Trevor Padgett
@trevorpadgett.bsky.social
Plant ecologist & PhD candidate | Academia Sinica/Tunghai University
Founder & Lead Educator | 'Taiwan Nature Education' bilingual ecology education
Co-host/Biologist | 'Botanical wonders'
https://tinyurl.com/242w9hee
Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan.
Founder & Lead Educator | 'Taiwan Nature Education' bilingual ecology education
Co-host/Biologist | 'Botanical wonders'
https://tinyurl.com/242w9hee
Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan.
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
Pometia pinnata (Fiji Longan, Island Lychee) is a massive evergreen tree with monstrous buttress roots native to Taiwan.
Join us to explore how this unique tree is central to the Yami (Tao) people of Orchid Island & how it fits into the island ecosystem.
#Taiwan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Cl...
Join us to explore how this unique tree is central to the Yami (Tao) people of Orchid Island & how it fits into the island ecosystem.
#Taiwan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Cl...
What This Tree Means To Indigenous Culture ǀ Botanical Wonders
YouTube video by TaiwanPlus
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Pometia pinnata (Fiji Longan, Island Lychee) is a massive evergreen tree with monstrous buttress roots native to Taiwan.
Join us to explore how this unique tree is central to the Yami (Tao) people of Orchid Island & how it fits into the island ecosystem.
#Taiwan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Cl...
Join us to explore how this unique tree is central to the Yami (Tao) people of Orchid Island & how it fits into the island ecosystem.
#Taiwan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Cl...
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
Explore Taiwan's aquatic plants with the new Botanical Wonders (@taiwanplusshows) episode on youtube!
Lotus & water lily species have evolved unique ways to live submerged in water, including Taiwan's beautiful endemic minimalist － the yellow water lily.
youtu.be/43it_bWEFy4?...
Lotus & water lily species have evolved unique ways to live submerged in water, including Taiwan's beautiful endemic minimalist － the yellow water lily.
youtu.be/43it_bWEFy4?...
How These Plants Thrive in Water ǀ Botanical Wonders
YouTube video by TaiwanPlus
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Explore Taiwan's aquatic plants with the new Botanical Wonders (@taiwanplusshows) episode on youtube!
Lotus & water lily species have evolved unique ways to live submerged in water, including Taiwan's beautiful endemic minimalist － the yellow water lily.
youtu.be/43it_bWEFy4?...
Lotus & water lily species have evolved unique ways to live submerged in water, including Taiwan's beautiful endemic minimalist － the yellow water lily.
youtu.be/43it_bWEFy4?...
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
Taiwan's forested coral reef! (new YT upload)
Once a thriving coral reef (under water...), tectonic forces thrust it out of the sea and time covered it with a forest.
A truly unique ecosystem, with truly unique plants - click and explore!
#Taiwan
#botany
#forest
youtu.be/sectVDvOSp4?...
Once a thriving coral reef (under water...), tectonic forces thrust it out of the sea and time covered it with a forest.
A truly unique ecosystem, with truly unique plants - click and explore!
#Taiwan
#botany
#forest
youtu.be/sectVDvOSp4?...
How These Plants Create a Special Environment ǀ Botanical Wonders
YouTube video by TaiwanPlus
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Taiwan's forested coral reef! (new YT upload)
Once a thriving coral reef (under water...), tectonic forces thrust it out of the sea and time covered it with a forest.
A truly unique ecosystem, with truly unique plants - click and explore!
#Taiwan
#botany
#forest
youtu.be/sectVDvOSp4?...
Once a thriving coral reef (under water...), tectonic forces thrust it out of the sea and time covered it with a forest.
A truly unique ecosystem, with truly unique plants - click and explore!
#Taiwan
#botany
#forest
youtu.be/sectVDvOSp4?...
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
There’s no way to stop climate change without consuming less.
Global use of coal hit record high in 2024
Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
There’s no way to stop climate change without consuming less.
