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We conduct research, build capacity, connect people, and support interventions on-the-ground – and we provide consulting services regarding biodiversity conservation, climate change and international development. nordeco.dk monitoringmatters.org
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The carbon market is not the way to do CO₂ removal (CDR). If we're serious about this, it has to be a government-led effort.
‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?
After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future
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November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The carbon market is not the way to do CO₂ removal (CDR). If we're serious about this, it has to be a government-led effort.
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Global #renewables deployment proving 'far faster' than expected.
Global clean energy deployment has put #climate target to triple renewable capacity by 2030 within reach.
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Global clean energy deployment has put #climate target to triple renewable capacity by 2030 within reach.
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Study: Global renewables deployment proving 'far faster' than expected
New analysis from Ember suggests global clean energy deployment has put target to triple renewable capacity by 2030 within reach
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November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Global #renewables deployment proving 'far faster' than expected.
Global clean energy deployment has put #climate target to triple renewable capacity by 2030 within reach.
www.businessgreen.com/news/4521419...
Global clean energy deployment has put #climate target to triple renewable capacity by 2030 within reach.
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COP 30 pledge of USD 1.8 billion of funding from 2026 to 2030 to support Indigenous Peoples' and Local Communities' Tenure Rights and their Forest Guardianship.
www.tenurepledge.org/cop30
www.tenurepledge.org/cop30
Forest Tenure Funders Group - COP30 Pledge
The renewed Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Forest Tenure Pledge for COP30 - a commitment by funders to support indigenous peoples and local communities in securing their forest tenure rights...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
COP 30 pledge of USD 1.8 billion of funding from 2026 to 2030 to support Indigenous Peoples' and Local Communities' Tenure Rights and their Forest Guardianship.
www.tenurepledge.org/cop30
www.tenurepledge.org/cop30
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Everything is connected! 🌍💧🍽️🌡️
The IPBES Nexus Assessment explores the links between biodiversity, food, water, health & climate—showing how integrated solutions can drive real change.
📺 Watch our animation, now with with subtitles in Spanish/ French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKEgC5UhBA
The IPBES Nexus Assessment explores the links between biodiversity, food, water, health & climate—showing how integrated solutions can drive real change.
📺 Watch our animation, now with with subtitles in Spanish/ French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKEgC5UhBA
IPBES Nexus Assessment - Animation
How are biodiversity, water, food, health, and climate all connected? This animation unpacks the IPBES Nexus Assessment, which explores the critical links be...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Everything is connected! 🌍💧🍽️🌡️
The IPBES Nexus Assessment explores the links between biodiversity, food, water, health & climate—showing how integrated solutions can drive real change.
📺 Watch our animation, now with with subtitles in Spanish/ French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKEgC5UhBA
The IPBES Nexus Assessment explores the links between biodiversity, food, water, health & climate—showing how integrated solutions can drive real change.
📺 Watch our animation, now with with subtitles in Spanish/ French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKEgC5UhBA
The Great UK WaterBlitz, conducted by Earthwatch Europe, represents the 4th in a series of monitoring events. Since June 2024, 20,800 volunteers have collected over 11,000 freshwater measurements. #citizenscience @earthwatch-org.bsky.social
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Large-scale citizen science study identifies imidacloprid as primary chemical risk in UK freshwaters - Water Magazine
60% of freshwater sites show elevated nutrient pollution -- comprehensive chemical analysis reveals contamination in all samples.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The Great UK WaterBlitz, conducted by Earthwatch Europe, represents the 4th in a series of monitoring events. Since June 2024, 20,800 volunteers have collected over 11,000 freshwater measurements. #citizenscience @earthwatch-org.bsky.social
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NECU presented its work at the GROMADA 2025 conference dedicated to citizen science in conflict
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November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
NECU presented its work at the GROMADA 2025 conference dedicated to citizen science in conflict
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Yes, the ocean is heating. Yes, coral reefs are under siege. But beneath those stories, another reality exists: reefs, and the people who depend on them, are fighting back.
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Vive la resilient: Don't write off our corals just yet
Dr Emily Darling argues that while warning the world of the decline in corals is vital, we shouldn't be writing them off just yet.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Yes, the ocean is heating. Yes, coral reefs are under siege. But beneath those stories, another reality exists: reefs, and the people who depend on them, are fighting back.
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Climate change and illegal deforestation for avocado production are threatening monarch butterfly ecosystems.
