EwA (Earthwise Aware)
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🌿 Nature #Conservation as a Way of Life. Bringing People, Scientist & Experts together through #EcologicalEthics, #Biodiversity, #Climate & Cocreated #CitizenScience 🐾
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![EwA's 2024 Conservation Highlights are here! 🌿
From biodiversity studies to vernal pool certification, our community has made incredible strides in urban ecology & conservation science. See our full impact report here: [https://tinyurl.com/2024-EwA-Cons-Highlights]
Proud of our citizen scientists making a difference! 🔬🦋🦅
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EwA's 2024 Conservation Highlights are here! 🌿
#Biodiversity and #climateAction efforts > Community powered urban ecology & conservation science. EwA impact report here: tinyurl.com/2024-EwA-Con...
Proud of our citizen scientists making a difference! 🔬🦋🦅
#ParticipatoryScience #Conservation
#Biodiversity and #climateAction efforts > Community powered urban ecology & conservation science. EwA impact report here: tinyurl.com/2024-EwA-Con...
Proud of our citizen scientists making a difference! 🔬🦋🦅
#ParticipatoryScience #Conservation
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study
Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins
Biodiversity Crisis: Conservation Abandonment Undermines Global Goals www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-bio...
Conservation abandonment threatens global biodiversity goals, study warns
A recent study highlights the alarming trend of 'conservation abandonment,' where global efforts to protect biodiversity are being undermined by the reversal or neglect of conservation projects. Equiv...
www.downtoearth.org.in
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Biodiversity Crisis: Conservation Abandonment Undermines Global Goals www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-bio...
California and Massachusetts announce intention to join IUCN at World Conservation Congress - Story | IUCN share.google/ShX7W7LHmSec...
California and Massachusetts announce intention to join IUCN at World Conservation Congress
Abu Dhabi – 12 October 2025 – The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) welcomes the announcement that California and Massachusetts intend to join the Union at the 2025 World Conservat...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
California and Massachusetts announce intention to join IUCN at World Conservation Congress - Story | IUCN share.google/ShX7W7LHmSec...
IUCN members have just adopted a bold 20-year Vision and a focused 4-year Programme, mapping a path toward a just world that values and conserves nature. 🌍
🔗 share.google/ezyVKDCKTHwo...
#IUCN2025 #Biodiversity #ConservationAction
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#IUCN2025 #Biodiversity #ConservationAction
IUCN Members adopt 20-year Vision and four-year Programme for the Union
13 October 2025 - IUCN Members have voted to adopt a new 20-year Strategic Vision and four-year Programme
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October 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
IUCN members have just adopted a bold 20-year Vision and a focused 4-year Programme, mapping a path toward a just world that values and conserves nature. 🌍
🔗 share.google/ezyVKDCKTHwo...
#IUCN2025 #Biodiversity #ConservationAction
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#IUCN2025 #Biodiversity #ConservationAction
Human Impact: A Third of Earth's Surface Transformed, Urgent Connectivity Needed www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-bio...
A third of planet’s surface transformed by humans; need for global ecological connectivity, says report launched at IUCN Congress
Nearly a third of the Earth’s land surface has already been profoundly transformed by human activity, leaving ecosystems degraded and fragmented, according to a
www.downtoearth.org.in
October 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Human Impact: A Third of Earth's Surface Transformed, Urgent Connectivity Needed www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-bio...
💚 A heartfelt thank you to our wonderful EwA naturalists and fantastic guests. What a beautiful fall day to be in the woods together observing and documenting nature together!
www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science
#naturalHistory #ecology #participatoryScience
www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science
#naturalHistory #ecology #participatoryScience
October 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
💚 A heartfelt thank you to our wonderful EwA naturalists and fantastic guests. What a beautiful fall day to be in the woods together observing and documenting nature together!
www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science
#naturalHistory #ecology #participatoryScience
www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science
#naturalHistory #ecology #participatoryScience
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
Thanks so much, Sophie and Jian, for representing EwA at the Somerville Harvest Festival!
🍂 join our urban #biodiversity and #climate studies » www.earthwiseaware.org/nature-volun... | ⓘ Learn more about the EwA Participatory Science Program » www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science
🍂 join our urban #biodiversity and #climate studies » www.earthwiseaware.org/nature-volun... | ⓘ Learn more about the EwA Participatory Science Program » www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Thanks so much, Sophie and Jian, for representing EwA at the Somerville Harvest Festival!
