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Habemus Papam! Leider reden wir heute (noch) nicht über den neuen Papst, aber dafür über die Streichung der Sonderbeauftragten für internationalen Klimaschutz durch Friedrich Merz, eine Studie, die zeigt, dass 15.000 Menschen in den USA in Folge der Waldbrände gestorben sind und eine Studie, die zeigt, dass die reichsten 10 % für zwei Drittel der globalen Treibhausgase verantwortlich sind. Das alles in dieser Folge KLIMANEWS am Freitag, den 9. Mail 2025.Zu den Demos für das AfD-Verbotsverfahren.Weiterlesen:Spektrum.de: Fatales Signal: Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz streicht Posten der KlimabeauftragtenBernahrd Pötter: Klimabeauftragte der Regierung: Stelle gestrichen, aber der Job soll bleiben (Table.Media)Die Presse: Neue deutsche Regierung streicht KlimabeauftragteThe Guardian: Smoke from climate-fueled fires in US contributed to 15,000 deaths in 15 years, study findsBeverly E. Law, u.a.: Anthropogenic climate change contributes to wildfire particulate matter and related mortality in the United StatesDamien Gayle: Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests (The Guardian)Sarah Schöngart u.a.: High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwideWir freuen uns über euer Feedback und Kommentare zu den Themen der Folge direkt auf Spotify, auf Instagram, Twitter oder in unserem Podcast-Telegram-Kanal. Allgemeine Anregungen oder Fragen? Schreib uns! redaktion@klimanews-podcast.de. Die täglich wichtigsten Klima-Nachrichten-Artikel findest du außerdem in unserem Hauptkanal auf Telegram. Empfehle diesen Podcast weiter! Mehr Infos findest du hier.Redaktion: Johann Lensing (Redakteur vom Dienst), Luis von RandowModeration: Theresia CroneProduktion und Schnitt: Anna Huthmann
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Jacqueline Gerson is Assistant Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. She studies how anthropogenic activities have altered the cycling of nutrients and contaminants through watersheds. She is particularly interested in linked biogeochemical cycles within complex socio environmental systems. She also evaluates the implications of contaminants for the people and animals that live in these landscapes. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support
Join Pacific Mammal Research (PacMam) scientists to learn about different marine mammals each episode! We discuss a little about the biology, behavior and fun facts about each species. Have fun and learn about marine mammals with PacMam!www.pacmam.org This week: Pacific White Sided Dolphin Presenters: Cindy Elliser, Katrina MacIver Music by Josh Burns Sources: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/pacific-white-sided-dolphinhttps://thewhaletrail.org/wt-species/pacific-white-sided-dolphin/ https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/animal-care/learn-about-marine-mammals/cetaceans/pacific-white-sided-dolphin https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=pacificwhitesideddolphin.main https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/species-guide/pacific-white-sided-dolphin/ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Lagenorhynchus_obliquidens/ New Research: • Rosser et al. 2022 – Calf directed aggression, infanticide? - https://www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/48.3-Rosser.pdf • Waite and Shelden 2018 – Distribution in Eastern N Pacific - https://bioone.org/journals/northwestern-naturalist/volume-99/issue-2/NWN17-15.1/The-Northern-Extent-of-Pacific-White-Sided-Dolphin-iLagenorhynchus-obliquidens/10.1898/NWN17-15.1.short • Sekiya et al 2024 – Anatomy https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ar.25284 • Mishima et al. 2019 – Pulsed calls as contact calls- https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article-abstract/146/1/409/994113/Pulsed-call-sequences-as-contact-calls-in-Pacific?redirectedFrom=fulltext • Suzuki et al. 2023 – Genomics shows genetically isolated population in Sea of Japan https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.16797• Kanes et al 2024 – Seasonal and diel patterns in pusled calls near Barkley Canyon - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mms.13055• Ashe et al 2021 – Natural and Anthropogenic mortalitiy - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.606876/full?field&journalName=Frontiers_in_Marine_Science&id=606876 Social Struture in BC Morton 2010- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2000.tb00905.xo Ashe 2015 https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/9483
