“We’re going to have a different world, and we don’t know what that world’s going to be.”
eos.org/features/the-arctics-u…

"Unmitigated scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions produce climates like those of the Eocene."
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.180960011…
#Arctic #climate #ice #Eocene #cryosphere #GHG #FossilFuels #biodiversity

The Arctic’s Uncertain Future

Over the next century, the Arctic will change and look much different than it does today. Just how different is still unknown.

^{Grace van Deelen (Eos)}

Stunning, mysterious and diverse – Australia’s 1700 orchids are the jewels of the country’s flowering plants.

Not only are Australia’s orchids unique in their beauty, they also possess diverse qualities – greenhoods flower in winter and trap unsuspecting fungal gnats to pollinate themselves, while sun orchids have numerous flowers that only open on sunny days.

Want to learn more about these alluring plants? Check out our online illustrated guide… ausgeo.co/orchidsguide

#ausgeo #seeaustralia #orchids #australiannative #flowers
#environment #biodiversity #ecology #nature #wildlife #photography

“We’re in the midst of the sixth great #extinction,” Dr Goodall tells me during our interview for BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science. “The more we can do to restore nature and protect existing forests, the better.”

“We still have a window of time to start slowing down #climate change and loss of #biodiversity,” Dr Goodall says. “But it's a window that's closing.”

She was the first person to document chimpanzees making and using tools, to fish for termites.

bbc.com/news/articles/c93qvqx5…

'The sixth great extinction is happening', warns climate expert

Conservationist Jane Goodall on the urgent need to turn the tide on climate change and nature loss.

^{Victoria Gill (BBC News)}

What is lost when species go extinct? Review coming soon to inquisitivebiologist.com

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Biodiversity #Extinction #Conservation

You're on a ship hurtling through space and your crew's best engineers report that critical sub-systems - from water filtration, through to HVAC and food pods - are all failing. Evidence of sabotage. What do you do?

World's governments:

"Governments failed to reach a consensus [...] Many were forced to leave the talks early to catch flights, and negotiations were suspended at 8.30am when fewer than half of the countries were present"

theguardian.com/environment/20…

#biodiversity

Cop16 ends in disarray and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs

Conservation summit agrees to global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promises

^{Patrick Greenfield (The Guardian)}

It may already be too late.

No, that's wrong – it *is* already too late to prevent catastrophic damage to our planet’s climate, environment, and biodiversity. We have waited far too long.

Ecological collapse is unavoidable. In fact, it's already begun — with ocean acidification up by 30% and getting worse, with insect populations crashing, with extinctions happening many times faster than the background rate, and so on.

But that doesn't mean we should stop trying!

Because EVERY bit of natural habitat preserved is essential. EVERY species saved from extinction matters. And EVERY tenth of a degree of warming makes a big difference.

Collapse can't be prevented, I’m afraid, but the level and severity of that collapse could be lessened IF decisive action is taken immediately. But that will never happen under our current regime of capitalist domination.

We need system change, and we need it now.

#Science #History #Environment #BioDiversity #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #Degrowth