I was swimming in the Adria near Venice 1.5 weeks ago, the water was unusually warm, all locals said - I think it had like 26, 27 degrees. The last two days even our small lakes near Bremen, where we've been with the kids, had 25-26 degrees - usually, they're about 20-22...that's really worrying

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · last mo.

How much does normalcy bias affect media reporting? Here is a chart of global sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) from 1982 to 2026 with the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 omitted. As of June 27th, global SSTs have set 26 daily record highs in a row. Media? Is there anybody out there?

The world’s highest 10% of spenders are responsible for environmental damage estimated to be worth US $1.7–5.7 trillion (at 2017 values) each year, according to research in @commssustain.nature.com: spklr.io/63328E3QGk 🧪

Environmental damages of the top ten percent consumers exceed global climate and biodiversity funding gaps - Communications Sustainability

Biodiversity loss and carbon emissions dominate the damages caused by the top ten percent of consumers, with the highest bills seen in wealthier countries, according to a study monetizing this group’s planetary boundary impacts

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Even though I'm more a geographer than an agricultural economist there are always very interesting talks for me that relate to agricultural land use, e.g. carbon farming as in yesterday's session where @danielmu11er.bsky.social presented 2/3

Millions4Earth ist eine Initiative, die uns zurück ins Handeln bringen soll, sowohl in Bezug auf den #Fußabdruck (eigene Emissions-Reduktion) als auch auf de #Handabdruck (Multiplikation auf andere und politisches Engagement). Werde Teil einer wachsenden Bewegung für ehrlichen #Klimaschutz. 👇

Millionen tun was · Millions4.earth

Millionen tun was (für's Klima). Lass es uns sichtbar machen! Ich bin dabei! Du auch? Dein Handeln sichtbar machen und Politikwechsel einfordern.

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Application deadline has been extended until April 27!

Global Land Programme@glp-earth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Mark your calendars for the Global Land Programme's Week of Land System Science - June 15-19, 2026 and don't forget to submit your session by April 15th: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New paper in AJAE by @lisenhardt.bsky.social, @stefanseifert.bsky.social, Silke Hüttel and others: "Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity,". See the AJAE post 👇️ for details and results!

American Journal of Agricultural Economics@ajae-aaea.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New AJAE paper: "Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity," by Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Advancing optical #EarthObservation for #EU policies! We systematically link EU land-related agricultural & environmental legislation to EO-derived variables from next-generation optical missions (CHIME, Sen-2 NG) and assess their TRLs for operational uptake. ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🙏 Huge thanks to all contributors: @K. Ansbak Petersen, @danielmu11er.bsky.social, M. Rudbeck Jepsen, @kelewinska.bsky.social, N. Dolu, and L. Müller! 📥 Download v1.3 on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1867... #EuropeLAND #EU #HorizonEurope #LandUse #LULUC #Agriculture #OpenData

Our new article (doi.org/10.1038/s432...) shows how climate change is reshaping water use and irrigation demand across Central Asia.

Climate change has increased crop water consumption in Central Asia despite less water-intensive cropping - Communications Earth & Environment

Total crop water consumption increased by 10% from 1987 to 2019 in Central Asia’s Amu Darya Basin, mainly driven by climate change as less water-intensive crops were adopted, according to analyses of ...

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Defossilize our chemical world - and beware of biofuels... @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#IAMO and its partners completed two #GEO_WB6 training courses on #RemoteSensing and #GIS in Tirana in 2025. 36 participants from five Western Balkan countries strengthened skills in #QGIS, #Python and Google Earth Engine using open-source tools. www.iamo.de/en/news/news...

Training courses on remote sensing and geographic information systems in Tirana

In the frame of the project “Establishing a Geoinformation Centre for the Western Balkans” (GEO-WB6), IAMO, the Agricultural University of Tirana and the Department of Geoinformatics at the Paris Lodr...

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Biodiversität ist kein Luxus! Sie ist die Grundlage für Klimastabilität, Ernährung und Gesundheit. Leibniz Biodiversität @pik-potsdam.bsky.social & seine Mitglieder @mfnberlin.bsky.social & @sgn.one berichten bei @table.media über wissenschaftliche Erkenntniswege in die Praxis.🔗 tinyurl.com/2bjpst6c

In den Ukraine-Analysen dokumentieren wir mit Satellitendaten die massiven Kriegsschäden an ukrainischen Wäldern: Nahe der Front wurden von 2021 bis 2025 38% der Bestände beschädigt oder zerstört – mit gravierenden Folgen für #Klima, #Biodiversität und #Landwirtschaft: doi.org/10.31205/UA....

