Tree hugger bear.

"In Germany, the national insurance association has warned that premiums could double within a decade due to climate-driven claims. In France, the national natural disaster scheme...has been running at a deficit since 2016" theconversation.com/climate-chan...

"To the surrounding forest community, which has long revered Tsitakakantsa, its demise represents the loss of a spiritual anchor...it underscores the fragility of even the most enduring pillars of nature in the face of rapid environmental change" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/w...

White House seeks to tighten political oversight of US science funding doi.org/10.1126/science.zv0elgw “senior appointees” at federal agencies must sign off on awards foreign collaborations banned federal support for OA costs cut it preserves current overhead funding

“If the SEC ...rescinds the rule, investors will have less information about the companies in which they invest. That is antithetical to the SEC’s mission, which is supposed to be to protect investors” B Schiffrin, director of securities policy, Better Markets.  giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Yes, physical archives are a huge issue (a point that the collections community has argued for a long time). So is the stability of disciplinary data repositories and transition planning/funding for site retirement. The Governance Gap Threatening Long-Term Ecological Archives eos.org/opinions/the...

The American government is turning its back on the things that made us a global leader in science, engineering, and technology. Independent science — vetted by rigorous peer review, not political hacks — is crucial. This undermines our future. www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Just heard that Peter Checkland died on the 17th May. His contribution to systems thinking through Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) had a profound and wide ranging impact. From @antlerboy.com ... stream.syscoi.com/2026/05/18/i...

Inflation adjusted income is shrinking "as the energy shock unleashed by the Iran war chokes off a nascent recovery in real wages" .... “The war is roiling supply chains and will push prices higher [than] before, even if the strait were to open tomorrow” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

To save nature, accelerate economic development in lower-income countries @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Both of our former environment & climate ministers are speaking up strongly and critically regarding the direction of the current federal government on climate—even though it is their party. That to me shows integrity and leadership. Thank u @cathmckenna.bsky.social & @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social

FRIENDS IN THE NETHERLANDS HEADS UP! Next Thursday June 4th I'm organizing an inspiring evening in Utrecht, the 'Seeds of Better Futures Festival', where students, professionals and researchers meet to discuss concrete initiatives in a lively market place: www.uu.nl/en/events/se...

Economists Saez & Zucman make case for wealth tax in NYTimes www.nytimes.com/interactive/... "a one-time levy of 5 percent on billionaire wealth, spread over five years...it would be the first tax targeted at the combined personal and business wealth of billionaires enacted anywhere in the world."

A synthesis of principles for building the social–ecological resilience and adaptive capacity of protected and conserved areas Cumming+ doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Join our three upcoming PhD defences! In June, PhD candidates Mary Scheuermann, Carolin Seiferth, and Moa Ohlsson will defend their theses. Their research spans a broad range of topics – from pulses and power, to knowledge co-production, to nature’s contributions to people. buff.ly/330xD2r

A small ask from us: if your professional work touches large carnivores anywhere in Europe (management, research, advocacy, policy, fieldwork) please consider taking our survey. We're trying to understand coexistence from a social-ecological perspective. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

"Over the past 12 years, $13.5 trillion in global wealth has been diverted to cleaning up after catastrophes, bracing for new ones and paying insurance companies higher premiums, estimates a recent report from Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Andrew John Stevenson." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Canadian fire season could kick into gear starting Monday as a large persistent upper ridge will bring conducive fire weather to Manitoba/NW Ontario for the following 10 days. This is a classic set up for significant fire activity.

India's Gujarat Hybrid Renewable Energy Park www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat... "It is expected to generate 30 gigawatts (GW) from solar panels and wind turbines ... As of April 2026, its capacity has increased to 9.4 GW."

Wow! "On the night side of a distant planet, thick clouds continuously form. But as winds carry them from the cool night side to the lit day side, the clouds quickly dissipate. Astronomers have been able to detect this weather pattern on the planet WASP-94 A b" doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Finance is one of the strongest ecological forces on Earth. Flows of money determine what forests are cut and what crops are grow. Currently, global finance funds nature destruction 30:1. Our research project FinBio.org is working to understand how finance biosphere stewardship #BiodiversityDay

🌍️ "Many of our global scenarios are effectively asking how to fix the future without really changing the present." Centre researcher Laura Pereira and colleagues are calling for a complete rethink of climate models and scenarios.

We’re looking for a research assistant to join the INFLUX project on emerging pests and pathogens. Work with comparative datasets, large-scale data collection and analysis, and project coordination in sustainability research. Apply by 29 May 2026: buff.ly/IW0dzqL

How can Indigenous Peoples and local communities have a greater say in biodiversity assessments? This Biodiversity Day, we've published a study that presents guidance for stronger inclusion of Indigenous Peoples' and local communities' knowledge within IPBES.

