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Additional focus on the oceans is a good thing. They are to often neglected in our terracentric ´human world, but vital for our future.
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/mong...
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/mong...
Mongabay launches dedicated Oceans Desk to expand global reporting on marine ecosystems
With increasing pressures from overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and climate change, the health of the world’s oceans is imperiled. In response, Mongabay has launched a dedicated Oceans Desk...
news.mongabay.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Additional focus on the oceans is a good thing. They are to often neglected in our terracentric ´human world, but vital for our future.
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/mong...
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/mong...
Equality and planetary sustainability goes hand in hand, so this is a good initiative. I only wish such an initiative had come earlier. But better late than never.
www.equals.ink/p/500-econom...
www.equals.ink/p/500-econom...
500 economists and inequality experts from seventy countries support call for new ‘IPCC for inequality’
Former finance ministers, World Bank and IMF chief economists, Former US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and 2024 Nobel Economics Laureate Daron Acemoglu, join Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman, Ha-Joon...
www.equals.ink
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Equality and planetary sustainability goes hand in hand, so this is a good initiative. I only wish such an initiative had come earlier. But better late than never.
www.equals.ink/p/500-econom...
www.equals.ink/p/500-econom...
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All 7 chapters of the #NexusAssessment Report are now available! 🏡
Read through the interlinkages of the nexus elements, as well as scenario analyses to evaluate possibilities, identifying pathways to sustainable futures with nexus-wide benefits. 🌍🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment
Read through the interlinkages of the nexus elements, as well as scenario analyses to evaluate possibilities, identifying pathways to sustainable futures with nexus-wide benefits. 🌍🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
All 7 chapters of the #NexusAssessment Report are now available! 🏡
Read through the interlinkages of the nexus elements, as well as scenario analyses to evaluate possibilities, identifying pathways to sustainable futures with nexus-wide benefits. 🌍🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment
Read through the interlinkages of the nexus elements, as well as scenario analyses to evaluate possibilities, identifying pathways to sustainable futures with nexus-wide benefits. 🌍🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment
Det vi spiser påvirker naturen. Nå har forskere utarbeidet et detaljert verktøy som kan gi informasjon om hvordan det vi eter bidrar til utryddelse av arter og minket biologisk mangfold. Det er og et verktøy for myndigheter og bedrifter for kloke beslutninger.
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/food...
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/food...
Food and the long-term risk to life: How your dinner affects 30,875 species
Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of food production on other species’ survival around the world.
www.cam.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Det vi spiser påvirker naturen. Nå har forskere utarbeidet et detaljert verktøy som kan gi informasjon om hvordan det vi eter bidrar til utryddelse av arter og minket biologisk mangfold. Det er og et verktøy for myndigheter og bedrifter for kloke beslutninger.
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/food...
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/food...
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Dette er ikke «feil bruk av KI» men et eksempel på et domene hvir språkmodeller IKKE BØR BRUKES. Vi risikerer å ødelegge all tillitt til at noe tekst er pålitelig når KI skal inn overalt. www.journalisten.no/ntb-trakk-sa...
NTB trakk sak med falske sitater og falsk kilde: – En veldig alvorlig feil
Fem av fem Telenor-sitater, og navnet på direktør, var oppdiktet. Feil bruk av KI, forklarer redaktør.
www.journalisten.no
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Dette er ikke «feil bruk av KI» men et eksempel på et domene hvir språkmodeller IKKE BØR BRUKES. Vi risikerer å ødelegge all tillitt til at noe tekst er pålitelig når KI skal inn overalt. www.journalisten.no/ntb-trakk-sa...
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#Climate denial isn’t just rejecting science—it’s defending the myth of endless growth. As The Limits to Growth warned decades ago, we can’t expand forever on a finite planet. What we need now is a new story of progress—one rooted in limits, care, and belonging. 🧪🌍🌐
An excellent read 👇
An excellent read 👇
Climate denial and the defence of modernity www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Climate denial and the defence of modernity
What we are lacking is an inspiring vision of our lives, collective futures, and spiritual reality in a world in which we cannot keep growing forever. As much as we need policy wonks, scientists, and ...
www.resilience.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
#Climate denial isn’t just rejecting science—it’s defending the myth of endless growth. As The Limits to Growth warned decades ago, we can’t expand forever on a finite planet. What we need now is a new story of progress—one rooted in limits, care, and belonging. 🧪🌍🌐
An excellent read 👇
An excellent read 👇
Innovation is good. Or is it? This book is a cultural history of innovation in the US and about how innovation policy became integrated into politics, and how innovation became ideologized. It's quite topical in the age of the double crises of climate and nature.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life
A landmark cultural history that reveals how the relentless pursuit of innovation has transformed our society, our institutions, and our inner selves.For h
direct.mit.edu
November 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Innovation is good. Or is it? This book is a cultural history of innovation in the US and about how innovation policy became integrated into politics, and how innovation became ideologized. It's quite topical in the age of the double crises of climate and nature.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Many aspects of 🏙️ city life are sustained by nature, preserving city ecosystems is important not only for global biodiversity but for local human quality of life.
