Peter Edwards

Jamaica’s New Climate Commitments Recognize Conservation Value of Coastal Wetlands Jamaica is home to a variety of thriving natural habitats and now, for the first time, has committed to ambitious, measurable targets for the conservation and restoration of its coastal wetlands—namel...

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In California's largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in northern California,have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.

In biggest land-back deal in California history, the Yurok get back the final piece of 73 sq mi of their homeland on the state's far northern Klamath River. Good piece by Grist highlights how this Yurok land deal is just part of the extraordinary changes taking place in this part of N America.

Why Countries Should Invest in Coastal Wetlands Conservation Now This year, coastal countries around the world have an opportunity that could pay dividends for people, nature, and local economies far into the future. That opportunity lies in conserving and restorin...

Good news: A new Pew-supported #BlueCarbon Framework gives governments the tools to fund and prioritize protections for coastal wetlands in #ParisAgreement commitments—a win for people, nature, and climate. www.pew.org/en/research-...

Portraits of the three selected Co-Chairs of the IPBES #SpatialPlanningConnectivity Assessment, along with their names and text that reads "Co-Chairs of the IPBES #SpatialPlanningConnectivity Assessment Announced. Assessment's Technical Support Unit to be hosted by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam."

@mjmartinezharms.bsky.social, Luis Inostroza & Peter Verburg have been selected to lead the @ipbes.net #SpatialPlanningConnectivity Assessment as Co-chairs. Congratulations! 🌍🧪

The technical support unit will be hosted by @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

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Uncertain United States seafood sustainability in a manufactured crisis In 2025, the United States (U.S.) administration issued a new Executive Order (EO), Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness, intensifying efforts t…

Uncertain United States seafood sustainability in a manufactured crisis | heck of a paper title from @dochfroehlich.bsky.social and @jagephart.bsky.social

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Looking forwards to conversations about the Ocean we Envision

How Tearing Down Small Dams Is Helping Restore Northeast Rivers More than 30,000 small dams currently block river tributaries from Maine to Maryland. New initiatives to remove them are aimed at restoring natural flows, improving habitat for aquatic life, and reope...

Dam removals for the win!

There are over 92,000 dams in the US. According to American Rivers, "85 percent of U.S. dams are unnecessary at best and pose risks to public safety at worst, should they collapse and flood downstream communities."

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Trump admin halts NOAA-sponsored studies as DOGE work speeds up The termination orders to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine curtail research on equity in fisheries management and diversity in ocean sciences.

Today's scoop: NASEM has received termination orders for at least two NOAA-sponsored studies, one on equity in fisheries management and another on diversity in ocean sciences. Meanwhile, DOGE activities at the agency continue to ramp up.
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Kloster is a fierce partisan. While he was working as deputy general counsel at OPM in 2020, the Associated Press reported that “Kloster worked as an observer for the Wisconsin Republican Party on election night and was accused of yelling at election workers and police in Green Bay, a claim he disputes.” He was directly involved in efforts to legally challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election by working for a controversial, taxpayer-funded effort in Wisconsin that ultimately found no widespread fraud. Days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, he responded to a tweet raising a scenario that could spark a “civil war” with hand clap emojis between the words “Do it.”

The new general counsel for OPM—the office issuing all those deranged memos—is Andrew Kloster, a self-described “raging misogynist” with a public history of racist comments and a temporary restraining order for domestic violence who most recently worked for Matt Gaetz.

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They're slashing the tires of the government and if you don't call all of your representatives every day, they aren't planning to stop.

This is a taqueria. I doubt there were many undocumented European immigrants (Irish, Polish, Slovakian etc.) at this location. Thanks for sharing however.

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

Are there any reports of ICE raids in (pick a random city) Cleveland OH - of Irish Pubs? Or establishments owned X Eastern European country. Because let me tell you … lots of people who have overstayed their welcome or similarly “undocumented” work in those places. Just wondering out loud 🤔

🦑 Our Climate-Resilient Fisheries Webinar Series continues today at 2pm ET w/ Understanding the Role of Habitat and Life History in Climate Vulnerability of Fisheries.

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This time without the account typo:
Starting now (From ScientistRebellion.bsky.social): How Can We Exploit Polluters’ Vulnerabilities? Clues from Some Movements That Won
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 3:00 PM Greenwich Mean
Link: us06web.zoom.us/j/83108227151

Cold Winter Morning. We may not know where the path leads but we must navigate it with caution … Jan 22 2025

Let it shine let it shine

Indeed. Just saw your insta post. Following on this platform

Regenerative farmers can be sane, scientifically literate, Black, Indigenous, non-religious, non-crunchy, non-alt-right, feminist, accepting of plant based diets, urban born, and a heterosexual male, all at the same time.

Retweet this and/or follow me to see what that looks like.

lol - I’m sure “Leakage” would like to have a word

3 killed in dispute over farm well water share | Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar News - Times of India Dharashiv: A long-running family dispute over the sharing water from a farm well in the parched Marthwada region took a deadly turn on Sunday night.

At the Pacific Institute, we track violence over water. Here's the first new entry for 2025:

"3 killed in dispute over farm well water share"

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Thinking a lot about Jimmy Carter, born a white, rural man in 1924 in a strictly apartheid Georgia and how he became a champion for racial justice and human rights, demonstrating once again that racism, xenophobia, crass and selfish individualism, are always a choice.

Just to sum up the ocean policy headlines from today: "Donald Trump is mad the Elon Musk is dominating the news cycle and is rolling out some of his all-time not-going-to-happen bangers."

Welcome new arrivals! I’m a retired Prof of Epidemiology who did cancer research before helping start a 9000-person cohort study of the acute and long-term effects of COVID19. I’m now the co-chair of the Communications Committee for Defending Public Health, a large organization of PH professionals…

Thanks Emma! Just getting around to this list! Thanks for adding me as well

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Have you met the amazing people in my #Jamaica starter pack? Get to know them. Follow them! 🇯🇲 @candicekstewart.bsky.social

potatoes 1%
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%

someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying

(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)

I have so much to say about this Zuckerberg move. Maybe later in the week.

A stirring plea - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday THE STIRRING appeal recently made by Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne at The Hague for action on climate change was a clear and compelling statement of why the world must act on this i...

Comments by #Antigua PM at the ICJ on climate change...
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