🆕 Looking for a different angle on the #climatecrisis ? Try our NEW series of films - Voices from the Global South 🆕

Made to stimulate thinking about the difference #geography makes to understanding the climate crisis, watch all six on OpenLearn 👀

⏯️ open.edu/openlearn/lear…

What can the new online service launched by Office for National Statistics (ONS) tell us about local areas and how they are changing?

Spatially variable (Prof Rich Harris) 🌍🌎🌏 (@GeogBristol) discusses how the service can allow for easy access to subnational statistics in a new @geogdirections blog post. 👇

blog.geographydirections.com/2024/05/01/sch…

The Standards of Practice is a guide to ecosystem restoration that provides key recommendations for all phases of restoration projects.

This contributes to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030.

Food and Agriculture Organization UN Environment Programme IUCN SERestoration
🔗 bit.ly/3WmnP9d

The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/the… via Dynamic Ecology

Our new Editorial is here!

We highlight three key knowledge gaps concerning the role of biodiversity and the ecology of food production systems 🌱

And define Journal of Applied Ecology's role in closing these knowledge gaps 👇

doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Nature is powerful.

Nature-based solutions can help address the climate crisis. And by using them, we’re protecting nature and protecting people.

#ClimateCrisis

Via IFRC

17 goals.
6 years to achieve them.
1 future.

Food & agriculture lie at the heart of achieving each & every one of the 17 #SDGs .

FAO is committed to help build a better future for all, learn how 👉bit.ly/3JGDVkS

#ActNow #4Betters

Did you know that being in nature for more than 120-150 minutes a week is related to the best possible physical as well as mental health and well-being?Jitka Vseteckova Joseph De Lappe Yoseph Araya OU Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies OU Health, Wellbeing & Social Care OU Arts & Social Sciences OU in Scotland

From ‘do no harm’ to ‘do better’: Early lessons from implementing #REDD + safeguards in Indonesia🇮🇩

Full story on #ForestsNews ➡️ bit.ly/3rAwNlI

#Trees4Resilience

The latest version of IFPRI’s open-source crop mapping product, SPAM, can be used to see production patterns both between and within countries.

Learn more in this webinar on April 29 at 10:00AM EDT: bit.ly/3WbW9Uh

Land & Carbon Lab Bezos Earth Fund Food and Agriculture Organization CGIAR

Unravelling the resilience of people and nature in north-western Greece. relationalthinkingblog.com/2024/04/10/blo…

The Open University researchers (Richard Holliman Phil Wheeler Dr Alice Dunford) recently engaged with Denbigh School students & teachers to inform future priorities for urban tree research in Milton Keynes.

open.ac.uk/blogs/per/?p=8…

The OU and BBC are teaming up for 'Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles' on BBC One and iPlayer, where wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin explores UK wildlife. OU's Dr. Yoseph Araya and Dr. Philip Wheeler contribute as Academic Consultants, offering expert insight.

ow.ly/qqnV50Rn2WI

Does conservation work? Our paper by Re:wild shows that it does: a global analysis of 665 trials (incl. several by RSPB Science) found that conservation improved the state of biodiversity or slowed declines in two-thirds of cases BirdLife Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

An incredible start to the Inaugural International @COSPAR #PlanetaryProtection Week.
We are proud to welcome:
16 space agencies
24 countries
40 academic and research institutions
12 commercial organisations

#ICPPW

UK Space Agency Faculty of STEM, The Open University The Open University

Planetary Protection Week begins today.

What is #planetaryprotection ? In a nutshell, it's ensuring we don't accidentally contaminate untouched and unspoilt #extra -terrestrial environments.

But for a better explanation 👇
ow.ly/cAhu50Rl5Ii

#ICPPW
#PlanetaryProtection

That concludes the first day of the #CASCADE inception meeting!

Thank you to all who joined and shaped such engaging discussions.👏

We’ll be sharing more tomorrow but in the meantime you can follow us here (CASCADE) or visit our website: cascade.ac.uk

Our meet-and-greet session is in full swing!

Attendees are discussing...
👉the need to decolonise conservation,
👉the role of academia in bio-diversity policy development, knowledge exchange and delivery of Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) goals,
👉the future of #CASCADE

#article : #Intersectional approach to understand #academic #progression of #UK #geochemists
Challenges observed apply more broadly to #underrepresented #multiply -disadvantaged communities in #geoscience #STEM #academia #diversity #equity #inclusion
doi.org/10.3389/esss.2…

Enjoyed starting a YouTube channel describing concepts in conservation. Have ideas for future videos but welcome suggestions of something interesting that illustrates a general issue. Also welcome ideas for getting this known by those who would benefit.
youtube.com/@Bill_Sutherla…