Peter Edwards
@peterericthor.bsky.social
Jamaican born and bred, now D.C. area based Marine Scientist, Environmental Economist, Policy Wonk. University of the West Indies (BSc, MPhil); University of Delaware (PhD) Views dem ah fi mi own #TempusFugit [@ericthoreddie on 🧵@peterericthor on X]
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In biggest land-back deal in California history, the Yurok get back the final piece of 73 sq mi of their homeland on the state's far northern Klamath River. Good piece by Grist highlights how this Yurok land deal is just part of the extraordinary changes taking place in this part of N America.
In California's largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River
More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in northern California,have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.
grist.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In biggest land-back deal in California history, the Yurok get back the final piece of 73 sq mi of their homeland on the state's far northern Klamath River. Good piece by Grist highlights how this Yurok land deal is just part of the extraordinary changes taking place in this part of N America.
Good news: A new Pew-supported #BlueCarbon Framework gives governments the tools to fund and prioritize protections for coastal wetlands in #ParisAgreement commitments—a win for people, nature, and climate. www.pew.org/en/research-...
Why Countries Should Invest in Coastal Wetlands Conservation Now
This year, coastal countries around the world have an opportunity that could pay dividends for people, nature, and local economies far into the future. That opportunity lies in conserving and restorin...
www.pew.org
June 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Good news: A new Pew-supported #BlueCarbon Framework gives governments the tools to fund and prioritize protections for coastal wetlands in #ParisAgreement commitments—a win for people, nature, and climate. www.pew.org/en/research-...
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@mjmartinezharms.bsky.social, Luis Inostroza & Peter Verburg have been selected to lead the @ipbes.net #SpatialPlanningConnectivity Assessment as Co-chairs. Congratulations! 🌍🧪
The technical support unit will be hosted by @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
Read more: www.ipbes.net/media-releas...
The technical support unit will be hosted by @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
Read more: www.ipbes.net/media-releas...
June 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
@mjmartinezharms.bsky.social, Luis Inostroza & Peter Verburg have been selected to lead the @ipbes.net #SpatialPlanningConnectivity Assessment as Co-chairs. Congratulations! 🌍🧪
The technical support unit will be hosted by @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
Read more: www.ipbes.net/media-releas...
The technical support unit will be hosted by @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
Read more: www.ipbes.net/media-releas...
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Uncertain United States seafood sustainability in a manufactured crisis | heck of a paper title from @dochfroehlich.bsky.social and @jagephart.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦑🌎🐠
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦑🌎🐠
Uncertain United States seafood sustainability in a manufactured crisis
In 2025, the United States (U.S.) administration issued a new Executive Order (EO), Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness, intensifying efforts t…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Uncertain United States seafood sustainability in a manufactured crisis | heck of a paper title from @dochfroehlich.bsky.social and @jagephart.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦑🌎🐠
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦑🌎🐠
Looking forwards to conversations about the Ocean we Envision
March 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Looking forwards to conversations about the Ocean we Envision
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Dam removals for the win!
There are over 92,000 dams in the US. According to American Rivers, "85 percent of U.S. dams are unnecessary at best and pose risks to public safety at worst, should they collapse and flood downstream communities."
e360.yale.edu/features/nor...
There are over 92,000 dams in the US. According to American Rivers, "85 percent of U.S. dams are unnecessary at best and pose risks to public safety at worst, should they collapse and flood downstream communities."
e360.yale.edu/features/nor...
How Tearing Down Small Dams Is Helping Restore Northeast Rivers
More than 30,000 small dams currently block river tributaries from Maine to Maryland. New initiatives to remove them are aimed at restoring natural flows, improving habitat for aquatic life, and reope...
e360.yale.edu
February 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Dam removals for the win!
There are over 92,000 dams in the US. According to American Rivers, "85 percent of U.S. dams are unnecessary at best and pose risks to public safety at worst, should they collapse and flood downstream communities."
e360.yale.edu/features/nor...
There are over 92,000 dams in the US. According to American Rivers, "85 percent of U.S. dams are unnecessary at best and pose risks to public safety at worst, should they collapse and flood downstream communities."
e360.yale.edu/features/nor...
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Today's scoop: NASEM has received termination orders for at least two NOAA-sponsored studies, one on equity in fisheries management and another on diversity in ocean sciences. Meanwhile, DOGE activities at the agency continue to ramp up.
www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump admin halts NOAA-sponsored studies as DOGE work speeds up
The termination orders to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine curtail research on equity in fisheries management and diversity in ocean sciences.
www.eenews.net
February 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Today's scoop: NASEM has received termination orders for at least two NOAA-sponsored studies, one on equity in fisheries management and another on diversity in ocean sciences. Meanwhile, DOGE activities at the agency continue to ramp up.
www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
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The new general counsel for OPM—the office issuing all those deranged memos—is Andrew Kloster, a self-described “raging misogynist” with a public history of racist comments and a temporary restraining order for domestic violence who most recently worked for Matt Gaetz.
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
January 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The new general counsel for OPM—the office issuing all those deranged memos—is Andrew Kloster, a self-described “raging misogynist” with a public history of racist comments and a temporary restraining order for domestic violence who most recently worked for Matt Gaetz.
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
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They're slashing the tires of the government and if you don't call all of your representatives every day, they aren't planning to stop.
January 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
They're slashing the tires of the government and if you don't call all of your representatives every day, they aren't planning to stop.
