Ian
@econature.bsky.social
Nature Economist - Somewhere between Environmental and Ecological Economics | Responsibility | Sustainability | Solidarity | Justice
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UN: Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Became Permanently Drier in Last Three Decades
Aridity: The ‘existential crisis’ redefining life on Earth. Five billion people could be affected by 2100
Aridity: The ‘existential crisis’ redefining life on Earth. Five billion people could be affected by 2100
December 9, 2024 at 12:35 PM
UN: Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Became Permanently Drier in Last Three Decades
Aridity: The ‘existential crisis’ redefining life on Earth. Five billion people could be affected by 2100
Aridity: The ‘existential crisis’ redefining life on Earth. Five billion people could be affected by 2100
As the impacts of warming are experienced more directly and substantially, we may vote for precisely the wrong people.
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Why the impacts of climate change may make us less likely to reduce emissions | Global Sustainability | Cambridge Core
Why the impacts of climate change may make us less likely to reduce emissions - Volume 5
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November 18, 2024 at 11:43 AM
As the impacts of warming are experienced more directly and substantially, we may vote for precisely the wrong people.
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🌎The Plant Ecology of Nature-Based Solutions
A Special Feature providing:
🔸focused analysis of the #plant #ecology of NbS
🔸key insights, challenges & opportunities for future research
#COP29 #COP16Biodiversity 🧵1/13 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652745...
A Special Feature providing:
🔸focused analysis of the #plant #ecology of NbS
🔸key insights, challenges & opportunities for future research
#COP29 #COP16Biodiversity 🧵1/13 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652745...
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE PLANT ECOLOGY OF NATURE‐BASED SOLUTIONS: Journal of Ecology: Vol 112, No 11
<em>Journal of Ecology</em> publishes original research on all aspects of the plant ecology (including algae), in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
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November 7, 2024 at 10:22 AM
🌎The Plant Ecology of Nature-Based Solutions
A Special Feature providing:
🔸focused analysis of the #plant #ecology of NbS
🔸key insights, challenges & opportunities for future research
#COP29 #COP16Biodiversity 🧵1/13 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652745...
A Special Feature providing:
🔸focused analysis of the #plant #ecology of NbS
🔸key insights, challenges & opportunities for future research
#COP29 #COP16Biodiversity 🧵1/13 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652745...
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Volcanoes are to blame for mass extinction cycles
Volcanoes are to blame for mass extinction cycles
Massive volcanic eruptions over the past 260 million years caused lethal climate change that led to mass extinctions, researchers say.
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October 9, 2023 at 1:46 PM
Volcanoes are to blame for mass extinction cycles
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“Ten million tons of plastic bits end up in the ocean, released with the ocean spray, and find their way into the atmosphere. ... microplastics may have become an essential component of clouds, contaminating nearly everything we eat and drink via ‘plastic rainfall’”
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Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds
Japanese scientists have found between 6.7 and 13.9 pieces of microplastic in each litre of cloud water tested.
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September 30, 2023 at 3:57 PM
“Ten million tons of plastic bits end up in the ocean, released with the ocean spray, and find their way into the atmosphere. ... microplastics may have become an essential component of clouds, contaminating nearly everything we eat and drink via ‘plastic rainfall’”
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Of the 16 large climate tipping point systems on Earth, 4 are likely the cross their tipping points at 1.5°C of global warming. These are the Greenland Ice sheet, the West Antarctic Ice sheet, tropical coral reef systems, and abrupt thawing of permafrost in the Arctic
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What the Latest Health Check Tells Us About the State of Our Planet
In order to reach planetary stability by 2050, it's going to take not just speed, but systemic and unified approaches across nations, industries and individuals
time.com
September 28, 2023 at 3:14 PM
Of the 16 large climate tipping point systems on Earth, 4 are likely the cross their tipping points at 1.5°C of global warming. These are the Greenland Ice sheet, the West Antarctic Ice sheet, tropical coral reef systems, and abrupt thawing of permafrost in the Arctic
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How common is opposition to wind energy and what predicts where it occurs? My new open-access research in @PNASNews looks at wind energy opposition across North America between 2000 to 2016. We find opposition is common and growing over time. THREAD🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
September 26, 2023 at 2:03 PM
How common is opposition to wind energy and what predicts where it occurs? My new open-access research in @PNASNews looks at wind energy opposition across North America between 2000 to 2016. We find opposition is common and growing over time. THREAD🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Is sustainable development an oxymoron? Eight years on from the launch of the SDGs, little progress has been made.
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September 21, 2023 at 3:12 PM
Is sustainable development an oxymoron? Eight years on from the launch of the SDGs, little progress has been made.
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We Can’t Rely on Private Finance to Fund a Just Transition
We Can’t Rely on Private Finance to Fund a Just Transition
Liberal policymakers want to incentivize private finance to make clean energy investments. But private investors are incapable of financing the world’s massive green infrastructure needs — we need robust public investment to drive a pro-worker transition.
jacobin.com
September 20, 2023 at 8:28 PM
We Can’t Rely on Private Finance to Fund a Just Transition
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Scientist shocks peers by 'tailoring' climate study
Scientist shocks peers by 'tailoring' climate study
In a controversial bid to expose supposed bias in a top journal, a US climate expert shocked fellow scientists by revealing he tailored a wildfire study to emphasize global warming.
phys.org
September 9, 2023 at 6:59 AM
Scientist shocks peers by 'tailoring' climate study
UN: World isn’t moving fast enough to cut pollution and keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius
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September 9, 2023 at 12:42 PM
UN: World isn’t moving fast enough to cut pollution and keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius
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""Negligent manslaughter": Study finds climate change could kill 1 billion mostly poor people" by Matthew Rozsa for #Salon: www.salon.com/2023/08/30/n...
"Negligent manslaughter": Study finds climate change could kill 1 billion mostly poor people
"A future person is killed every time 1000 tons of fossil carbon are burned," the authors report
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August 30, 2023 at 1:50 PM
""Negligent manslaughter": Study finds climate change could kill 1 billion mostly poor people" by Matthew Rozsa for #Salon: www.salon.com/2023/08/30/n...