Our climate change series concludes with a discussion of the various lines of evidence indicating that recent warming is the result of human-produced greenhouse gases, including greater warming at night, cooling of the stratosphere, and relative depletion of C14 in the atmosphere. We then consider the various expected impacts of climate change, including increased extreme weather events, acidification of the oceans, changes to crop yields, and affects on various ecosystems. We end with an analysis of the relative costs and benefits of mitigation, and discuss likjely climate projections for the remainder of the 21st century. Recommended pre-listening is Episode 143: Climate Modelling. If you enjoyed the podcast please consider supporting the show by making a PayPal donation or becoming a Patreon supporter. https://www.patreon.com/jamesfodor https://www.paypal.me/ScienceofEverything Check out out youtube channel! The Science of Everything Podcast - YouTube
In this episode, Ralph and Luc delve into what the oil companies knew about CO2's impact on the climate, and how they lied to you to sustain their fossilized business model – even if it risks drilling us into oblivion… This argument will soon be heard in court as part of a series of lawsuits against Big Oil.We start by looking into the history of scholarship on this issue, dating back to the 19th Century.We highlight the record of what the oil companies such as Exxon and the American Petroleum Institute were saying behind closed doors – and contrast this with their contemporaneous public statements.Sources:• If you would like to read California's lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP and the American Petroleum Institute for deceiving the public for decades, you can access it here:https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FINAL-9-15-COMPLAINT.pdf• We quote from the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt; How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway.• We also sample a couple clips from the 2014 documentary derived from it, also titled Merchants Of Doubt, directed by Robert Kenner and co-written by Kim Roberts.• We cite reporting from this 2017 article from the Center for Public Integrity: “The United States of Petroleum” by Jie Jenny Zou, accessible athttps://apps.publicintegrity.org/united-states-of-petroleum/• You can read Edward Teller's “Energy Patterns of the Future” 1959 Presentation at the Energy and Man conference organised by the American Petroleum Institute in full here:https://www.planetaryhealthforbusypeople.com/whats-now-and-whats-new/edward-teller• We sample a couple clips from the 1981 British TV documentary by Thames Television called “Warming Warning”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMjnvfkeJJ0&list=PL7WD0g9dS3jlkXemuiPdoj4RF416JTpn6&index=3• We read from Exxon's 1982 internal primer on the CO2 "Greenhouse Effect", which was made accessible thanks to reporting by Inside Climate News in 2015, and is accessible here:https://insideclimatenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1982-Exxon-Primer-on-CO2-Greenhouse-Effect.pdf• We also read from the oil companies' advertorials, as highlighted in a 2017 research article: "Assessing ExxonMoblil's climate change communications (1977-2014)" by Naomi Oreskes and Geoffrey Supran:https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f• We refer to elements from the 2021 book The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E Mann.• We also cite the 2023 Science article "Assessing ExxonMobil's global warming projections" by Geoffrey Supran, Stefan Rahmstorf, and Naomi Oreskes:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063• We excerpted a clip from Naomi Klein's June 2023 appearance on the podcast "The Audit", hosted by Dave Anthony and Josh Olson on David Sirota's Lever Network, which you can listen to in full here:https://www.levernews.com/the-audit-the-climate-change-misinformation-machine(This episode is also available as a video on YouTube:https://youtu.be/muNF_1mC3FI )
Saint Helena is an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, perhaps most famous as the final residence of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814 and again briefly in 1815. However, there is also plenty of interesting ecology and anthropogenic impact to talk about. Join myself and my co-host on an old episode of Island Folk to find out more! The episode can be found at the following link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1yP66nlH0ReAaZUWETXEHp?si=e894e255600c4bc0 Hope you enjoy!
