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Forest measurements are more important than ever. “Dedicated teams working in the field to collect vital ground-truth data are essential to the success of our missions” - Simonetta Cheli #ESA Director of Earth Observation. Find out more in our latest newsletter. sway.cloud.microsoft/pdXbVpmWR2Io...

Post-doctoral fellow in global forest dynamics: closing date 2nd November

Recovery in logged forests may be much slower than previously assumed! Despite common expectations that logged tropical forests absorb large amounts of carbon as trees regrow, new research led by @amybenno.bsky.social suggests this may not be the case for some. leaf.leeds.ac.uk/news/no-carb... 🌏🧪

🌍 “This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present.” Our 2026 State of the Climate report finds 7 of 16 planetary vital signs at record extremes. The planetary emergency is already here. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Ten rules for robust taxonomy in ecological datasets nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌍🌿 Meet the IAVS Africa Section! Established in July 2021, it connects researchers interested in African vegetation and the continent’s diverse plant communities. 🧵

Logged tropical forests are expected to recover carbon quickly once logging stops. But this is not what we find in central Vietnam: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

We'd like to shine a light on how @universityofleeds.bsky.social and Prof. Beatriz Marimon at #UNEMAT are helping communities to respond to climate crisis in Amazonia. Read more: www.leeds.ac.uk/global/dir-r... @envleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social

No net carbon recovery in logged tropical forests in central Vietnam iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

In Vietnamese logged forests, increasing heat is associated with productivity declines and a lost carbon sink.

The recovery rates we observe are significantly lower than widely used reference levels and rates reported in comparable forests.

Not all logged tropical forests recover carbon once logging stops! In central Vietnam our new analysis led by @amybenno.bsky.social with @domspracklen.bsky.social and colleagues explores why some forests don't behave as the models suggest. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Columbus Day is the most Republican holiday because it's about giving a white man credit for discovering a country he never actually set foot in and where people were already living.

September 2026,according to NASA, had a temperature anomaly of 0.77C vs. 1991/2020 and was the 2nd hottest September on record behind 2023 as follows: 2023:+0.87C 2026:+0.77C 2025:+0.63C 2024:+0.60C 2020:+0.35C

🌴 Postdoc opportunity! GEO-TREES & ForestGEO seek a postdoc to lead TLS work for tropical forest carbon stocks. 📍 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | ⏳ 2 years | 📅 Apply by Oct 30 trustcareers.si.edu/postings/076... #Postdoc #TLS #LIDAR #TropicalForests

⏱️ Only a few days left to apply! 🚨

The new APG V has just been published @journalsysevo.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... An updated classification of Angiosperms It includes a poster! www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-bo... 🧪🌸🌳🌱🍁🌱🌴🌾🌿 #plantsci botany #plantbiology

The rhythm of Amazon deforestation is defined by national politics in Brazil

NEW – Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022 ✍️ By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 💬 With comments from @claudioangelo.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/QqRBFfy

2026 as a whole is now on track to end up roughly tied with 2024 as the warmest year on record in ERA5, at 1.6C above preindustrial. And 2027 waiting in the wings to be quite a bit warmer on the back of a record-setting El Nino event.

Flowers of a West Australian Shrub and Kangaroo Feet https://www.wikiart.org/en/marianne-north/flowers-of-a-west-australian-shrub-and-kangaroo-feet-1880

Led by Brhenda Santos and Robson Borges, our analysis of 300 forest plots helps reveal the climate sensitivity and biomass distribution of Brazil's amazing Caatinga dry forest ecosystem. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

I visited the Amazon rainforest a year ago ahead of the cop conference in Belem. Historically the only thing that has stopped deforestation has been electing Lula da Silva has Brazilian president. www.economist.com/the-americas...

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

A must read for neo-colonial scientists: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here the authors use a global standardized dataset of plant–pollinator interactions to explore geographic patterns of specialization and their dependence on climate variables and taxonomic and functional identity 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

15 October: that's the deadline to OBJECT to LBA's plan for more night flights. There's a step by step guide on our website - please ask your family, friends, neighbours, social groups... to OBJECT too! www.galba.uk/our-campaign...

"Long-term datasets are crucial to tracking endogenous and exogenous changes to forest development in the global change era." Here is an amazing one from a temperate rainforest: reporting 72 years, mostly near-stasis and then more rapid climate-driven change.

Accelerated tree mortality after a half-century of stability in an old-growth forest: Insights from a 72-year study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Call for Papers: 🌳Discover Forests @springernature.com Special Issue "Legacy Forest Data – Curation, Digitization, and Use for Long-Term Forest Research" Guest Editors: @hjboehmer.bsky.social & Sheila Ward | 🔗 link.springer.com/collections/... #AcademicSky #EcoEvo #ForestScience #OpenScience

For years I've been told that aviation emissions are negligible, so don't worry your little head about them. But I've kept pointing out that there are - and will be - no good technical solutions, and they'll keep growing. Now we know just how big the problem is. www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-heathrow...

Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

Diversity in food plants is essential to human and planetary health. On farms, in diets, and in many other areas of food systems, this diversity has undergone enormous change globally, including significant decline. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧵1/2 #ThomasReview #CropDiversity

I have a new piece out in Nature today on the record-breaking 2026/2027 El Niño, what impacts we should expect, and how governments can prepare. The Niño3.4 region is currently running more than 1C hotter than any prior event on record, and we remain months away from the peak www.nature.com/artic...

Now tell me again why we shouldn’t act on climate change… The current, record El Niño could contribute to 451,000 additional heat-related deaths over the next six months. El Niño is natural. The increasingly dangerous heat baseline we’re experiencing is not. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🌴 Postdoctoral Fellowship — GEO-TREES 🛰️ STRI-ForestGEO seeks a Postdoc to develop satellite-based methods estimating tropical forest biomass ( #AGB), local to national scales. 📍 Panama City 🇵🇦 | 🕐 2 yrs Details: forestgeo.si.edu/postdoctoral... #RemoteSensing #GEO_TREES #ForestGEO #Postdoc #Hiring

JOB opportunity www.bc3research.org/en/job_offer...

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URGENT! Three weeks to stop Leeds Bradford Airport expansion. It doesn't take long to object (15 mins or so) but it is very important. The deadline is 25 Sept. There's a step by step guide to making an objection here: www.galba.uk/our-campaign... Please make your objection and share with others

“Galea’s research, which is yet to be peer reviewed, found that the greater the background noise, the less likely gibbons were to call. The group living close to the highway called in 36% of recordings – far less than the seaside group (71.4%), and the hiking trail group (84.6%).”

It’s WHAT we eat (beef especially) that matters for climate. Not so much WHERE it is grown.

Leopardus tilcayo, the first new cat species discovered in 100 years. Hiding in plain sight in the Bolivian yungas. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Protecting tropical forests is much better for biodiversity and for the climate than restoration. This new article in Science shows why: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our new paper led by Leo Miranda in @science.org - Comparing #Amazon protection strategies reveals that avoiding deforestation is most cost-effective for carbon storage, while avoiding forest disturbance yields the highest benefits for #biodiversity 🌎🪶🌴🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Put south at the top and Brazil takes centre stage! Colours show species richness per 100 km², with green marking the richest areas. Brilliant use of cartography by Brazil’s public statistics agency, IBGE. More of this, please! Source: buff.ly/puQ3B50

🌳 New in Scientific Reports: climate shapes tropical forest carbon stocks indirectly, through forest structure, not directly, as often assumed. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #TropicalForests #ForestEcology

🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