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Avocados and monarch butterflies are on a collision course
Climate change and illegal deforestation for avocado production are threatening monarch butterfly ecosystems.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Climate change and illegal deforestation for avocado production are threatening monarch butterfly ecosystems.
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www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Social Media Are the Most Important Information Source in Most Countries but Traditional News Media Remain Relevant. Analyses show that people in 53 out of 68 countries tend to encounter science information more frequently on social media @nielsmede.bsky.social
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Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries: Global Evidence on How People Encounter and Engage with Information about Science - Niels G. Mede, Viktoria Cologna, Sebastian Berger, John C. Besle...
This 68-country survey (n = 71,922) examines science information diets and communication behavior, identifies cross-country differences, and tests how such diff...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Social Media Are the Most Important Information Source in Most Countries but Traditional News Media Remain Relevant. Analyses show that people in 53 out of 68 countries tend to encounter science information more frequently on social media @nielsmede.bsky.social
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Exciting Announcement! 📣
Discover our new Key Biodiversity Areas Website! 🌍
Packed with information and tools to help you protect and champion the world’s most significant places for biodiversity.
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Start your journey here: www.keybiodiversityareas.org
Discover our new Key Biodiversity Areas Website! 🌍
Packed with information and tools to help you protect and champion the world’s most significant places for biodiversity.
@keybiodiversity.bsky.social
Start your journey here: www.keybiodiversityareas.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Exciting Announcement! 📣
Discover our new Key Biodiversity Areas Website! 🌍
Packed with information and tools to help you protect and champion the world’s most significant places for biodiversity.
@keybiodiversity.bsky.social
Start your journey here: www.keybiodiversityareas.org
Discover our new Key Biodiversity Areas Website! 🌍
Packed with information and tools to help you protect and champion the world’s most significant places for biodiversity.
@keybiodiversity.bsky.social
Start your journey here: www.keybiodiversityareas.org
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A historic partnership for people and nature. ✨
The World Bank and BirdLife International are scaling up conservation efforts across the African-Eurasian Flyway 🤝, supporting over 2 billion migratory birds and numerous communities. 🌍
Discover more here: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...
The World Bank and BirdLife International are scaling up conservation efforts across the African-Eurasian Flyway 🤝, supporting over 2 billion migratory birds and numerous communities. 🌍
Discover more here: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...
World Bank and BirdLife launch historic conservation push
The latest Global Flyway Initiative aims to save critical bird habitats and link three continents across the African-Eurasian Flyway…
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October 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A historic partnership for people and nature. ✨
The World Bank and BirdLife International are scaling up conservation efforts across the African-Eurasian Flyway 🤝, supporting over 2 billion migratory birds and numerous communities. 🌍
Discover more here: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...
The World Bank and BirdLife International are scaling up conservation efforts across the African-Eurasian Flyway 🤝, supporting over 2 billion migratory birds and numerous communities. 🌍
Discover more here: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/10...
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Choosing an apple tree for your garden; which apple variety is best? Here I show you some of my favourites. Why not plant an apple tree today! youtu.be/pLkThVoCuwg
Choosing an apple tree for your garden
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
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November 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Choosing an apple tree for your garden; which apple variety is best? Here I show you some of my favourites. Why not plant an apple tree today! youtu.be/pLkThVoCuwg
Using records from museum collections and citizen science projects to show long-term patterns in the species richness of tropical butterflies.
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Integrating museum records with contemporary citizen science data to uncover 166 years of tropical butterfly history
A former Ph.D. student at the University of York has used records from museum collections and citizen science projects to show long-term patterns in the species richness of tropical butterflies.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Using records from museum collections and citizen science projects to show long-term patterns in the species richness of tropical butterflies.
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All you need to know about Bill Gates' long-standing and misguided take on climate change.
'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
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'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
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Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
All you need to know about Bill Gates' long-standing and misguided take on climate change.
'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
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‘You can do hard things!’ The young cycling enthusiasts reclaiming the streets of Johannesburg
‘You can do hard things!’ The young cycling enthusiasts reclaiming the streets of Johannesburg
Bike culture, once seen as an elite hobby or a last resort for the poor, is flourishing in the post-apartheid City of Gold
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November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
‘You can do hard things!’ The young cycling enthusiasts reclaiming the streets of Johannesburg
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The annual 10 new insights in climate science are here!
Perhaps the best way to keep up with climate science news of the past year, made for lay people, policy makers and scientists alike with its different levels of detail: from simple tiles to a journal paper.