Terrestrial carbon is stored into above-ground biomass, roots, and soil. Anthropogenic climate change, related policies and carbon trading schemes make its accurate assessment increasingly important. Whereas in situ, airborne and drone-based methods are generally more accurate – spaceborne means possess a list of advantages, which are hard to beat. With satellite-based methods it is possible to gather data in short time about huge areas with uniform quality. Independent third-party validation is also easier as satellite data is to a large extent freely available with open data policy. The accuracy of satellite-based carbon stock assessment has improved with current best methods having twenty five to thirty percent uncertainties. A brief overview of satellite-based terrestrial carbon stock estimation techniques and data sources will be given. Covering indirect proxy methods via passive optical satellite reflectance and radar backscatter and direct biomass volume-measurement methods using interferometric radar and LiDAR data. Direct accurate top layer soil carbon measurement over bare land is also increasingly possible thanks to the advancements of hyperspectral imaging satellites. KappaZeta is developing a constellation of three passive receiver satellites making current industry standard Sentinel-1 radar data from planar to 3-dimensional. It would address many of the shortcomings of current global carbon stock estimation means by cleverly augmenting one of most powerful satellite radar data factories of 2010s to 2030ies. Via direct measurements of the above-ground biomass volume it is possible to improve the carbon stock estimation accuracy of present day's 25% uncertainty to 10% uncertainty. A global, comparable, accurate and affordable data set for carbon stock estimation will be created. With New Space technology about €20 million investment is needed (with safer and slower old-space means about €80 million investment). We are looking for private and governmental stakeholders to develop the user requirements and relations.
Christians need to be pro-active in working to see others come to faith in Christ. In doing that we will also be once again laying the foundations for human flourishing, but also the flourishing of the planet because man is needed to look after it; that's the way God designed it to be. This episode article was written by Dr Don Batten and podcast produced by Joseph Darnell out of the CMI-USA office. Become a monthly contributor at our site. You can also help out by telling your family and friends to check out the podcasts.
Carbon dioxide is part of a plant's diet THEREFORE unmitigated carbon emissions are automatically a good thing.Join Nebula (and get 40% off an annual subscription): https://go.nebula.tv/deniersplaybookBONUS EPISODES available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/deniersplaybook) SOCIALS & MORE (https://linktr.ee/deniersplaybook) CREDITS Hosts: Rollie Williams & Nicole Conlan Executive Producer: Ben Boult Audio Producer: Gregory Haddock Researcher: Canute HaroldsonArt: Jordan Doll Music: Tony Domenick SOURCES1992 Western Fuels Association “The Greening of Planet Earth.” (1992, January 1). Climate Files.Burrell, A. L., Evans, J. P., & De Kauwe, M. G. (2020). Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km 2 of drylands towards desertification. Nature Communications, 11(1), 3853. Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. (n.d.). DeSmog. Retrieved September 2, 2023Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. (n.d.). CO2 Science. 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RC and crew return to review Spring events and resume the benefits of Carbon Dioxide discussions. RC goes thru his analysis of a paper about pre-Viking societies adaptations to the fluctuating European climate, with focus on the Dark Ages Cold Period. Also from his writings for prior RandallCarlson.com monthly newsletters, RC conveys how a group of solar physicists are concerned with the unwise practice of IPCC modelling climate using steady-state solar output. Record cold in the western US, and a graph of last winter's snow cover expansion by state is being used as another factor claiming - Climate Crisis! Strange brain games are being played when everything is blamed on AGW and rising CO2 – despite its fertilization effect and NASA.gov reporting vast “Greening” of the planet. Oh – and Silent Mike reports 1968 is the baseline!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4656375/advertisement
Chelsea Rochman is an assistant professor of ecology at the University of Toronto and scientific advisor to the Ocean Conservancy. In today's episode, she shares important insight from her research on anthropogenic contaminants in the environment and the organisms within it. Offer: TRĒ House products are crafted to bring you the best that legal, delivered-to-your-door THC has to offer. TRĒ House utilizes unique blends of carefully selected minor cannabinoids that get you lit in ways you've only ever dreamed of. TRĒ House offers an array of premium, legal THC products including gummies, vapes, prerolls, and more. Head over to trehouse.com and enjoy 30% off your order AND get a free Acapulco Gold HHC preroll when you use coupon code GENIUS. This offer expires August 31, 2023. Press play to learn: How the environmental impacts of micro and macroplastics differ What are some of the main dominant pathways for waste getting into the environment and how they differ depending on geographical location What type of filtration solution works well for keeping microplastics out of the environment Why it's difficult to understand the role of nanoparticles in the environment Rochman's research revolves around anthropogenic contaminants—what happens when they are added to the environment, how they interact with animals and plants, how they impact species and aquatic ecosystems, where they most frequently enter the environment, and what types of effects different contaminants have on different aspects of the environment. For over ten years, Rochman has focused on plastic contamination. By taking samples from various environmental sources and the guts of organisms, she quantifies and characterizes the plastics found, which allows her to not only conduct further research on how specific contaminants impact organisms, but also propose to industry and municipalities more sustainable ways of utilizing and managing plastics. Much of the research in this field has shown that the smaller the plastic, the more likely it is to have an impact on organisms, and those impacts range from changes in growth patterns to low offspring viability. In addition to discussing these topics in depth, Rochman touches on types of ecotoxicology research, trophic transfer of microplastics, bioaccumulation and biomagnification of microplastics, and the chemistry of the environment. For more information on Rochman's work, visit https://rochmanlab.com/. Available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2Os0myK
A new study by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist and collaborators shows that nearly all the recent increase in California summer wildfire burned area is attributable to human-caused (anthropogenic) climate change. Anthropogenic simulations yielded burn areas an average of 172% higher than natural variation simulations. The research appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Tune in as we talk with one of the co-authors of the article, Dr. Don Lucas.
