Devastating.
I want Colorado Senator @hickenlooper.senate.gov to spend one hour fighting this for every $1 he has received from the fossil fuel industry in his political career and to give up sleep while he does it. Hint: it is in the millions.
And if he doesn’t succeed he needs to resign.
“We used a nature-based solution to heal an ecosystem, and by doing so, you not only heal ecosystems, but you heal people, you heal culture and you heal economies,” she said, “I just wanted the whole world to know it’s possible, we can do it, because we need hope right now.”
🌊 The new @merlin-project.bsky.social podcast explores how nature-based solutions can help support people and nature through freshwater restoration
📻 Tune in here!
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This is great work, with potential application across multiple disciplines, and important implications for restoration and other long term management strategies.
GOP Senate bill mandates 3 million acres of public land to be sold, but NOW authorizes ANOTHER 255 million acres for sale. This is 40 percent of all public lands! An environmental disaster. Please call your senators, it takes less than five minutes. wessiler.substack.com/p/lee-daines...
"A Wyoming-based energy company has received approval from the USFS to pipe natural gas across 18 mi of the Caribou-Targhee NF. The construction would clearcut a 50-foot-wide right-of-way thru 6 inventoried roadless areas in WY and ID." 🌏 columbiainsight.org/proposed-pip...
Defunding responses to climate change does not make the need for this work go away. Remember, when they do this they are simply shifting the costs around, and in most cases actually increasing them. All in order to extract more profit from destruction, leaving all of us to pay.
An individual presenting weather data on large screens in a meeting room with several experts focused on the discussion. Photo credit: NOAA Research.
NOAA Research feeds National Weather Service forecasts: it created & continuously improves the computer weather models NWS uses to generate forecasts, including for severe weather.
NOAA Research faces elimination. Learn more & contact your reps: bit.ly/4cz2RtC #SaveNOAA
This is not their data to destroy. We all own it. Add this to the long list of suits being brought.
The Nature Conservancy web page for priority landscape “Gulf of America”
I guess The Nature Conservancy doesn’t follow AP style
Hey @nature.org. How about explaining why you are updating references to the Gulf of Mexico in your docs/website to now reflect "Gulf of America". Literally, how about you explain yourselves?
A mulched area with thousands of native plants planted in it. Each plant is protected by a blue plastic tube and there is a roughly 2-3 foot tall wood stake marking the location of each plant. This is part of a restoration project.
A restored stream flowing through a restoration area with willow live stakes, large wood, and thousands of planted native plants.
A restored stream flowing through a restoration area with willow live stakes, large wood, and thousands of planted native plants. This is just downstream from the other picture. It shows the stream just starting to flow under a bridge that replaced a fish blocking culvert.
More restoration pictures! These pictures show a riparian planting all along a restored stream. This was part of another culvert replacement project. The culvert blocked salmon from going upstream. It was replaced with a bridge, and the stream was restored and thousands of plants were planted. 🌎
It has never stopped blowing my mind, the incredible situation that the gas industry has created for itself
Not only do they create their own demand, they pair that with panicked media drops about shortfalls in "energy supply". It's so nuts how effective the lies are, too
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1) It is wholly inaccurate as arctic ecosystems are diverse and provide critical functions for indigenous communities and planetary balance
2) it is the language that is frequently used to justify fossil fuel extraction and general extractive industry/ environmental degradation
It to take anything away from the central points of your piece (which is enlightening), since some of your work focuses on the language of climate/fossil fuel industry, might I suggest you consider a different descriptor for the arctic than “frozen wasteland”?
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Interesting results from this study and potential application to #ecologicalrestoration. If also observed in other plants, might seedling stock be 'trained' for greater success on sites that are water stressed?
🌊Integrating Indigenous and traditional knowledge-holders in policymaking is essential for achieving equity, restorative justice and #decolonization in ocean governance.
🌿The Ocean Panel's new paper explores how: https://buff.ly/4f0j2Qo
Awesome but damnit all to hell, #grasslands cover around 40% of terrestrial Earth and they need restored too. As do wetlands. If we could just bring a teensy bit of nuance to these huge policy declarations, I’d appreciate it.
#ecorestore #restoration
So true! Tree planting is so ingrained in the popular vision of restoration, it is easy to over state (or greenwash) the relative importance and effectiveness of it. Reforestation has a role to play but we risk not seeing the proverbial forest (ecosystem) for the trees.
tree-planting in tundra can accelerate rather than decelerate climate warming
Tree-planting in the Arctic can accelerate rather than decelerate climate warming 🌲 Check out our recent paper in Nature Geoscience superbly led by @jeep4x4.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (figure credit @laurabp.bsky.social)
Yet again seen a perfectly fine ecological restoration project presented as rewilding
Intervening to direct a system towards a target state is a valid conservation approach,
but that is restoration, not rewilding
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With ecosystem services valued globally at ~ USD $125-145 trillion per year, the value of #climateresilience and #ecologicalrestoration projects is evident. We need more restoration, across more diverse ecosystems, with long-term monitoring to improve outcomes and build knowledge.
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Community-based #ecologicalrestoration provides a key mechanism to improve project success, if collaboration and acknowledgement of power inequities are front and center. Incorporating local and Indigenous knowledge leads to better restoration outcomes.
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New Mexico will get over $1M from Bureau of Land Management this fiscal year for ecosystem restoration projects, from watershed restoration to campground improvements and native seed development. All funded through the Infrastructure Law we passed last Congress.
New paper by Lima et al shows a 30yr+ case study a National Park that preventative invasive species management and retreatment can keep invasive cover below 1% even with changing climates - great reason why we need dedicated funds for maintenance!
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The only way to truly tackle climate change is to restore our natural habitats
#Rewild #ClimateAction
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Response of aspen to a warming climate along a latitudinal gradient in the Rocky Mountains, USA #OpenAccess #climate 🧪🌎
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Woman scientist (me) standing on a hill overlooking a river floodplain in Alaska.
Just a scientist, standing above a boreal floodplain filled with boglands, asking you to respect and admire bogs. Keepers of carbon, cleaners of water, springboards of unique biodiversity - peatlands globally need our attention and protection.
