De Colorado River bereikt al jaren de zee niet meer met veel gevolgen. Bovenstrooms wordt het water afgetapt of door dammen tegen gehouden, 90% van de vegetatie is verdwenen. Gaat dit ook met de Rijn gebeuren? #droogte #strijdomhetwater www.duurzaamnieuws.nl/deze-rivier-...

Deze rivier bereikt de zee al jaren niet meer

In 1998 bereikte deze rivier voor het laatst op natuurlijke wijze de Golf van Californië. In de Mexicaanse delta zijn bossen en moerassen grotendeels verdwenen, terwijl het water stroomopwaarts wordt ...

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IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions. "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100. gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...

'It achieves growth rates that no other organism that uses sunlight as an energy source can match. At the same time, it uses sunlight particularly effectively for photosynthesis.' How a desert alga helps us understand plants’ adaptability to extreme environmental conditions rptu.de/en/newsroom/...

How a desert alga helps us understand plants’ adaptability to extreme environmental conditions

At RPTU, we provide future shapers with the knowledge and tools they need to develop and expand their competencies and skills in more than 160 courses of study. We offer the best conditions for this…

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Mer de Glace ice cave 1st May | 2nd Sept. Before/after the multiple 2026 summer heatwaves! 🌡️ 4 months = already 18 m ice thickness loss at this location (1,760 m asl)! 📈 That breaks the 16 m record (from 2022) and the melt season is not over! 🧊🔥 Source: Luc Moreau/Glaciolab

An IPCC stand-off risks a historic climate rupture ft.trib.al/X1SKXvw | opinion

An IPCC stand-off risks a historic climate rupture

Pointless obstruction by governments over publishing scientific climate evaluation is threatening crucial work

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Conference poster sessions – do you attend? Find them useful? Overwhelming, too much information? What if you could find them all in one place and peruse them later? #scicomm #academicchatter @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Conference posters could garner a wider audience, thanks to a new online platform

The staple format also warrants a deeper rethink, some researchers say

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Antarctica may look like a barren wasteland to some, but its soils are home to heterogeneous and diverse microbial communities. A study uncovers how bacteria endemic to the southern continent have adapted to extreme conditions. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Wszt50ZKHZf

We wrote a review paper about bubbles in the ocean, and then the lead author wrote a summary about the paper. Give it a read if you want to know how bubbles affect the exchange of gases between the atmosphere and the ocean. 🌊🧪

How Bubbles Reshape Air-Sea Gas Exchange - Eos

Bubbles produced by breaking waves provide an important but often overlooked pathway for exchanging carbon dioxide, oxygen, and other gases between the ocean and atmosphere.

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I’ve just realised I have a backlog of spring plankton videos to share! I love this one of a sea gooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus) as you can really see the ctenes (the combs that give comb jellies their name) working and the iridescent glow bouncing off them. #marineplankton 🦑

Widespread declines in #plankton across the North East Atlantic ⚠️ A new study has used more than six decades of data to show that plankton abundance is declining across vast swathes of the #NorthEastAtlantic. 🔗 pml.ac.uk/news/decline...

Decline in plankton across North East Atlantic sends stark warning for ocean health

A new study, involving scientists from PML, found there were no habitats assessed as being of ‘Good Environmental Status’ in a region stretching from Portugal to Norway.

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Elevation effects on snow algal albedo Almela et al. @algopablo.bsky.social @scotthotaling.bsky.social @drlimnology.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Herein I reflect on our national algae problem. www.vox.com/climate/4929...

Why Trump is losing his war against algae

4 scientists explain why the Reflecting Pool may be green instead of blue on July 4.

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Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4mo ago

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

An alpine meadow at Logan Pass, Glacier National Park. #Stunday #Landscape #Scenery #Nature #NationalParks #Montana #Hiking

🌍🧊 New paper out in Ambio! We brought together Arctic freshwater experts to identify 77 priority research questions to guide biodiversity science under rapid climate change. 🔓 Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ArcticScience #FreshwaterBiodiversity

Freshwater biodiversity in a rapidly changing Arctic: An expert horizon scan of key research questions - Ambio

Arctic freshwater biodiversity is rapidly changing due to climate warming, resource extraction, infrastructure development, and landscape transformation. To improve understanding, predict future respo...

