Oxalis debilis 'Aureoreticulata' is infected with a begomovirus that gives it the gold venation. It’s one of the rare cases in which a viral infection increases the aesthetic value of a plant (cf. Tulip breaking virus). #Oxalidaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Trevor Padgett
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Plant ecologist & PhD candidate | Academia Sinica/Tunghai University Founder & Lead Educator | 'Taiwan Nature Education' bilingual ecology education Co-host/Biologist | 'Botanical wonders' https://tinyurl.com/242w9hee Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan.
I just want to point out that temperatures over land (where we all live) have warmed over twice as fast as ocean surface temperatures. The latest update through 2025 is... not great 🥴 Graphic created by www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temp...
👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 4mo agoCanada Post marks its 8th straight annual loss — totalling $6.1 billion since 2018 — as the Canadian Union of Postal Workers begins voting on a tentative deal amid the end of home delivery.
"Peng said the long-term goal in Taipei and New Taipei is for commuters to be able to leave an MRT station and reach their workplace without walking through long stretches of exposed pavement. He said trees should be treated as climate infrastructure, not only as landscaping."
Taiwan plans urban forest expansion to cool cities | Taiwan News | Apr. 19, 2026 19:22
Environment minister says 10-year plan aims to add shade, reduce heat risk | Apr. 19, 2026 19:22
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Link to article: www.int-res.com/journals/esr... Learn more about TurtleSpot Taiwan: turtlespottw.org TurtleSpot Taiwan do great work on Taiwan's sea turtle ecology and conservation, proving citizen science and conservation make great partners! #Taiwan
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Taiwan's sea turtles face many anthropogenic threats, from drift net entanglement to boat strikes. New research from TurtleSpot Taiwan co-founder Dr. Chialing Fong & Academia Sinica highlights the long road to recovery these turtles face. #conservation #Taiwan www.taiwanplus.com/news/taiwan-...
Injured Sea Turtles Spend Hundreds of Days Recovering in the Wild - TaiwanPlus
Injured sea turtles can take years to recover in the wild, prompting conservationists to urge the government to take stronger action to protect these marine animals.
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Taiwan's sea turtles face many anthropogenic threats, from drift net entanglement to boat strikes. New research from TurtleSpot Taiwan co-founder Dr. Chialing Fong & Academia Sinica highlights the long road to recovery these turtles face. #conservation #Taiwan www.taiwanplus.com/news/taiwan-...
Injured Sea Turtles Spend Hundreds of Days Recovering in the Wild - TaiwanPlus
Injured sea turtles can take years to recover in the wild, prompting conservationists to urge the government to take stronger action to protect these marine animals.
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Friends: Do you know Taiwan-based scientists? I'm running a survey for AAAS seeking researchers, faculty, postdocs, graduate students in #Taiwan #台灣 to understand everyone's interest in #SciComm outreach to journalists and the media. Please share with your network! bit.ly/eurekatw #ScienceinTaiwan 🧪
Incredible article about Art Borkent, biting midges, and aging taxonomists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?
Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...
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Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!
Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦@donnag.bsky.social · 5mo agoIncredible article about Art Borkent, biting midges, and aging taxonomists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Excited to share my research on the drivers of spatial distribution patterns in parasitic plants - March 4th, Biodiversity Research Center of Academia Sinica, #Taiwan. Come learn about the evolution of these enigmatic plants, their spatial patterns, & their conservation outlook.
International coral reef symposium June 6-7, 2026 @ Kaohsiung, #Taiwan Registration is open for presentations or to just come and watch and learn and enjoy some amazing marine research!
Crystal McRae@crystaljmcrae.bsky.social · 5mo agoCome join us in Kaohsiung June 6-7 for the 'Taiwan International Symposium on Coral Reefs'. We have a great lineup of speakers and an array of sessions to join! Early bird registration is available until March 8th. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. tiscr2026.weebly.com
NEW PAPER “Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations" Here we challenge what a reef recovery looks like and show: 🪸 Early recruits drive long-term recovery 🪸Later recruits failed to survive 🪸 Apparent recovery masks declining diversity link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations - Coral Reefs
Reef recovery following a disturbance largely depends on successful coral recruitment and the absence of chronic stressors. However, recent recovery events show increasing homogenization, with dominan...
