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‘Huge moment’: Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree The likely discovery of a condor egg on California’s north coast gives new hope for the recovery of the endangered bird.

Yurok Tribe leading the way on #wildlife recovery..
#🦊#🌎

Black Death Research Reveals People & Nature Thrive Together 🌍
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Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas Protected areas influence their surroundings in a variety of ways. These “spillover effects” can change an area’s conservation value and affect its social license. Advanced statistical tools for quan...

Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas 🌎🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

"Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster, especially in areas with intensive agriculture...Overall drops in bird population, measured from 1987 to 2021, were sharpest in warm and warming areas, suggesting that climate change may play a role."

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The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study finds A new study in the journal Nature says most sea level rise research may have underestimated coastal water heights by an average of 1 foot or about 30 centimeters.

Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are.
By @borenbears.bsky.social & Annika Hammerschlag @apnews.com apnews.com/article/sea-...

Rainforests are rain-making machines worth tens of billions of dollars to farmers. A new study puts a price tag on forest-generated rainfall, making the economic case for protecting tropical forests as deforestation rises.

“In Brazil alone, the Amazon rainforest generates rainfall worth approximately $20 billion dollars per year if it went to agricultural activities”

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ESG and climate data now a ‘core component’ of investment workflows - Sustainability Online ESG and climate data has moved from being an 'optional add-on' to a 'core component' of investment workflows, a new report by Morningstar Sustainalytics found.

ESG and climate data has moved from being an 'optional add-on' to a 'core component' of investment workflows, a new report by Morningstar Sustainalytics has found. 📈 #sustainability

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RHINOS - Ol Pejeta Conservancy Ol Pejeta is home to the last two remaining northern white rhinos, and a sanctuary for over 165 critically Endangered black rhinos. The Conservancy employs

Learn more about the last northern white rhinos and the work of Ol Pejeta: www.olpejetaconservancy.org/what-we-do/c...

A grey northern white rhino eating green grass

It’s #worldwildlifeday and here’s a photo I took of one of the last two northern white rhinoceros, living in protection at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. 🦏 🇰🇪 🌎

The 15 foods destroying rainforests, in one simple chart New research reveals which food crops are razing the rainforest. One comes out way ahead — and it’s an American favorite.

The same week our study about non-forest ecosystem loss came out, here's another new study looking at what foods are being grown or produced in areas deforested between 2001-2022 with a good article by @benjij.bsky.social:

As Solar Boomed, China's Fossil Fuel Emissions Fell In China, the world’s leading carbon emitter, a massive buildout of solar power is beginning to push fossil fuels into decline. Last year China saw its emissions drop, even as demand for energy rose. 

Amid a solar boom last year, China saw its emissions drop, even as demand for energy rose.

Little snow in California and the West as a warm winter nears end California's snowpack remains much smaller than average after months of extremely warm conditions across the West.

Very little snow across the West during a winter that has brought record warmth

Sierra Nevada: 66% of avg
Upper Colorado River region: 66%
Oregon: 34%

"Projections show that our winters are going to look a lot more like this in the future."
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EPA Repeals The Legal Basis For Regulating Greenhouse Gases The endangerment finding forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Now, the agency says it doesn’t have the authority to do that.

On Feb. 12, the Environmental Protection Agency rescinded its 2009 endangerment finding. That finding was the legal basis for the government’s regulation of greenhouse gases to protect public health and the environment. We talk with Andy Miller, an author on the endangerment finding.

The new IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment underscores the importance and urgency of aligned finance, ambitious public policy and credible markets for nature-based outcomes.

Read the report here: ipbes.canto.de/pdfviewer/vi...

#NatureBasedSolutions #Biodiversity

Brazil bets reducing poverty can protect the Amazon Brazil is shifting Amazon conservation by tackling poverty: a new ARPA program backs forest communities, showing livelihoods can reduce deforestation.

