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Ten facts about land systems for sustainability | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2109217118
Azerbaijan sues Armenia for wartime environmental damage
Azerbaijan sues Armenia for wartime environmental damage
Case brought under Bern convention on nature may set precedent for destruction of biodiversity in war
www.theguardian.com
Das ist der neue Senckenberg-Chef in Görlitz
Das ist der neue Senckenberg-Chef in Görlitz
Institutsdirektor ist jetzt der Biologe Karsten Wesche. Am Mittwoch wurde sein Vorgänger Willi Xylander bei einem ...
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Stabsübergabe in @Senckenberg #Görlitz mit @MPKretschmer. Willi Xylander hat 27 Jahre das Naturkundemuseum mit immensem Einsatz und Geschick geleitet. Danke hierfür!
Inequalities in the production and dissemination of biodiversity conse... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320723000101 This is one of the most exciting and enjoyable piece of writings I have ever participated. @Udadisi @KiwangoWilly @nkasongi @IMwanyoka
What are the perspectives through which people relate to nature? Why are they important?🌿🙏
@ipbes
#ValuesAssessment presents 4 general perspectives to make new typology of values useful for decision-making.
https://ipbes.net/the-values-assessment
via @IPBES
California's average precipitation hasn't changed over the past 125 years. But it is getting more extreme. The red line shows the variability of precipitation.
That's the signal of #climatechange -- more droughts; more floods.
1/ According to the @wef global risks report, 5 out of the top 6 long-term risks are related to the environment.
The top 3 are all climate and weather: mitigation, adaptation and extreme weather
https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023/
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Ich gratuliere Katrin Böhning-Gaese herzlich zu ihrer Berufung in den Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung der Bundesregierung @RNE_DE! Dort kann sie ihr Wissen zum Zukunftsthema Biodiversität & zur nachhaltigen Nutzung der Natur einbringen, für die sich ganz Senckenberg engagiert.
🚨OUT NOW
By partnering with leading data providers, @WWF launches today the new #BiodiversityRiskFilter to help companies & investors assess #BiodiversityRisk using best available global datasets from IBAT, @unepwcmc, @NatCapFinance, and @RepRisk
▶️http://riskfilter.org
It’s that time of the year! 😍🐌🐙🦑🦪
📢Together with @Senckenberg & @malacologica
we're launching #molluscoftheyear 2023!
📝Nominate your favorite #mollusc for free #genome #sequencing. Any living species of mollusc is eligible! ℹ️http://sgn.one/2us #MolluscMonday Pls.RT!
📢#Forschungsnews:#Kolibris Forschungsteam rund um Prof. Michael Hiller entdeckt fehlendes Muskelenzymgen bei Kolibris. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Schwebeflugentwicklung und dem Muskelstoffwechsel wurde durch das Ausschalten des Gens nachgewiesen. 🐦
👉 http://sgn.one/yma
🗺️ Vierzig Prozent der Landoberfläche sind Trockengebiete. Eingebettet in diese Wüsten liegen grüne Inseln und Archipele: die Oasen. Über sie spricht Prof. Dr. Klement Tockner in einem Vortrag der @goetheuni.
📆 19. Januar, 17 Uhr #ffm
👉 Melde dich an: http://ow.ly/uHKp50MpVq5
Plenty of space for European bison and moose in Europe - but not easy to get to! Check out new paper by Hendrik Bluhm BiogeoBerlin in Diversity & Distribution - https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13671 #megafauna #rewilding #LargeHerbivores
New paper on balancing renewable energy expansion with river conservation from many collaborators: @World_Wildlife @nature_org @ERGBerkeley @psrenergy @StanfordWoods @NatCapProject @Cornell @utrgv @OfficialUoM @ucl @confluvio @MicheleThieme @marcgoichot
Balancing renewable energy and river resources by moving from individual assessments of hydropower projects to energy system planning
As governments and non-state actors strive to minimize global warming, a primary strategy is the decarbonization of ...
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Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063#.Y8DwTsPFRuI.twitter
On a ten year time horizon, the World Economic Forum ranks environmental risks nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 10. https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023/digest/
👉 The new World Economic Forum – Global Risks Report 2023 is out.
