We're thrilled to announce our first-ever webinar! @hollietree.bsky.social & @pettorelli.bsky.social will be joining us to discuss how Integrated Nature-Climate Action can strengthen policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change 🌍🧪 Learn more & register for free here 👇 bit.ly/4mJGwx2

The perks of attending an in-person BES meeting :)

Integrated Nature-Climate Action: what is it? why do we need it? If you are interested in #policy, #synergies, #climateaction and how to improve coordination on the tackling of the nature & climate crises, this #OA paper out today is for you besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NASA losing 20% of its workforce seems bad.

This is a really crazy thing to do.

“More than 140 employees of the National Science Foundation have signed a letter denouncing what they described as efforts to undermine one of the country’s main science funding agencies.”

Life as an academic criticising industry at Global Plastics Treaty "I filed harassment reports... I’ve been harassed & intimidated lots of other times, in lots of other contexts, at off-site meetings, at side events, also at sci conferences, via email and so on” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Insurance companies will no longer be able to cover the UK's most flood-exposed homes, because "the [flooding] problem is....now worse than when we started" (climate change huh?) 350k homes will become uninhabitable Should the oil industry pay to cover this? www.ft.com/content/c439...

Open Call for Associate Editors The Zoological Society of London is looking for active researchers to join the Editorial Board of RSEC. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

🌿 Exciting Announcement! 🌱 Join us for the Movement and Rewilding Ecology (MoRE) Workshop on September 22, 2025, at BES, 42 Wharf Rd, London! 🌍 Powered by the #BES-rewilding @besmovesig.bsky.social SIGs. Link to Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-movem... #BritishEcologicalSociety

Wild board are incredible ecosystem engineers - but how does their presence relate to plant diversity and soil carbon? Interested in finding out? Answer here besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Should Ecology be more proactive & vocal on one of the key issues of our times? What systemic & institutional changes are needed for the ecological community to be at the forefront of the response? If these are questions that speak to you, this new paper may be of interest lnkd.in/eXfXG4xM

Should Ecology be more proactive & vocal on one of the key issues of our times? What systemic & institutional changes are needed for the ecological community to be at the forefront of the response? If these are questions that speak to you, this new paper may be of interest lnkd.in/eXfXG4xM

It’s today, same place (London Southbank), same time (1-4PM) as it has been for the last 15 years - hope to see some of you there! Can’t do this one? There’s many more planned for this year - have a look at soapboxscience.org

Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time) For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...

"Observations from space of the energy imbalance shows that it is rising much faster than expected, and in 2023 it reached values two times higher than the best estimate from IPCC." 😬 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Job Alert! 🌿🐛🦋📢 Could you be @savebutterflies.bsky.social new Head of Ecology Services? Leading and building our role providing advice and technical services, this role puts you at the heart of our nature recovery work! Please apply or DM for a chat about it. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

📣 Calling all PhD students 📣 Want to learn how to translate research into impact? Applications for the BES POST Fellowship are now open for real-world experience working within the UK parliament to support the use of research evidence. 🗓️ Apply by 11 June

We need to talk about this idea that poverty drives biodiversity loss - great paper led by Rachel Carmenta, now out and #OA for the next 50 days via this link www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

England's environmental watchdog says Labour's planning bill risks weakening nature protections "There are fewer protections for nature written into the bill than under existing law. Creating new flexibility without sufficient legal safeguards could see environmental outcomes lessened over time."

London councils sitting on more than £130m (!!) that should be funding local climate action

95% of funds used for planting, 5% on natural regeneration…

You: Oi! I want to get in on this BES Macro stuff! When is the deadline to register for #BESMacro2025, the most fun and friendly conference around? Us: May 31! But if you want in on the student plenary, you need to apply by May 2. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

This truly is bonkers….

🚨new paper 🚨 Imagine being able to detect ecosystem degradation without having to use benchmarks? Here - we provide a way to do just this, at scale. A measurable concept of ecosystem health that doesn’t rely on a reference state…a potential standardised way to prioritise action

📢We’re hiring an Events and Special Projects Coordinator! This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about Nature Recovery and wants to work with a team that really makes a difference! 🌳 @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

Magic

Automated extraction of right whale morphometric data from drone aerial photographs. Bagchi et al. Read the full paper here: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.

New paper: Remotely sensing coral bleaching in the Red Sea. Elamurugu Alias Gokul et al. Read the full paper here: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Land use & climate change are expected to interact to shape biodiversity- but how do we translate the available knowledge into management recommendations? We applied a new framework to illustrate how these interactions may play out for gallery forests in W Africa, & identify what’s likely to help

Interested in social media data & how to use them to inform ecology & management? We developed a novel method to investigate recorder bias in social media data when assessing complementarity between data sources - which helped highlight the usefulness of instagram for urban environments!

The West’s retreat from development assistance will leave an opening for revisionist powers like China to further build influence in countries in the Global South.

We're talking about "Economies for a Sustainable Future" on Tuesday night at 6:00 at the ZSL, please do come along if you can! @pettorelli.bsky.social, Rachel Carmenta, Bob Costanza, and myself are speaking. Looking forward to hearing from the others and the audience. www.zsl.org/news-and-eve...

"Commissions of scientists issue reports all the time, & that's what a lot of us are thinking hard about how to do now. We want to maintain the same standards of academic rigor...We'll be able to have fewer rounds of government review & we’ll be able to be more nimble" www.kuow.org/stories/trum...

Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw... List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

Daily Briefing | UK cuts subsidies for biomass power producer Drax 🔗 Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/42IRjBf 🔗 Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/4fRUaL3

Burning pellets from primary and old growth forests….

🌿 We're hiring researchers in quantitative environmental science! 👉We are looking for new colleagues @iiasa.ac.at who are interested in a career in quantiative enviromental science and ecological modelling. Vienna, Austria. 🎯 International environment 👥 Open to all nationalities, support with moving

‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as #Cop30 nears #climatecrisis Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones

In its first year, the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) scheme has failed to deliver even half the of the Government’s minimum expected habitat creation, finds new @wclnews.bsky.social research. In 2025, BNG must start delivering on its nature boosting potential🌍 www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Many U.S. science agencies abruptly abandoned normal operations last week to focus on a slew of executive orders from President Donald Trump. The torrent of activity left many researchers bewildered—and fearful of what might come next. scim.ag/4jMPYiY

“The UK Gov maintains that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) is currently best placed to handle global tax rules. But campaigners note that OECD represents just 38 wealthy nations, primarily from Europe & North America, limiting global participation in decision-making”

Do UNESCO biosphere reserves make a difference when it comes to forest ecosystem functioning? Short answer is broadly yes, but using a multi-proxy methodology really helps better characterise the nuances in that assessment

Tuesday’s @theguardian.com front page: Starmer faces Labour revolt over backing for oilfield www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“The biggest thing I was surprised about was how fast this was happening. One previous study showed changes over the scale of decades … and now we’re showing this happening on scales of five years”

EDF is complaining its new Hinkley Point C nuclear plant could be delayed by the tool to stop 18 to 46 tonnes of fish being killed every year Wants to 'agree to a solution' i.e. not do it The fish deterrent was actually **a condition of planning permission** www.theguardian.com/business/202...