In 2024 the world’s demand for the following hit a record high: • #oil 🛢️ • #gas ⛽ • #coal 🪨 • #nuclear ☢️ • #hydropower 🌀 But also on this list are #renewables ♻️ 🖋️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-energ...

#Firework season is upon us. Most people already know about the hazards of improper fireworks usage, but even when everything goes to plan, there’s still a cost to be paid in the form of #airpollution. 🎆 📽️ Brynne Rardin

Buzzing on over to a brand new type of hotel 🐝 🏨 New research led by conservationists with University of Southern Queensland has found that #bee hotels can play an essential role in helping bee populations recover from #wildfires. 🖋️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/bee-hotels-w...

“When finished eating, people tend to just toss what’s left... but from the environmental perspective, what happens after actually matters a lot.” New research has found that #recycling #foodwaste can lead to a reduction in #emissions. 🖋️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/food-waste-r...

"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites." — William Ruckelshaus h/t @ecowatch.bsky.social

#Desertification is rampant around the world, and if left unchecked can cause upwards of 1.5 million km² of #agricultural land loss by 2050. Two-thirds of the land on Earth is already beginning a process of desertification, accelerated by #climatechange, drought, and poor management. 📽️ Ian Powell

Sharks, and rays, and offshore wind... oh my! 🦈 In new research, scientists from the Wageningen University & Research have confirmed regular activity by #sharks and #rays at #offshorewind farms around the #Netherlands. 🖋️ Paige Bennett 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/offshore-win...

2.43 million tons. That is how much #carbondioxide could be removed if the 482 million acres identified in a new map by a team of researchers as the best places to regrow #forests across the world are #reforested. 🌲 🖋️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-refor...

The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC), a system of #ocean currents that pulls warm water from the #SouthernHemisphere to the #NorthernHemisphere, could put some parts of the globe in a “deep freeze". 🥶 🖋️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/amoc-collaps...

"A crucial step towards giving marine life back their voice in the blue planet’s symphony." 🐋 At the UN Ocean Conference, a coalition of ministers launched an effort to reduce #noisepollution that harms #marine #ecosystems. 🖋️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/ocean-noise-...

The #summersolstice is a highly regarded day for cultures around the #world 🌎☀️. The #sun feeds us, warms us, and is overall an amazing thing to have around. Our lives are dictated by its rising and setting, so what better day to appreciate it than when it’s highest in the sky? 📽️: Brynne Rardin

In a shocking turn of events, #President #DonaldTrump announced he is planning to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “as it exists today” after the 2025 #hurricane season. 🌀 💸 🖋️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/trump-fema-2...

“We’re on the brink of making high seas history." 🌊🇺🇳 On the first day of the United Nations Ocean Conference, 18 new countries ratified the #HighSeasTreaty for a total of 49 — just 11 shy of the 60 needed for the treaty to be enforced. 🖋️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/un-high-seas...

“Another year, another record. It's sad." 🌎 🏭 🔥 For the first time in millions of years, #Earth’s atmosphere contained an average of 430.2 parts per million (ppm) of #carbondioxide, the result of humans burning #fossilfuels. 🖋️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/earth-atmosp...

“The findings of our study highlight the urgent need to understand how extreme weather can alter disease dynamics.” As #climatechange brings worsening #extremeweather, #scientists are warning that conditions are more suitable for #disease. 🦠 🖋️ Paige Bennett 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/extreme-weat...

“It’s open season. It’s just ‘let’s use everything we have against the bears now.’ It completely blows my mind." Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission officials are moving forward with plans for a #blackbear hunt. 🐻 🖋️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/florida-blac...

While the #ParisAgreement targets no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius of #globalwarming, a new study warns that the amount of sea level rise that will come with that amount of warming could still lead to “catastrophic” inland migration. ✒️ Paige Bennett 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/climate-chan...

The UN is celebrating World Oceans Day with a simple message: keep wonder alive. 🌊 Let wonder fuel that passion for discovery. Believe that you can still be amazed by our oceans, and they will surprise you every day. What moments of the ocean fill you with wonder? 📽️ Brynne Rardin

“I’m not suing because I want to — I’m suing because I have to." A new youth #climate #lawsuit alleges that the #Trump administration is engaging in unlawful overreach via #executiveorders that boost the production of #fossilfuels. ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/climate-laws...

“We also rely on the ocean and its photic zones for the air we breathe, the fish we eat, and for the general health and wellbeing of the planet. Taking all of that into account, our findings represent genuine cause for concern.” ✒️ Paige Bennett 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/oceans-getti...

“This has some important implications, not just for those states that participate, but also for those who don’t.” ⚡ State action to reduce #carbon #emissions can make a difference, even in the absence of a federal #climate strategy. ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/states-clima...

In #Panama, forest cover on #Indigenous lands has remained stable at almost double the rate of protected areas due in great part to deeply-ingrained cultural values, a new study has found. 🌲🌾 ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/indigenous-l...

No scripts, no retakes. We’re going LIVE y’all! Tela Coral is taking over our Instagram airwaves to bring us a special report directly from the field in Honduras. 🇭🇳🪸 SUNDAY, JUNE 1 @ 3PM CST. Bring your questions! We’ll bring the answers!

