Laura MacKenzie
@mslauramack.bsky.social
Some bookmarks. Some wetlands, water, nature, climate policy. Trains. Wellbeing economics and post-growth appreciation. Parliamentary nerdery never dies🧛♀️
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Changes to ocean currents offer serious uncertainties for scientists trying to predict our future climate.
This new paper finds that even a moderate slowdown of the AMOC could lead to a 40% reduction in annual rainfall in the Amazon rainforest.
Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This new paper finds that even a moderate slowdown of the AMOC could lead to a 40% reduction in annual rainfall in the Amazon rainforest.
Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tropical response to ocean circulation slowdown raises future drought risk - Nature
An Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown drives widespread shifts in tropical rainfall through the propagation of high-latitude cooling into the tropical North Atlantic.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Changes to ocean currents offer serious uncertainties for scientists trying to predict our future climate.
This new paper finds that even a moderate slowdown of the AMOC could lead to a 40% reduction in annual rainfall in the Amazon rainforest.
Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This new paper finds that even a moderate slowdown of the AMOC could lead to a 40% reduction in annual rainfall in the Amazon rainforest.
Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hello, thanks for all the awesome reporting! Don't supposed you actually found a final version of the Vic Falls Declaration?! Cannae find online anywhere!
August 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Hello, thanks for all the awesome reporting! Don't supposed you actually found a final version of the Vic Falls Declaration?! Cannae find online anywhere!
It remains to be seen whether 'what's your favourite DR' is as splendid a conversation opener as 'what's your favourite wetland' over the coming days...
July 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It remains to be seen whether 'what's your favourite DR' is as splendid a conversation opener as 'what's your favourite wetland' over the coming days...