🌍 25 years of enabling open access to biodiversity data. 🤝 25 years of global collaboration. 🌱 25 years of supporting research and policy worldwide. 🥳 🎂 We’re celebrating 25 years of GBIF on #InternationalDayForBiologicalDiversity, made possible by our incredible network. 💚 #BiodiversityDay

Nature-positive business should be the most competitive choice. Governments can make it happen by: - Rewarding nature-positive practices and innovation - Redirecting incentives away from harmful activities 🔄 Repost if you want a system that protects nature. #InternationalDayForBiologicalDiversity

The Swedish 🇸🇪 Parliament just approved a law that would create a tiered citizenship scheme, with a 1st class (mostly for the native born) that cannot be revoked and a 2nd class (mostly for the naturalized) that can: www.svt.se/nyheter/inri... Only two parties (Left and Green) voted against.

Share of cars currently in use that are electric, 2010 to 2025 Electric cars include fully battery-electric and plug-in hybrids. ourworldindata.org/grapher/shar...

Fehmarn Tunnel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn... 18 km submerged Scandinavia - Central Europe connection planned to become the world's longest road+rail tunnel www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQG5...

“The UN has voted 141-8 to adopt a resolution backing a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change, with the US – which is the world’s biggest historical emitter – among the small group opposing it” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sharp rises in diesel and petrol prices spark violent clashes in Kenya and Comoros as well as strikes in Mozambique giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... "Higher fuel costs are also a further hit to the creditworthiness of indebted African countries"

UK banks assessing their climate exposure giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... "investors believed there was a “mismatch” between their own perceptions of raised climate risks and how the banks assess these risks in their loss models" Barclays, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds declined to comment.

New scenarios needed to address climate crisis www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res... "Right now, many of our global scenarios are effectively asking how to fix the future without really changing the present”-Prof Laura Pereira

Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis with integrated transformative scenarios @laurap18.bsky.social + authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... research agenda towards a more diverse and embedded global scenario approach

"Squillions" John Lanchester reviews "Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won " + www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... <<An informed guess, from Michel Camdessus, the longest-serving head of the International Monetary Fund, is that it is somewhere between 2 and 5 per cent of global GDP.>>

Parallel Cities vicnaum.github.io/parallel-cit...

Rainfall intensity matters as much as how much rain falls. New in Nature: Corey Lesk and I show that daily-scale concentration of precipitation dries the land over the long-run, an effect as strong as total precipitation is climatological wetting. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How can globally networked, interdisciplinary research address climate change, biodiversity loss and resource scarcity? dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

ENSO Forecast Dashboard dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#enso median of models forecasting an strong ENSO later this year Coral bleaching forecast coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/bl... background: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C...

For those with interests in #complexity theory and systems ecology, I enjoyed this recent and very nice & clear interdisciplinary introduction to tipping point concepts, published recently: doi.org/10.1038/s444... #thresholds #resilience #social-ecological 🌐🧪🦑

📣 Upcoming visioning session to collectively envision what the Asian SocSES community could be and do 💭 🗓️ Friday, 15 May 2026 🕑 05:30 ADT / 14:00 IST / 14:30 BST / 15:30 ICT / 16:30 CST, PHST / 17:30 JST, KST 📍 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/y8mwuwpv

Global fossil power generation fell after the Hormuz closure due to solar and wind growth energyandcleanair.org/fossil-power... <<‘Return to coal’ absent in data>>

S Korea's first "standalone coexistence council... formed to protect a specific species, the black-tailed gull ... including National Institute of Ecology, Andong City... and the Andong Sustainable Development Council’s Black-tailed Gull Loving Citizens’ Headquarters www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Hammarby Sjöstad aimed to cut its carbon footprint in half. It hit 30-40% – until residents took the lead. SEI's Maria Xylia features in a new @smithsonianmag.bsky.social piece on how citizen-led retrofits are pushing the Stockholm district toward climate neutrality. 🔗 buff.ly/OX9q0SR

Madrid closed its central business district to cars for the first time during the 2018 Christmas period. The result was a 9.5% increase in retail spending on Madrid’s main shopping street, the Gran Vía. Plus there was a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #UrbanTruth

Why is the old debate about whether smoking causes cancer relevant to settling the controversy surrounding over-crediting in forest carbon offsets? Read our paper in natureecoevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One camera trap results, one forest road, 7 days. Humans, bears, deer, wolves, same landscape, different rhythms. Coexistence can happen through temporal segregation of space use. SESCARNIVORE explores these hidden temporal patterns through the lens of the social-ecological niche concept.

“Insect pollinators were directly responsible for 44% of people’s farming income and more than 20% of their vitamin A, folate and vitamin E intake” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Stories of the Future challenge invites young people around the world to imagine a new tomorrow. Submit your writing, drawing, painting, or film a story ➡️ vist.ly/53bxe 📅 Deadline: 19 July 2026