A new report from Bee:wild — a #science-led campaign to save #bees and other #pollinators worldwide — outlines the 12 biggest emerging threats to bees over the next five to 15 years. 🐝 ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/bees-emergin...

“With climate change intensifying and billions of people still lacking basic necessities, addressing both challenges simultaneously is not only possible but essential." 🏭 💸 ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-pover...

Get in, landlubber, we’re going filming! 🎥🌊 EcoWatch is joining Tela Coral on their latest expedition to Honduras! The team will be filming a short documentary and VR experience #TheRebelReef, and they’ve invited us along for the ride! Our feeds will be updated regularly, so check in! 🪸

#Monarch #butterflies are iconic. Instantly recognizable, culturally impactful, and a major beneficiary to the #ecological balance all across the North American continent 🦋🦋🦋 Their numbers have looked better in the past, but we may be seeing a rebound for these dazzling #insects! 📽️ Ian Powell

“If we don’t act now, we risk losing these ecosystems and the carbon stores they built up over centuries." $200 BILLION. That is the estimate for how much #climatedamage could be averted by #seagrass meadows. 🤯🌿 ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/seagrass-mea...

For the first time, a surge in China’s renewable energy output has led to a 4.7% drop in the country’s carbon emissions despite a 2.5% increase in power demand. ⛽⚡ This marks a major milestone in China’s #energy transition. ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/china-co2-em...

A new study has revealed that 28 of the most #populated cities in the U.S. are sinking, which can increase #floodrisks 🌊 and weaken #infrastructure 🏙️. Just eight cities in the U.S. make up 60% of the 34 million people living on subsiding land. ✒️ Paige Bennett 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/cities-sinki...

“This administration thinks that if they stop doing the work to identify climate change that climate change will go away." 🌍🌀 NOAA has announced it will stop tracking the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters. ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/noaa-climate...

The devil’s in the details! 🐠😈 Mike Mitchell is taking the spotlight today at EcoWatch to talk about his product and passion, #PezzyPets. It started when he noticed that fisheries in Mexico were being completely overrun with a very #invasive fish, the devil fish. 📽️ Brynne Rardin

According to a new study, the #carbon #footprint of the world’s wealthiest 10% has been responsible for two-thirds of #globalheating over the past 35 years. 🫨 ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/carbon-emiss...

🚨 IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED TO PROTECT ENDANGERED SPECIES! May 16 is #EndangeredSpeciesDay (usually a day of celebration 🥳🦅) -- but this year? The Trump Administration is trying to gut the Endangered Species Act. We all need to speak up to save this law and the species it protects! 📽️ Brynne Rardin

BREAKING: University at Albany researchers have presented the first recorded evidence that surface waters in the #AdirondackMountains have made an almost complete recovery from #metal #pollution since enactment of the #CleanAirAct. 🏔️ ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/clean-air-ac...

In #Switzerland, a #solartechnology startup is making use of open spaces between railway tracks to place solar panels. The panels collect #solarpower, even with #trains using the #railway throughout the day. 🚂⚡ ✒️ Paige Bennett 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/solar-railwa...

“My number one worry is what is going to happen in the summer... there are fewer wildfires but they can be catastrophic.” The wildfire season in the UK is so prolifically bad that it's breaking records in all the worst ways. ⚠️⚠️⚠️ ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/uk-wildfires...

“Drawing quantitative linkages between individual emitters and particularized harms is now feasible, making science no longer an obstacle to the justiciability of climate liability claims." ☠️💸 ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/climate-warm...

"It’s time for the world to recognize that MPAs are the building blocks of the #blueeconomy." 🌊🌎 If we want to keep our oceans protected at the rate we promised, ocean safeguarding efforts will have to quadruple over the next 5 years. ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/revive-our-o...

"We urgently need to embrace a paradigm shift..." Two billion people are at risk due to the fact that #snowfall in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region has reached its lowest level in 23 years 🤯❄️ ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/snow-himalay...

"27,000 Years of Aggregate NOAA Experience. Lost in a day. Thank you, President Trump." - Craig McLean, Retired OAR Director. #NOAA is about to feel the DOGE squeeze. What does that mean for the rest of us? (Hint: it's not good)." 📽️: Ian Powell

"In the U.S., the second biggest polluter, 74 percent said the government should do more, with 48 percent willing to give part of their income." A potential political tipping point as well, strength in numbers and all... #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #VoteClimate @ecowatch.bsky.social

“After nearly a decade of negotiations, nations have come to a “landmark” agreement to reduce #greenhousegasemissions from global shipping 🚢 But, will this be enough? ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-shipp...

Despite the massive uptick in plastic demand and creation, new research has found that the amount of #plastic #waste being #recycled globally ♻️ has remained stagnant at 9%, with most new plastic continuing to be made from #fossilfuels 🛢️ ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/global-plast...

According to an internal document the #Trump administration plans to: • Eliminate NOAA’s research arm 🔬 • Close #climate and #weather labs 🌀 • Slash the budgets of several #NOAA offices 💸 ✒️ Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 🔗 www.ecowatch.com/white-house-...