Very nice storymap on our paper on fire and grazing in Kazakhstan --> storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/fc91...

Grazing Fire

Changes in grazing patterns explain post-Soviet fire trends on the Eurasian steppe better than climate

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Check out @ranjmurali.bsky.social's new paper "Understanding multiple pathways of the impacts ofsocio-economic shocks on large carnivores" in plain language! relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/09/18/p...

Plain language summary: What happens to large carnivores when human societies experience shocks?

By Ranjini Murali, Altynai Adabaeva, Sixto Angulo, Rosario Arispe, Matthias Baumann, Arash Ghoddousi, Amirhossein Khaleghi Hamidi, Martin Jansen, Leili Khalatbari, Igor Khorozyan, Oswaldo Maillard,…

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Exciting vacancy at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: Professorship of Farm Management in the Digital Transformation uni-goettingen.de/en/701219.html

📢 ZMO is pleased to announce 1 PhD Position on Traditional Courts and State Law in Central Asia. This is one of 17 fully-funded PhD positions in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network “Sociology of Authoritarian Law. Insights from Central Asia” (SOCIAL-DN). www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Ka...

ICMY ‼️ GLP land system science experts published our 8️⃣ policy principles for sustainable & just land systems. Following these principles from agenda setting to formulation to implementation can help improve land policy. @glp-earth.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @camunigeography.bsky.social

Open Letter by scientists to the Council: "Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”. Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025, 2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets. zenodo.org/records/1739...

Global deforestation hasn’t slowed in any significant way in the four years since 127 countries pledged to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by 2030. The newly published 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment shows that nations are 63% off track from meeting their zero-deforestation target.

Global goal of zero deforestation by 2030 is severely off track

Global deforestation hasn’t slowed in any significant way in the four years since 127 countries pledged to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by 2030. The newly published 2025 Forest…

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Asuper interesting read on #Russia’s grain “diplomacy” in sub-saharan Africa

Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS)@zois.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Russia is exporting more and more grain to African states. Yet, food security in many of these countries is deteriorating. In the new #ZOiS_Spotlight, agricultural economist Pavlo Martyshev explains how Russia is advancing its own geopolitical interests by trading with autocratic governments.

New GLP ECN webinar! Storytelling for science communication & land systems transformation 📅 Sept 30, 2025 | ⏰ 10 AM ET with Dr. Nicholas Magliocca (Univ. of Alabama) Come learn how storytelling can power science & transformation. 👉 Register here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🦋 The Land System Group is now on Bluesky! We're excited to share some interesting insights from our research group at IAMO. Keep up to date by following us.

My colleague, Patrick Meyfroidt, has 3 PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions as part of a new ERC grant on 'land use, sustainability, and democratic backsliding'. Hoping to reach Canadian candidates through this post. landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-3... landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-3...

Our new study combines snow-water equivalent data with #climate teleconnections in an ensemble-stacking workflow to improve seasonal #streamflow forecasts in #CentralAsia at various lead times: hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/450KElr

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

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#NewPaper led by Brett R. Hankerson, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @kampjohannes.bsky.social @danielmu11er.bsky.social and Florian Schierhorn out now in Regional Environmental Change @iamo.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Changes in #grazing patterns explain post-Soviet fire trends on the Eurasian #steppe better than #climate. More empirical evidence that the build up of biomass due to the collapse of livestock systems made Kazakhstan a global #fire hotspot: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌿 Join Our Team as Postdoctoral Researcher in Regional Climate Downscaling at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Switzerland and lead the development of regional, highresolution climate scenarios for Armenia. @wslresearch.bsky.social @wsl-dme.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/273855/1747/...

The data cover 19 EU countries with up to 17 years of annual data. It includes detailed crop codes, farm identifiers, and organic cultivation status—crucial for analysing land-use changes and farming practices

Daniel Müller@danielmu11er.bsky.social · last yr.

A comprehensive field- and farm-level land-use dataset from the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) is now available: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #OpenData #EUAgri #LandUse #SustainableFarming