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A big congrats to Botanical Wonders!
Trevor Padgett@trevorpadgett.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt is an honour to have our work with Botanical Wonders recognized by the Taste Awards in the "Breakout Storytellers of the Year" category. A giant thank you to all involved in creating the series and to all who watched and loved our series - #Taiwan has so many more stories to tell! #Taiwan
Come join us in Kaohsiung June 6-7 for the 'Taiwan International Symposium on Coral Reefs'. We have a great lineup of speakers and an array of sessions to join! Early bird registration is available until March 8th. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. tiscr2026.weebly.com
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The Taiwan International Symposium on Coral Reefs is hosted by the Taiwanese Coral Reef Society and will be held at National Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) on June 6th and 7th, 2026....
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Pometia pinnata (Fiji Longan, Island Lychee) is a massive evergreen tree with monstrous buttress roots native to Taiwan. Join us to explore how this unique tree is central to the Yami (Tao) people of Orchid Island & how it fits into the island ecosystem. #Taiwan www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Cl...
What This Tree Means To Indigenous Culture ǀ Botanical Wonders
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Explore Taiwan's aquatic plants with the new Botanical Wonders (@taiwanplusshows) episode on youtube! Lotus & water lily species have evolved unique ways to live submerged in water, including Taiwan's beautiful endemic minimalist － the yellow water lily. youtu.be/43it_bWEFy4?...
How These Plants Thrive in Water ǀ Botanical Wonders
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Taiwan's forested coral reef! (new YT upload) Once a thriving coral reef (under water...), tectonic forces thrust it out of the sea and time covered it with a forest. A truly unique ecosystem, with truly unique plants - click and explore! #Taiwan #botany #forest youtu.be/sectVDvOSp4?...
How These Plants Create a Special Environment ǀ Botanical Wonders
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There’s no way to stop climate change without consuming less.
Global use of coal hit record high in 2024
Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables
theguardian.com
Good news: carbon intensity has declined Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17% Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%
Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth - Communications Earth & Environment
Global carbon dioxide intensity declined from 2015 to 2024 following the Paris Agreement, but total emissions still increased due to economic growth, according to a global analysis of population, gros...
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Teens who won a lawsuit requiring Hawaiʻi to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years rightly call out sustainable aviation fuel as bullshit.
Teens Who Sued Hawai‘i Say Climate Plan For Aviation Doesn’t Fly
Interisland flights are Hawaiʻi’s biggest transportation carbon producer, making up more than half of all emissions related to civilian travel in the state.
civilbeat.org
The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕
Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study
Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.
abc.net.au
Neobartsia mutica is another hemiparasite. It has a broad distribution across South America (I recently saw it in the Andes of Peru). Like so many of these hemiparasites, it has showy flowers. This one may be adapted to hummingbird pollination. #parasite #Orobanchaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB
Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative
Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.
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Taiwan's forested coral reef! (new YT upload) Once a thriving coral reef (under water...), tectonic forces thrust it out of the sea and time covered it with a forest. A truly unique ecosystem, with truly unique plants - click and explore! #Taiwan #botany #forest youtu.be/sectVDvOSp4?...
How These Plants Create a Special Environment ǀ Botanical Wonders
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It blows my mind that red-&-black fruits and seeds are attractive, but red-&-black insects are repellent (aposematic). In dispersal, as in life, context is everything! 📷1: Ripe fruits of Pinanga malaiana (#Arecaceae). 📷2: red-spotted stink bug, Jose Amorin CCBYNCSA2. #dispersal #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Explore Taiwan's aquatic plants with the new Botanical Wonders (@taiwanplusshows) episode on youtube! Lotus & water lily species have evolved unique ways to live submerged in water, including Taiwan's beautiful endemic minimalist － the yellow water lily. youtu.be/43it_bWEFy4?...
How These Plants Thrive in Water ǀ Botanical Wonders
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