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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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

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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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?

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.

@scbeurope.bsky.social Takeaway from plenary: Nature doesn't need saving. It'll survive us just fine. We're the ones who need biodiversity — and reversing its loss starts with empathy. Europe's future is tied to Africa's. And remember: no #GreenDeal without #FridaysforFuture.

"Tofu is bad for forests in Brazil." I keep hearing this — most recently as an argument for eating fish instead of plant-based food in Finland. Let's follow the soy.

Now available Open Access - Planetary plate puzzle: a serious game for deliberating sufficient future diets. Thank you SustAnimalFood project team @syke.fi and University of Helsinki www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Planetary Plate Puzzle | Agroecology | University of Helsinki

Planetary Plate Puzzle is a co-design game that encourages participants from diverse backgrounds to engage in dialogue and find common ground on sustainable future diets. The game has been tested in r...

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We cannot move towards more sustainable or indeed just societies with industry lobbying and misrepresenting citizens www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/p...

Pesticide lobby instrumentalising farmer protests in its attack on EU health regulations | Corporate Europe Observatory

The pesticide lobby is opportunistically planning to use farmers’ protests, in order to create political momentum to slash EU safety rules for its products. But the free trade deal EU-Mercosur that is...

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A EU project with a mission to support reintroduction of landscape elements of high natural values. First deliverable syntheses evidence of effects of landscape features on farmland on biodiversity and ecosystem services is due in June -stay tuned! @laferia-project.eu

LAFERIA@laferia-project.eu · 6mo ago

The #LAFERIA Consortium had its first annual meeting after the kick-off in 2025. 💻 The meeting was held online and focused on reviewing results so far and aligning our future goals for restoring landscape features (LF) across Europe. Read the news article here: laferia-project.eu/news/laferia...

Many uneasy questions www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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What is life like for the children of war? Here’s a small peek into the lives of Ukrainian children whom Oksana, my friend and psychologist colleague, works with. We also support these children through @feeniksinkilta.bsky.social. youtu.be/upGUFyZ5YpU?...

What Life Is Like for Children in Ukraine Today | Newsround | News For Kids

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A brand new - ecological - certification of forests that does not compromise with industry #sustainable #forest #conservation aeforest.org

Thank you, PATHWAYS, for inviting me to discuss a much contested issue of livestock roles in food systems. A question to all: has my discussant agreed or not that we need to downsize or reduce the livestock production? youtu.be/CEAQKFZdhjA?...

Scientific Advocacy in Dispute: Dialogue on The Dublin Declaration - Webinar | PATHWAYS

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1/5 "Characterizing the Global Polycrisis: A Systematic Review of Recent Literature" - newly published in Annual Review of Env. & Resources (Rakowski & Schaan et al. 2025)! We harvested all papers on the global polycrisis and analysed a) what it is, b) its components, c) drivers, and d) solutions.

Our serious game is finally published as free resource! It encourages to discuss food choices in light of sustainability without blaming or getting on defensive, or indeed polarizing it into "right" or "wrong". Well done, the whole team of SustAnimalFood- project www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Pollinators such as wild #bees, #butterflies, and #hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science, shows that the oft-quoted figure of 10% semi-natural habitat in farmland landscapes is far too little to safeguard pollinators jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...

Pollinators need more space and 10% habitat is not enough says a new study just published in Science

Pollinators such as wild bees, butterflies, and hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science and led by Gabriella Bishop and other scientists at Wageningen Universit…

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Published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social: "The Role of Science and Scientists in Public Environmental Policy Debates: The case of EU agrochemical and Nature Restoration Regulations". We reflect on how to debunk misinformation and help depolarize heated debates. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

Excited to share that our review on the global polycrisis has been published in Annual Reviews! Thanks to the team for collaboration: Judith Rakowski, Linn Schaan, Guy Pe'er, Roel van Klink, Adina Arth, Gregor Hagedorn, Julian Rode, Felix Creutzig

Learn more here doi.org/10.1080/1571... Thanks! @cazamazac.bsky.social @irinaherzon.bsky.social #NikoRaty #KaisaKurki @syke.fi @helsinki.fi @sthlmresilience.bsky.social

Planetary plate puzzle: a serious game for deliberating sufficient future diets

The debate around dietary change, particularly the importance of culturally acceptable changes, has become highly polarised, hindering societal transitions towards sustainability. Serious games hav...

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Grazing cattle at low intensities could sustain biodiversity on modern farms: new paper out in AGEE doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... www.helsinki.fi/en/news/envi... @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social @irinaherzon.bsky.social @johanekroos.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social et al.

Grazing cattle at low intensities could sustain biodiversity on modern farms | University of Helsinki

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Helsinki emphasises the important role of low-intensity cattle grazing in maintaining biodiversity on modern farms.

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Come join us in restoring landscape features in intensive agricultural lands: Learn more about the LAFERIA project and how you can engage! ❗ The webinar is limited to 100 spots, so register ASAP to secure yours. 🔗More about the event, programme & registration: events.pensoft.net/events/come-...

And again, the same results, no matter how many times and in what context analysed: it is not enough to have "better" beef, we need to have less of it (and much less) phys.org/news/2025-03...

Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation Conflict doesn’t just worsen climate change—it obstructs mitigation. From military emissions to shattered cooperation, war derails climate action. Are IPCC scenarios too optimistic? www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Geopolitical conflict impedes climate change mitigation

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An excellent response: youtu.be/k10gHRbFK9E?... #Polish Foreign Minister #Sikorski destroys #Russian propaganda at the #UnitedNations

#Polish Foreign Minister #Sikorski destroys #Russian propaganda at the #UnitedNations | Feb 24, 2024

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Better meat? only if also Less! #sustainabiluy #food #SustAnimalFood- project

Evaluating the Ethics of Consuming 'Better' Meat: A Scientific

The "Less but Better" concept has recently garnered significant attention as a potential approach to addressing the environmental issues associated with meat consumption. This paradigm urges

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Suomalaiset syövät yhä enemmän broileria. Se ei ole ympäristön näkökulmasta pelkästään hyvä asia, saatikka huoltovarmuuden. #KariKoppelmäki nostaa tärkeitä seikkoja esiin broilerintuotannosta. www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2...

Ruoka | Tutkijan mukaan Suomessa nauta voi olla usein parempi valinta kuin broileri

Broilerintuotanto on vähiten yhteydessä kotitilan peltoihin. ”Kaikkein teollisin tuotantomuoto”, tutkija sanoo. Hänen mukaansa Suomessa nauta voi olla jopa parempi valinta luonnon kannalta.

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They use internet - our common resource (courtesy of Timothy John Berners-Lee), as well as results of everyone's creativity deposited online and our personal data. Fair commercialize is possible only if everyone who ever posted anything on internet is paid a dividend!

Protect OpenAI's non-profit mission

Elon Musk is basically running the US (into the ground). Mark Zuckerberg's net worth went up by $5.8 billion in a single day this week and his company Meta is a hotbed of lies and hate that is poisoni

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"We've grown up with this idea that more #FossilFuels means more prosperity which couldn't be further from the truth today. Fossil fuels are [becoming] the greatest cause of premature death on the planet. Heat waves, air pollution, toxicity in our daily lives, extreme weather & climate change."

Calgary Climate Hub@calgaryclimatehub.ca · 2y ago

On this month's #ClimateLens: Canadian #climate champion #TzeporahBerman (@tzeporah.bsky.social) on Alberta's zombie coal problem, #TradeWar, #LAWildfires, ACTIVATING the global climate majority & so much more! www.podcastics.com/episode/3478... #abpoli #StopCoal #GrassyMountain #Activism #yyc