“We were missing closer attention to the communities living in these sustainable-use conservation units”

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Agriculture Is Taking Over Grasslands, Wetlands and Other Overlooked Ecosystems A new study reveals that agriculture is rapidly replacing ecosystems like grasslands, wetlands and savannas, which are often ignored in sustainability policies.

Important new @worldresources.bsky.social research shows that agricultural expansion isn’t only leading to forest loss - it’s leading to loss of grasslands, savannas, & wetlands too.

From 2005-20, the 🌎 lost 95 Mha of non-forest natural ecosystems to annual crops, and another 95 Mha to pasture. 1/

How Recent Conservation Wins Proved Nature Can Bounce Back Conservation wins in 2025 included green sea turtles coming back from the brink of extinction and wild horses returning to central Asia.

How Recent Conservation Wins Proved Nature Can Bounce Back

Opinion | Winter Is One of the Last Threads Holding Everything in Place We are only at the beginning of climate destabilization, in which winter weather grows more erratic and extreme.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“In the Northeast, snow lovers are celebrating benchmarks not seen since the 1980s,” Porter Fox writes in a guest essay. For the planet, this is “a rare moment when one of its most vital climate systems functions as it should.”

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Contributor: Nature is a powerful ally against fires and floods. So how will we save it? Decades of development along L.A.'s steep canyons and hillsides, combined with prolonged drought, have left the city’s landscapes highly vulnerable.

“As extreme weather events become more intense, more frequent and more difficult to predict, insurers face much more risk, and respond by raising premiums, restricting coverage or exiting markets altogether.”

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The Colorado River Crisis is Here States fail to reach a deal; Lake Powell Deadpool appears imminent

The impasse among the states is pushing Glen Canyon Dam closer to the brink. "Aridification is rendering the dam obsolete, at least as a water storage savings account," @landdesk.bsky.social writes: www.landdesk.org/p/the-colora...

What makes all this coverage mildly frustrating is... look, if I drove to my job five times a week, I would be paying between $20 and $30 in gas. That's between $1000 and $1500 a year. If I keep my car ten years, that's $10k to $15k. You make up the cost on the back end!

Recycling startups test limits of private solutions to deluge of waste in Lagos OJUELEGBA, Nigeria — On the bustling streets of this central Lagos neighborhood, it’s easy to buy a drink. Hawkers weave between buses and motorcycles with wheelbarrows of bottled water and canned…

Lagos generates nearly 5.5 million metric tons of waste each year, yet the formal system handles less than half.

About 40% is recyclable, and firms like Pakam Technology Limited are racing to recover the 6,000 tons discarded daily. But weak enforcement still hampers progress.

The Nation’s Largest Public Utility Is Going Back to Coal - Truthdig The Tennessee Valley Authority once prided itself on political independence. Data center demand and political pressure have it changing course from clean energy.

The Tennessee Valley Authority just voted to keep two coal plants open that were scheduled to close. It also dropped renewable energy as a priority. Trump appointees now control the board.

In Michigan, Trump’s coal plant orders have a $42 million price tag The Trump administration ordered a Michigan plant to stay open just days before it was set to retire. Now, ratepayers are likely to foot the bill.

The Energy Secretary ordered the coal plant to stay open, approaching a year after it was scheduled to be shut down. The question remains: who's paying for it - West Michigan utility customers or the whole region?

In Michigan, Trump’s coal plant orders have a $42 million price tag
#EnergySky

Encounters with the Archdruid - Wikipedia

It might be time for a re-read of one of my favorite books: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encount...

I spent time on Lake Powell about 20 years ago and though it is (was) a massive lake, the rings of past water levels were already way above the waterline.

Camera traps in China capture first-ever footage of Amur tigress with five cubs Camera traps installed in the world’s largest tiger reserve, in China, have captured footage of an Amur tigress and her five cubs for the first time. Recorded in November 2025, the footage from Northe...

“habitat protections and anti-poaching efforts have allowed tigers to triumphantly return, and today there are 70-80 of them”

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Haha perfect response