"If we stay on the pathway we’re treading, it’s a very bad and grim future for corals…” --Prof Peter Mumby, University of Queensland 🌊 #CoralBleaching #GreatBarrierReef #ClimateCrisis #Keep1_5Alive

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” -- George Orwell 🐘🐍 In research too. The charismatic few get the funds, the fame, the data. The rest fade unseen, unheard, unstudied. #ExtinctionBlindspot #ResearchBias #ConservationInequality #InstitutionalPush

Satellites & people agree when forests fall, #Deforestation. Not when they fade, #Degradation. 🌳 Deforestation shows in pixels. Degradation endures in memory. Local eyes see what sensors miss. This matters for governance. #LocalKnowledge #WestAfrica #REDDplus #TechnocraticError #ClimateJustice

🌍 2024 pushed the planet harder. Hottest year. Record fires. Rising seas. Melting ice 🖤 The crisis worsened on all fronts. Yet warming can still be limited if action is fast and fair. 💙 #ClimateCrisis #HeatRecords #SeaLevelRise #IceMelt #ExtremeWeather #COP30Belem

“We are all walking ecosystems". 🌍 🌎 🌏 The extinction crisis outside mirrors what happens inside us. Lose nature, lose microbes, lose health. 🌿🧬💔 #BiodiversityHypothesis #Microbiome #Nature #Health

🌍 Africa’s wildlife is losing its “ecological power.” This is the energy that keeps nature working. Elephants, rhinos, lions and birds once moved nutrients, spread seeds and shaped the land. That flow has dropped by more than a third since pre-colonial times. #Africa #Wildlife #Nature

🧵 The Tropical Forests Forever Fund, hope or trap? 🌳 Carbon offsets are failing. Can a new plan save the rainforests? The Tropical Forests Forever Fund aims to treat forest protection as a global public good, backed by long-term finance. Ambitious. Risky. Needed. #Rainforests #TFFF #COP30Belem

In Sweden this is what my generation grew up with. Of course we called them forests. We are a text book example of the shifting baseline syndrome.

In the salt flats of Salinas Grandes, where salt shaped land and life, lithium mining now drains water for batteries. Communities resist. They defend water. They defend culture. They defend their right to a future. #Lithium #LithiumBrine #WaterIsLife #IndigenousRights #JustTransition #Argentina

Mountain-dragons (Rankinia diemensis) and their reptile kin are being forced upward by warming peaks. There’s no higher ground left to flee to. Hope lies in keeping cool refuges linked and alive. #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityLoss #ConservationPalaeobiology #Conservation #PalaeoRefugia

A female lynx shot in Fribourg. Wild. Silent. Free. Killed by cowardice and ignorance. She harmed no one, took only what the forest gave. We lost respect for the wild. #Lynx #Switzerland #Poaching #JusticeForWildlife

Unlocking rivers: build a world that's more Arnie

Mosquitoes found in Iceland 🇮🇸 for the first time. Probably carried by wind or ship. Warmer winters and more ponds now let them breed. Even near the Arctic. A small sign of a big shift. #ClimateCrisis #WarmingNorth #NewNormal #DiseaseRisk #ThawingWetlands

🐀 Known only from one museum specimen, the Subalpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys istapantap) was found alive in Papua’s highlands after 30 years 🌿 Science rediscovered it. Indigenous hunters made it possible. Knowledge flows strongest when shared 💚 #Biodiversity #IndigenousKnowledge #LocalKnowledge

🐟 “Arnie” the Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii) swam 530 miles upstream. A record journey across Australia’s Murray-Darling rivers. When rivers stay connected. Water flows. Life flows 💪 #RiverConnectivity #Monitoring #Australia #Biodiversity

1/3 🧠 Steven Pinker’s concept of common knowledge: “It is the state in which I know something, you know it, I know that you know it, you know that I know it, I know that you know that I know that you know it, and so on, ad infinitum.” #CommonKnowledge share.google/Xwl0FOWUf6uz...

What a cool looking shark! #ThresherSharks

🌍 Humanity now moves more living mass each year by walking, driving, flying and cycling than all wild land animals, birds and insects combined. Even our walking alone exceeds the movement of all terrestrial wildlife. #Anthropocene #Mobility #Biomass

🌍 In the 1850s, humans and their livestock weighed about as much as all wild mammals 🐋🐘 combined. Today, they outweigh them nearly 20 to 1. A quiet biomass revolution. Life reshaped to serve one species. #Anthropocene #Biomass #WildlifeLoss #Beef

🎉 Big win for our oceans! The Green Sea Turtle is no longer endangered thanks to decades of conservation work 🐢🌊 Every patrol, nest protected and net redesigned counts. Let’s keep it going! #MarineConservation #Hope #Bycatch #PlasticPollution #ClimateChange #Poaching #ConservationNeverStops

💔 The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) is now officially extinct. Last seen in the late 1990s. Lost to drained wetlands, vanishing stopovers, and the guns of a careless age. An irrational, dangerous world erasing what it barely knows.

