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Paleoecology, ecology of freshwater ecosystems. Main research focus Biodiversity and Global change in remote regions: Arctic, Antarctic, Mountains & oceanic islands.
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Most cells and DNA that make up a human are not human host cell or human host DNA. Most is bacteria.

Our food systems (herbicide are antibiotics) are killing us.
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The failure of the Panama Pacific upwelling this year is a “shocking extreme event,” says Scripps climate modeler Shang-Ping Xie.
Panama’s Coastal Waters Missed Their Annual Cooldown This Year - Eos
The unprecedented failure of tropical upwelling will likely affect the country’s fisheries. Scientists aren’t certain whether it will happen again next year.
eos.org
October 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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A Perspective in Nature introduces the Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative, which aims to create comprehensive single-cell molecular atlases across the eukaryotic tree of life. go.nature.com/46HnmDn 🔒
October 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The third issue of #Peatlands International 2025 is out! 🎉
This edition covers highlights from BPPF in Riga and Intecol in Tartu, news on peat + peatlands from Finland, Canada, Australia and more. We also look ahead to the Board elections. 👉Join the IPS to get the magazine 4x/year: www.peatlands.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Having thousands of large animals grazing at once may seem like it would inhibit plant growth. But this study showed the opposite.
Free-Roaming Bison Graze Life into Grasslands - Eos
A new study suggests that Yellowstone’s herd of bison accelerates nutrient cycling, offering a glimpse into the North American plains of yesteryear.
eos.org
September 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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New paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL4K_6se4...
June 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical remains: Insights for future ecological and biocultural studies esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... preserving the past legacy
September 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye.

The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza
August 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Giraffes are four distinct species, major report confirms | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Giraffes are four distinct species, major report confirms
The revised classification will help ensure different giraffe populations are adequately protected, conservationists say
www.science.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Barley in a cave in Uzbekistan, 9,000 years old, suggests foragers far from the Fertile Crescent were harvesting cereals long before farming took hold. A mosaic of innovation, not a single birthplace. #Archaeology #Agriculture #HumanEvolution @pnas.org
Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Barley, Foragers, and the Forgotten Story of Central Asia
Evidence from Uzbekistan pushes the roots of cereal exploitation deeper into Asia—and challenges what we thought we knew about the origins of farming.
www.anthropology.net
August 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
www.npr.org
August 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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A huge stick insect has been discovered in Australia. Here’s why that’s important | Gwen Pearson
A huge stick insect has been discovered in Australia. Here’s why that’s important | Gwen Pearson
Yes, they can be hard to spot – but this find in Australia highlights how little we know about creatures crucial to our ecosystem, writes entomologist Gwen Pearson
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Murderous Lebensraum.
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky.
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Breaking News!

July, 2025 was the 3rd warmest July on record globally since 1940, and likely the 3rd warmest in the last 120,000 years, at 1.25°C over the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline.

Cool times.
August 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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On Google maps, whenever new satellite images replace old ones, the erasure can be seen side by side with the adjacent older photo. I don't know how frequently they update.
August 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
August 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Iron emissions from East Asia are pushing a phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific farther north. Story by @markr4nger.bsky.social
Iron Emissions Are Shifting a North Pacific Plankton Bloom - Eos
Some of the iron emitted by industrial activity in East Asia is carried by winds into the North Pacific, where it nourishes iron-hungry phytoplankton.
eos.org
August 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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How do you take your nitrogen? In Arctic rivers, the answer is, increasingly, “organic.”

New #AGUPubs research from @nyutandon.bsky.social, @carnegiescience.bsky.social
Arctic Rivers Trade Inorganic Nitrogen for Organic - Eos
Climate change is shifting the makeup of a key nutrient in rivers across Russia, Alaska, and Canada, with the potential for ecosystem-wide impacts.
eos.org
August 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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📰 Read the blog post here: buff.ly/9V1Wbqa
August 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 6, 2025 ~ cancer hominis.

"The 2024 bleaching event 'had the largest spatial footprint ever recorded ... the declines in the north and south were the largest in a single year since monitoring began 39 years ago.'"

www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/c...
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef devastated by worst coral bleaching on record, new report finds | CNN
Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef suffered its biggest ever decline last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes of hard coral, a new report has found.
www.cnn.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Southeast Asia covers multiple global biodiversity hotspots — but is experiencing a biodiversity crisis.

Our new article in Nature Reviews Biodiversity asks: What’s really driving the losses, and what can we do about it?
👉 rdcu.be/expy6 1/7
Drivers and solutions to Southeast Asia’s biodiversity crisis
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - The terrestrial ecosystems of Southeast Asia are both globally important reservoirs of biodiversity, and a provider of resources and livelihoods for millions of people...
rdcu.be
August 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Shape and rate of landscape change trajectories influence species persistence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.04.666294v1
August 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM