Erle Ellis
@erleellis.bsky.social
Exploring the ecology of an increasingly human planet. Prof. Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC Anthromes, Anthroecology & Anthropocene https://anthroecology.org/people/ellis/
Overshoot makes eyes glaze over. Cheaper, cleaner power makes people lean in. 👍 Sell the plan, not the warning. ☀️⚡️💡 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets
Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.
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After years of testing, USDA has just approved releasing GMO American chestnut trees, potentially giving us the chance to bring back an iconic species destroyed in the early 20th century by an imported disease. (Chauvinistic note: I've had American chestnuts, and they are better than European ones.)
USDA Approval Advances Efforts to Restore the American Chestnut
Efforts by researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to restore the American chestnut tree to the American landscape took a significant leap forward with an approved desi...
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Call for Abstracts & Sessions Happy to chair Groningen Sustainability Conference 2027 (gsc.beyondsdg.eu) and invite you to share SDG lessons for sustainability beyond 2030 on 5–10.04.2027 at @rug.nl. Submis. Deadline: 25.10.2026 @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @iiasa.ac.at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
Do you interact with "nature"? How much? The Personalised Ecology Index... @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/XR2KNJ...
Join the Groningen Sustainability Conference 2027 ( @rug.nl) to share research, ideas & experiences shaping sustainable development beyond 2030. 5–10 April 2027 | University of Groningen Deadline for Submission: 25 Oct 2026 Submit: gsc.beyondsdg.eu #GSC2027 #Sustainability #SDGs #Beyond2030
At Our Trees, we are discussing pawpaw, which has become very popular in recent years. Are you a pawpaw fan? Read the story and take the quiz.
The PawPaws Ripen
The rise of America’s largest native fruit
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I really like buffalo. This is the Shoshone herd, about 320 animals, in the Wind River reservation yesterday afternoon. It's sobering to consider that the entire world 's supply of free-ranging bison in 1885 was one-fourth the size of this group. We almost lost these guys.
Ethics & Planetary Boundaries A multidisciplinary approach to the ethics of the planetary boundaries, ranging from international law to Indigenous knowledge and from science to art, and .. @simonmeisch.bsky.social @tankisandre.bsky.social @erleellis.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
Ethics and Planetary Boundaries
Cambridge Core - Ethics - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries
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Climate Doom is not a mobilization strategy. 🏭🔥🚒😨😒 New @pnas.org: Psychological inoculation against climate doom doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
How much is your country doing to enable people and nature to thrive together? Find out @agu.org 2026! Nature Relationship Index (NRI) hdr.undp.org/nature-relat... @undp.org #AGU26
What comes after acknowledging? "Earth is our relative". www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/o...
Opinion | I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating. (Gift Article)
Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.
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Peak Language? 1000 BCE to 1000 CE? The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...
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"To the extent that you become the ecology that supports you, it becomes more and more your responsibility"
Erle Ellis@erleellis.bsky.social · 2mo agoEthics and Planetary Boundaries www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
Politics is Killing Science in the USA. 🙈🙉🙊 New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists @policyhound.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...
New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists
Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions
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Welp, the transformation of the US into a country that props up misinformation over science is now complete (via @scottpwaldman.bsky.social )👇 www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans
The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans - Nature
Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term…
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The limits of coexistence - with wolves 🌍🌎 www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...
Science Magazine - Hour of the wolf
Last summer, a woman walking in a nature park near Utrecht, Netherlands, saw what she thought was a big, playful dog hurtling toward her two young boys in the distance.
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Stewardship practices enhance nature’s contributions to people 🌍 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Stewardship practices enhance nature’s contributions to people
Abstract. Humans shape landscapes through the management of organisms and ecosystems, either degrading or sustaining biodiversity. Despite their essential
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Just going to drop this here since we haven't talked about NSF strangling geoscience for about a month. It's still strangling geoscience (and everything else) with 9% the number of grants issued compared to the 2021-2024 average. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
From beliefs to outcomes: How human conceptions of nature shape environmental trajectories 🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Global Land Programme's inaugural Week of Land System Science is happening next week June15-19! Check out the schedule at a glance and RSVP to the sessions you're interested in attending on the GLP Hub. members.glp.earth/page/week-of...