A new study by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist and collaborators shows that nearly all the recent increase in California summer wildfire burned area is attributable to human-caused (anthropogenic) climate change. Anthropogenic simulations yielded burn areas an average of 172% higher than natural variation simulations. The research appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Tune in as we talk with one of the co-authors of the article, Dr. Don Lucas.
Blinded by inappropriate outdoor night lighting, much of humanity is now unaware of the rich beauty of the Universe which surrounds them. To see sights which have inspired countless generations of lovers, poets, scientists, authors, artists, mathematicians, and dreamers people must travel out of their artificial light domes to one of the few remote locations which offer the opportunity to view the natural night sky.
Natasha Mitchell (pictured) recorded a new episode of "Big Ideas" at the May Climate Summit in Bendigo organized by the Greater Bendigo Climate Collaboration - "On ya bike or not? Global movers, shakers, and city shapers reimagining car culture". "Killer Heat: Confronting Disproportionate Impacts on Women and Girls"; "What Wildfire Smoke Does to the Human Body"; "Corporations Determine Our Future"; "Historic First U.S. Youth Climate Change Trial Starts in Montana"; "Anthropogenic climate change impacts exacerbate summer forest fires in California"; "Alarm at rightwing push to reverse clean-energy success in Texas and beyond"; "90 million homes in the EU have pets. How can we reduce their carbon footprint?"; "What are the dangers of wildfire smoke?"; "How should we teach climate change in schools? It starts with ‘turbo charging' teacher education"; "To prepare climate strikers for the future, we need to rewrite the history books"; "Climate change: young people striking from school see it for the life-threatening issue it is"; "Five ways the new sustainability and climate change strategy for schools in England doesn't match up to what young people actually want"; "Wildfire smoke and dirty air are also climate change problems: Solutions for a world on fire"; "Greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high and Earth is warming faster than ever – report"; "Americans and their cars"; "Climate change and net zero"; "‘Not a chance in heaven' to save Great Barrier Reef, but botanic garden will keep corals"; "Climate change is a global problem. Climate action is a local solution."; "Baby got back(up): Australia embraces the big battery"; "Waste flushed down toilets to begin fuelling gas network"; "‘We are gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers': Peter Singer on climate change"; "As Wildfire Smoke Recedes, Parents of Young Children Worry About the Next Time"; "Only 5% of global emissions are covered by on-track targets, new Tracker from CDP finds"; "Paediatricians sign joint letter urging NT government to withdraw Beetaloo Basin fracking support"; "The government should pay people for driving electric cars, not for buying them"; "An ambitious mapping project identifies the overlap between crops and biodiversity threats"; "A first detailed glimpse of the world without us. Wildlife during COVID lockdowns." --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message
Written by Aparna Anirudhan and narrated by Gayle Crew CoreNet Global's the SOURCE magazine, April 2023 Scientists use the word “anthropogenic” in referring to environmental change caused or influenced by people, either directly or indirectly. Human-initiated climate change, as opposed to naturally occurring climatic activities, is directly linked to the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation leading to melting of ice sheets and flooding and the release of aerosols into the air and our oceans leading to ocean acidification causing the death and subsequently extinction of several species.
