How do we scale up & scale out agroecology across Europe? Researchers, farmers, policymakers & practitioners tackled that question at @agtransect.bsky.social final event in Brussels Full recordings are available, including discussions on: • lessons from 11 Innovation Hubs 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s116...

Comprehensive article about the Flamingo Revolution in #Albania published by @earthislandjournal.bsky.social My contribution with focus on the impact of Vlora airport for the eventual alteration & destruction of #Vjosa #Narta ecosystem. @euronatur.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

How a Trump Family-Tied Luxury Resort Sparked Albania’s “Flamingo Revolution”

What started as a fight to protect an ecologically sensitive coastal area has turned into the largest civil protest in the country’s recent history.

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Unglaublich. Was Merz hier sagt, ist: 1) Die Wirtschaft ist wichtiger als das Leben von (Tausenden von) Menschen. 2) „Klimawandel“ gibt es nicht (offensichtlich, vermeidet er diesen Begriff) und die Klimawandel zu vermeiden kommt nicht in Frage. Gibt es hier einen Unterschied zwischen CDU und AfD?

Malte Kreutzfeldt@mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ich hatte gerade die Gelegeheit, Friedrich Merz in der Bundespressekonferenz zu seinem bisherigen Schweigen zu den Hitzetoten und zu den Forderungen aus seiner Partei nach einem Verschieben des deutschen Klimaziels zu fragen. Ein paar kurze Anmerkungen zu seinen Antworten im Thread (1/5)

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 4w ago

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

No surprise. Governments that seek to maximise profits for the few, by all means, won't let anything stand on their way - be it nature, peoples' lives and wellbeing, or our future. Will the Albanian demonstrations expand? I'm looking forward to see, when the ''enough is enough'' moment comes.

Colin Schultz@colinschultz.bsky.social · 4w ago

"The Trump admin on Friday moved to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining, real estate development and other activities in what environmentalists characterized as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

"We know how to mourn grandparents, spouses, friends, and neighbors, but we do not know how to mourn disappearing species, damaged rivers, altered coastlines, democratic institutions, or the healthy futures we expected to inherit." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?

In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals

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Congratulations @zakisaati.bsky.social with this amazing paper! Some of those samples were ours from Belgium 🇧🇪

Zaki Saati-Santamaría@zakisaati.bsky.social · last mo.

Our paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🎉 We analyzed 1,921 soils from 33 countries to show how climate and agriculture shape soil microbiomes. Pesticides & fertilizers reshape microbial communities and ecological networks despite higher diversity in agricultural soils. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

My talk at @scbeurope.bsky.social Only 10-15% of the EU's cattle herd is needed to graze every biodiversity-rich field there is. Most cattle never set hoof on pasture. They're fed grain, packed onto fertilized monocultures. The solution isn't more grazing. It's fewer animals, better raised.

My talk at @scbeurope.bsky.social - 2 Put every EU cow on pasture and you'd need more land, more emissions, more imported crops from elsewhere. Too many animals for the land we have. The fix isn't more grazing — it's less and better. #Agroecology #LivestockStrategy

At #ECCB2026 we speak with concern about #FoodSecurity due to heat, droughts, pollinators' loss, soil erosion, etc. Meanwhile at X, DG Agri happily anounces a promising year for... oilseed, dairy, pigmeat, poultry. @ec.europa.eu didn't u shout food security? Can't u take your own claims seriously?

Ugandan farmers have filed a lawsuit in London against TotalEnergies' EACOP project. They warn that the 1,443 km (897-mile) oil pipeline threatens 16 protected areas, including vital water sources for 40 million people, and note that more than 100,000 residents have already faced displacement.

Ugandan farmers sue TotalEnergies’ oil pipeline project in UK court

Four Ugandan farmers have filed a lawsuit before the High Court in London, U.K., against a contentious oil pipeline under construction in Uganda and Tanzania, human rights group Avaaz announced at a…

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Die EU plant ein Geschenk für Pestizidkonzerne: Giftige Pestizide könnten für immer zugelassen werden – ohne Sicherheitsprüfung. Ja, für immer. Ja, das passiert wirklich. Jetzt unterschreiben um den Plan aufzuhalten: action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

Schützt unser Essen vor giftigen Pestiziden

Teile den Appell und hilf mit, die Wirkung dieser Kampagne zu vervielfachen: Schützt unser Essen vor giftigen Pestiziden

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When politicians and policies fail, i.e. when upscaling of solutions is impossible, outscaling is an excellent alternative - namely replicating what works, instead of awaiting someone else to help. Same might be needed for #agroecology and, more broadly, sustainable agrifood systems.

