Not a bird person myself, but just looking at this great thread, it seems like a major study showing how some animal populations are trying to adjust to climate change. Putting this one on my neverending to-read list #research #climatechange

A much-cited statistic about how much of the world’s biodiversity is under Indigenous stewardship is unsupported — and could harm the cause it is meant to support go.nature.com/4cT0dxe

Venezuelan security forces and armed groups aligned with the government committed widespread violence against protesters and killed some of them after the country’s disputed presidential election, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. nyti.ms/3XhyT6j

Are you interested in building and comparing canopy height models (CHMs) using LiDAR? Then check out our latest paper Methods in Ecology and Evolution where we explore how to do this well and what happens if you don’t! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20… Here’s a short🧵summarising our key takeaways ..

"... aiming to preserve 20th-century ecosystems within a 21st-century climate is naive..." 👌 Science in a changing world - Pausas - 2024 - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

NEW RESEARCH Global increase of lianas in tropical forests 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

What a beautiful song! David Gilmour - Between Two Points (with Romany Gilmour) youtu.be/A9qdvkx9E3o?si… via YouTube

They’re Sizing Up Earth’s Lungs. It Takes Tape Measures and Tree Climbing. nytimes.com/2024/09/07/cli… Great story of what it takes to do the groundwork to monitor tropical forests! Amazing work led by Alvaro Duque and others in Colombia.

Reforestation is necessary, but doing it with native plants to protect a forest and save endemic species from extinction is much better. This is what scientists and locals are doing in a community in Mérida, Venezuela. My latest report for Mongabay: news.mongabay.com/2024/09/in-ven…

Note that Trump is using Venezuela as a kind of punchline, just as a country at the height of a democratic crisis caused by a corrupt president who has lost an election and refuses to leave office. You want to know the source of Venezuelan refugees, talk about that

“…Our results show 13 million hectares [in the U.S.] are available for action, an area that holds 4,900 ± 640 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent and represents 45% of regional and 0.5% of global aboveground forest carbon stocks…” nature.com/articles/s4324…

Smoke plume from South America fires crossing the South Atlantic as smoke from seasonal African fires in the other direction. #CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol optical depth forecast from 14 Sept 12UTC. Latest charts atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/package… Copernicus ECMWF ECMWF Copernicus EU

The increasingly frequent & crazy severe #megadroughts of the #Madeira river basin -- the largest in the #Amazon -- is terrifying, with catastrophic consequences to both aquatic and terrestrial biotas. A historical low 41 cm was recorded in Porto Velho, RO noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/ulti…

Characterizing the structural complexity of the Earth’s forests with spaceborne lidar. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Eruption of St. Helens in 1980

Global patterns & drivers of tropical aboveground carbon changes 🌱🍂🌱 Our new study shows how dynamical is the carbon balance of the tropics, with losses from disturbances and gains from regrowth Y Feng JP WIGNERON Martin Brandt Wei LI GlobalCarbonProject nature.com/articles/s4155…

The Fires That Could Reshape the Amazon nytimes.com/2024/09/17/cli…

Temporada severa de calor, sequia y quemas en casi toda la Amazonia y zona Andina. 🇧🇷🇧🇴🇨🇴🇵🇪 Temperaturas generalizadas superiores a los 40 C en la Amazonia, casi sin precedentes.

Tree Mortality May Lead to Carbon Tipping Point in the Amazon by 2050s eos.org/research-spotl…

“…In order to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, the rate of extraction needs to rise to between 5bn and 10bn tonnes per year by 2050…” economist.com/the-americas/2…