Wolves & Willows in Yellowstone: Debunking Ripple etal (2025) 🌎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Neanderthals & Mesolithic foragers reshaped Europe’s ecology long before agriculture… 🌍 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

“When looking at Central American forests today, we must reckon with the fact that ancient humans affected everything,” www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

Scientific Warnings Don't Work: Climate Messaging Needs a Rethink @aibsbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Ordered it!

@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154... #SaveNCAR

Save NCAR! eos.org/opinions/wha...

Are narratives of total biosphere collapse helpful? Is ecological 'novelty' necessarily bad? What can the past tell us about the human capacity to mould and adapt to future conditions? Red more in our new paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... 🌏🧪🌐

The Reinvention of Progress @pedrotconceicao.bsky.social www.genevapolicyoutlook.ch/the-reinvent...

We could produce a lot of electricity on the land used for biofuels - very useful analysis by @hannahritchie.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...

"We argue that the main focus of climate action in 2026 and beyond should be on accelerating the clean-energy revolution. And the rate at which clean energy displaces fossil fuels in the global economy should become the key measure of climate progress." I have mixed feelings about this.

My new book — Clearing the Air — comes out in the US on February 19th 📚 Goodreads is running a giveaway, in case you want to enter and have a chance of getting a free copy! @mitpress.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy:

Unlike chasing intangible temperature targets, cleaning up the energy sector is a more-focused battle that the world can win go.nature.com/4bTcZiz

Today is #CleanEnergyDay and a good reminder that the energy transition is happening NOW In 2024, the world surpassed 40% clean power driven by a RECORD rise in renewables 📈 Let’s see what this year holds #InternationalDayOfCleanEnergy @seforallorg.bsky.social

ICYMI @erleellis.bsky.social Anthromes project includes teaching materials! anthroecology.org/anthromes/

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social] Decades after the 1988 murder of rubber tapper and labor leader Chico Mendes, the logic he argued for — that forests are better protected when people can make a living from them — has returned to the center of Brazilian conservation policy.

U.S. withdrawal from international climate bodies sidelines scientists when climate impacts are accelerating. AGU remains engaged at UNFCCC COP, supports U.S. scientists in the next #IPCC assessment, & urges Congress to protect science funding. Science belongs at the table. More: buff.ly/sYY3rVB

US NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

The species problem evolving in the Anthropocene @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discoveries of #microplastics throughout human body, from brain to blood, arteries to testes Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’ Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Human activity helped make 2025 third-hottest year on record, experts say - Data leads scientists to declare 2015 Paris agreement to keep global heating below 1.5C ‘dead in the water’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.

Defossilize our chemical world - and beware of biofuels... @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. — @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair

In the era of affordability politics, making clean energy cheaper may be a more viable emissions mitigation strategy than making dirty energy more expensive. My latest over at The Climate Brink digs into the debate:

📣 Call for Abstracts | INQUA Congress 2027 📍 Lucknow, India | 🗓 Jan 28–Feb 3, 2027 Re-evaluating Long-Term Human–Biodiversity Relationships. Case studies & syntheses highlighting positive human–nature relations from archaeology & across the palaeosciences ⏰Deadline: 15 Feb 2026 🌏🧪🌐 #INQUA2027

Starting 2026 with reviving some writing from the last few years, as I dive into the relationships between #nature #economy and #society. Please follow on #substack open.substack.com/pub/dobura/p...

I often get asked about the Miyawaki method of forest restoration, usually by people who have heard extraordinary claims for it. Morales et al. (2025) have reviewed the evidence and found it to be weak or absent. 🌏🧪🌳🌲 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The future of the Amazon may rely on its past. According to study, landscape interventions by the forest’s pre-Columbian Indigenous inhabitants might still affect its ecological functions, including its capacity to store biomass, absorb carbon, and withstand climate change eos.org/articles/how...

Want to help #SaveNCAR? Join thousands of members of AGU and the public who have visited this @aguscipolicy.bsky.social page, where you can find email text and a call script to share with your representatives. agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled. One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood. Read more here: eos.org/research-and...

A shot of ignorance that will be heard around the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

Just 3⃣ days left! Nominate experts to serve on The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine review committee for the United by Nature assessment Help ensure this report reflects the best available science - nominate yourself or a colleague by Dec 15!⌛️ 🔗https://tinyurl.com/nvw86sza

“In this age of abundant remote-sensing data, global datasets are increasingly relied upon to analyse the planet at unprecedented scale and resolution. We offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets, to ensure results appropriate for decision making.”

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world - study - Analysis @eciu.net marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policies #climatecrisis Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is seeking expert nominations for an independent review of the United by Nature draft assessment. Ecologists—consider nominating yourself or a colleague! ✅ Deadline: Dec 15 🔗https://tinyurl.com/nvw86sza

Destructive by nature? What human-driven extinctions of mammoths and mastodons mean for today's planetary environmental crisis. 🌎🌐 doi.org/10.1017/ext....

Culture shapes conservation. & Culture is evolving....🌎🌐 Foundational principles of an applied cultural evolutionary science for natural resource management and conservation royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

Native American tribe reclaims 900 acres of Yosemite National Park in California #Landback www.fresnobee.com/news/califor...

For pretty much any critique you can level at any source of energy -- inefficient, too much pollution, takes too much land, has too many externalities, is propped up by subsidies, whatever -- it's worse for corn ethanol. It's worse in all dimensions. It has zero redeeming features.

The authors of a highly publicized study predicting climate change would cost $38 trillion a year by 2049 have retracted their paper following criticism of the data and methodology, including that the estimate is inflated.

Imagining that the climate battle is about *information* -- that those who have good information will act; that those who aren't acting must be lacking information -- has been utterly disastrous for decades now, but advocates & pols can't seem to break out of it.

Nature Will Bounce Back if We Just Give It a Chance @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/o...

Of the 8000 plant species introduced to cities around the world, about 300 are in cities on every continent and about 90 are basically in every city. Urbanization has selected for a common set of species that are the fingerprint of our activity: The urban florome. onlinelibrary.wiley....

No "Insect Apocalypse" in US according to a novel radar analysis... @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...