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 4w ago

Germany plug-in solar revolution More than a million plug-in kits were installed in Germany between 2022 and 2025 Plug-in solar is a popular alternative to traditional rooftop panels which can be hung over balconies without incurring costly installation costs www.euronews.com/2026/07/08/s...

The Nature Restoration Regulation contains risky exceptions and exemptions. Volker Mauerhofer reminds that NRR should be legally interpreted in the narrow sense, i.e. complementary to the BD and HD. Court will likely have an important role. #ECCB2026

At #ECCB2026, Stefan Kreft presents a MARISCO-based 'strategic situation analysis for European forest biodivetsity'. Are we bending the curve? No Are we going to meet the 'biodiversity positive' target by 2030? No.

full text joint white paper "Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies: Policy incoherence in the EU is a major barrier to pollinator restoration" here (38 page pdf): zenodo.org/records/2071... Doi: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Meeting Article 10 of the EU's Nature Restoration Regulation on pollinators requires coherence among several EU directives and policies - especially the CAP. 135 scientists call for urgent action on pollinators, far beyond bees, for the sake of food security. zenodo.org/records/2071...

Joint White Paper @butterfly-project.bsky.social @valor-project.eu @pollinera-horizon.eu @wildposh.eu @agri4pol.eu #ProPollSoil @restpoll.bsky.social @safeguard-pollinators.eu Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies Media coverage in 10 languages butterfly-europe.eu/media-covera...

A study concluded that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

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Looking at the EU Stress Test on the Birds and Habitats Directives: Merely 11% of respondents <30 year old. Is it poor familiarity with EU policies? Or law awareness of what the Commission means when they say "simplification"? Hey, youngsters, it's about the quality of YOUR future.

Guy Pe'er@guypeer.bsky.social · last mo.

The European Commission is placing the Birds & Habitats Directives under a "stress test" (while in parallel, losing grip on CAP and pesticides). The open consultation runs until 10.8.2026: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... Sor far 22 scientists (3.3%) contributed. Let's make science be heard too!

Gestern auf eine Wiese, habe ich das Schachbrett-Weibchen hier fotografiert, als ich bemerkt hatte, das am ende ihres Bauches hängt ein Ei. Zwei Sekunden später ist das Ei runtergefallen. Es ist vielleicht kaum zu glauben, aber manche Falter legen keine Eier ab - sie lassen sie einfach fallen...

The European Commission is placing the Birds & Habitats Directives under a "stress test" (while in parallel, losing grip on CAP and pesticides). The open consultation runs until 10.8.2026: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... Sor far 22 scientists (3.3%) contributed. Let's make science be heard too!

🚨New paper🚨 For decades, it was widely assumed tropical species would be hit hardest by #ClimateChange. Turns out climate-related local #extinctions are already more frequent among temperate species. Read our new study 🧵 @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... #BiodiversityLoss #SciSky

Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions - Nature Climate Change

The authors analyse global-scale resurvey data for 5,151 species to reveal the sensitivity of tropical versus temperate species to climate change. They show significantly higher frequencies of local e...

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The NASA climate spiral visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies, deviations from a long term global average. Original post

Check out the publication in @natecoevo.nature.com here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #insects #landuse #climate #timeseries #lepidoptera #coleoptera @agroscope.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social @unibas.ch @usyseth.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

Ninety-year trends reveal sharpest insect declines in the mid-twentieth century - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Assessing the magnitude and drivers of recent biodiversity losses requires informative, long-term baseline data. Here the authors reconstruct the temporal trajectories of butterflies and saproxylic be...

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Pollinators are disappearing across Europe. A new wave of youth-led action is pushing back. iucn.org/news/202605/...

Pollinators are disappearing across Europe. A new wave of youth-led action is pushing back.

New cohort of projects backs youth-led solutions, from urban habitats to DNA-based monitoring

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Brussels late night under major heat: the city stinks and people are melting. Under these conditions, the big signs all over the Parliament and around it could be read: ''Democracy inaction''. We all pay the price of COPI, the Cost Of Policy Inaction

Agriculture, gold mining, road expansion. Does it need mentioning that much of this is driven by soy for export as feed? People are quite literally eating the Amazon.

Mongabay@mongabay.com · last mo.

The Amazon lost 736,484 hectares of forest in 2025, according to a new MAAP analysis. While the data shows some positive year-on-year trends, illegal clearing remains a major threat inside protected areas. Driven by El Niño, looming heat waves and dry conditions could worsen the destruction.

In front of the European Parliament with our policy briefs: We plead for a better enabling environment for #agroecology. We need an ambitious CAP, a successful NRR and a food policy to complement them. Farmers need continuity and the right incentives. Read here 4 more: www.agroecology-transect.net