🍂 join our urban #biodiversity and #climate studies » www.earthwiseaware.org/nature-volun... | ⓘ Learn more about the EwA Participatory Science Program » www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science
🍂 join our urban #biodiversity and #climate studies » www.earthwiseaware.org/nature-volun... | ⓘ Learn more about the EwA Participatory Science Program » www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science
Thanks for all that you did. We miss you, Jane! 💔 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Thanks for all that you did. We miss you, Jane! 💔 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
This fall, EwA is proud to partner with TEDxBoston,
@inaturalist.bsky.social, @umassboston.bsky.social, and other local organizations to celebrate and document the incredible variety of wildlife that calls Boston home. Learn more at www.inaturalist.org/projects/bos... #biodiversity #citizenscience
@inaturalist.bsky.social, @umassboston.bsky.social, and other local organizations to celebrate and document the incredible variety of wildlife that calls Boston home. Learn more at www.inaturalist.org/projects/bos... #biodiversity #citizenscience
September 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This fall, EwA is proud to partner with TEDxBoston,
@inaturalist.bsky.social, @umassboston.bsky.social, and other local organizations to celebrate and document the incredible variety of wildlife that calls Boston home. Learn more at www.inaturalist.org/projects/bos... #biodiversity #citizenscience
@inaturalist.bsky.social, @umassboston.bsky.social, and other local organizations to celebrate and document the incredible variety of wildlife that calls Boston home. Learn more at www.inaturalist.org/projects/bos... #biodiversity #citizenscience
The first emergence of unprecedented global #water scarcity in the Anthropocene | Nature Communications share.google/lx9VBrd1qxuG...
The first emergence of unprecedented global water scarcity in the Anthropocene - Nature Communications
Anthropogenic climate change is projected to cause “Day Zero Drought”, when water demand exceeds supply, emerging as early as 2030 and occurring more frequently than recovery allows, posing escalating risks to regions worldwide.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The first emergence of unprecedented global #water scarcity in the Anthropocene | Nature Communications share.google/lx9VBrd1qxuG...
What Is A Mast Year? Everything To Know About The Surplus Of Seeds share.google/QohJ8gMlRmsG...
Seeing lots of acorns on autumn walks? Here’s why 2025 is a bumper year
These are small acorns with big impact
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September 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
What Is A Mast Year? Everything To Know About The Surplus Of Seeds share.google/QohJ8gMlRmsG...
What’s a Super Monarch Butterfly? share.google/yHRPbZA9pSDY...
What’s a Super Monarch Butterfly? Fall’s Super Generation, Explained
The monarchs who visit your garden in autumn are really something special.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
What’s a Super Monarch Butterfly? share.google/yHRPbZA9pSDY...
Oil, coal and gas production plans bury climate change goals : NPR share.google/hRv8hGZUoASj...
Leaders promised to cut climate pollution, then doubled down on fossil fuels
Ten years after countries promised to cut climate pollution in the Paris Agreement, countries plan to produce more than twice the amount of fossil fuels that would be consistent with that deal.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Oil, coal and gas production plans bury climate change goals : NPR share.google/hRv8hGZUoASj...
Logging changes the composition of the organic matter in nearby streams, making the organic matter more reactive. According to the authors, these changes are enough to flip logging from a carbon-sink to carbon-neutral or even a carbon-source. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Logging disrupts the ecology of molecules in headwater streams | PNAS
Global demand for wood products is increasing forest harvest. One understudied consequence
of logging is that it accelerates mobilization of dissol...
www.pnas.org
September 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Logging changes the composition of the organic matter in nearby streams, making the organic matter more reactive. According to the authors, these changes are enough to flip logging from a carbon-sink to carbon-neutral or even a carbon-source. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Mighty EwA forest explorer group in the Fells this morning! 🧡
🦗 EwA Participatory Science Program » www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science | #naturalHistory #ecology #participatoryScience
🦗 EwA Participatory Science Program » www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science | #naturalHistory #ecology #participatoryScience
July 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Mighty EwA forest explorer group in the Fells this morning! 🧡
🦗 EwA Participatory Science Program » www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science | #naturalHistory #ecology #participatoryScience
🦗 EwA Participatory Science Program » www.earthwiseaware.org/citizen-science | #naturalHistory #ecology #participatoryScience
🐝 Most bees don’t die after stinging – and other surprising bee facts
theconversation.com/most-bees-do...
theconversation.com/most-bees-do...