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Check out this new global mapping tool to understand nutrient pollution sources to lakes across the world! www.ceh.ac.uk/press/new-gl... 🧪 @ukceh.bsky.social @aslo.org @sil-limnology.bsky.social @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social

New global map helps protect the world’s lakes

A new, interactive global map, known as the Global Lakes Explorer, helps scientists, policymakers, educators, and the public to explore where nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen are entering lak...

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As our economic super-organism's appetite for minerals grows, mining the seafloor, an idea from the mid 20th Century, begins to take shape. In this in-depth-review, Adrian Glover and colleagues review the potential impacts of mining on the deep-sea environment. www.cell.com/current-biol...

🌊 From the smallest organisms to top predators, ocean life depends on phytoplankton. But new research from #URIGSO's Keisuke Inomura & colleagues shows climate change could make them less nutritious, potentially reshaping marine food webs. ➡️ Read more from MIT: news.mit.edu/2026/climate...

Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton

As sea surface temperatures rise over the next century, phytoplankton in polar regions will adapt to be less rich in proteins, heavier in carbohydrates, and lower in nutrients overall, according to a…

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Do microbes get more food by swimming or staying still? Turns out both work, and cilia help them pull in nutrients no matter the strategy. buff.ly/vK3GmK5

Should I stay or should I swim

Evolutionary pressures have shaped the feeding behaviours of aquatic microorganisms in alignment with the underlying physics of fluid flow.

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Icy snow at Crater Lake National Park #Cold #Photography #CraterLake #Oregon #Snow #Trees 📷

It's time to apply for PAID summer internships @umflbs.bsky.social ! Note that our internships are open to all and incl field & lab science as well as data science, marketing, environmental law, journalism, & education. Spread the word! attn @umontana.bsky.social flbs.umt.edu/newflbs/educ...

‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake

‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake

Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries

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Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt. Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

Lovely to feature alongside the brilliant Birgit Sattler & Tom Battin in this story about life in Earth's dying ice. www.the-scientist.com/the-ice-is-a...

The Ice is Alive: Uncovering the Vanishing World of Glacial Microbes

Glaciers are flush with microbial life. But, as climate change speeds glacial melting, scientists rush to establish microbial biobanks to preserve them.

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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Do you have new stoichiometric research to share? If so, consider submitting an abstract to our special session SS027. Abstract deadline is Nov 24 (yes, under a week!). Can't wait to see people in Montreal, to spill the tea on all things ratios. @helenaklip.bsky.social #ASLOSIL26

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Meta-analysis shows that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil organic carbon stock - Nature Ecology & Evolution

This meta-analysis finds that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil carbon compared with non-nitrogen-fixing species. Using nitrogen-fixing species for forestation, agriculture and land regeneration might therefore offer a nature-based solution to mitigate climate change.

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The glaciers of the Sierra Nevada have probably existed since the last Ice Age more than 11,000 years ago. The remnants of these glaciers are expected to disappear in the coming decades as temperatures continue to rise. www.latimes.com/environment/...

As California glaciers disappear, people will see ice-free peaks exposed for the first time in millennia

The glaciers of California's Sierra Nevada are disappearing as temperatures rise. Scientists recently found that the glaciers probably have never before melted in human history.

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This is depressing. In my lectures on Freshwater Security @uclgeography.bsky.social, I used to teach about what should be learned about the Aral Sea, as water levels in lake Lake Urmia declined. To see another salt lake disappear is awful for impact on biodiveristy and human livlihoods. #geosky

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In a parallel with the devastating destruction of the Aral Sea, Lake Urmia in Iran -- once one of the world's largest saltwater lakes -- has now also been completely destroyed by overpumping, #water diversions, and increased evaporation from climate change. www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/862...