Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap

'One of the most successful wildlife comeback stories': The Alps lost its vultures - then it got them back www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Solnit's work is one of the inspirations between our project "Seeds of a Good Anthropoence" for over a decade we've been helping imagine positive futures built from connecting the diverse alternatives that exist at the margins of our worlds goodanthropocenes.net

The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit "shines a light on the vibrant world often hidden within our own seemingly gloomier one — a world that has embraced ideas of interconnection, ecological care and political equality" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather Yin+ doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx8813 synchronous fire weather increased during 1979 to 2024 >2X increase in most regions "over 1/2 of the observed increase is attributable to anthropogenic climate change."

Wildfire Seasons Are Starting to Overlap: Simultaneous emergencies in different parts of the world could stop countries from sharing ground crews and equipment, new research warns www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/c...

The drop in the price battery storage is incredible, joining onshore wind and solar as now cheaper than coal, on average globally. about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

US "Corporate broadcast networks again reduced climate coverage in 2025 ...ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a combined 8 hours and 25 minutes of climate coverage across 201 segments, a 35% decline from 2024." www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...

Marine Traffic www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/... Analysis of vessel activity indicates tanker transits are now around 90% lower than last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhAQ...

A Growing Tree metaphor: identifying and reflecting on 26 Action Items for ethical bridging of Indigenous and Western knowledge systems in biodiversity research and monitoring Rathwell+ doi.org/10.5751/ES-1... to help "conceive, design, and implement biodiversity research and monitoring"

the return of Broken Social Scene en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_... new album "Remember the Humans" english.elpais.com/culture/2026... "reunites the collective that transformed indie rock at the beginning of this century"

Science at Risk: The Urgent Need for Institutional Support of Long-Term Ecological and Evolutionary Research in an Era of Data Manipulation and Disinformation url: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

New working paper: Prosperity within Limits? Planetary Habitability, Global Convergence & Structural Transformation 2026-2100 wid.world/news-article... More to come in the Global Justice Report to be released at the World Inequality Conference Paris June 4-6 2026 inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...

A collaborative approach to ethics review in applied and multi-actor work.🧪🌍 For independent researchers and evaluators without ready access to institutional review, this page outlines a practical peer review model that makes ethical judgement visible. learningforsustainability.net/human-ethics...

The global island species–area relationship for plants "a simple power model explains a remarkable amount of variation, with ISAR slope and residual variation explicable by isolation, island origins, and proportion of endemism" 🧪🌐 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Pokémon turns 30: how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science doi.org/10.1038/d415... "researchers ...designed a Pokémon-inspired card-trading game, which they named Phylo. Players build food chains, create stable ecosystems and sabotage opponents' ecosystems, racking up points in the process"

A number of folks in political science asked me for recommendations for books on qualitative methods. I really love this one. #RPVBooks #NewReadingMaterial

How likely is 'likely'? kucharski.substack.com/p/insights-f... reflections on and some tests of how different people infer the probability of different phases - and which are interpreted more or less consistently

US stocks trail rest of the world by the widest margin in decades giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... "Global stocks, measured in the widely tracked MSCI World Index...are up by 2 per cent so far in 2026. That’s decent. But if you strip out the US, you’re up a much rosier 9 per cent."

@elenabennett.bsky.social and team on 'The future of Global Environmental Assessments: 20 years after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 'Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 79: 101618.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2026.101618 O.A. link: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Extraordinary piece that shows how limited we are in being able to imagine and plan for the unthinkable. Same problem in realising the huge assault that a hotter world will bring with climate disasters, food shortages and massive human movement

Investor Democracy Bauer+ preprint dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... using deliberative minipublics to determine the interests of investors "leads participants to recommend expanding impact investing... board subsequently commits to increasing impact investments by €300 million to €1.2 billion"

commentary: Godale+ doi.org/10.1038/d415... "Analyses of a Swedish tree-ring archive suggest that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has lowered soil-nitrogen supply, which could cap carbon storage by land ecosystems"

Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces nitrogen availability in boreal forests doi.org/10.1038/s415... "declining N availability in response to rising CO2 will be a more dominant driver of boreal forest C exchange in the future, compared with N enrichment from atmospheric Nr deposition"

Hope in the Face of Uncertainty: The Value of Futures Literacy S Fournier-Sylvester www.edcan.ca/articles/hop... on the value of futures literary in schools in Canada

New from me & fellow @bloomberg.com reporter Alastair Marsh - as the UK suffers through one of the soggiest-ever starts to the year, banks are taking a closer look at their mortgage liabilities, and in some cases starting to limit their exposure to flood risk. Gift link:

Earth-Economy Modeling: Advances in Linking Economic and Ecosystem Models Johnson+ doi.org/10.1146/annu... "reviews a wide range of models that integrate ecological and economic systems... [and reveals] the importance of and associated challenges, but also the high demand, for this type of model."