In this episode, Ralph and Luc listen to a stand-up routine by comedian George Carlin about environmentalists. We engage with Carlin's pontifications and his ingenious framing by providing context from a scientific perspective. We also gesture at disarming some of his cynicism while steering clear of fully explaining away what made his take comedic in the first place.This episode contains 4 brief excerpts from George Carlin's "Jammin' in New York" special.Erratum: we said microplastics were found in the blood of 99% of people tested – in fact, plastic was found in the blood of 17 of 22 subjects tested (77%).• original article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022001258 • and a write-up in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/microplastics-found-in-human-blood-for-first-time.
On this inaugural episode, Ralph and Luc briefly describe the practice of greenwashing, with examples ranging from: BP's popularisation of the carbon footprint, to the labels on water bottles, to Volkswagen evading emissions tests, and the practice of carbon offsets…
Paula Burgi Remote sensing observations of the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake sequence revealed a significant amount of surface ejecta in the nearby Searles Lake, including one area where the surface ejecta was arranged in a repeating hexagonal “honeycomb” pattern. This pattern is collocated with injection wells from a solution mining operation, suggesting anthropogenic activities influenced the spatial distribution of surface ejecta. Lithology, geotechnical soil behavior, and the spatial distribution of long-term InSAR-derived subsidence indicate that surface ejecta in Searles Lake is not likely related to liquefaction. We propose a process, similar to liquefaction, that results in surface ejecta: (1) dissolution of evaporites increases the void/cavity space that is filled with fluid, (2) ground shaking causes void/cavity collapse (i.e., a volume reduction), (3) the collapse increases the fluid pressure, and (4) the increased pressure results in fluid flow to the surface.
Although Antarctica is still the most remote and pristine place on earth, there have been many human-caused impacts to this continent and the marine environment around it. These impacts include pollution from research stations, tourism, and introduced species. In this podcast, I discuss these impacts and how they led to the Environmental Protocol in the Antarctic Treaty in 1991. In addition, I give the history of tourism and when the first women are known to have visited the frozen continent. Tourism (ship and air), which has been increasing exponentially since the 1970s, is now controlled by the tourist agencies themselves when the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators (IAATO) was formed in 1991 to promote safe and environmentally responsible travel to Antarctica. Introduced species still arrive in Antarctica either naturally or from researchers and tourists, but most of these exotic species fail to survive there. I discuss a few of these species that have managed to gain a foothold in Antarctica today, facilitated in part of global warming trends that provide a more suitable habitat for them.
Enjoy this week's episode with our new host Elise and her first guest, Clemency White, as they chat about shark sensory biology, anthropogenic noise, and the importance of keeping our hands to ourselves!
