news.mongabay.com/2026/03/clim... @humboldtuni.bsky.social

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

2026. A code of ethics for peer reviewers. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Beef: time to stop horsing around… or time to start? 🐎 Horsemeat could be a more sustainable and nutritious alternative to beef and other red meats. Lower emissions, less land & water use, and nutrient-rich. doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Overlooked and overexploited: Extensive conversion of grasslands and wetlands driven by global food, feed, and bioenergy demand @pnas.org 🌐 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧵 New Perspective in People and Nature “Strengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists and their societies” Excited to share our latest paper! @peopleandnature.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Schrödingers Wolf.... Gleichzeitig schuld an zu vielen und zu wenigen Mouflons! www.bauernzeitung.de/regional/thu...

Very happy to finally share a paper that has been in my mind for a long time 🌍 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Over the past 40 years, 42% of tropical and subtropical ecosystems have experienced an increase in plant reliance on past precipitation, consistent with greening during the late growing season in drylands and drying during the wet-to-dry period in non-drylands 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brazil endangers global climate and health | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Edge effects from deforestation in the Chaco! -> New paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social with Seba Torrella & @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social Marie Pratzer @aguiarse86.bsky.social @mariapiquerr.bsky.social Ruben Ginzburg Gregorio Gavier Pizarro @tkuemmerle.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2nh7kjkj

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Commodity frontiers expand more slowly into tropical forests where forest smallholders are present – new paper out in PNAS led by Marie Pratzer www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @pnas.org

This 👉 "Doch wer über Altersgrenzen streitet, verliert aus dem Blick, wer hier eigentlich reguliert gehört: die Konzerne, nicht die Jugend." www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/socia...

Experten warnen vor Rückschritten beim Naturschutz#Umweltschutz#Naturschutz

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social] A Biotropica study suggests king cobras may be hitching rides on trains in Goa. Several were found near rail hubs in unsuitable habitat — raising the possibility that freight trains are unintentionally moving the world’s longest venomous snake.

Anyone, anywhere can take part in this weekend's bird-watching extravaganza for science! 🧪 🪶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/join...

Where smallholders are present, agribusinesses expand more slowly into forests. New study showing this for the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano Forest, both global deforestation hotspots - led by Marie Pratzer. Out now in @pnas.org @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Revive Brazil’s soy moratorium "Ending the moratorium is irresponsible. Brazil should instead strengthen conservation efforts by adjusting the soy agreement to close loopholes." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Agriculture-driven edge effects in a deforestation hotspot 👉new paper in Global Change Biology, led by Sebastian Torella doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70737 @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #SystemShift

Erst Milliardengeschenke, dann kein Geld fürs BAföG? Union und SPD wollen die Förderung endlich grundsätzlich reformieren. Gerät das Vorhaben schon vor dem ersten Schritt ins Stocken? Was das über Prioritäten der schwarz-roten Koalition sagen würde. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/02...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... - @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

More than 10,000 Ph.D. scientists were fired by the Trump administration last year. Grant cuts affected more. "A few dozen got jobs in other countries" is not a serious solution. There are not enough jobs in the whole world. The result will be less science, not the same science just elsewhere.

Good news from Bolivia! But the #Chiquitano Dry Forest - a deforestation hotspot and key corridor between the #Chaco and the #Amazon - remains critically underprotected. news.mongabay.com/2026/02/boli...

„Deshalb zog sich durch die Rede von Mark Carney in Davos ein roter Faden, in dem die Antwort der demokratischen Allianz liegt: Jetzt ehrlich hinsehen. Nicht weiter in einer Lüge leben, selbst wenn die persönlich lukrativ erscheint.“ www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

#Bolivia has added nearly a million hectares to its protected areas over the last several months, an effort by local governments to link Indigenous territories with nearby national parks and strengthen #ecological connectivity.

Der Emissionshandel sollte die marktwirtschaftliche Lösung der Klimakrise sein - und sie funktioniert. Nun soll Lobbydruck all die Firmen bestrafen, die entsprechend investiert haben, und die Versager belohnen. Das darf nicht wahr sein 🤯! www.taz.de/!6151799

Three weeks left to apply!

Die größten Profiteure des exorbitanten Fleischkonsums lassen die Masken endgültig fallen. Sie wollen noch mehr Geschäfte mit der Abholzung der letzten intakten Wälder und Graslandschaften Südamerikas machen. Auf Kosten der Ökosysteme, der indigenen Bewohner vor Ort und uns allen. Lieferketten-RL?!

Should professors be forced to retire? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Quick answer: yes!

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows: Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account Just 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emission...

Breaking! New DNA study provides evidence for synchronous presence of woolly mammoth and hippo in the upper Rhine until 31.000 years ago! So far it was believed that hippos became extinct at the end of the last interglacial period. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Biofuels are absurdly inefficient compared to electric vehicles. A great piece in @ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land...

Data collection at the breeding grounds has been coordinated by @acbk.bsky.social (M. Koshkin/R. Urazaliyev). We are currently summarizing population trends in relation to weather/grazing pressure - birds seem either to continue to decline locally despite predicted higher habitat availability....

Increasing habitat suitability for the critically endangered Sociable Lapwing over the past 30 years - across its range! Paper by Tejas Bhagwat out in the Journal of Ornithology: doi.org/10.1007/s103... @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @consbiogoe.bsky.social #Conservation #MigratoryBirds

super interesting paper in @conbiology.bsky.social on how different groups feel about 'native' versus non-native species decline in Canada, particularly how White people put a much greater emphasis on nativeness in their response. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Stellet Euch vor, die Brandmauer ist abgebrannt und niemand sieht hin. Rechts-konservative Mehrheiten im Europäischen Parlament sind in Brüssel zur Normalität geworden, haben 3 große Auswirkungen, mit denen wir uns kurz vor dem Jahresewechel näher beschäftigen müssen. Der neue Newsletter👇🏽

Danke an alle, die hinter uns stehen. Das gibt uns Kraft für das, was noch kommt. Unsere Mail-Accounts könnten z. B. schon morgen gesperrt werden. Wir sorgen jetzt vor, damit Menschen, die online angefeindet werden, uns weiter erreichen. Unterstützt uns dabei: hateaid.org/spenden/?don...

Income inequality and the erosion of democracy in the twenty-first century www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....