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Cibele Amaral

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Environmental Biology and Remote Sensing Research & Data Scientist | ESIIL and Earth Lab Analytics Director, CIRES, CU Boulder | ESA Open Science Section Chair (2024-25) | Forest Engineer by training 🌳🌲🌴

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪 If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 22/11/2025
After many long months, I’m excited to announce: we’re hiring! GSL through CIRES is looking to hire a land-surface model developer. Come join us in developing the next generation of storm-scale NWP for NOAA & community! Closes 12/12, pls contact me w/ questions. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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CIRES / NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Land Surface Modeler
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Environmental Data Science @envdatascience.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
📢 Solution-Based #DataScience for #Environmental #Biology Challenges Announcing a new Call for Papers with @cu-esiil.bsky.social to advance data-intensive approaches to better understand today's environmental challenges: ℹ️https://bit.ly/4q0b68m 📅 31 May 2026 #TippingPoints #Resilience #Adaptation
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ESIIL @cu-esiil.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We are currently accepting applications for our 3rd cohort of Working Groups! Visit our website to learn more: esiil.org/working-groups
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Carl Boettiger @cboettig.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Excited to be heading to join the summit @cu-esiil.bsky.social this week!
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INSTAAR @instaar.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"Returning the buffalo: History, restoration, & genetic stories of Colorado’s bison" Join us for Fayelynn Scheideman's Wednesday evening talk at our Mountain Research Station: 🆓 Free event 🗓 Aug 20th 🕖 7:00 pm 📍 Near Nederland & Ward CO 🔗 calendar.colorado.edu/event/fayely...
Fayelynn Scheideman stands in front of a bison sticking its head out of a pen
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Just dreadful satellite imagery of the rapidly escalating wildfire outbreak across parts of northern Portugal and western Spain. Look at the size of that smoke plume!
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Tasha Gownaris @njg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Having a lovely time at #ESA2025! Three talks/workshops, all in collaboration with incredible @gettysburgcollege.bsky.social students- including co-facilitation of session run by rockstar former student Julia Sharapi!
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Tasha Gownaris @njg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
@sortee.bsky.social meetup tonight at #ESA2025! Come join us to informally discuss all things #openscience - meet at the open science table at 6:30 to walk over together, or at “the Back Yard” (131 S Schroeder Street) at 7pm
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William Hammond @wmhammond.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Wondering where to submit your abstract for #AGU25 @agu.org annual meeting? Consider our cross-scale "Forest Physiological and Ecological Processes from Molecules to Ecosystems" organized session (#246685)! #EcoPhys
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Jingfeng Xiao @jingfengxiao.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
You are welcome to submit an abstract to our AGU session. Conveners: @atkinsjeff.bsky.social‬, Qinfeng Guo, Erin Crockett, & myself. Our invited speakers are: Catherine Fahey (SERC) Ruben Valbuena (SUL) agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
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Department of Geographical Sciences at University of Maryland @umdgeography.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
If you thought forest fires were getting worse, you’re right 🌍🔥 UMD's GLAD lab found record-breaking forest loss in 2023–2024, with fires now driving over 40% of global forest disturbance. Learn more: go.umd.edu/record-wildf... #climatechange #wildfire
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Forest Loss Caused by Wildfires Has Reached Record Levels in 2023 and 2024
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GunnarKeppel.bsky.social @gunnarkeppel.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Missed out on getting your #abstract for #ESA25 submitted on time? All is not lost - the submission portal will remain open until 27 July! Just follow the link on this page: esa2025.org.au/call-for-abs...
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Call for Abstracts – ESA2025
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Renato Braghiere @renatobrgh.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New CliMA post about our study out in Nature Comms! We show that replacing fixed plant types with real leaf traits in climate models changes everything — from surface albedo to rainfall. Darker Amazon, brighter Siberia. Climate shifts follow. #climate #remotesensing
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Rethinking Vegetation Optics in Climate Models
By Renato Braghiere Vegetation plays a critical role in regulating Earth’s climate by absorbing sunlight, exchanging moisture with the atmosphere, and sequestering carbon. Yet, how vegetation is re…
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Cibele Amaral @cibeleamaral.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Are you engaged in #OpenScience? Will you be attending the #ESA2025 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting this year, in Baltimore, MD? If so, please consider applying for the ESA Open Science Section #Award before June 30. You can apply by filling out this form: forms.gle/9B2XQVsUQcfj...