Below, the global risks ranked by severity over the long term (10 years) - top 4 related to #biodiversityloss and #climatechange
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2023.pdf
@UNBiodiversity @IPBES @VSinkevicius @KhattabiZakia
A new book -River culture: life as a dance to the rhythm of the waters - is out with a chapter on the Danube- The Danube: On the Environmental History, Present, and Future of a Great European River: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000382802
teamwork at @BOKUvienna @BOKU_SEC
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7-9 Feb in Brussels - DiSSCo Futures: A journey of 6 years wrapped up in 3 days. We mark the end of the Preparatory Phase of @DiSSCoEU and the wrap up of @DiSSCoPrepare @SynthesysEU & @MobiliseAction. Limited places available - Register at https://www.dissco.eu/dissco-futures/
Important paper: "Landscape dynamics and diversification of the megadiverse South American freshwater fish fauna" by Cassemiro + 16 coauthors, #openaccess in PNAS. http://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2211974120
Twitter changed science — what happens now it’s in turmoil?
Twitter changed science — what happens now it’s in turmoil?
Nature - The microblogging platform has transformed research communication, but its future is in doubt.
www.nature.com
Published: RePP Africa - spatially explicit and open accessible data on existing and proposed wind, solar, and hydropower plants for entire Africa.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01922-1
Published: RePP Africa – a georeferenced and curated database on existing and proposed wind, solar, and hydropower plants
RePP Africa â a georeferenced and curated database on existing and proposed wind, solar, and hydropower plants
Scientific Data - RePP Africa – a georeferenced and curated database on existing and proposed wind, solar, and hydropower plants
www.nature.com
Die Nutzung externer kontrollierter Vokabulare bei der digitalen Erfassung von Objekten ermöglicht die Bildung von institutionsübergreifenden, weltweiten Informationsnetzen. Empfehlungen für die Vokabularauswahl bietet unsere Handreichung https://www.museumsbund.de/digitale-grunderfassung/
Africa goes renewable. The Renewable Power Plant database for Africa (RePP Africa) is a spatially explicit database for existing and proposed renewable power plants in Africa. @uni_tue and @Senckenberg
https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/RePP_Africa_a_georeferenced_and_curated_database_on_existing_and_proposed_wind_solar_and_hydropower_plants/6058565/1
Fish in Dnipro River in Kherson after another shelling of the city.
A reminder that war also has a huge negative impact on the environment and nature.
https://t.me/jurnko/5686 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1610266570508455936
Twitter feed video.
Study reveals cumulative damage from dams created by small hydropower plants and small-scale fish farming puts Amazon’s aquatic ecosystem at risk of “death by a thousand cuts.”
Series of small dams pose big cumulative risk to Amazon’s fish and people
Large hydropower dams that obstruct the Amazon basin have long come under fire for their environmental and cultural ...
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New work by @NINAnature colleagues shows that hydropower development negatively impacts salmon body size due to earlier maturity and size declines within age-classes. An unexpected result on top of the widespread reductions in salmon abundance @PNASNews https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207634119
@KlementTockner & #StefanWintels: Die #COP15 war zugleich Alarmsignal und ermutigendes Zeichen. Jetzt gilt: Wir brauchen eine grundlegende Transformation unserer Lebensweise und eine Wirtschaftsordnung, in der die Natur einen echten Preis hat!🌱@KfW 👇
Nachhaltiger Schutz der Natur heißt nicht in allen Fällen „Betreten verboten!“
Biodiversität gehört in die DNA unserer Wirtschaftsordnung. Den Beschlüssen des Montrealer Gipfels müssen rasch Taten ...
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In this year’s staff-favorite articles: A new water cycle just dropped, and humans are the headliner.
@USGS updated the diagram for the first time in 20 years, and our very own @jrdscience broke the news.
Not Your Childhood Water Cycle - Eos
The USGS just debuted a complete remaking of the water cycle diagram—with humans as headliners.
eos.org
Our simulation of a flood event on the Ohio River has somewhat become a signature map for Fathom. Because of how it represents changes in terrain over time.
We love to create visualizations like this - where would like to see us simulate next using our Global Flood Map?
Twitter feed video.
140,000 soccer fields of forest in one month. The Amazon, the lungs of the earth, being destroyed before our eyes.
If the Amazon goes it’s taking us with it. #ActOnClimate
#deforestation #brazil #vote #rewilding #greennewdeal
Twitter feed video.
