✅Next Wednesday (17 Jan), our #WSLBiodiversitySeminar Series starts again. We have an excellent lineup of internal & external speakers covering basic & applied research. Our seminars are hybrid, and you're most welcome to join us in person or online! biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/ ⬇️

SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report theguardian.com/business/2024/…

This is insane! 525 private jets departed from three airports around Las Vegas after the completion of Super Bowl. - Flights departed for 173 airports across 9 countries - Average flight time was 2 hours 1 minute - 81 flights made an hour journey to

🆕📰in Reg. Env. Change rdcu.be/dCIne on grassland cover change in Europe from 1990 to 2018 identifies an 📈increasing(20%), 📉decreasing (35%), and mixed (3%) development trajectories of grassland change over a 1km x 1km grid. #G4B @WSL_research Institute of Geography SAS

...and I think to myself, what a wonderful world

Citizen Mbappé taking on far right lends pride to France’s Euros exit | Philippe Auclair dlvr.it/T9Q2S4

Our WSL Biodiversity Seminar Series is back after the summer break! From systematics to land system science, this semester, we'll have seven exciting talks. More info here: biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/news/our-bi… Our seminars are hybrid and open to everyone.

THIS WINS THE DAY!!!!

📢 #BiodivNBS preliminary results! Thrilled to share the shortlist of 34 projects recommended for funding (pending final decisions by funders). Let's explore the tipping points, trade-offs, and mechanisms influencing #NbS and their implementation! 👉 biodiversa.eu/2023/06/05/202…

Russian “liberators”. Centuries change, the essence is the same.

📌Publication alert NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) LiDAR reveals how canopy structure across North America drives avian diversity. We assessed the best vegetation structure metrics when predicting bird diversity in North America. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.…

Today is Earth Observation Day and AmericaView has just released the 2024 EOD Poster and 7 Earth Observation focused lessons for middle and high school. Download your copy now! bit.ly/44PlDJz USGS Landsat

Carbon capture instead of stopping oil & gas EVs instead of reducing car dependency Ocean cleanups instead of stopping plastic production Planting trees instead of ending deforestation Ever notice how all the fashionable 'solutions' are all aimed at not changing anything?

#Xodus. January 20. Let's do it together.

“We need people who seek to unite rather than divide, who see the other side as part of the solution rather than part of the problem. In short, we need bridge-builders in politics, business, society and science.” ETH President Joël Mesot at #ETHDay 2024

‚ChatGPT turns two: how the AI chatbot has changed scientists’ lives‘, via nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

Excellent article by Dan Charles in Science Magazine on the invisible phenomenon of land abandonment and the tricky questions of how to deal with it for the benefit of people and nature. science.org/content/articl… Henrique Pereira

Even though it is not clear from the Slovakian government's behaviour, thousands of people in the streets today across the country clearly showed that these three flags belong together 🇸🇰🇪🇺🇺🇦