On World Cities Day, remember:
Nature in the city = life in the city. 🏡
🌍🧪 #GlobalAssessment https://www.ipbes.net/global-assessment
On World Cities Day, remember:
Nature in the city = life in the city. 🏡
🌍🧪 #GlobalAssessment https://www.ipbes.net/global-assessment
October 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Many aspects of 🏙️ city life are sustained by nature, preserving city ecosystems is important not only for global biodiversity but for local human quality of life.
On World Cities Day, remember:
Nature in the city = life in the city. 🏡
🌍🧪 #GlobalAssessment https://www.ipbes.net/global-assessment
On World Cities Day, remember:
Nature in the city = life in the city. 🏡
🌍🧪 #GlobalAssessment https://www.ipbes.net/global-assessment
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Using the criminal law to protect the environment: Possibilities and problems 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Using the criminal law to protect the environment: Possibilities and problems
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Using the criminal law to protect the environment: Possibilities and problems 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Humans and domesticized animals: 95 %. "Since biomass is strongly correlated with resource consumption, comparing human, domesticated mammal, and wild mammal biomass over 170 years also reveals the increased requirements of humanity compared to all wild mammals."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...?
The global biomass of mammals since 1850 - Nature Communications
Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850’s to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...
www.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Humans and domesticized animals: 95 %. "Since biomass is strongly correlated with resource consumption, comparing human, domesticated mammal, and wild mammal biomass over 170 years also reveals the increased requirements of humanity compared to all wild mammals."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...?
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Biodiversity loss and wildlife declines can seem abstract and difficult to contextualise for general audiences. Studies like this can help bring a more relatable perspective to such issues. 🧪🌍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The global biomass of mammals since 1850 - Nature Communications
Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850’s to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Biodiversity loss and wildlife declines can seem abstract and difficult to contextualise for general audiences. Studies like this can help bring a more relatable perspective to such issues. 🧪🌍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Greenwashing is a huge problem. We are continually being deceived that we somehow are going in the right direction, and all working for a better world.
Bravo to Greenpeace and the other organisations who brought this case!
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
Bravo to Greenpeace and the other organisations who brought this case!
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
Historic win against greenwashing as Court rules TotalEnergies misled consumers on net zero
View the press release
www.clientearth.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Greenwashing is a huge problem. We are continually being deceived that we somehow are going in the right direction, and all working for a better world.
Bravo to Greenpeace and the other organisations who brought this case!
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
Bravo to Greenpeace and the other organisations who brought this case!
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
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deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
Vi som erengasjerte i klimakampen har nok en del å lære fra denne artikkelen, i alle fall har jeg det. Miljørørelsen må stå sammen, tross at vi ikke er enig i altmed alle, og lære oss bli mer fokuserte på budskap som treffer.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
‘Sensemaking’ climate change: navigating policy, polarization and the culture wars - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - ‘Sensemaking’ climate change: navigating policy, polarization and the culture wars
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Vi som erengasjerte i klimakampen har nok en del å lære fra denne artikkelen, i alle fall har jeg det. Miljørørelsen må stå sammen, tross at vi ikke er enig i altmed alle, og lære oss bli mer fokuserte på budskap som treffer.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
We all need water to live. Climate change is drying the world, and this will become an ever growing problem if we don't stop climate change and work towards better regulations.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
Groundwater depletion in a drying world
New research shows that, in the context of an increasingly dry planet, many countries
have become overly reliant on groundwater to meet growing water demands. Aquifer depletion
has led to widespread c...
www.thelancet.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We all need water to live. Climate change is drying the world, and this will become an ever growing problem if we don't stop climate change and work towards better regulations.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
GDP is a very bad way to measure the quality of economic activity. It seems that looking at aggregated material footprints suffers from the same weakness.
ourworldindata.org/material-foo...?
ourworldindata.org/material-foo...?
Resource use matters, but material footprints are a poor way to measure it
Adding up the weight of very different materials doesn’t tell us about their scarcity, environmental, or socioeconomic impacts.
ourworldindata.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
GDP is a very bad way to measure the quality of economic activity. It seems that looking at aggregated material footprints suffers from the same weakness.
ourworldindata.org/material-foo...?
ourworldindata.org/material-foo...?
This article is about AI and the data that AI uses (and especially doesn't use) due to a remarkable bias towards Western-formulated knowledge. As the writer says: "The global history of imperialism and colonialism continues to shape how knowledge is produced and valued."
aeon.co/essays/gener...?
aeon.co/essays/gener...?
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
aeon.co
October 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This article is about AI and the data that AI uses (and especially doesn't use) due to a remarkable bias towards Western-formulated knowledge. As the writer says: "The global history of imperialism and colonialism continues to shape how knowledge is produced and valued."
aeon.co/essays/gener...?
aeon.co/essays/gener...?
Hvordan skal man håndtere stillehavsøsters, som er en invasiv art? Den gjør både nytte og skade. Se den siste forskningen fra Sverige, der også Universitetet i Agder har vært med. Spørsmålet for Norges del gjelder fremst Oslofjorden og Skagerrak.
www.naturvardsverket.se/publikatione...
www.naturvardsverket.se/publikatione...
DynamO – Dynamisk förvaltning av stillahavsostron i Sverige
www.naturvardsverket.se
October 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Hvordan skal man håndtere stillehavsøsters, som er en invasiv art? Den gjør både nytte og skade. Se den siste forskningen fra Sverige, der også Universitetet i Agder har vært med. Spørsmålet for Norges del gjelder fremst Oslofjorden og Skagerrak.
www.naturvardsverket.se/publikatione...
www.naturvardsverket.se/publikatione...
Sykling er bra for miljøet. Det er også den mest energieffektive måten å transportere seg på. En klassiker fra 1973.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...?
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
www.scientificamerican.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Sykling er bra for miljøet. Det er også den mest energieffektive måten å transportere seg på. En klassiker fra 1973.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...?
This article is both hopeful and depressing at the same time. We can learn from Indigenous Mentawai, but we also need to understand the structural pressure they are under, and help them protect their forests.
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-i...?
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-i...?
In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, youths blend ancestral and world faiths to protect forests
Off the western coast of Sumatra, the Mentawai Islands rise from the Indian Ocean in a patchwork of emerald forests and winding rivers. The canopy shelters endemic macaques and gibbons, hornbills and ...
news.mongabay.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This article is both hopeful and depressing at the same time. We can learn from Indigenous Mentawai, but we also need to understand the structural pressure they are under, and help them protect their forests.
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-i...?
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-i...?
This is interesting. The citizens of Hamburg have through an initiative made the city to bring forward the date when the city has to achieve climate neutrality by 5 years, despite rather massive opposition from politicians and businesses.
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/volk...
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/volk...
Fünf Jahre früher klimaneutral als geplant: Volksentscheid erzwingt strengere Klimaziele für Hamburg
Die Volksinitiative „Hamburger Zukunftsentscheid“ hat einen Volksentscheid zu mehr Klimaschutz gewonnen. Jetzt kommen auf die Hansestadt Maßnahmen und Einschnitte zu.
www.tagesspiegel.de
October 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is interesting. The citizens of Hamburg have through an initiative made the city to bring forward the date when the city has to achieve climate neutrality by 5 years, despite rather massive opposition from politicians and businesses.
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/volk...
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/volk...
We do not often talk about fungi, but it is a huge kingdom. One good book is Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Future (2020) by Merlin Sheldrake. Here is an interesting article about the role of fungi in rewilding.
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
Why rewilders shouldn’t forget about fungi
These mostly hidden life forms have a big role to play in rewilding – and need its support, too.
www.rewildingmag.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We do not often talk about fungi, but it is a huge kingdom. One good book is Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Future (2020) by Merlin Sheldrake. Here is an interesting article about the role of fungi in rewilding.
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 188
Research indicates that the more plant species there are in a meadow, the more bee species are needed for pollination.
‘Rare species’ #bees often forage on and pollinate plants that the more common species of bees don’t.
#bumblebees
#nature
🐝🌍
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 188
Research indicates that the more plant species there are in a meadow, the more bee species are needed for pollination.
‘Rare species’ #bees often forage on and pollinate plants that the more common species of bees don’t.
#bumblebees
#nature
🐝🌍
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 188
Research indicates that the more plant species there are in a meadow, the more bee species are needed for pollination.
‘Rare species’ #bees often forage on and pollinate plants that the more common species of bees don’t.
#bumblebees
#nature
🐝🌍
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 188
Research indicates that the more plant species there are in a meadow, the more bee species are needed for pollination.
‘Rare species’ #bees often forage on and pollinate plants that the more common species of bees don’t.
#bumblebees
#nature
🐝🌍
This is a good place to start if you want to understand the development of globalisation and why the neoliberal stance of IMF and the World Bank is not the way to do it.
aeon.co/essays/how-f...?
aeon.co/essays/how-f...?
How foreign capital can hinder, or help, economic development | Aeon Essays
How do some countries manage to channel foreign capital into economic development while others are just exploited by it?
aeon.co
October 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is a good place to start if you want to understand the development of globalisation and why the neoliberal stance of IMF and the World Bank is not the way to do it.
aeon.co/essays/how-f...?
aeon.co/essays/how-f...?