Fairly new set of global roads data from Microsoft: 47.8 million km of roads for a huge chunk of the world (note format is tsv)
"The data is freely available for download and use under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)."
#opendata
https://github.com/microsoft/RoadDetections
📢 Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt für den Stab Kommunikation am Standort Frankfurt eine*n ambitionierte*n Leiter*in (m/w/d) Kommunikation und Marketing.
👉 Alle Infos zur Stelle & zur Bewerbung: https://www.senckenberg.de/de/karriere/fachkraefte/#content-0003_4
#stellenausschreibung #jobs #frankfurt
The worldwide networks of spread of recorded alien species | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. @Senckenberg @HannoSeebens https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201911120
Come work with us! We're looking for an experienced and passionate
✨Head of Communications and Marketing ✨
to lead a high-performing team and play a key role in promoting cutting-edge biodiversity research @Senckenberg
Interested? Apply by 29.01.👉http://sgn.one/ve0
Good news for European terrestrial wildlife. Freshwater life remains in peril.
Here’s a 20 second film that it took me 40 hours to make and it’s called ‘You can never be forgiven for what you’ve done’ or something like that
Twitter feed video.
The science is clear & time is running out—we must go from harming our planet to healing it.
We need to rethink the way we live and the way we consume. There is #OnlyOneEarth. We must take care of it.
Facts & figures: https://bit.ly/3eWvpkz #YearInReview
Just got the best Christmas news from a colleague in #Madagascar: after years of #drought it is raining big time in the South. This is how a river there looked like during our visit for @dwnews in October, with people digging in the riverbed looking for water - and this is now:
So: how exactly do you put the 'Merry' into the 'Christmas'? 😉Wouldn’t it be great if there was, say, an #equation for it? 😇Oooh, we’re so glad you asked!😁Here’s one of our absolute favourite seasonal tweets: the merry X-ma(th)s equation! 🎄🎅🎉❄️Happy Christmas, everyone!🤗
SPK-Präsident @hparzinger beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit der Zerstörung von Kulturgut. Warum geschieht dies? Welche Motive stecken dahinter, wertvolle Zeugen der Vergangenheit auszulöschen? Und was bedeutet das generell für Gesellschaft und Forschung?
ZeitGeist Folge 7
Prof. Hermann Parzinger ist Präsident der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Er beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit der ...
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Möchten Sie die interne und externe Kommunikation einer hervorragend positionierten, dynamsichen und zukunftsweisenden Forschungsinstitution, d.h. von @Senckenberg, leiten? Ein Team von zwölf engagierten Mitarbeiter:innen unterstützt Sie dabei!
https://www.senckenberg.de/de/karriere/fachkraefte/#content-0003_4
Artenschutz ist Wirtschaftssache: Unternehmen brauchen Biodiversitätspläne – und zwar alle https://www.tagesspiegel.de/internationales/artenschutz-ist-wirtschaftssache-unternehmen-brauchen-biodiversitatsplane--und-zwar-alle-9065638.html via @Tagesspiegel
"In a globally changing climate, precipitation patterns are becoming more difficult to predict across the world, and water scarcity may increase in many regions."
Transforming Agriculture in a Water-Scarce World - Latitude
PLOS Water's newest Call for Papers welcomes contributions from all sectors who play a role in preparing our food chains for a drier future.
latitude.plos.org
2007 beschloss die Stadt Ljubljana, 12 Hektar der Innenstadt autofrei zu machen. Lediglich 40% der Einwohner unterstützen damals das Vorhaben. 10 Jahre lehnten 97% der Menschen es ab, die Innenstadt wieder für den Autoverkehr zu öffnen. Niemand wollte den alten Zustand zurück❤️
#Gastkommentar – #Biodiversität gehört in die DNA unserer Wirtschaftsordnung. Den Beschlüssen des Montrealer Gipfels müssen rasch Taten folgen, fordern @KlementTockner und #StefanWintels. #COP15 @Senckenberg
Nachhaltiger Schutz der Natur heißt nicht in allen Fällen „Betreten verboten!“
Biodiversität gehört in die DNA unserer Wirtschaftsordnung. Den Beschlüssen des Montrealer Gipfels müssen rasch Taten ...
www.handelsblatt.com
