New paper in @natsustain.nature.com rdcu.be/famEK Together with colleagues from #INTA, #conicet (both Argentina) and #FCBC (Bolivia) we show that fires in the Gran Chaco are linked to agriculture, not climate. @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @oswaldomaillard.bsky.social

Fire dynamics in the South American Chaco and their link to agriculture and drought

Nature Sustainability - Climate change, particularly intensifying droughts, is often blamed for wildfires across the Gran Chaco, a vast South American dry woodland. An analysis of over 30 years of...

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Fires in the South American Gran Chaco are linked to agriculture, not climate - new paper out in @natsustain.nature.com led by @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Where smallholders are present, agribusinesses expand more slowly into forests. New study showing this for the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano Forest, both global deforestation hotspots - led by Marie Pratzer. Out now in @pnas.org @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

There are so many perks of working in an international lab - the best one obviously being sweets as souvenirs from all over the world!! @geolacerda.bsky.social @aguiarse86.bsky.social #sweets #labwork #academia #international #souvenirs #biogeography #huberlin

We're constantly told that renewables are unpopular, but that's simply not true

Red Hot World@redhotworld.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Want to see billionaire brainwashing in action? Seven out of ten Brits are big fans of renewable energy and want to see lots more of it. But they think the majority of people DON’T support it. That disconnect isn’t an accident. 🧵

Come work with us! #PhD position on #ecosystem and #biodiversity effects of large #herbivores on the Eurasian steppes now announced: www.euraxess.de/jobs/395512 Nice combination of fieldwork and meta-analysis, co-supervised by @jonastrepel.bsky.social and ejlundgren.github.io

@camillabrunet.bsky.social is a conservation-behavior #scientist interested in wildlife management, #conservation, movement and spatial #ecology. She will start her #phd studies, where she will investigate how changes in agricultural land use can influence the behavior of large mammals. #newmember

Look at this beautiful Puma with these beautiful flowers 🤩! A photo of our camera trap in Uturungo, Argentina. #wildcamera #cameratrap #puma #argentina #biogeography #research

Last weekend @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Marie Pratzer were invited to talk at the #LongNightofClimate in Berlin. They had a lot of fun and enjoyed this inspiring, interesting and important event! Film: "Bolivia Burning" look at some more information here: www.langenachtdesklimas.de #LNDK #BTS

In seinem letzten Interview als Bundestagsabgeordneter beschreibt Robert Habeck nochmal präzise, was die Union gerade tut: Sie spaltet das Land mit quatschigem Kulturkampf, um von den Problemen abzulenken. Lesenswert:

Robert Habeck tritt ab: „Ich will nicht wie ein Gespenst über die Flure laufen“

Ex-Vizekanzler Habeck verlässt den Bundestag. Die Grünen hätten ihre neue Rolle nun gefunden, sagt er der taz. Und dann gibt er Julia Klöckner noch eins mit.

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Building sustainability science on solid ground: our framework uses shared social-ecological units to integrate diverse data streams. Tested in Rwanda, adaptable elsewhere. Open, reproducible, and ready for interdisciplinary teams. #Rwanda #Restoration @biogeoberlin.bsky.social shorturl.at/qHaQ0

A Century of Loss: Long-Term #DryWoodland Decline and Its Implications for India’s #Megafauna Our latest paper, along with @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social, @arashghoddousi.bsky.social, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social and others is now out! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tropical dry woodland loss in India since 1880 and its relation to current megafauna distributions

Tropical dry woodlands provide ecosystem services to hundreds of millions of people and support high biodiversity. Despite their importance, many dry woodlands are under high and rising human pressur...

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Our study on biodiversity loss embodied in trade is featured in @mongabay.com tinyurl.com/2edpu626 . Unfortunately, we at @biogeoberlin.bsky.social could not contribute to this news piece. Glad, though, that @nature.org calls the study 'very timely' Link to the study: tinyurl.com/3xubzpbe

Pasture and agricultural expansion in Gran Chaco drive biodiversity loss: Study

A recent study has identified how cattle pasture and agricultural expansion, driven by global demand for beef and soy, is causing biodiversity loss in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina and Paraguay. ...

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Madison, Wisconsin, is the best.

Check this out!

Mangoldina@mangoldina.bsky.social · last yr.

#SPD @orkanoezdemir.bsky.social hat diese wichtige Ergänzung für @larsklingbeil.bsky.social auf Instagram gepostet - schaut rein! www.instagram.com/reel/DLhp2pE...

One more week to apply to this exciting PhD position! come join the Conservation Biogeography group at Humboldt-University Berlin (hu.berlin/Biogeography) .@biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Tobias Kuemmerle@tkuemmerle.bsky.social · last yr.

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

Das 15. (!) Land in Europa ohne Kohle. Wir sind dann in 13 Jahren dran. Aber Deutschland hat angeblich Klimaschutz „überbetont“.

Christian Breyer@christianonre.bsky.social · last yr.

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/i...

Exciting PhD position to work on large mammals and land use in Europe with the @biogeoberlin.bsky.social lab at @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Tobias Kuemmerle@tkuemmerle.bsky.social · last yr.

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

Climate change reduces farming efficiency, which leads to more land use to grow enough food, which leads to more emissions, and so on and so forth... Major paper coming out on this feedback loop in a couple of days from the University of Minnesota, @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, and others!

‘On a knife edge’ – hot dry spring threatens arable harvest

Analysis suggests the harvest could be one of the worst in records stretching back to the 1980s.

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🐄🐂 Putting landless cattle on the map! 🐄🐂 New paper in Env. Research Letters on mapping cattle intensification from space - across South America's dry diagonal doi.org/10.1088/1748... @erc.europa.eu @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social #SystemShift @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

We traced how soy and beef production in Argentina and Paraguay impact mammal diversity—and who’s driving it. Spoiler: It’s not just exports. Read the paper: shorturl.at/bpPEH @alfredoromero.bsky.social @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @aguiarse86.bsky.social @sei.org

Putting land claiming on the map reveals that the footprint of agricultural frontiers extends far into seemingly ‘intact’ forests. New paper by @o-delgiorgio.bsky.social in PNAS @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @yannlepolain.bsky.social

This is a really good article about how AI works. And, more importantly, how it doesn’t…. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works

Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.

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Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

New PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe | Conservation Biogeography Lab

We are excited to invite applications for a new PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe. Join us at the Conservation and Biogeography Lab at Humboldt University Berlin!

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There is a new open position at our Lab!! haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... #newposition #phd

#EnvironmentDay | A new research paper has linked the Gran Chaco #biodiversity decline to the domestic & foreign demand for soy & beef. Our researcher, Michael Lathuillière, contributed to the article, which assessed the decline due to domestic & international trade of Argentine soy & Paraguay beef⬇️

Project Meeting at @leuphana.bsky.social in our #dfg project on ecosystem restoration in #rwanda @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social

🚨 Überraschung: Deutschland verfehlt seine #Klimaziele. Der neue Bericht des Expertenrats für Klimafragen zeigt klar: Deutschland steuert auf eine krachende Kollision mit den Klimazielen zu. Und das in einem Jahr, in dem uns ein neuer #Hitzesommer droht. 🧵 (1/4)

The positive impact of protected areas can extend well beyond their boundaries! #conservation 👇🧵 New paper in Biological Conservation, led by Pablo Yair Huais (Univ. Cordoba 🇦🇷) analyzing PA effectiveness in the #Chaco, including leakage and blocking effects outside PAs. @biogeoberlin.bsky.social