eDNA from five BC fjords fills biodiversity gaps and reveals where conservation‑priority fish actually use these deep habitats. A globally transferable approach to strengthen marine conservation planning. Full paper: tinyurl.com/4z966xcr @ubcoceans.bsky.social @hakai.org @consletters.bsky.social

Europe’s bottom trawling industry brings in an estimated of €180 million annually, but a new study finds its climate impacts cost society up to 90 times more. Scraping the seafloor releases centuries of stored carbon, creating billions in economic damage to human health and agriculture.

A tripling of emissions by 2100 was probably never plausible. But a doubling was. The fact that we're no longer on that path is progress — not, as some pundits claim, an indictment of climate science. And we still have a long way to go get emissions to zero and stabilize global temperatures 11/11

Forget shark week -- It's climate solutions week y'all This year the theme is LOCAL solutions - ways that cities and states and neighborhoods are stepping up when the federal government backtracks on climate action. I'll thread the stories here as the week goes on... Here's our intro ⬇️📻🎧

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Congratulations to RCEI affiliate Angela Oberg for receiving the Moves DuMonde Sustainability Award for her transformative and impactful work at Rutgers University! Starting off as an undergraduate premed, philosophy, and biology major, her winding path to ... Read more at tinyurl.com/5x8bm5kp

How should we design conservation science for decision making? Join Leah Gerber for her talk this Friday, as she explores the gap between knowledge and action. In person (followed by a drinks reception) or online: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv... @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

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New online! Demystifying biodiversity finance

🪸 Environmental DNA is giving us a new set of eyes beneath the waves, allowing scientists to detect rare and elusive species that we might never encountered with other methods. How does it work, and what can it teach us about our oceans? https://oceana.ly/4dralQt

More than 20 faculty from SEBS and NJAES completed the inaugural “Charting Your Research Pathway” workshop series hosted by the SEBS/NJAES Office of Research this past March. Over six weeks, participants refined their Rutgers research visions, explored new ... Read more at tinyurl.com/34u8mcxp

What is happening here as well, is that many career scientists at e.g., NIAID are transitioned to Schedule P/C, meaning that they can be terminated at will. The purge across our scientific and public health institutions continues, as congress is completely asleep at the steering wheel.

Would you like to know ALL the marine non-indigenous species in European seas 🌍 💡 🧪 ❔ Including those from countries outside the EU ?🐠 🏵️ 🦀 ? Would you like to know the native range of all these NIS 🌎 🌐 🌏 ? The freshly published ANIS-E and its Shiny App provide the answers! 👉 doi.org/10.1111/geb....

A decades-long effort to remove dangerous plastic debris from marine and terrestrial habitats succeeded in lowering endangered Hawaiian monk seal entanglement rates, a 2024 study found, confirming that such efforts are well worth the cost and effort. #EndangeredSpeciesDay https://scim.ag/4d8jw7X

Every step taken by the federal government to promote and advance scientific research in the US, which has been the mainstay of US economic growth and strength since roughly 1870, is now being reversed in order to retard or suppress scientific research. This is a conscious policy.

#Solar PV is booming but #biodiversityresearch has blindspots: ➡️76% of studies only look at operations ➡️Harmful in natural areas, but beneficial on degraded land. ➡️69% show eco-conscious maintenance boosts #wildlife. ➡️Data gaps in manufacturing & disposal 🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The increase in private sector interest in biodiversity & in advocates for nature recovery is great But I’ve seen a tendency in some quarters for such people to ignore the science & to rely on one or two non-expert voices to guide actions Leading to retrograde & poorly informed activities

Climate change always intersects with other drivers - here, deforestation plus climate change creates greater and earlier risks for tipping points in the Amazon system www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/c...

New job posting to join our team for an early career scientist(s) interested in the intersection of wildfire, electricity, insurance and resilience policy. If this sounds like you, please apply! If not, please share with your contacts. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/electri...

Join us in 1 Week for a free pre-conference webinar! On May 21, 2026 David Dudgeon will deliver “Global homogenization of freshwater fish diversity during the Anthropocene: Evidence from tropical East Asia”. Register: bit.ly/47nARru

Balcony Solar Advances In Colorado As New Legislation Removes Barriers cleantechnica.com/2026/05/12/b...

Can biodiversity markets really deliver nature recovery — and who gets to shape the outcomes? New Oxford research explores how different market models influence participation, collaboration, and ecological impact in England’s Biodiversity Net Gain system. 🌿

Lakers = commercial vessels operating exclusively within the Great Lakes. While they do not directly introduce species in ballast water from overseas, they can rapidly disperse individuals from an established nonnative population to various ports throughout the Great Lakes. elpc.org/blog/why-epa...