In this episode, our first of our beekeeping series, we tackle the thorny question of native pollinators and non-native honeybee pollinators-- how do they impact one another? More importantly, are we actually too focused on saving the wrong pollinator? We dive into questions about native pollinators, non-native species, monocrops, tracing where 'common knowledge' comes from, and the rigors of having to talk to Andy for an hour straight. To support this podcast, join our patreon for early episode access at www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac For more information and updates, visit www.poorproles.com and subscribe to our e-mail list. Sources: 1 "On the road: Anthropogenic factors drive the invasion risk of a wild solitary bee species" Julia Lanner, Nicolas Dubos, Benoît Geslin, Boris Leroy, Carlos Hernández-Castellano 2 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353679469_Exotic_insect_pollinators_and_native_pollination_systems 3 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280794340_Introduced_honeybees_on_islands_impacts_on_native_pollination_interactions/link/55c9c17308aeb9756747a1b7/download 4 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283573063_Nectar_chemistry_modulates_the_impact_of_an_invasive_plant_on_native_pollinators 5 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333601307_Native_bees_honeybees_and_pollination_in_Oregon_cranberries 6 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358925416_Non-Native_Non-Apis_Bees_Are_More_Abundant_on_Non-Native_Versus_Native_Flowering_Woody_Landscape_Plants 7 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345388816_Are_native_and_non-native_pollinator_friendly_plants_equally_valuable_for_native_wild_bee_communities 8 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303832346_The_Effects_of_Crop_Intensification_on_the_Diversity_of_Native_Pollinator_Communities 9 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322648003_Exotic_flies_maintain_pollination_services_as_native_pollinators_decline_with_agricultural_expansion 10 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336118547_Safeguarding_the_genetic_integrity_of_native_pollinators_requires_stronger_regulations_on_commercial_lines 11 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329048797_Linear_and_non-linear_effects_of_goldenrod_invasions_on_native_pollinator_and_plant_populations 12 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326653954_Conservation_Incentives_from_an_Ecosystem_Service_How_Much_Farmland_Might_Be_Devoted_to_Native_Pollinators 13 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41271-5 14 https://naturalareas.org/docs/16-067_02_Overview-of-the-Potential-Impacts-of-Honey-Bees_web.pdf 15 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339918219_Viruses_are_spilling_over_from_managed_honey_bees_to_wild_bumble_bees 16 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338610434_Honey_bees_do_not_displace_foraging_bumble_bees_on_nectar-rich_artificial_flowers 17 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302971640_Competition_between_managed_honeybees_and_wild_bumblebees_depends_on_landscape_context 18 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343451112_Modelling_risk_of_competitive_effects_from_honeybees_on_wild_bees 19 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340165114_Resource_partitioning_among_a_pollinator_guild_A_case_study_of_monospecific_flower_crops_under_high_honeybee_pressure Audio clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSYgDssQUtA
“The future is positive. Unfortunately, so many children are being taught that we're destroying the planet, mankind is responsible for all the problems in the world. We can use our intelligence, make the world a better place to live in harmony with it” There's an intense amount of focus on climate change in the media and almost all of it paints humanity as a the culprit, forcing people, especially the younger generations, to develop a negative perspective on society, our leaders, and our collective future. We hear a lot from politicians and scientists about longterm solutions but the sense of despair and cynicism persists. Last week's guest, Lynne Twist, raised the point that so much of humanity's financial resources are lost to fear. What if, rather than focussing on our failures and promoting the notion that change is difficult, we focus on our potential. Today's guest believes the future is positive. Jeff Krehmer is a visionary mechanical engineer who's mindset and courage to step forward with optimism and a solution is what this world needs. Jeff believes we can use our intelligence to make the world a better place. He talks about a technology called Polar Energy Platforms or PEP that harness the energy of the ocean to provide electricity for the whole planet while simultaneously contributing to global cooling, global food supplies, and ecological balance. To learn more about Jeff's revolutionary ideas, read his new book, Infinite Resources: How To Sustainably Develop The Arctic By Supplying Green Hydrogen, Fresh Water, And Healthy Food To The World, While Mitigating The Negative Effects Of Anthropogenic Climate Change, go to infiniteresourcesbook.com. Raymond Aaron has shared his vision and wisdom on radio and television programs for over 40 years. He is the author of over 100 books, including Branding Small Business For Dummies, Double Your Income Doing What You Love, Canadian best-seller Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul. www.Aaron.com
Heat waves are defined as periods of abnormally hot weather generally lasting more than two days. To be considered a heat wave, the recorded temperatures must be substantially above the historical averages for a given area. According to climate scientists, anthropogenic climate change is likely causing heat waves to increase in both frequency and intensity. […]
