#Déforestation

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Indonesia exports (peaked in 2011 & declined since) by categories & item (yr 2019):#1 Commodities 54% of total#1 Coal (13% of total)#2 Palm oil (12% of total)https://twitter.com/Trinhnomics/status/1323511434408390656 #1 Coal is

An Taisce

AnTaisce

Fossil fuel emissions are driving up Earth’s temperature, the warming has set in motion nature's own #FeedbackLoops which are raising temperatures even higher. Are we approaching a point of no

Alex Laplaza

a_laplaza

@DOverview's satellite images are striking reminders of the scale of climate change. A thread of some of their stunning photos that underscore the scale of (a few of) climate change's:-

Edith Mirante

EdithMirante

1. This History Thread is about timber industry and deforestation in Burma (Myanmar.) “As of 2016, 7.1% of Myanmar's tree cover was intact forest” (Global Forest Watch.) Efforts to protect

Smithsonian's NMNH

NMNH

A new paper in Ecology and Evolution challenges what researchers know about eels’ supposed loner behavior. C. David de Santana, a fish research associate @nmnh, and colleagues discovered a group

Prof. Kimberly Nicholas

KA_Nicholas

.@theAGU hosts a massive conference of Earth and space scientists every December, usually in San Francisco (photos below from previous years). My 1st meeting was in 2003 as a masters'

WeActivateTheFuture

jenandersson1

Asked in a discussion yesterday for a list of things individuals can do to prevent human extinction. I don't think we'll go extinct just yet. So focusing on creating a

Solitaire Townsend

GreenSolitaire

After more than 2 decades working on climate, sustainability and social justice I’m getting more hopeful and optimistic. Why?1 - because I rarely have to explain those words anymore (when

Chris Bataille

bataille_chris

New! "Net-zero deep decarbonization pathways in Latin America", our open access synthesis paper from our ESR special issue on the DDP-LAC project https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X20300638, initiated &

Nijat Eldarov

NijatEldarov

1/7 Azerbaijan and Armenia are both included in the list of 50 countries suffering from water stress to the greatest extent. Water management remains one of the key possible areas

Christopher Krupenye

ChrisKrupenye

Today is International #OrangutanDay, which means it's time to celebrate these ginger beauties! Orangutans are great apes, just like humans, and they live rich and complex lives. A thread 1/6#animals

Ed Hawkins

ed_hawkins

"The climate has always changed" (or similar phrase) does not imply what many seem to think it implies. Let me explain.https://twitter.com/DavidTCDavies/status/1118251767626719232 Since the 1830s scientists have known that the Ear

Me.

JohnStraathof

Hello @heatherkmak allow me to help unpack. A thread.https://twitter.com/heatherkmak/status/1362430416167317504 A) the animal feed is a byproduct of human palm oil. Similar to feeding soymeal to animals after extracting soyoil from

Michael Shellenberger

ShellenbergerMD

Everything they say about the environment is wrong- Poverty not climate is biggest env. problem- 100% renewables would require 25-50% of land- Greenpeace worsens deforestation Best summary yet of Apocalypse

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: December 22, 1988. The Brazilian rubber union leader and environmentalist Chico Mendes is murdered by a far-right cattle rancher. Let's talk about the connections between

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty

swetac

I'm a scientist who studies threats like pandemics, esp how climate change accelerates risk of diseases. The next super virus is right around the corner. Read about Disease X in

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