My #SlowTravel from Germany🇩🇪 to PNG🇵🇬 for fieldwork research has started.I plan to travel 39,000km on land and sea rather than✈️ to reduce my carbon footprint. My trip will reduce CO2 by 6,7tons compared to✈️-albeit still emitting 2,7tons. Here you can follow daily updates. 1/🧵

Wrote a 'News and Views' with Carla Archibald commenting on a recent paper examining the notion of a #Conservation Basic Income! Interesting notion, but many unknowns about the efficacy and #socialequity implications. nature.com/articles/s4189… PDF: rdcu.be/dcrTw

Nice Scientific American article: Better Bus Systems Could Slow #ClimateChange ++ As someone who elects not to own a car, I very much appreciate a good bus system! I can also attest to the service and connectivity improvements made in Seattle/KC in the last 10 years! scientificamerican.com/article/better…

We've blown past the limit for vital earth systems, from climate change to the use of freshwater. 🌏 Research from a team of international researchers (ANU Media + Griffith University) identified eight “safe” boundaries across five vital planetary systems 👇 bit.ly/42ccB6t

"Climate research suggests that heat and drought associated with global warming are major reasons for the increase in bigger and stronger fires in Canada." A mew normal? Wildfires Spread Smoke, and Anxiety, Across Canada to the U.S. nytimes.com/2023/06/07/wor…

Is it that they're in denial, or they think if they say something contrary to the evidence it will just come true? Financial self-interest can't explain everything, can it? Where Republican Presidential Candidates Stand on Climate Change nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/…

Nice Mongabay piece outlining the current discussion on #Conservation Basic Income. news.mongabay.com/2023/06/can-co… with Carla Archibald @emiel_delange

This long read is certainly worth the time of you are interested in forest conservation, chimps or mining.....#offsets #mitigationhierarchy

If pollination starts to fail we will face a global food security crisis

Alarm bells should be ringing everywhere. We seem to have underestimated the chance of climate breakdown causing simultaneous harvest failure in the world's major breadbaskets. It's an issue I discuss in Regenesis, but it appears much worse than we thought nature.com/articles/s4146…

Serbia 'has experienced "absolute extremes in terms of both drought and the amount of water that we've had"' Farmers 'feeling the effects of climate change on this year's crops as extreme heat follows flooding' "I'm absolutely starting to lose my will" euronews.com/2023/07/17/cli…

Transparency is often touted as the solution to global supply chain issues such as deforestation and human rights abuses. But transparency has different meanings and aims, depending on who you ask, and some actors use transparency to hide select practices doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr…

Brought about by Big Oil, Gas & Coal + financiers aramco BHP bp Chevron ConocoPhillips eni ExxonMobil Gazprom Peabody Shell TotalEnergies Woodside Energy J.P. Morgan Citi Wells Fargo Bank of America Barclays Bank RBC BNP Paribas Group Scotiabank HSBC BlackRock

Excited that our SESYNC workshop paper led by Vanesse Labeyrie has finally made it through all the COVID-era hurdles. Linking seed networks and crop diversity contributions to people's well-being in Senegal. authors.elsevier.com/c/1hemq,70zHrG… Ping Jacopo Baggio

🇦🇺’s Greater Gliders have fallen by ~80% across key areas. Sadly last year they were listed as endangered. A NSW Govt agency response is to log the gliders Tallaganda stronghold. We need nature law reforms Tanya Plibersek ⁦Penny Sharpe⁩ theguardian.com/australia-news…

Gender equality: the route to a better world nature.com/articles/d4158…

Excited to see this paper led by Emily Massingham and Angela Dean published! doi.org/10.1016/j.envs…

On This Nature Preserve, Farmers Are Welcome, if They Follow the Rules nytimes.com/2023/10/07/wor…

Inside Poland Spring’s Hidden Attack on Water Rules It Didn’t Like nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Hot off the press! Pacific food systems and climate change research collaborations over time using networks! rdcu.be/dqC9q Steven Crimp ANU Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions Springer Nature #SNA #OpenAccess