Most bees don’t die after stinging – and other surprising bee facts
99.96% of bee species do not die after stinging. So why does everyone think they do?
theconversation.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🐝 Most bees don’t die after stinging – and other surprising bee facts
theconversation.com/most-bees-do...
theconversation.com/most-bees-do...
🐝 Voracious honey bees are outcompeting native pollinators and disrupting plant reproduction, threatening biodiversity and food security, new research warns. Rethinking apiary placement is becoming an important necessity. phys.org/news/2025-07... #honeybee #invasiveSpecies #nativeBees
Voracious honey bees threaten the food supply of native pollinators
The majority of Earth's plant species, including our crop plants, rely on the services of animal pollinators in order to reproduce. Honey bees and other pollinating insects annually contribute billion...
phys.org
July 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
🐝 Voracious honey bees are outcompeting native pollinators and disrupting plant reproduction, threatening biodiversity and food security, new research warns. Rethinking apiary placement is becoming an important necessity. phys.org/news/2025-07... #honeybee #invasiveSpecies #nativeBees
☣️ Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows. Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China and other countries. The US has resisted calls to regulate it. share.google/FJXFTBT6IX5Z...
Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows
Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China and other countries. The US has resisted calls to regulate it
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July 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
☣️ Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows. Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China and other countries. The US has resisted calls to regulate it. share.google/FJXFTBT6IX5Z...
Every time I hear about “a great big bill,” which is pretty much every day these days, I picture a shoebill stork or a platypus. Am I confused? 🤔
July 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Every time I hear about “a great big bill,” which is pretty much every day these days, I picture a shoebill stork or a platypus. Am I confused? 🤔
In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/4nmJLMv
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/4nmJLMv
Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food
Puppet helps insect trick real termites into feeding it
scim.ag
June 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/4nmJLMv
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/4nmJLMv
VT scientists explore how plant seed provenance affects pollinators youtu.be/-3dw4gAOJlQ?... #pollinators #nativeEcotype
Vt. scientists explore how plant seed provenance affects pollinators
YouTube video by WCAX-TV Channel 3 News
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June 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
VT scientists explore how plant seed provenance affects pollinators youtu.be/-3dw4gAOJlQ?... #pollinators #nativeEcotype
Historic climate move: a class action lawsuit targets EPA for cutting $3B in environmental justice grants, risking vulnerable communities. This fight is crucial for pollution & climate justice. 🌍
More info: www.cbsnews.com/news/climate...
More info: www.cbsnews.com/news/climate...
Climate movement strikes back with first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit against EPA
It's the latest legal strategy for environmental groups as they try to claw back terminated grants.
www.cbsnews.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Historic climate move: a class action lawsuit targets EPA for cutting $3B in environmental justice grants, risking vulnerable communities. This fight is crucial for pollution & climate justice. 🌍
More info: www.cbsnews.com/news/climate...
More info: www.cbsnews.com/news/climate...
New study finds large, unbroken forests support 12% more species than many small fragments of the same total area. While all forests matter, prioritizing big tracts may be key for biodiversity. 🌳🌏
Read more: news.mongabay.com/2025/06/prot...
Read more: news.mongabay.com/2025/06/prot...
Protect one large forest, or many small ones? New study reignites conservation debate
Which provides more shelter for species biodiversity: a large, continuous tract of forest, or a number of small forest fragments that add up to the same land area? This question has divided the scient...
news.mongabay.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
New study finds large, unbroken forests support 12% more species than many small fragments of the same total area. While all forests matter, prioritizing big tracts may be key for biodiversity. 🌳🌏
Read more: news.mongabay.com/2025/06/prot...
Read more: news.mongabay.com/2025/06/prot...
New study: Most species cluster in “core” areas with a few expanding outward, shaped by local conditions. This global rule could help guide conservation and predict climate impacts. More: indiandefencereview.com/scientists-r...
Scientists Discover Key Rule Shaping Life on Earth – It Could Change Biodiversity Forever!
Scientists have uncovered a game-changing discovery that reveals how a single factor shapes all life on Earth.
indiandefencereview.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
New study: Most species cluster in “core” areas with a few expanding outward, shaped by local conditions. This global rule could help guide conservation and predict climate impacts. More: indiandefencereview.com/scientists-r...