World-changing result of Russia's invasion: #ecocide--deliberate destruction of ecosystems and #biodiversity--may now finally get official standing as an international crime! As Dead Dolphins Wash Ashore, Ukraine Builds a Case of Ecocide Against Russia nytimes.com/2023/08/17/wor…

#biodiversity's powerful new enemy: #NarcoDevelopment: Drug dealers' roads and deforestation threaten to overwhelm a crucial #Honduras #biosphere reserve the size of New Jersey. #30x30 #50x50 The narco-highway creating chaos in a Honduran rainforest theguardian.com/world/2023/aug…

Now that we know that more than 50% of all species live underground, this seems like a good place to start! (60% of Europe's #soil is considered degraded!) #biodiversity EU sets out first-ever soil law to protect food security and slow global heating theguardian.com/environment/20…

#omnicide - so many grave crimes all at once: the invasion of #Ukraine takes equal aim at people and #biodiversity. Russia is committing grave acts of ecocide in Ukraine – and the results will harm the whole world | Andriy Yermak and Margot Wallström theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

6 in 10 voters in #Ecuador say NO to despoiling a #biosphere reserve that's also an #INDIGENOUS homeland, halting what had been called an "American Chernobyl." #biodiversity #30x30 Ecuador votes to halt oil drilling in Amazonian biodiversity hotspot theguardian.com/world/2023/aug…

Delighted to be the guest on Stefan van Norden's terrific podcast, Nature Revisited! We talk about my book, about Half Earth, #30x30, #biodiversity, the #biosphere, and the great planet-healing work under way. Episode 102: Tony Hiss - Rescuing The Planet noordenproductions.com/nature-revisit…

#biodiversity protection has a new dimension: Conserving #ecosystems 2x as big as Ireland that don't even exist yet but will contain "crucial new habitat"! #biosphere #30x30 Disappearing Glaciers Expose Vast New Ecosystems That Need Protection scientificamerican.com/article/disapp… via Scientific American

Guess what? There's a vast, long-unsuspected, O2-rich #biosphere 650ft beneath our feet, down in the deep aquifers we routinely squander+deplete! #biodiversity protection requires 3D thinking! Cells Discovered Making 'Dark Oxygen' Underground scientificamerican.com/article/cells-… via Scientific American

Irresistible story of the week! The #Octopus Garden off CA coast is a nursery 20,000-strong - and it's yet another whole new kind of #ecosystem! #biodiversity #biosphere #30x30 #KeepLifeAlive Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives nytimes.com/2023/08/23/sci…

Worries that sea ice loss may lead to "#ecosystem annihilation" and the extinction of the magnificent, stoic #EmperorPenguin. #biodiversity #biosphere #30x30 #KeepLifeAlive For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’ nationalgeographic.com/premium/articl… via National Geographic

The #veery somehow knows if #hurricane seasons will be fierce+flies south earlier! To thrive in a warmer world, let's gather all vital info fellow beings already live by! This bird can predict the intensity of a hurricane season. Here’s how. nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar… via National Geographic

Next in #Canada: World's 1st Inuit-protected Marine Protected Area - almost 2x the size of Yellowstone, it will lock in a sure future for a big share of #Arctic #biodiversity! #30x30 New dawn for Arctic’s first people: the Inuit plan to reclaim their sea theguardian.com/environment/20…

A burst of urban #biodiversity in a tiny package: Miyawaki forests the size of a tennis court grow 10x faster (+ store Carbon)! Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. nytimes.com/2023/08/24/cli…

"Funga": Get used to the word - it's time to embrace a third essential pillar of #biodiversity! Thinking bigger gets us closer to seeing the true structure of the #biosphere. Flora, fauna and … funga: campaigners call for new term for conservation talks theguardian.com/environment/20…

This "huge, huge" problem needs everyone's help: #InvasiveAlienSpecies are leaking around the world, shrinking #biodiversity, weakening the #biosphere. So keep species home! Invasive species cost humans $423bn each year and threaten world’s diversity theguardian.com/environment/20…

Now any lawn, garden or balcony can become a mini-#bioreserve: Plant an endangered species and you'll help stave off the #extinction crisis! #biodiversity #30x30 Gardens blooming with endangered plants could prove a boon to conservation | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Baby sea otters to the rescue! Hunted almost to #extinction, these guys could restore eelgrass, kelp forests + #biodiversity to the CA coastline. Great Dino Grandoni piece explains how. Baby sea otters are adorable. But they aren’t wanted everywhere. wapo.st/3reyB4c

Very much looking forward to keynoting this first-ever get-together of some of the world's largest landscape and #biodiversity #preservation projects. Please join us if you're in Philly! #biosphere Penn Symposium Examines Ecological Restoration Projects architectmagazine.com/Design/penn-sy…

Elvis's inspiring presentation about the Great Green Wall was one of the highlights of this exciting UPenn first-ever global gathering of Mega-Eco Projects - landscape and #biodiversity and #biosphere preservation at the very largest scale! So glad I know you now, Elvis! #30x30

Just posted on "Rewilding Successes" 🌿 The Ecological Citizen 🌿: My story about MC Davis's 300-year campaign to save the Longleaf Pine Forest, signature ecosystem of US Southeast - a man with a compelling #biodiversity mega-vision of what life can be like in 2400 AD. rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.net/2023/11/07/rew…