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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽💻
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽💻
Are there any reports of ICE raids in (pick a random city) Cleveland OH - of Irish Pubs? Or establishments owned X Eastern European country. Because let me tell you … lots of people who have overstayed their welcome or similarly “undocumented” work in those places. Just wondering out loud 🤔
January 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Are there any reports of ICE raids in (pick a random city) Cleveland OH - of Irish Pubs? Or establishments owned X Eastern European country. Because let me tell you … lots of people who have overstayed their welcome or similarly “undocumented” work in those places. Just wondering out loud 🤔
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🦑 Our Climate-Resilient Fisheries Webinar Series continues today at 2pm ET w/ Understanding the Role of Habitat and Life History in Climate Vulnerability of Fisheries.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🦑 Our Climate-Resilient Fisheries Webinar Series continues today at 2pm ET w/ Understanding the Role of Habitat and Life History in Climate Vulnerability of Fisheries.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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This time without the account typo:
Starting now (From ScientistRebellion.bsky.social): How Can We Exploit Polluters’ Vulnerabilities? Clues from Some Movements That Won
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 3:00 PM Greenwich Mean
Link: us06web.zoom.us/j/83108227151
Starting now (From ScientistRebellion.bsky.social): How Can We Exploit Polluters’ Vulnerabilities? Clues from Some Movements That Won
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 3:00 PM Greenwich Mean
Link: us06web.zoom.us/j/83108227151
January 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This time without the account typo:
Starting now (From ScientistRebellion.bsky.social): How Can We Exploit Polluters’ Vulnerabilities? Clues from Some Movements That Won
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 3:00 PM Greenwich Mean
Link: us06web.zoom.us/j/83108227151
Starting now (From ScientistRebellion.bsky.social): How Can We Exploit Polluters’ Vulnerabilities? Clues from Some Movements That Won
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 3:00 PM Greenwich Mean
Link: us06web.zoom.us/j/83108227151
Cold Winter Morning. We may not know where the path leads but we must navigate it with caution … Jan 22 2025
January 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Cold Winter Morning. We may not know where the path leads but we must navigate it with caution … Jan 22 2025
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Regenerative farmers can be sane, scientifically literate, Black, Indigenous, non-religious, non-crunchy, non-alt-right, feminist, accepting of plant based diets, urban born, and a heterosexual male, all at the same time.
Retweet this and/or follow me to see what that looks like.
Retweet this and/or follow me to see what that looks like.
November 19, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Regenerative farmers can be sane, scientifically literate, Black, Indigenous, non-religious, non-crunchy, non-alt-right, feminist, accepting of plant based diets, urban born, and a heterosexual male, all at the same time.
Retweet this and/or follow me to see what that looks like.
Retweet this and/or follow me to see what that looks like.
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At the Pacific Institute, we track violence over water. Here's the first new entry for 2025:
"3 killed in dispute over farm well water share"
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/auranga...
"3 killed in dispute over farm well water share"
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/auranga...
3 killed in dispute over farm well water share | Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar News - Times of India
Dharashiv: A long-running family dispute over the sharing water from a farm well in the parched Marthwada region took a deadly turn on Sunday night.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
At the Pacific Institute, we track violence over water. Here's the first new entry for 2025:
"3 killed in dispute over farm well water share"
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/auranga...
"3 killed in dispute over farm well water share"
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/auranga...
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Thinking a lot about Jimmy Carter, born a white, rural man in 1924 in a strictly apartheid Georgia and how he became a champion for racial justice and human rights, demonstrating once again that racism, xenophobia, crass and selfish individualism, are always a choice.
January 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Thinking a lot about Jimmy Carter, born a white, rural man in 1924 in a strictly apartheid Georgia and how he became a champion for racial justice and human rights, demonstrating once again that racism, xenophobia, crass and selfish individualism, are always a choice.
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Just to sum up the ocean policy headlines from today: "Donald Trump is mad the Elon Musk is dominating the news cycle and is rolling out some of his all-time not-going-to-happen bangers."
January 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Just to sum up the ocean policy headlines from today: "Donald Trump is mad the Elon Musk is dominating the news cycle and is rolling out some of his all-time not-going-to-happen bangers."
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Welcome new arrivals! I’m a retired Prof of Epidemiology who did cancer research before helping start a 9000-person cohort study of the acute and long-term effects of COVID19. I’m now the co-chair of the Communications Committee for Defending Public Health, a large organization of PH professionals…
January 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Welcome new arrivals! I’m a retired Prof of Epidemiology who did cancer research before helping start a 9000-person cohort study of the acute and long-term effects of COVID19. I’m now the co-chair of the Communications Committee for Defending Public Health, a large organization of PH professionals…
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Have you met the amazing people in my #Jamaica starter pack? Get to know them. Follow them! 🇯🇲 @candicekstewart.bsky.social
Have you met the amazing people in my #Jamaica starter pack? Get to know them. Follow them! 🇯🇲 @candicekstewart.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Have you met the amazing people in my #Jamaica starter pack? Get to know them. Follow them! 🇯🇲 @candicekstewart.bsky.social
Have you met the amazing people in my #Jamaica starter pack? Get to know them. Follow them! 🇯🇲 @candicekstewart.bsky.social
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potatoes 1%
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%
someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying
(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%
someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying
(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)
January 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
potatoes 1%
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%
someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying
(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%
someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying
(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)
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I have so much to say about this Zuckerberg move. Maybe later in the week.
January 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I have so much to say about this Zuckerberg move. Maybe later in the week.
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My colleagues warned me but #AGU24 is a huge conference. Here for the week to learn about Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and other sciencey stuff
December 9, 2024 at 2:29 PM
My colleagues warned me but #AGU24 is a huge conference. Here for the week to learn about Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and other sciencey stuff