Choosing fish over beef still lowers your #CarbonFootprint significantly, but consider that #seafood production has quadrupled over last 50 years & virtually all the increase is from #aquaculture ~ here's a science-based close look at your fish diet tinyurl.com/3ffsv772
As more people move to WA's Olympic Peninsula, building homes, raising farm animals on land surrounded by forest, inevitable clashes with cougars are increasing & guess which animal loses bit.ly/3t5z758 @insideclimate @PantheraCats
Cape Cod Bay suffering from hypoxia, low levels of oxygen caused by increased ocean stratification resulting from shifting wind patterns & warming ocean temperatures ~ it's bad news for lobstermen, much worse for lobsters & sealife @insideclimate bit.ly/3rjgMkz
Tons of #coffee grounds end up in landfills & while researchers knew the waste could replace sand in making concrete, they didn't know how to add coffee to concrete without also compromising its functionality. Now they know tinyurl.com/yf2tedfm @RajeevRoychand et al.
Polar bears have US protection due to melting sea ice, but that hasn't slowed oil & gas drilling, since greenhouse gas pollution from just one source couldn't be tied to the bears' survival~until now. Thank you scientists bit.ly/3Zq2cUO @AnthropoceneMag @ScienceMagazine
Result of Ecuadorians' recent vote: closure of 12 oil platforms & 230 wells in Yasuní territory & 6 gold concessions in Chocó Andino, protection for 2 uncontacted tribes & a wealth of biodiversity tinyurl.com/yk6btdx8 @the_ecologist (donate to Ecologist Writers' Fund)
Since N. America has lost most of its native #grasslands, not surprising that 50% of the grassland bird population is also gone ~ major joint effort from biologists, conservationists, landowners, govt agencies to reverse the trend bit.ly/3sRpBCj @BirdConservancy et al.
Attn OR's CD-5 residents concerned about issues like affordable health care, clean air & water, social security...all these & more have been undermined by Rep. Chavez DeRemer, who won't hold in-person Town Halls ~ come to Oct 10th's Empty Chair Town Hall tinyurl.com/5x98wpyx
Though at risk, #giraffes have somewhat adapted to living in an impressively wide range of different African ecosystems ~ researchers, conservationists collaborating in largest ever tracking study to understand how & why giraffes move at large scales tinyurl.com/7eraxn3r
In search of a new potato, one that's climate smart, helps conserve water and soil, @OregonState working with local farmers, @uidaho, #WSU, Tribal nations with @USDA $50m grant...consortium will also study how best to market eco potatoes to consumers bit.ly/48mN8LF
#WeLoveWhenThisHappens: Thanks to botanists from Germany, Ecuador, Peru and Costa Rica plus amateur plant enthusiasts all working together, long forgotten tropical plants, Nasa spp, are rediscovered in Andes forests bit.ly/3t2szE4 @GlobalPlantGPC @Pensoft
Worldwide, trees are dying from supercharged droughts at rates shocking even to forest scientists, whose understanding of how trees respond to drought is outdated ~ researchers are hustling to understand just how trees die bit.ly/3Rp6ERM @KnowableMag @Ana__Bastos et al.
Flooding from atmospheric rivers after prolonged #drought can be catastrophic, also more frequent with #ClimateChange -- experts are figuring out how we can learn to live with, even embrace, “weather whiplash” bit.ly/45MTAKi @hakaimagazine @serena_renner
Can we possibly just leave "post glacial ecosystems" alone? Alps-based scientists outline conservation challenges for vast areas of land revealed when glaciers melt bit.ly/44HbTz8 @AnthropoceneMag @Nature
Missing in Virginia: pine snakes haven't been seen in the state for 30 years & herpetologists aren't sure why. Residents with patience and cameras are helping in the search. “I really truly believe that they’re still there." @KevinHamed1 bit.ly/3YYNV1h @Sierra_Magazine
Small % of tropical forest leaves can't function due to #ClimateChange, scientists find, while globally, tropical forests likely can withstand a 4° C increase in temp before reaching a tipping point where photosynthesis stops bit.ly/45SbDOL @nature @CanopyinClouds et al.
As we're in the midst of an #InsectApocalypse, don't discount the bug benefits of even a small bit of native greenery~researchers found that restoring a grass patch with native shrubs increased insect species by 7x bit.ly/3sC2zzr @YaleE360 @AER_ESE_BES @matanature et al.
"Africa has typically been viewed as a climate victim, facing the worst of its ravages despite having contributed the least to causing it," @ClimateActAfric founder acknowledges but stresses continent's potential to help reach Global Net Zero bit.ly/3EkwfUo @tandfonline
"After all, who doesn’t support farmers?" Which explains why US legislation promoting potential fossil fuel replacement agrivoltaics, solar panels that are placed over crops that benefit from some shading, has bipartisan support bit.ly/3Z3gV7Z @cleantechnica
Lessons from #India's forests 200 yrs after #GreatBritain harvested the high-yielding timber trees, while restricting local people's rights to forests, planted #teak monocultures and non-native species & more recently, India commits to reforestation bit.ly/3QUqSmc