🧵 Twilight Zone Mini Series 1️⃣ 🌊 Deep below sunlight’s reach, 200 to 1000 m down, lies the ocean’s “twilight zone.” Teeming with life and vital for storing carbon. #IUCN just took the first step to protect it before industries move in. #OceanConservation #DeepSea #Mesopelagic #Climate #Biodiversity

💚 The dugong (Dugong dugon), gentle gardener of the sea, drifts toward silence. Its cousin, the sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), is already gone. Protect seagrass, protect life, before the ocean falls quiet 🌊 #Dugong #Seagrass #ExtinctionCrisis #BluePlanetCrew

🔥🌡️"What goes up must come down." Life runs faster as it warms… until it doesn’t. Evolution hits its thermal ceiling. And so do species under climate change. #ThermalLimits #ThermalOptimum #UTPC #AdaptOrBurn #ClimateChange

🌿 #InternationalGibbonDay Swing high, sing loud! 🎶 20 gibbon species exist. All on the IUCN Red List, meaning threatened with extinction. They all need forests, space, and our care. Let’s keep their songs alive 💚 #SaveTheGibbons #LesserApes #IUCN #TrueBrachiation

🌍 Permafrost thawing isn’t only bad news. It speeds up phosphorus cycling, boosting plant growth and CO₂ uptake 🌱 A reminder that Earth’s feedbacks are complex and surprising. #Permafrost #CarbonCycle #SoilNutrients #Microbes #ClimateFeedbacks #TippingPoints

A journal once asked us to stay “politically neutral.” But Russia invaded Ukraine is not an opinion. It’s a fact. Science must stay uncomfortable, factual, and free ... or it stops being science. Read the full reflection on LinkedIn ⬇️ #ScienceNotSilenced #ScientificIntegrity #Ukraine

💔 The Christmas Island shrew is now officially declared extinct. But declaring extinction is never simple. Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence. Some species hide longer than our patience. #Extinction #IUCNRedList #Conservation #LazarusSpecies #BiodiversityLoss

🌿 When trees die and rot, they release stored carbon. Australia’s rainforests now emit more CO2 than they absorb. A sign of rising heat & drought stress. Once sinks, now turning into sources. Similar patterns appear in parts of the Amazon 🌎 #Climate #Forests #TropicalRainforests #Australia #Amazon

🐾 #SnowLeopardDay Protecting these “ghosts of the mountains” means protecting people, cultures, and ecosystems too 💙❄️ #Conservation #Coexistence #Himalaya #Nepal #India

📉 New study says extinction rates have slowed. Good news at first glance 🌿 But maybe that’s because islands are already emptied of the most fragile species. What’s left is tougher, while the real battle now rages across our pressured mainlands 🌍 #Biodiversity #Extinction #Conservation

🌍 Record-breaking CO₂ rise as the Amazon slips from absorber to emitter. #Drought #ElNiño #ForestDieback #AmazonTippingPoint 🛰️ The satellite that revealed it may soon be shut down. #WrongPriorities #DistrustInScience #ClimateDenial #Politics Science reveals. Politics shrugs.

🌍 More than 11 million hectares of tropical moist forest regrowing. Good, yes? Well... “Tropical forests wouldn’t be regrowing if they weren’t cleared in the first place.” --Erin Matson #Fires #Drought #AgriculturalExpansion #ForestDeclarationAssessment

Silver. Built empires. Broke bodies. Now breaks the mountain that fed them. Cerro Rico still bleeds wealth for others. ⛰️💀 #Extractivism #TheMaterialWorld #EnvironmentalJustice #Bolivia

🔥🌿 “No outside government, no extractive industry has been able to penetrate our community.” --Sacha Gayas, Kichwa #KichwaIndigenousPeople #EcuadorAmazon #IndigenousGuardians ⚠️ #StatePressure ⚠️ #FrontierExpansion ⚠️ #PerceptionShift

"War affects nature in a complex way – every part of the ecosystem suffers. Some changes can be reversed, but others will not recover." --Kateryna Polianska, ecologist #Ukraine

Some good news from #AmazonPeru 🐭🌿 Scientists have described a new mouse opossum //Marmosa chachapoya//... named after the ancient #Chachapoya people of the Andes. Tiny, curious, and utterly adorable. 💚✨ #Biodiversity #Peru #Endemism

“Our community members are prisoners in their own communities...We don’t have access to our lands, to hunt, to fish, to live as we culturally lived within our territory.” --Becky Mccray Urbina Illegal cattle farming drives deforestation & despair in #Nicaragua. 🐄🔥 #IndigenousRights #Deforestation

Gold fever grips Peru’s Amazon once more. Mining moves beyond Madre de Dios into Ucayali and Loreto, fueling deforestation and mercury pollution. Forests fall faster than enforcement. #Amazon #Peru #Deforestation

📌 This is what democracy looks like 🔥♥️🔥 We are Stronger Together 🔥♥️🐥

#FlipflopDiplomacy helps no one. Real leadership means consistency: Supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty, not bargaining it away. A steady line on Donbas can deter Moscow, reassure allies, and keep hope for just peace alive. #PutinsPlaybook #StandWithUkraine #DefendDemocracy

They were nature’s cleanup crew. Eating carcasses, purifying the land, stopping disease. Then we poisoned them. Dogs and rats spread. Water soured. People died. Vultures weren’t optional. They were essential. #Vultures #DiseaseControl #ConservationMatters #NatureProtectsUs

Madagascar’s military seizes power. Bad. Very bad. The army’s place is in the barracks, not in politics. History didn’t teach. It just reloaded. #Madagascar #MilitaryRule #Coup #DéjàVu #DemocracyDies

"I think my excuses need to be less extemporaneous." -- #Calvin

Rajoelina flees. The man who seized power twice… now can’t hold it once. History’s loop finally snaps. #Madagascar #TyrantsFall #CoupCycle #PowerCrumbles #EndOfHubris

"Miala Rajoelina." Leave! Fair enough. He’s done good only to his pockets. Yet another coup d’état, what will it bring? Last time, in 2009, Rajoelina used the same military to seize power. Push button. Repeat. #Madagascar #Coup #DéjàVu #GenZ #RampantPoverty www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Frogs invade the cities. #Frogs #Portland #Chicago Leap, frogs, leap ... reclaim the streets! 🐸💚

"I'm in shock...shocked with joy" --Maria Corina Machado #NobelPeacePrize #RealHumbleness #Venezuela #Not4Trump