Between 2024 and 2026, Facebook hosted over 75% of all wildlife products found for sale online. Over half are endangered or critically endangered. Researchers say the platform’s architecture and algorithms that suggest related content, allows illegal networks to thrive. Spoorthy Raman reports.

The most upstream miles ever reconnected in a single year in the U.S. through dam removal! My news to me good news for May 13 #EarthOptimism www.americanrivers.org/2026/03/100-...

Biodiversity conservation through land sparing or sharing: A review 🌎🌐🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

Our latest special feature is published! It includes 10 articles spanning key areas of emerging methods in business and biodiversity, presenting a range of methods that are translating this complexity into formats that are digestible and usable by business and finance 🌍🏢 buff.ly/Vy0V0Ql

🌎 New Special Issue: Alien Taxa Lists in the Global South 📃It encompasses 40+ countries, 28 papers across 3 journals. It has open access lists, FAIR protocols & South-South collaboration lessons & more. 👇Read more here: doi.org/10.3897/neob... #AlienSpecies #Biodiversity #InvasiveSpecies

Harnessing the power of machine and deep learning for transferring joint species distribution models considering the structure of biotic interactions vist.ly/53zjt #AI #Niche #jSDM

🚨There's just over a week left to submit a proposal to our special feature 'Mountain Biodiversity in the Anthropocene'! ⛰️This feature aims to understand and predict the impacts of changing climates and land uses on mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functioning Find out more here buff.ly/SUJCnZf

Canadians need to get ready for a slow and steady invasion from south of the border, according to scientists. The threat comes from different varieties of ticks carrying dangerous pathogens that are looking to establish themselves in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How should we be designing conservation science for decision making? Join Leah Gerber for her talk on May 22nd, in person or online - registration here: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv... @ecioxford.bsky.social

New online! How biodiversity consultancies can unlock their potential to contribute to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Asian Forests Grow Increasingly Silent as Gibbon Trafficking Hits an All-Time High https://therevelator.org/gibbon-trafficking/

We are launching the Biodiversity Futures Working Groups. The call supports small, focused synthesis groups addressing frontier questions in biodiversity science. We welcome proposals from researchers at any career stage. Deadline: 30 June 2026, 23:00 CET www.maraujolab.eu/2026/05/09/2...

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Venice 🇮🇹 is also looking at the same fate... soon many other coastal cities will be too, unless fossil fuels are rapidly phased out

Our new research shows that HPAI increased Northern Gannet mortality by a factor of ~6 and ~4 at two of the world’s largest colonies. We predict this impact will take almost two decades to recover from. #biologicalconservation #seabirds #hpai Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111887

📢 We have an exciting addition to our upcoming Alternet Seminar programme! Lisa Norton of UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) will speak on "AIHab: developing a habitat recognition tool for ground-based photography." We're thrilled to have her work and perspectives featured in this seminar.

Biological invasions are complex. Indigenous and local knowledge systems offer insights that science alone may not capture. Working together improves detection, management and ecosystem resilience. Learn more. 👇

Springtime on the UC Davis Bodega Marine Reserve = pupping season! 🦭 Check out "A Seal Mom’s Lullaby", a beautiful piece by BML volunteer docent Dianne Hales on the unique "baby talk" and fierce devotion these moms show their pups: buff.ly/EqEmJJd

Biological invasions are a threat to animal welfare and cause widespread, sometimes severe, suffering among animals. This overlooked consequence of the human-mediated spread of invasive species suggests that management intervention can be a moral imperative. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Noĕmie Denis, a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is a multiple ScarletPitch award winner for her research related to polymer-ceramic composites. Her recognition includes competitions within Rutgers and internationally. For... Read more at tinyurl.com/2k8d3h2a

A recent publication led by research staff at the Voorhees Transportation Center @vtc.rutgers.edu reveals that LGBQ+ respondents are more vulnerable to harassment on public #transportation than respondents who identify as cisgender and straight. bloustein.rutgers.edu/public-trans...

The LGBTQ+ STEMinar has been away for a few years, but it's back on November 6th 2026! If you identify as LGBTQ+ and you would like to talk about your science, go apply! (anyone can attend)

Very notably they run the Nowhere Lab, a weekly lab meeting for people that don't have a lab. This allows people that do not currently have a lab but that want a lab experience to have that, as such. This is such a novel activity to provide wider access. nowherelab.com

Meeting future nickel demand for stainless steel and clean energy technologies will require tough environmental trade-offs. A new study found up to 83% of future nickel supply may come from laterite deposits beneath tropical forests, but accessing them requires large-scale clearing: buff.ly/481QsKE