GLP-1 drugs, such as Ozempic, could reshape food systems people's food consumption is shifting ->"Weight-loss jabs push sugar price to five-year low" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... and the drug's impacts continue after people stop taking them giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“This is my praise song for Farwell Canyon—that glorious Coyote-blessed and bewitched cathedral of salmon—for my enemy who is also my relative, and for the fish we love and share.” Unmissable Julian Brave Noisecat essay on rivers, memories & imagining otherwise. placesjournal.org/article/farw...

Stockholm ice with sun, skaters and a freighter

This is the most vividly realized vision of a rewilding future I’ve read—intensely real and wondrously magical at the same time, and an emotionally engaging story of people not far from us, finding hope in the planetary elegy. Highly recommended:

We are hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Indigenous Environmental Governance and Management. Very excited for this position. Please circulate widely among your networks: www.sfu.ca/rem/about/em... #academia #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Businesses must transform or go under www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res... “The loss of biodiversity is among the most serious threats to business. Yet the twisted reality is that it often seems more profitable to businesses to degrade biodiversity than to protect it.” - S Polasky

IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Summary for Policymakers zenodo.org/records/1853... is now available

ICYMI -despite promising just over a year ago to triple climate finance from developed world to poor and vulnerable countries, UK govt is now planning to slash climate finance by more than a fifth www.theguardian.com/environment/...

IPBES Business and biodiversity assessment www.ipbes.net/business-imp... approved today. Summary for decision makers should be out soon

#IPBES12 delegates spent all day working on the session’s key deliverable: the Business and Biodiversity Assessment It took until the late afternoon to complete a read-through of the Background Messages Talks on tables and figures ran into the night Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/intergovernm...

At #IPBES12, agreement was reached on several agenda items, including on indicators and an intersessional process for a proposal on the Platform’s future work More talks are needed to find agreement on the Business and #Biodiversity Assessment Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/intergovernm...

Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 picked by Wole Talabi (author of "Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon") reactormag.com/tenish-of-th...

Inuit delegation in Greenland for opening of Canadian consulate www.cbc.ca/news/politic... "We want to come together in solidarity with Greenland to show our support and to say: That land is not for sale," -Susie-Ann Kudluk, vice-president of the Qarjuit Youth Council

“poll suggests that many Europeans (from 39% in Germany to 57% in Denmark) still believe US foreign policy will “revert to normal” once Trump has left the scene” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

This is an absolutely incredible example showing how very detailed migration data can pick up disasters - congrats on a very cool project @gsagostini.bsky.social

New Paper ❗️ 🪸Reimagining #CoralReef futures Where we develop aspirational visions for coral reefs towards a #SafeAndJust space 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1038/s44183-025-00179-6 With @joachimclaudet.bsky.social @jessicablythe.bsky.social @vbrn.bsky.social et al @sthlmresilience.bsky.social

Negotiations on the Business and Biodiversity Assessment at #IPBES12 advanced at a slow pace, necessitating an additional evening session Working Group 2, by contrast, made swift progress, reaching agreement on all workplans for 2026-27 Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/intergovernm... #IPBES

Hedge funds’ correlation with stocks sparks fears over lack of crash protection giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... “It’s a little scary especially when you look at the times that this has happened before” - J Caplis, founder of hedge fund research firm PivotalPath

The Climate Fiction Prize longlist climatefictionprize.co.uk/longlist-2026/ "a new literary prize that will celebrate the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis"

Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right doi.org/10.1038/d415... you can try online at openscilm.allen.ai

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* February 8 Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science

Reichert, G. W., Glöser-Chahoud, S., & Gröβler, A. (2026). Graph notation as a gateway—transitioning from causal loop to stock and flow diagrams (and beyond) in system dynamics modeling [Article]. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. doi.org/10.1080/1364...