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
Good news: carbon intensity has declined
Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP
Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17%
Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%
Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP
Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17%
Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%
Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth - Communications Earth & Environment
Global carbon dioxide intensity declined from 2015 to 2024 following the Paris Agreement, but total emissions still increased due to economic growth, according to a global analysis of population, gros...
www.nature.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Good news: carbon intensity has declined
Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP
Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17%
Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%
Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP
Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17%
Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
Teens who won a lawsuit requiring Hawaiʻi to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years rightly call out sustainable aviation fuel as bullshit.
Teens Who Sued Hawai‘i Say Climate Plan For Aviation Doesn’t Fly
Interisland flights are Hawaiʻi’s biggest transportation carbon producer, making up more than half of all emissions related to civilian travel in the state.
www.civilbeat.org
October 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Teens who won a lawsuit requiring Hawaiʻi to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years rightly call out sustainable aviation fuel as bullshit.
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕
Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study
Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.
www.abc.net.au
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
Neobartsia mutica is another hemiparasite. It has a broad distribution across South America (I recently saw it in the Andes of Peru). Like so many of these hemiparasites, it has showy flowers. This one may be adapted to hummingbird pollination. #parasite #Orobanchaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
October 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Neobartsia mutica is another hemiparasite. It has a broad distribution across South America (I recently saw it in the Andes of Peru). Like so many of these hemiparasites, it has showy flowers. This one may be adapted to hummingbird pollination. #parasite #Orobanchaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.
rdcu.be/dbFbB
rdcu.be/dbFbB
Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative
Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM
In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.
rdcu.be/dbFbB
rdcu.be/dbFbB
Taiwan's forested coral reef! (new YT upload)
Once a thriving coral reef (under water...), tectonic forces thrust it out of the sea and time covered it with a forest.
A truly unique ecosystem, with truly unique plants - click and explore!
#Taiwan
#botany
#forest
youtu.be/sectVDvOSp4?...
Once a thriving coral reef (under water...), tectonic forces thrust it out of the sea and time covered it with a forest.
A truly unique ecosystem, with truly unique plants - click and explore!
#Taiwan
#botany
#forest
youtu.be/sectVDvOSp4?...
How These Plants Create a Special Environment ǀ Botanical Wonders
YouTube video by TaiwanPlus
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Taiwan's forested coral reef! (new YT upload)
Once a thriving coral reef (under water...), tectonic forces thrust it out of the sea and time covered it with a forest.
A truly unique ecosystem, with truly unique plants - click and explore!
#Taiwan
#botany
#forest
youtu.be/sectVDvOSp4?...
Once a thriving coral reef (under water...), tectonic forces thrust it out of the sea and time covered it with a forest.
A truly unique ecosystem, with truly unique plants - click and explore!
#Taiwan
#botany
#forest
youtu.be/sectVDvOSp4?...
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
It blows my mind that red-&-black fruits and seeds are attractive, but red-&-black insects are repellent (aposematic). In dispersal, as in life, context is everything! 📷1: Ripe fruits of Pinanga malaiana (#Arecaceae). 📷2: red-spotted stink bug, Jose Amorin CCBYNCSA2. #dispersal #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
October 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It blows my mind that red-&-black fruits and seeds are attractive, but red-&-black insects are repellent (aposematic). In dispersal, as in life, context is everything! 📷1: Ripe fruits of Pinanga malaiana (#Arecaceae). 📷2: red-spotted stink bug, Jose Amorin CCBYNCSA2. #dispersal #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Explore Taiwan's aquatic plants with the new Botanical Wonders (@taiwanplusshows) episode on youtube!
Lotus & water lily species have evolved unique ways to live submerged in water, including Taiwan's beautiful endemic minimalist － the yellow water lily.
youtu.be/43it_bWEFy4?...
Lotus & water lily species have evolved unique ways to live submerged in water, including Taiwan's beautiful endemic minimalist － the yellow water lily.
youtu.be/43it_bWEFy4?...
