For #EarthDay, it seems like a great time to share @esajournals.bsky.social Earth Stewardship's special issue, *Transformative Partnerships for a Better World*, which will continuously update as more papers are added to it esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Evidence for a previously overlooked route for microplastics to enter crops and reach plant tissues has implications for ecology and human health
https://go.nature.com/4iblIwc
Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.
Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by Science. scim.ag/4ctpT4Z
New publication.
Sideropoulos, C., & Troumbis, A. Y. (2025). Conservation Culturomics 2.0 (?): Information Entropy, Big Data, and Global Public Awareness in the Anthropocene Narrative Issues. Earth, 6(2), 22.
doi.org/10.3390/eart...
The wildfire that swept through Altadena, California, in January burned houses and cars as well as vegetation, generating smoke that contained a complex mix of toxic chemicals. Weeks later, these chemicals still cling to the soil and remaining structures. Researchers are working intensively to understand the lingering hazards of such urban wildfires.
After wildfires burned houses and brush alike in Los Angeles, researchers have mobilized to understand the health risks posed by urban conflagrations.
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3DV7GR4
This is figure 2, which shows two perspectives on land use as a driver of biodiversity loss and disease emergence.
Introducing Nature Reviews Biodiversity! This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene. https://go.nature.com/42fzUQk 🧪
People in poor communities, who often breathe the worst-quality air, are likely to have more risk factors for brain disorders, stress, lower educational attainment and obesity, compared with those in higher-income areas
https://go.nature.com/3WiPFC9
💦While #precipitation events (drought & wet events) do not necessarily directly impact primary productivity, they may still cryptically influence productivity resilience via shifts in resilience-promoting #plant community properties: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The cost of recovering Australia’s threatened species rdcu.be/d5rpJ
Reside et al estimate that the total cost of implementing all strategies to recover threatened species in their in situ habitat across Australia summed to an estimated AU$583 billion per year
This is figure 1, which shows the incidence of T2D and CVD per 1 million adults attributable to sugar sweetened beverages intake among adults (20+ years) in 184 countries in 2020.
Approximately one in 10 new cases of type 2 diabetes and one in 30 new cases of cardiovascular disease worldwide in 2020 may be attributable to the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, according to a study in Nature Medicine.
https://go.nature.com/4h0ZJrn 🧪
📰Published📰 Afforestation helps soil microbes maintain nutrient balance amid land use changes
https://buff.ly/4gDhKfb
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Plant–soil feedback drives the ‘nursing effect’ on Sitka spruce 🌲 🌏
Provides a mechanistic explanation for both long-held observations of nursing effects in forestry systems and for biodiversity effects in natural woodlands 🌱 🧪
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Atmospheric rivers caused more than $3 billion of damage in California in 2022–2023. But those storms also filled the state’s underground watersheds, causing the ground to warp with its weight.
Invasion stress mitigates climate stress in a brackish marsh amphipod 💦 🌏 🧪
Found that amphipods raised under Phragmites conditions had...
👉better chances of survival
👉greater stores of protein
👉similar body mass and stores of glycogen
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Conceptual framework for our current understanding of tree stem CH4 fluxes
Virtual Issue: Methane emissions from tree stems
Papers that contribute to our understanding of #methane #emissions from tree stems and set out challenges and opportunities for future research.
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1469-8137.Methane-emissions-from-tree-stems
Starry night over Banff
Credit: Yin Hao
Meteor Shower and Orion in Mongolia 🇲🇳