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Perhaps the best way to keep up with climate science news of the past year, made for lay people, policy makers and scientists alike with its different levels of detail: from simple tiles to a journal paper.
10insightsclimate.science#explore
10 New Insights in Climate Science
Essential research findings to support decision-making in a critical decade.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The annual 10 new insights in climate science are here!
Perhaps the best way to keep up with climate science news of the past year, made for lay people, policy makers and scientists alike with its different levels of detail: from simple tiles to a journal paper.
10insightsclimate.science#explore
Perhaps the best way to keep up with climate science news of the past year, made for lay people, policy makers and scientists alike with its different levels of detail: from simple tiles to a journal paper.
10insightsclimate.science#explore
Technical guide for assessing biodiversity gains ensuring developments leave nature measurably better than before.
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Guide to Biodiversity Net Gain Assessment (BNG)
This comprehensive guide simplifies the BNG assessment process, helping you understand the regulations and make informed decisions about your land.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Technical guide for assessing biodiversity gains ensuring developments leave nature measurably better than before.
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The report “Strengthened locally based monitoring and management of living resources in the Arctic” describes real-life cases in which the participation of hunters, farmers and fishermen is reshaping the management of natural resources in Norway, Iceland and Greenland.
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The report “Strengthened locally based monitoring and management of living resources in the Arctic” describes real-life cases in which the participation of hunters, farmers and fishermen is reshaping the management of natural resources in Norway, Iceland and Greenland.
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What is the key for successful participatory science? Two new reports published by the Nordic Council of Ministers present examples of citizen involvement in nature management in the Arctic and set out a concrete framework for strengthening this engagement.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
What is the key for successful participatory science? Two new reports published by the Nordic Council of Ministers present examples of citizen involvement in nature management in the Arctic and set out a concrete framework for strengthening this engagement.
#CitizenScience
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Researchers from the University of South Florida have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may be the first specimen of Anopheles stephensi—an invasive and deadly malaria-carrying mosquito—ever detected in Madagascar.
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AI and citizen science reveal potential first detection of invasive malaria mosquito in Madagascar
Researchers from the University of South Florida have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may be the first specimen of Anopheles stephensi—an invasive and deadly malaria-...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Researchers from the University of South Florida have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may be the first specimen of Anopheles stephensi—an invasive and deadly malaria-carrying mosquito—ever detected in Madagascar.
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A comprehensive global report on uncontacted Indigenous peoples, published Oct. 27 by Survival International, estimates that the world still holds at least 196 uncontacted peoples living in 10 countries in South America, Asia and the Pacific region.
Report urges full protection of world’s 196 uncontacted Indigenous peoples
“My children died. My mother died. My husband died. My brothers, my sisters, my aunts and uncles. I saw the bones sticking out of their rotting corpses inside the longhouse. We were too weak to bury…
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October 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A comprehensive global report on uncontacted Indigenous peoples, published Oct. 27 by Survival International, estimates that the world still holds at least 196 uncontacted peoples living in 10 countries in South America, Asia and the Pacific region.
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C #climate target, says UN head.
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C #climate target, says UN head.
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HUGE result from @greenpeace.no, @naturogungdom.bsky.social and youth activists
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects
European human rights court sets climate limits for the oil industry - Greenpeace International
Today, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil and gas before opening new oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf in order ...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
HUGE result from @greenpeace.no, @naturogungdom.bsky.social and youth activists
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects
Making citizen science matter — that is the goal of Uta Wehn, newly appointed Professor of Citizen Science and Sustainability, and the key message of her inaugural lecture, delivered earlier this month in Leiden.
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Professor Uta Wehn’s inaugural address: Citizen science key for sustainability
Making citizen science matter — that is the goal of Uta Wehn
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October 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Making citizen science matter — that is the goal of Uta Wehn, newly appointed Professor of Citizen Science and Sustainability, and the key message of her inaugural lecture, delivered earlier this month in Leiden.
www.un-ihe.org/news/profess...
www.un-ihe.org/news/profess...
BiciZen was set up as a mobile phone app that allows users to share information about their cycling experiences with other users and stakeholders.
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Can a mobile app help to make cities more biker friendly?
Researchers have developed a citizen science platform that enables users to influence the bike-friendliness of their city.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
BiciZen was set up as a mobile phone app that allows users to share information about their cycling experiences with other users and stakeholders.
www.geoversity.io/stories/5424...
www.geoversity.io/stories/5424...