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William Hammond @wmhammond.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Loss of Stomatal Regulation Sensitivity to CO2 and Reduced Xylem Hydraulic Conductivity Contribute to Long‐Term Tree Decline and Mortality 🔗 buff.ly/uIiKrSI
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Emma Archer @emmararcher.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
And it's out ! 🐟 With @davidobura.bsky.social, Almut Arneth, @pwlead.bsky.social, Pete Smith and Akira Mori. As always, it's the journey 😎. @ipbes.net #biodiversity #climate Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Achieving the Global Biodiversity Framework Under Climate Change
The Global Biodiversity Framework sets out targets for a range of measures in terms of biodiversity goals. Climate change, however, is both likely and already being shown to make the achievement of s....
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
How do we decide on conservation actions in the face of context dependency? In our new paper on ‘Precision Ecology’ we show how methods developed in medicine & marketing can be applied to predict site-specific outcomes allowing effective & targeted conservation doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Precision ecology for targeted conservation action - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should draw on such approaches to provide dec...
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Climate Analytics @climateanalytics.org · 19/05/2025
From @nature.com: New research shows that with every increment of global warming, the number of people facing unprecedented lifetime exposure to crop failures, droughts, floods, wildfires, and cyclones increases sharply. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes - Nature
Climate models, impact models and demographic data are used to estimate the number of people projected to experience unprecedented lifetime exposure to extreme climate events across multiple dimension...
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CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · 19/05/2025
“Our study suggests that a significant portion of the recent rise in atmospheric methane originates from natural sources driven by climate change," said Xin (Lindsay) Lan, a CIRES research scientist. Read more from @colorado.edu ⬇️ www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
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A vicious cycle: How methane emissions from warming wetlands could exacerbate climate change
Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious feedback loop that could accelerate climate change even more, according to a
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GunnarKeppel.bsky.social @gunnarkeppel.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Refugia: how to best use them to protect biodiversity under climate change biodiversityoceania.com/2024/09/18/u...
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Using refugia to resist biodiversity loss under global change
Refugia constitute the best places to resist the impacts of climate change and to retain biodiversity in rapidly changing landscapes. An international team of leading scientists suggests that manag…
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Our paper on mapping the canopy traits and functions of global tropical forests was published online in Nature last month but is out in print today, and it made the cover 😊 Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this @natureportfolio.nature.com
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
🌎: Mangrove tree species influence soil DOM characteristics. In New Caledonia's Ouvéa atoll, Rhizophora soils yielded fresher, protein-rich DOM, while mature Bruguiera soils stored more humified, aged carbon—hinting at species-driven carbon cycling pathways. 🧪
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Variability of the optical signatures of dissolved organic matter in soils of different mangrove stands (Ouvéa, New Caledonia) - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Mangrove ecosystems are known to play a key role in the global carbon cycle, due to their productivity and their ability for carbon sequestration both in the biomass and in the soil. In the latter, va...
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Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
It's important that science continues, now more than ever. Hence I am happy to share our recent paper which shows the slowing of post-mortality forest recovery @natplants.nature.com. With great colleagues including @smmunson.bsky.social @wmhammond.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cibele Amaral @cibeleamaral.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Are you interested in learning why & how to apply a public license to your work? If so, we invite you to join our upcoming ESA Open Science Section webinar. This event will occur virtually on May 6th, 2025, at 11 am MT / 1 pm ET. To participate, please fill out this form: forms.gle/D4FR7i4FY28c...
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Great blog post on mediation analysis by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci . Also our paper on mediation analysis - for quantifying ecological mechanisms - is now out in Biology Letters 🧪🌐🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #causalsky
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Cibele Amaral @cibeleamaral.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Please consider joining us for the next ESA Open Science Section webinar. It's an open virtual event scheduled for April 15th at 10 am PST. Application form available here: forms.gle/fmytA44k2oW8...
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Brendan Choat @profchoat.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
New PhD scholarship available to work with us at Western Sydney University. Determining the functional diversity of stress tolerance in eucalypts Link for online application below. Please contact me by email if you are interested in applying www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...
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Trevor Keenan @trevorkeenan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Earthshot Labs is hiring! If you are a remote sensing scientist with experience using satellite observations for advanced forestry applications, take a look and consider applying. It is a fantastic team on a mission to restore and protect forests worldwide. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...
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Earthshot hiring Senior Geospatial Data Scientist in United States | LinkedIn
Posted 10:47:19 PM. Apply here: https://forms.gle/WE7uZyKW1ysmzdh39Earthshot is a climate tech company focused on…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thanks to @natureecoevo.bsky.social & the reviewers for the great process and highlighting this work in a News & Views: Effects of extreme events on nature’s benefits to people www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Effects of extreme events on nature’s benefits to people - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A mathematical framework integrates the effect of disturbances on ecosystem services under climate change, and offers a vital tool to incorporate changing disturbance regimes into risk-sensitive decis...
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 01/03/2025
At #COP16Resumed, governments agreed on a strategy to close the biodiversity finance gap, unlocking billions to protect nature & advance the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework. www.cbd.int/article/cop1...
