#Forests

Richard Waite

waiterich

It's #ClimateWeek2019, so let's have a THREAD about carbon opportunity costs, since we can't keep warming below 2°C (let alone 1.5°) without halting deforestation - and probably reforesting large areas.

Folk Horror Magpie

folkhorrormagpi

White Baneberry (Actaea Pachypoda) is a flowering plant found in the eastern part of North America. In early spring the plant appears quite normal. But as the season progresses the

brad plumer

bradplumer

Hmm, the latest review of studies on corn ethanol concludes that its carbon intensity is about 40% lower than that of gasoline. If true, then ethanol's obviously not a carbon

Bregna

_bregna

Book recommedation: Topophilia by Yi-Fu Tuan. A book on landscape psychology, or something like it. It took me forever to read. It's unscientific, poetic, and an incredibly under-explored subject. Not

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

Sustainable forestry: lumber without cutting down trees. Daisugi is a Japanese forestry technique where specially planted cedar trees are pruned heavily (think of it as giant bonsai) to produce "shoots"

Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS)

detoxconflict

#Armenia and #Azerbaijan are both accusing each other of using #WhitePhosphorous incendiary munitions in protected woodlands in the #Karabach conflict. While we look into it, here's what #IHL says about

KinglakeForest 🐨

KinglakeForest

Yet another day in the life of CEO VicForests 8.15am. Genuflect at the revolving sign in our foyer. Spinning on its axis quite well now!It gets oiled regularly, supplemented with

Rosemary Mosco (Bird And Moon Comics)

RosemaryMosco

Good afternoon. Perhaps you would like a thread of Birds with Intimidating English Names. #1. MARBLE-FACED BRISTLE-TYRANTThis is a bird of humid South American forests and it will end you.

Anant Shankar

anant_aranya

On the occassion of the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, I wish to bring the work done on the ground in restoring the mangroves.Mangroves are basically

holli c:

gnftruther

george is colorblind but he likes colors and art and paintings and flower forests speaking of flowers he doesn’t know much about irl ones but likes dandelions because you can

Awe Onisokuso™ CAC-OFR

sarnchos

There's a "value chain" in keeping herdsmen lumped up with criminals and identifying them as one and the same.1. Political: SW politicians see an effective regulation of cattle herding by

Katie Kedward

katie_kedward

New @IIPP_UCL working paper out on nature-related Financial Risks We @jryancollins & Hugues Chenet argue that central banks & financial supervisors must take precautionary action to manage environmental risks beyond

David Ziggy Greene (S&H illustrated reports)

SaHreports

A thread about nut fruits.Cashew nuts come from cashew apples in Brazil.Cashew apples are too fragile to export so we pick the reproductive part & sell it as a nut.

emily edwards

MsEmilyEdwards

i made a puffin joke on the FBOL podcast twitter earlier and said to my husband “puffins are on my list of favorite birds” and he responded “with ‘all of

Mayurika Srivastava

IshaSattva_

COLORS IN HINDUISM:THE COLOR BROWN : (THREAD)The color brown is the color of maati (mitti) or soil. It directly relates to Bhudevi, and thus, turns into a mother. Bhumi is

Venus 🕸

ughhmedusa

vampire lore in African cultures — a thread Obayifo;found in west africa, had the power to leave its body and travel to its victims in the form of a big

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