🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #44 Dec 15-19, 21 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾

Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right? Why do I not feel happy?

For once, some good news about the Amazon tropical forest 🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

President of the Royal Society Sir Paul Nurse has spoken out on the challenges currently facing science, criticising those who put ideology ahead of evidence and called for smarter funding of UK science: royalsociety.org/news/2025/12...

🏆We are pleased to announce that our Eminent Ecologist for 2025 is Angela Moles! ✨Angela has collected a few of her favourite Journal of Ecology papers together here: buff.ly/86uQ6v5

2025 has the been the third warmest on record - behind 2023 and 2024.

November 2025 Globally,according to JMA -Japanese Meteorological Agency- had a temperature anomaly of +0.50C vs 1991/2020 norm and was the 3rd warmest on record behind 2023 and 2024. Year-to-date 2025 is being reached these days by 2023 with the two years ending tied behind 2024

Our research with the SECO project to understand the trajectory of the dry tropics depends on a team of wonderful people across the world, working in Peru, Brazil and beyond, in fieldwork, data management and lab analysis. Here are some of their stories: www.leeds.ac.uk/directory-re...

A Subtle Return of La Niña science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

Improve soil health www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

GEO-TREES is pleased to announce the call for proposals for 2026 GEO-TREES Postdoctoral Fellowships. This is an opportunity for recent PhD graduates to conduct research at GEO-TREES sites in collaboration with site PIs and others. Closing date Jan 20 2026 Info -> geo-trees.org/downloads/GE...

The past and future of known biodiversity. Species discovery is taxonomist-limited (!) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Estado mais agrícola da região Norte, o Pará registra recordes de intoxicação por pesticidas; indígenas e trabalhadores rurais denunciam avanço da soja em áreas de moradia e contaminação de rios e igarapés

‘Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping’: the lawless rush for rare earth minerals in Venezuela www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

🚨Paper Alert: Pan-Amazon Technical Insight The new article “Are tropical forest science and policy disconnected?” examines how “timber species” are (mis-)understood by scientists, national forest administrations, and international organizations across Amazonia. Ximena Herrera-Alvarez et al.

Interesting new study on public support for 'degrowth' policies shows that reducing consumption might not be as unpopular as you think! Are we ready to confront the elephant in the room: our addiction to flying? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Important paper showing the dearth of plant taxonomists in the tropical countries that need them most www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Plant taxonomy is disappearing - and so is our ability to protect species 🍂 Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast. Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇 https://ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa

Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity. 2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain. @newphyt.bsky.social www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

🚨Paper alert🚨 Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Here are two beautiful Lauraceae trees from the wet forest remnants of Colombia's Magdalena Medio. How many more species remain unknown to science in what remains of the Andean forests? abm.ojs.inecol.mx/index.php/ab...

RIP Jimmy

Cop30 shows we need real climate action, fast. Choosing not to fly is hard, but many travellers say slowing down gave them more, lower emissions and a bigger sense of purpose. Overland travel is better for the planet and the experience. #ClimateAction www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#COP30 was meant to deliver a stronger global push to protect forests. But in Belém, negotiations closed without a binding commitment to halt deforestation. CIFOR-ICRAF's Robert Nasi breaks down what this means for climate action Read the full piece:🔗 https://bit.ly/4pssdyE #Trees4Resilience

425.82 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 20-Nov-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

A 30,019-hectare forest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia may soon be sold to agribusiness giant Bom Futuro, which plans to clear it, documents show. Conservationists warn the area is a key part of the Chiquitano dry forest, linking the Amazon, Gran Chaco & Cerrado.

Brazil is pushing the Tapajós River waterway as one of the main Amazon shipping corridors and preparing it for privatization, which will enable regular dredging and maintenance. Traditional communities and environmental groups warn that dredging and vessel traffic threaten turtles, fish and more.