A close-up of wild plants with small dried orange flowers and green stems against a blurred natural background. White text in the center reads: “Governments agree on the way forward to mobilise the resources needed to protect biodiversity for people & planet.” The UN Environment Programme logo is in the top right corner.
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UNEP-WCMC @unepwcmc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Learn more about the adopted decisions to advance global biodiversity action in our latest blog: www.unep-wcmc.org/en/news/key-... #ResumedCOP16 #Biodiversity #PeaceWithNature #GBF #BiodiversityAction #ClimateAction [4/4]
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Key decisions agreed as CBD COP16 concludes in Rome - UNEP-WCMC
The second resumed session of CBD COP16 comes to a successful close, with key decisions adopted
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Bruce Webber @drbrucewebber.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on the Global Biodiversity Framework to conserve and restore biodiversity. "In fact, we're actively destroying biodiversity faster than ever in human history." theconversation.com/with-just-5-... Paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🌏🌐🧪#bioinvasions
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With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss
All countries must accelerate efforts to avert the biodiversity crisis, and preserve Earth’s precious natural places for future generations.
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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Calibrated Ecosystem Models Cannot Predict the Consequences of Conservation Management Decisions 🌎🧪🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Calibrated Ecosystem Models Cannot Predict the Consequences of Conservation Management Decisions
This study evaluates ecosystem models calibrated to time series data from experimental microcosms. Although multiple parameter sets fit the data well, the models fail to predict future dynamics, resp...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 22/02/2025
The highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is an emerging and unexpected threat to many wild animal species. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Biodiversity argues that international collaboration and information-sharing is essential to enable worldwide actions. 🧪
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The threat of avian influenza H5N1 looms over global biodiversity - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
The highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is an emerging and unexpected threat to many wild animal species, which has implications for ecological processes, ecosystem services and conservation of threatened species. International collaboration and information-sharing is essential for surveillance, early diagnosis and the provision of financial and technical instruments to enable worldwide actions.
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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"Since 2000, glaciers have lost between 2% and 39% of their ice regionally and about 5% globally." Zemp et al (The GlaMBIE Team). Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Zoom Earth @zoom.earth · 13/02/2025
Category 5 Severe Cyclone #Zelia spins furiously near the Pilbara coast of Western Australia. The cyclone is expected to slowly track toward the coastline and make landfall west of Port Hedland late Saturday / early Sunday.
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Rachel Neugarten @rachelneugarten.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
OPEN DATA ALERT World Bank created a Global Biodiversity Species Global Grid database, based on data from GBIF and machine-based pattern recognition to generate species occurrence maps 🧪🌍https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/a-new-world-bank-database-to-support-a-new-era-in-biodiversity-c
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A new World Bank database to support a new era in biodiversity conservation
The World Bank's new biodiversity database includes over 600,000 species, providing critical, high-resolution data to enhance conservation strategies and support global initiatives like the 30x30 fram...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/02/2025
Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Western North American Naturalist Grant Supporting Natural History Research "grants of up to $2,500 each to fund their natural history research. Our intent is to help authors who may not have adequate funding to complete their work." scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/grant_i...
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Grants for Individual Researchers | Western North American Naturalist | Western North American Naturalist Publications | Brigham Young University
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Cibele Amaral @cibeleamaral.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I usually hesitate to share achievements, but not today. Some of my latest contributions are featured on great journals' covers: Molecular Plant (in June/ 2024), Science (in October/ 2024), and now, Journal of Applied Ecology (February/ 2025)! More fuel to keep pushing forward... Science matters!
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Our February issue is available now!🌳 Topics include: 👉Remote sensing approaches for tropical forest restoration🌎 👉Manipulating benthic marine communities via artificial light🧪 👉Effects of mowing techniques on arthropods🦗 & more! Read the issue: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...
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Scott Goetz @sjgoetz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 Consider submitting your coolest / best / latest research, especially on large / global / macroscale ecology, to nonprofit IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Ecology. publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/journals/env...
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About Environmental Research: Ecology - IOPscience - Publishing Support
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Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from #climate shocks (Not to even mention the huge humanitarian crisis) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries
Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis
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Natasha de Vere @ndevere.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Biodiversity loss, water & food insecurity, health risks & climate change – are all interconnected. They interact & compound each other in ways that make separate efforts to fix them ineffective & counterproductive. New report from IPBES on how we must address these interconnected global challenges
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Media Release: IPBES Nexus Assessment
Summary for Policymakers, photos, ‘B-roll’ & media resources
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Cibele Amaral @cibeleamaral.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A New Global Mangrove Height Map with a 12 meter spatial resolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A New Global Mangrove Height Map with a 12 meter spatial resolution - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A New Global Mangrove Height Map with a 12 meter spatial resolution
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