Good thread: reminder that crop-based biofuels are not "green" fuels

🌳The latest issue of Oryx focuses on one of the world’s most diverse yet vulnerable biomes—the Atlantic Forest. Once spanning 1.3 million km² across Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, this biodiversity hotspot has lost nearly 90% of its original vegetation.

Our new paper led by Madson Freitas shows that global demand for Açaí, a dietary staple for Amazonian people, now marketed as a superfood, is driving widespread estuarine forest degradation leading to impoverishment of their bird communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology 🌎🍴🪶🌴

Wrote a lot of words on SOYBEANS!🫛 I love having this job so much lol America should have greater ambitions for the soybean—treating it not just as slop for the world’s abused livestock, but as a miracle technology with the potential to reshape world diets for the better www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Agriculture drives more biodiversity loss than any other sector, with ruminant meat causing extinction risks ~340× higher than grains by mass and ~100× higher than legumes both by mass and when adjusted for protein.

Nice thread on the value of @inaturalist.bsky.social for sharing and preserving observations of biodiversity that might otherwise never have seen the light of day again

This, by @jasonhickel.bsky.social, is the clearest explanation I have yet read of why the US and UK governments continue to support the Israeli government, regardless of its great crimes against humanity. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

FACTCHECK: We asked dozens of scientists to review Trump's climate report, being used to justify major policy rollbacks. They found "more than 100" false or misleading claims. Click through to read them all: interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...

'Cows just replaced the methane from wild bison' Not even close. At their peak, wild ruminants incl. bison emitted ~15 Tg CH₄/yr Today’s 4+ billion farmed ruminants emit over 100 Tg CH₄/yr That’s nearly 7x more methane. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Six 6️⃣ tips on communicating effectively with politicians. From @jacquelyngill.bsky.social some time ago.

Perhaps gauche to quote your own book, but I think CROSSINGS's section on the Roadless Rule gets at something fundamental: that to designate places as roadless is to assert that our national forests have value—for wildlife, for water, for slow recreation—beyond mere timber extraction. #roadecology

This plan is utterly insane and would cause catastrophic environmental degradation and loss of outdoor opportunities throughout the west — it would accelerate the decline of forests and wildlife, and seriously restrict hiking, camping, fishing, birding, hunting, etc.

We've just launched AviList! - the new unified global taxonomic checklist for the world's birds, developed through the Working Group on Avian Classification, including BirdLife, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, IOC and others @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.avilist.org

You've been told that "tech won't save us." But the opposite is just as true. @garrettbroad.bsky.social and I wrote about the dangerous appeal of "nature-based solutionism," or the idea that natural solutions to complex problems will save us. They won't. newrepublic.com/article/1933...

I got to know Accra, Ghana well when I did research there almost two decades ago. Please consider helping those affected by the devastating Kantamanto fire, here: donorbox.org/kantamanto-f...