The BIOME team is on its way to Sardinia! 🚢🌳 Following campaigns in Switzerland & Ecuador, our PhD students are kicking off a new field season studying Mediterranean holm oak forests together with Alberto Tarroni. Proud to partner with FoReSTAS & colleagues from the University of Padua. 👇

Well, this is simply infuriating. Someone's got to fight this in court. BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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The last 11 years were the hottest on record, which is unsurprising and worrying at the same time, because we don’t fully understand why. Thread... 1/n

🗾The poster sessions at #TIBS2026 are a great opportunity to exchange results and ideas, and to meet new people. We enjoy the interaction and atmosphere. And we will leave with a rich set of new ideas and connections.🚀 #Biogeography #Macroecology #Biodiversity #CHELSA @wslresearch.bsky.social

It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK

I’ll be presenting my work: Biome.jl, a flexible package for mechanistic biome simulations at poster 1052 today of #TIBS2026, come chat with me!

TIBS Aarhus 2026@tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our participants at #TIBS2026 are fully engaged, sharing an energetic coffee break while exploring the posters early on.

Exploring the tropical cloud forests of #Guacamayos. 🔎 Foggy, rain-soaked and mild temperatures: #cloudforests are some of the most species- and endemism-rich biomes on Earth. Despite covering only 0.4% of global land, they host 3,700 #species of birds, mammals, amphibians and tree ferns. 🌧️🌳🌿

🌿 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/...

What drives the iconic buttress roots in tropical forests—mechanics or nutrients?🌳 At #EGU25, @haozhima.bsky.social presented his research on “The biogeography & functional understanding of buttress roots in tropical forests”. He’s part of our SNSF Advanced Grant project "BIOME.cc"🌎: rb.gy/r8vy1l

@clechartre.bsky.social held a session on "HP computing for mechanistic prediction of biome distribution" at #EGU25. She presented BIOME4.jl—a hi-res #Julia reimplementation of #BIOME4 to improve performance, modularity & scalability, enabling the simulation of biome dynamics in complex terrains.🌍🖥️

Thrilled to share that we will be participating in the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2025 #EGU25 in #Vienna — with four sessions led by our scientists!🚀 Don’t miss the chance to join their talks and meet them in person for insightful discussions & future collaborations!💡🌱

1/ How often does a major droughts hit the Alps? A deep dive into the data. 🌍 Having free and accessible drought data makes it easy to check how climate change has already impacted a region. Using our global drought dataset envidat.ch#/metadata/gl..., I took a closer look at the Alps. 🧵👇

A piece by my friend Gloria Mariño Briceño on the behind-the-scenes of working with NGOs, and the discrimination, and disrespect of human rights happening in some organizations. To read on page 25. www.linkedin.com/posts/gloria...

Gloria Mariño Briceño on LinkedIn: MER Letter January

Dear LinkedIn Community, The importance of preserving human rights and workers' rights often seems overshadowed in the world of environmental conservation…

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Stay tuned!!

WSL Dynamic Macroecology@wsl-dme.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌳Why are buttress roots almost exclusively found in tropical rainforests? Is it mechanical suppport or nutrient competition? Dr. Haozhi Ma is delving into these fascinating questions to uncover patterns and evolutionary advantages tied to buttress roots.🌎✨ shorturl.at/TtakH

In our new review on 'Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth' led by @weatherwest.bsky.social, we show that global-averaged subseasonal and interannual whiplash have increased substantially in the past and further increases are anticipated with ongoing warming: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Rapid transitions between extreme wet and extreme dry conditions — ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ — have marked environmental and societal impacts. This Review outlines observed and projected changes in hydr...

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NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.