New WB report offers a fantastic summary of current challenges and where economics can help fill in knowledge gaps: www.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

New paper published in Sci. Adv. on the limited scope for dairy farms to adapt to humid heat stress. The tl;dr is cooling equipment helps, but only mitigates up to half of the milk losses—which we interpret as an upper bound. Details below! 1/

Biodiversity is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg0344), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.

Here is Vol. 1 of the Bluesky Energy & Environmental Economics starter pack. If your account is still active at the Nazi Bar, feel free to share there to help get new feeds primed--there are a lot of people here! Let me know if you'd like to be included in the next batch! bsky.app/starter-pack...