Most cells and DNA that make up a human are not human host cell or human host DNA. Most is bacteria. Our food systems (herbicide are antibiotics) are killing us.

The failure of the Panama Pacific upwelling this year is a “shocking extreme event,” says Scripps climate modeler Shang-Ping Xie.

A Perspective in Nature introduces the Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative, which aims to create comprehensive single-cell molecular atlases across the eukaryotic tree of life. go.nature.com/46HnmDn 🔒

The third issue of #Peatlands International 2025 is out! 🎉 This edition covers highlights from BPPF in Riga and Intecol in Tartu, news on peat + peatlands from Finland, Canada, Australia and more. We also look ahead to the Board elections. 👉Join the IPS to get the magazine 4x/year: www.peatlands.org

Having thousands of large animals grazing at once may seem like it would inhibit plant growth. But this study showed the opposite.

New paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL4K_6se4...

Rewilding ponds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical remains: Insights for future ecological and biocultural studies esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... preserving the past legacy

@ctforestal.bsky.social @barrioca.bsky.social @creaf.cat @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social @santigiralt.bsky.social @spr-bcn.bsky.social

New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye. The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza

Giraffes are four distinct species, major report confirms | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Barley in a cave in Uzbekistan, 9,000 years old, suggests foragers far from the Fertile Crescent were harvesting cereals long before farming took hold. A mosaic of innovation, not a single birthplace. #Archaeology #Agriculture #HumanEvolution @pnas.org

UN demands investigations into Gaza hospital killings

Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.

A huge stick insect has been discovered in Australia. Here’s why that’s important | Gwen Pearson

Murderous Lebensraum. A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky. #Gaza #Israel #Palestine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Breaking News! July, 2025 was the 3rd warmest July on record globally since 1940, and likely the 3rd warmest in the last 120,000 years, at 1.25°C over the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline. Cool times.

On Google maps, whenever new satellite images replace old ones, the erasure can be seen side by side with the adjacent older photo. I don't know how frequently they update.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Iron emissions from East Asia are pushing a phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific farther north. Story by @markr4nger.bsky.social

How do you take your nitrogen? In Arctic rivers, the answer is, increasingly, “organic.” New #AGUPubs research from @nyutandon.bsky.social, @carnegiescience.bsky.social

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Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 6, 2025 ~ cancer hominis. "The 2024 bleaching event 'had the largest spatial footprint ever recorded ... the declines in the north and south were the largest in a single year since monitoring began 39 years ago.'" www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/c...

Southeast Asia covers multiple global biodiversity hotspots — but is experiencing a biodiversity crisis. Our new article in Nature Reviews Biodiversity asks: What’s really driving the losses, and what can we do about it? 👉 rdcu.be/expy6 1/7

Shape and rate of landscape change trajectories influence species persistence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.04.666294v1

Despite a turn in public opinion, ICE detentions have roughly doubled—from an average of 17,000 per month between January and April to nearly 35,000 in June. As of July, more than 70 per cent of the detainees do not have criminal convictions.

The marine heat wave in the North Pacific is one of the most extensive, spanning the giant N Pacific, and in spots, the most intense, I’ve observed. Anomalies near Japan are 15 F (8C) above normal. (Japan just recorded its hottest temp on record.) The reason for this N Pacific heat wave is… 1/

Abrupt Climate Shifts Likely as Global Temperatures Keep Rising eos.org/research-spo...

The ability of Arctic soils to store carbon could plummet as temperatures warm. New research by @saramaranonjimenez.bsky.social, comments by Erik Verbruggen, story by @javibar.bsky.social.

We must expose the government’s complicity in genocide.

New study shows global inventories vastly underestimate black carbon emissions in low- & middle-income countries—by up to 38% in some places 📊 Using SPARTAN data, the @nature.com study underscores the need for accurate data to fight #AirPollution. go.nature.com/4591oHa

As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Trump's EPA is trying to destroy the Endangerment Finding -- the solid scientific conclusion that greenhouse gases are dangerously changing the climate. They've published fake, misleading claims from climate deniers. This will devastate efforts to stop climate change. The EPA comment period is open.

"All visible slicks should be considered harmful to the marine environment, especially given that trace quantities of oil are damaging to planktonic organisms, which form the base of the marine food web" Imagine the harm to sea creatures from 90,000 oil slicks 😧 share.google/p9pC1t4gUp9L...

New online! Drivers and solutions to Southeast Asia’s biodiversity crisis

Israel blocking aid from Gaza is creating ‘chaos and death’, say humanitarian groups

46% of trees in Mesoamerica are at risk of extinction. Researchers hope a new regional study will inform targeted conservation strategies. eos.org/articles/fir...

BRUTAL HEAT IN MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA Up to 52C in Iran and Iraq with also extreme hot nights and records. Min 33.2 Dezful IRAN :Hottest night in history Central Asia:46C in Turkmenistan and 43C in Karalpakistan (Uzbekistan).

‘We don’t want to be climate refugees’: Torres Strait uncles fear for their islands and their people #Climate

Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say

Come and join us. We're already underway with major experiments throughout the summer. Huge opportunity for the right candidate! See link for details. 🧪

Peatlands, which cover just 3% of Earth's surface, store 550 billion tonnes of carbon or twice as much as all forests combined. However, some 15% of them have been drained for agriculture. Protecting these carbon sinks is vital #ForPeopleForPlanet.

Can Nature & People Thrive Together? 🌍🧑‍🌾🌽🌎🌴🐬🌏🚵‍♀️🍄🌐👍 An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures @nature.com.web.brid.gy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

MPAtlas June 2025 Update! ✅ Fully or highly protected zones: 2.7% of ocean area 📊 1,126 zones/ 11.1% of the global ocean assessed 🐬 Explore the full interactive map at mpatlas.org

Yesterday afternoon, evacuation alerts were issued for three areas of the Yukon: West Dawson (Top of the World kms 1-36); another Dawson-adjacent area between the Dempster Cutoff and Rock Creek (North Klondike Hwy kms 693-672); and the Silver Trail kms 8-24. The Top of the World Hwy remains closed.

Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures! 🧵

A paper in Nature suggests that the Australian Bogong moth may be the first invertebrate known to be able to use the stars to navigate. Experiments in flight simulators indicate that the insects use stellar cues to help them fly in the right direction. go.nature.com/3ZEaDgG 🧪

A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia | www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... || #Archaeology