At yesterday's 80th @UN General Assembly, the High Seas Treaty was FINALLY ratified! 🌊 🦑 Aka the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdictions (BBNJ) Agreement, it now officially enters into force in 120 days, becoming international law in Jan 2026. highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratif...

A little bit of good news for you. And a reminder that we *can* solve big, global problems--when we want to. 🧪 (by @meghanbartels.bsky.social)

The negligible role of carbon offsetting in corporate climate strategies @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are we in the Anthropocene? We spoke to Professor Erle Ellis, from the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, who explains how the idea was created and how it has value outside of debates over geological time. www.iflscience.com/iflscience-t...

Carbon sinks are no solution for industrial carbon. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reports of Mass Extinction are Greatly Exaggerated. 🌎🌐 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds

The title of this upcoming Nat Academy workshop is a sad reminder of the current politics of science. And also the stereotype that social science is cheap/free. Why not a workshop on "Doing Engineering Research with Little to No funding". Sigh...I feel bad for early career researchers right now...

Tree carbon no solution to fossil carbon. 🌍🌐 (but 😍🌳🌳👍)

Climate Tipping Points Could Lead Us Astray... @bobkopp.net @thebulletin.org 🌐 doi.org/10.1080/0096...

Indigenous communities have long used fire to shape healthy grasslands. At Tanka Fund, we work w/Buffalo ranchers through prescribed fire education & land health assessments to restore balance & resilience to the prairie. Read more: www.tankafund.org/our-stories/... #BuffaloRestoration #TankaFund

Support Buffalo Restoration. Support @tankafund.bsky.social www.tankafund.org

Bring Back the Bison! #Landback #Rewilding Yellowstone’s free-moving large bison herds provide a glimpse of their past ecosystem function @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

More destruction of US Science: USDA plan to shutter Beltsville Agricultural Research Center marylandmatters.org/2025/08/29/m...

The most amazing Magical Adventure Story Forest at the Kenyan Coast!! Please support and share!! @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

New paper: The role of fire on Earth doi.org/10.1093/bios... BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social Fire affects all major components of the Earth system: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, anthroposphere, & biosphere. Fire is an intrinsic factor on our planet. 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire

Native Species? 🌎🌐🐺🦉 Cultural Paradigms in Conservation @lilyvaneeden.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/c/1lac31R~ea...

Human aspirations for better lives can be mobilized to ensure that the natural world thrives along with people. Says Pedro Conceição @undp.org Read his op-ed in the Financial Times, which builds on the paper published in Nature in June ⬇️Proud to be working alongside the @undp.org & others on this

Don’t ask what nature can do for you . . .  @pedrotconceicao.bsky.social @UNDP on.ft.com/3HHFbIq

50% OFF Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

Actual Mason-Dixon survey marker, Hancock, MD. My thanks to @erleellis.bsky.social for taking me on the hike that let me see it. (The M is for Maryland: on the other side is a P for Pennsylvania.)

Really important and powerful session happening at #ESA2025 right now, with a message all ecologists/conservationists/environmentalists need to hear: People have *always* been part of nature, interacting dynamically with nonhuman beings and ecosystems, as long as humans have been on this Earth!

#ESA2025 Ecologists!🐸🌎🌐 Put People in the Paradigm! with @jacquelyngill.bsky.social @charlescmann.bsky.social @shunkaha3.bsky.social 8AM Tomorrow (Wed 8/13) events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...

Doomed to Fail! 🌍🏭😭🧪🌐 Ecological politics needs to tell a more aspirational story. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On Wednesday 8 am - 9:30 am, I'm giving a talk in a symposium organized by @erleellis.bsky.social, with talks by Joseph Gazing Wolf and @charlescmann.bsky.social. #ESA2025 events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...

What counts as progress? #GDP alone can’t capture it. The UN’s #BeyondGDP push reflects a wider call for metrics that look at wellbeing more holistically. Our paper explores how the HDI can evolve to meet that challenge: https://council.science/publications/human-development-index/

Indigenous cultural burning in the American Southwest @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Restoring Ecosystems Can't Stop Climate Change 🏭❌🌳🌎🌐 Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Know your anthromes! anthroecology.org/anthromes/gu...

Prevent Biome-ism! 🌍🌐 Seven ways to prevent biomism @ambio-journal.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Check out our new special feature: Monitoring and Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Anthropocene www.pnas.org/topic/574 #biodiversity #evolution #ecology #popgen #ClimateEmergency

Really nice metastudy of citizen science contributing to ecology & biodiversity research @inaturalist.bsky.social @aibsbiology.bsky.social 👀🔎🍄🧪🌎🌐 iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

People sharing nature pics transform ecology @emilyanthes.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/s...

Agriculture evolved. It was not “invented”. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

What does progress mean in the Anthropocene? 🌎🌐🧑‍🤝‍🧑 anthroecology.org/a-new-way-to...

Artificial Light Lengthens Urban Growing Season More than Warming 💡🌳🌐 #Anthropocene @eos.org eos.org/articles/art...

Climate Polluters Are Legally Responsible Now (in International Court) 🌐 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/o...

Most Americans really have no clue how far the US is being left behind.

Such an important ruling by the Int. Court of Justice. Simply put, states are responsible for the #pollution they allow, to the #climate as much to the #environment news.un.org/en/story/202... This is real #human and #planetary #justice, allowing for #TransformativeChange in how things are done

Photos of Anthropocene wilderness

Sea Slug Symbiosis www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

US EPA science shutdown endangers health of people and planet 🌎 🌐 theconversation.com/the-us-envir...

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Onset of extensive human fire use 50k years ago 🧎🔥🌏🌐 @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #Anthropocene #Pyrocene

Proponents of the Sixth Mass Extinction admit it is unsupported ‪@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social‬ 🌎🌐 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

I just wrote up my reactions to @erleellis.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social et al.’s vitally important proposal for a new “Nature Relationship Index” for measuring progress toward multispecies flourishing and planetary salutogenesis open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...

What if we measured progress not just by income or life expectancy - but by how well we live with the rest of nature? A major new paper proposes the 'Nature Relationship Index (NRI)' - a bold rethink of development metrics. Here’s why it matters.👇 #NatureRelationshipIndex #GlobalThreads

Why we need an Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures @undp.org @naturerecovery.bsky.social youtu.be/RoUErFiAOjk

Empowering People‘s Aspirations to Shape a Better Future for Life on Earth 🌍🌐 youtu.be/yFBXyrU0JBc?...