How These Plants Thrive in Water ǀ Botanical Wonders
YouTube video by TaiwanPlus
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Explore Taiwan's aquatic plants with the new Botanical Wonders (@taiwanplusshows) episode on youtube!
Lotus & water lily species have evolved unique ways to live submerged in water, including Taiwan's beautiful endemic minimalist － the yellow water lily.
youtu.be/43it_bWEFy4?...
Lotus & water lily species have evolved unique ways to live submerged in water, including Taiwan's beautiful endemic minimalist － the yellow water lily.
youtu.be/43it_bWEFy4?...
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
Of the reported cases, 50 people were “disappeared” after entering China, 19 were detained and 119 had their movement restricted in some form, the MAC said on social media on Wednesday. www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
Nine Taiwanese a month vanish or held in China - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Of the reported cases, 50 people were “disappeared” after entering China, 19 were detained and 119 had their movement restricted in some form, the MAC said on social media on Wednesday. www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
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Awesome: Undergraduate and professor discover several new species of violets in the mountains of Virginia.
“Put very simply, we looked."
#iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW
www.ohio.edu/news/2025/09...
“Put very simply, we looked."
#iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW
www.ohio.edu/news/2025/09...
A botanical breakthrough: OHIO undergraduate and professor discover several new species of violets in the mountains of Virginia
OHIO senior Collin Thacker, under the mentorship of professor Harvey Ballard, discovered four new species of violets in the mountains of Virginia, including two tucked away in Shenandoah National Park...
www.ohio.edu
September 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Awesome: Undergraduate and professor discover several new species of violets in the mountains of Virginia.
“Put very simply, we looked."
#iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW
www.ohio.edu/news/2025/09...
“Put very simply, we looked."
#iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW
www.ohio.edu/news/2025/09...
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
Without clear planning and sustained coordination with the US, Taiwan will struggle to keep pace with China’s advances and regional stability will suffer. More critically, failure by Taiwan to skillfully manage internal political contradictions will weaken Taipei’s credibility and reputation abroad.
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Without clear planning and sustained coordination with the US, Taiwan will struggle to keep pace with China’s advances and regional stability will suffer. More critically, failure by Taiwan to skillfully manage internal political contradictions will weaken Taipei’s credibility and reputation abroad.
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
President Donald Trump has declined to approve a more than $400 million military aid package for Taiwan as he seeks a trade deal with China, according to the Washington Post
Trump Halts $400 Million in Taiwan Military Aid, Post Reports
President Donald Trump has declined to approve a more than $400 million military aid package for Taiwan as he seeks a trade deal with China, according to the Washington Post.
bloom.bg
September 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
President Donald Trump has declined to approve a more than $400 million military aid package for Taiwan as he seeks a trade deal with China, according to the Washington Post
Pometia pinnata (Fiji Longan, Island Lychee) is a massive evergreen tree with monstrous buttress roots native to Taiwan.
Join us to explore how this unique tree is central to the Yami (Tao) people of Orchid Island & how it fits into the island ecosystem.
#Taiwan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Cl...
Join us to explore how this unique tree is central to the Yami (Tao) people of Orchid Island & how it fits into the island ecosystem.
#Taiwan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Cl...
What This Tree Means To Indigenous Culture ǀ Botanical Wonders
YouTube video by TaiwanPlus
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Pometia pinnata (Fiji Longan, Island Lychee) is a massive evergreen tree with monstrous buttress roots native to Taiwan.
Join us to explore how this unique tree is central to the Yami (Tao) people of Orchid Island & how it fits into the island ecosystem.
#Taiwan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Cl...
Join us to explore how this unique tree is central to the Yami (Tao) people of Orchid Island & how it fits into the island ecosystem.
#Taiwan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Cl...
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
September 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
We're excited to see that #ScienceUnderSiege has broken the top 1000 on Amazon.
