlife.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d
Greta Thunberg issues a statement about Donald Trump’s temper tantrums:
gretathunberg I heard Donald Trump once again has expressed his very flattering opinions on my character, and I appreciate his concerns for my mental health. To Trump: I would kindly receive any recommendations you might have to deal with these so called "anger management problems" since - judging by your impressive track record - you seem to be suffering from them too.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d
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"the excessive vacant housing stock in Chinese cities reached approximately 3986 km2 in 2024."

[1539 square miles of -empty- climate killing business as usual high embodied carbon emission buildings]

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Resource and the environmental burdens of excessive construction in China's urban housing sector
In China's complex urbanization process, excessive construction has led to large-scale housing vacancies, hindering the development of low-carbon and …
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Doctors and Scientists Against Wood Smoke Pollution @dsawsp.org · 2d
A city in the Netherlands plans to ban outdoor recreational wood burning.
City plans to ban recreational wood burning
The Dutch city of Arnhem announces plans to ban outdoor recreational wood burning. Industry claims about wood stoves are also debunked.
www.dsawsp.org
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d
Adolf Hitler: “If we didn’t mass murder Jewish and homosexual and Romani people, someone else would step in and gas them instead”.

Fossil Fuel CEO: “If we didn’t mass murder humans on earth by pumping out greenhouse gases, someone else will”.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d
"Rainforest that has been regenerating for 30 years after being used as cattle pasture showed a remarkable increase in butterfly colour diversity."

It turns out rewilding even has the power to restore the colours human activities are draining from the natural world.
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As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 2d
Architectural thinking in a climate emergency
Yes, please.
Book or open access: www.routledge.com/.../Pelsma.....
Architectural Thinking in a Climate Emergency
What is the role of architecture – and the architect – in the Anthropocene? It’s an immutable fact: human activity is driving the climate and biodiversity crises that now threaten all life. The damage...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 2d
The five Mekong countries lost nearly 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of tree cover in 2024, with nearly a quarter of which was primary forest, and more than 30% of losses occurring inside protected areas.
Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024
BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s…
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d
Who needs forests when we could turn everything into cornfields? 🤷🏻‍♂️
Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’
Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2d
“Bivalve records are really amazing. They are like the tree rings of the sea. They offer a continuous, annually resolved record of ocean conditions.”
New study finds #AMOC destabilization since 1950 "suggesting that the region is moving toward a tipping point."🌊
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New Study Shows Disruption of Ocean Currents That Stabilize the Global Climate - Inside Climate News
Clam shell growth rings contain clues about the looming potential for a tipping point into climate collapse.
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Forests Forever @forestsforever.bsky.social · 2d
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Aimee Witteman @aimeewitteman.bsky.social · 2d
trail run views from early this morning #freedc
Trail in Rock Creek Park in District of Columbia Tributary to Rock Creek in District of Columbia
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Prof. Anders Levermann, PhD @alevermann.bsky.social · 3d
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New Study Shows Disruption of Ocean Currents That Stabilize the Global Climate - Inside Climate News
Clam shell growth rings contain clues about the looming potential for a tipping point into climate collapse.
insideclimatenews.org
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 3d
Do you want us to get this climate thing right? There are major reservations about renewable materials (similar to renewable energy 🤯). Consider sharing these things so that people can let go of their learned prejudices.
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · Jan 29
Ok let's do it. Hemp lime blocks (1 workshop made, looks like its HK80 cement lime and an "industrial" block offcut) exposed in the elements in wet Northern Germany peatland area near the coast. "Test" setup on a green roof. Let's look back in 3 months?
Test setup for hemp lime block testing outside, blocks on triangular battens. Blocks not under the roof. Let's see what happens Workshop made hemp lime block, photographed on all sides. Offcut from a large "industrial" made hemp lime block. Fotos from all sides, except one missing due to an error.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 3d
You might easily take this for tropical rainforest in some faraway country.

But it's an Irish temperate rainforest, a much *rarer* habitat.

And it's equally threatened, only by masses of deer, goats, and sheep, rather than chainsaws or bulldozers.
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Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 4d
The transition to renewables is more or less inevitable now, but the next big fight will be with the meat industry
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 4d
A very good overview of the climate and meat problem.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The climate movement’s biggest weakness
What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.
www.vox.com
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 5d
When it comes to climate change, our diets matter — and matter a lot.

Not to mention for biodiversity, water, and especially our own health.

The updated EAT-Lancet report makes this abundantly clear.

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A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say
Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.
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