New plant genus discovered in the Andes. Sumacoa barbata is an arborescent Gesneriad endemic to Cordillera del Cóndor. David Neill, co-author of the study and legendary figure in neotropical botany, passed away this year. Sumacoa represents both a scientific milestone and a tribute to his legacy.

Amazonía: la mayor selva tropical del mundo. Ningún otro bosque tiene un impacto similar. www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests. The distribution of abundances of useful Amazonian tree species in 1500 plots suggests widespread ecological imprints of pre-Columbian indigenous and post-contact colonist people on modern forest composition. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Descubren cuatro nuevas especies de plantas en el Parque Nacional Yanachaga Chemillén 🇵🇪 El descubrimiento de estas plantas, que no existen en ningún otro lugar del planeta, resalta el valor de los últimos refugios biológicos en los Andes. www.actualidadambiental.pe/pasco-descub...

Global #biodiversity is under intense pressure from human activity. David Attenborough explains why biodiversity is so important to us, how biodiversity loss is impacting our world and how there is still time to change direction – if we act now: #COP30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlWNuzrqe7U

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #39, Nov 10-17, 26 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Indigenous lands must be recognised as part of climate policy, says Brazilian minister

Why go flight-free? Aviation emissions hit the Global South hardest. Francisca’s flight-free pledge is about travelling consciously, exploring locally, and choosing low-carbon options. flightfree.co.uk/post/flight-... #ClimateCrisis #SustainableTravel

Another new species discovered in Peru, in Parque Nacional Yanachaga-Chemillén. The type specimen of 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑚 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑚 was collected by Marco Cueva, Abel Monteagudo, Antonio Peña and colleagues working in the Yanachaga RAINFOR montane forest plots. doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

Todos tenemos raíces profundas. Este fascinante artículo repasa el trabajo de RAINFOR en Venezuela y conecta 200 años de historia de exploradores del río Negro y el Amazonas, entre ellos von Humboldt, Bonpland, Spruce, Wallace, Medina y Rafael Herrera Fernández. www.meer.com/es/95997-ric...

Today the UN COP climate summit kicked off in Brazil, and @london.gov.uk has been in Rio to promote action on climate change by cities. Back here in London, my @badvertising.bsky.social team mates launched a campaign to ask the Mayor to stop promoting pollution on London’s public transport network

The 2025 U.N. climate conference, COP30, will run from Nov. 10-21 in Belém, Brazil, and is expected to host the largest participation of Indigenous peoples in the conference series’ history, with more than 3,000 Indigenous delegates registered. Mongabay spoke with some about their objectives.

The largest mammals have always been at the greatest risk of extinction – this is still the case today. 🧵 The wipeout of the largest mammals is a global phenomenon that we see across many regions.

Los gráficos, mapas y fotos que muestran la lenta muerte de la Amazonía - y por qué el mundo debería preocuparse www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

So cool! Four #new #Gesneraciaceae species, found in a #Biosphere Reserve in central #Peru. #PlantHunters

Cuatro nuevas especies de Gesneriaceae de la Reserva de Biósfera Oxapampa-Asháninka-Yanesha, Perú. 2025. Revista Forestal del Perú revistas.lamolina.edu.pe/index.php/rf... Felicitaciones Rocio Rojas Gonzales, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza y colegas!

New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱

How do aviation emissions stack up? Our new Substack article explains 👇 flightfreeuk.substack.com/p/how-bad-ar... Subscribe for regular content to your inbox.

This is an excellent explanation of why the govt's headlong rush for airport expansions is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Thank you @flightfreeuk.bsky.social substack.com/@flightfreeu...

El calentamiento de los lagos del Amazonas con el clima cambiante supera los límites de tolerancia térmica de la vida acuática. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#PhD investigating the Ecology and Evolution of tree size - integrating field ecology, molecular biology, and biogeography to answer how and why giant trees evolved and what are the consequences of gigantism. www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/esquivel-mue...