Please consider purchasing from e.g. @barnesandnoble.com or your local independent bookseller (or ask your local library to acquire). Thanks!
Please consider purchasing from e.g. @barnesandnoble.com or your local independent bookseller (or ask your local library to acquire). Thanks!
September 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We're excited to see that #ScienceUnderSiege has broken the top 1000 on Amazon.
Please consider purchasing from e.g. @barnesandnoble.com or your local independent bookseller (or ask your local library to acquire). Thanks!
Please consider purchasing from e.g. @barnesandnoble.com or your local independent bookseller (or ask your local library to acquire). Thanks!
New BOTANICAL WONDERS episode on YT: Paper mulberry
Used for food (leaves, fruit), rope (bark, roots), tool handles (wood), ..., throughout the Pacific, recent work has shown that - just like Austronesian languages - it too has an "out of Taiwan" history!
youtu.be/i235W7_arqg?...
#Tawan
Used for food (leaves, fruit), rope (bark, roots), tool handles (wood), ..., throughout the Pacific, recent work has shown that - just like Austronesian languages - it too has an "out of Taiwan" history!
youtu.be/i235W7_arqg?...
#Tawan
This Tree Is Culturally Significant. Here's Why. ǀ Botanical Wonders
YouTube video by TaiwanPlus
youtu.be
September 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
New BOTANICAL WONDERS episode on YT: Paper mulberry
Used for food (leaves, fruit), rope (bark, roots), tool handles (wood), ..., throughout the Pacific, recent work has shown that - just like Austronesian languages - it too has an "out of Taiwan" history!
youtu.be/i235W7_arqg?...
#Tawan
Used for food (leaves, fruit), rope (bark, roots), tool handles (wood), ..., throughout the Pacific, recent work has shown that - just like Austronesian languages - it too has an "out of Taiwan" history!
youtu.be/i235W7_arqg?...
#Tawan
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.
Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!
Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!
September 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.
Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!
Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!
New Episode on YT: Taiwan Sugar Palm!
Found in the understory of Taiwan's forests, 'Arenga engleri' is a palm species with multiple important roles in Taiwan. In this episode of Botanical Wonders we explore it's ecology & its role in hunting and fishing!
youtu.be/opgJjoxQtkY?...
#Taiwan #ecology
Found in the understory of Taiwan's forests, 'Arenga engleri' is a palm species with multiple important roles in Taiwan. In this episode of Botanical Wonders we explore it's ecology & its role in hunting and fishing!
youtu.be/opgJjoxQtkY?...
#Taiwan #ecology
How This Plant Links Culture and the Land ǀ Botanical Wonders
YouTube video by TaiwanPlus
youtu.be
September 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
New Episode on YT: Taiwan Sugar Palm!
Found in the understory of Taiwan's forests, 'Arenga engleri' is a palm species with multiple important roles in Taiwan. In this episode of Botanical Wonders we explore it's ecology & its role in hunting and fishing!
youtu.be/opgJjoxQtkY?...
#Taiwan #ecology
Found in the understory of Taiwan's forests, 'Arenga engleri' is a palm species with multiple important roles in Taiwan. In this episode of Botanical Wonders we explore it's ecology & its role in hunting and fishing!
youtu.be/opgJjoxQtkY?...
#Taiwan #ecology
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
Exclusive from me: China drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
China drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone
Exclusive: Experts say the move could be part of Beijing’s ‘greyzone’ grab for disputed territory
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Exclusive from me: China drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Reposted by Trevor Padgett
China drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone – The Guardian: ‘However, there is no sign of the Taiwan government having responded to it, despite frequently enforcing its EEZ elsewhere.’
China drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone
Exclusive: Experts say the move could be part of Beijing’s ‘greyzone’ grab for disputed territory
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
China drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone – The Guardian: ‘However, there is no sign of the Taiwan government having responded to it, despite frequently enforcing its EEZ elsewhere.’