Understanding the function of time and space when an ecosystem is disturbed is essential for devising sustainable conservation and management policies, further complicated by anthropogenic disturbances. To understand and predict the response of ecological systems to these disturbances, researchers must develop new theoretical and experimental approaches.The research team at the Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (SETE) founded by Jean Clobert and Michel Loreau, aims to provide both theory and experimental methodologies to understand and predict the responses of ecological systems to environmental changes.Read more in Research Features Read some of their latest work here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00043
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A Theologian's Response to Anthropogenic Existential Risk, published by Fr Peter Wyg on November 3, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Hi all, This is very much someone outside the bailiwick of this forum looking in, but I was told it could be interesting to share this article I wrote recently. I'm a Catholic priest, with a prior background in Electronic Engineering, currently working on a PhD in Theology at Durham University. I am researching how the Catholic Church can engage with longtermism and better play its, potentially significant, part in advocating existential security. I'm particularly interested in how a Christian imagination can offer unique evaluative resources for attributing value to future human flourishing and to develop a sense of moral connection with our descendents, better motivating the sacrifices safeguarding the future demands. Much of the material will be very familiar to you as the article was written for a Catholic publication, and so also serves to introduce and promote some of the basic ideas to a new audience. I'm certainly interested to receive any comments or questions! Called to Share the Father's Love for Humanity's Future: A Scriptural and Patristic Perspective on Eschatological Cooperation in the Age of Anthropogenic Existential Risks As the 16th day of July 1945 came to a close, the sun set over a changed world. For the first time, humanity had detonated an atomic bomb, and after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki later that year, society struggled to come to terms with the forces unleashed. Amidst the cacophony of devastation and the uproar of anti-nuclear movements, there were those who caught whispers of a dark threshold quietly crossed. One such thinker, Bertrand Russell, stood in the House of Lords to describe the shadow of a new kind of threat: We do not want to look at this thing simply from the point of view of the next few years; we want to look at it from the point of view of the future of mankind. The question is a simple one: Is it possible for a scientific society to continue to exist, or must such a society inevitably bring itself to destruction? ... As I go about the streets and see St. Paul's, the British Museum, the Houses of Parliament, and the other monuments of our civilization, in my mind's eye I see a nightmare vision of those buildings as heaps of rubble, surrounded by corpses.[1] Russell recognised that the development of nuclear weapons marked the dawn of a new age: humanity had become its greatest risk to itself. Adam and Eve, in eating the forbidden fruit, opened the way to individual death, but we have now “eaten more deeply of the fruit of the tree of knowledge” and are now “face to face with a second death, the death of mankind.”[2] An antithesis of God's creatio ex nihilo, we have obtained our own absolutising power, the “potestas annihilationis, the reductio ad nihili.”[3] A philosophical response to this new power suggests that threat of nuclear apocalypse is but one example of a category of anthropogenic existential risks (AXRs). Other self-caused threats to humanity's future potential also include engineered pandemics, human-caused climate change, and unaligned artificial intelligence, all of which could cause existential catastrophe. Further AXRs still await discovery, and we have no reason to believe these will be less hazardous.[4] Without action, the danger humanity creates for itself will continue to grow and Ord, from Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, argues such increasing risk is unsustainable. We will either learn to mitigate existential risks or one of them will eventually play out, causing a permanent loss of humanity's potential. In the past, survival could be taken for granted as natural threats to the human species are vanishingly rare on the timescale of human histo...
In this episode I'm chatting with Kara Moses. Kara is a biologist and educator teaching nature connection, rewilding, wild living skills and woodland management. She is a writer, a climate activist, chair of the Cambrian Wildwood project in west Wales, she created Radical Nature Connection at the Ulex Project in the pyrenees which brings nature connection practice into relationship with our struggles to challenge interlocking systems of oppression, such as racism, patriarchy, colonialism, and ableism and our efforts to build movements forging a life-affirming future. You can learn more about her work at her website rewildeverything.org and her social media handle RewildEverything.Kara and I discuss the different ways rewilding has been used and the ways it has been perceived, and the challenges of using the word. We follow Kara through her transformative journey from primatology to direct action climate activism to nature connection, how she came to rewilding and beyond. This is a fun and deep conversation from a fellow rewilder who has dealt with similar and very different challenges than myself, in terms of spreading rewilding.Notes: www.RewildEverything.orgTwitter: @Kara_L_MosesInsta: @RewildEverythingFacebook: @RewildEverything• www.CambrianWildwood.org• How lemurs fight climate change• Meet Kara Moses, the activist who helped shut down a Welsh coal mine• Feral by George Monbiot • Wild Awake Ireland• ‘It'll take away our livelihoods': Welsh farmers on rewilding and carbon markets• Anthropogenic heathlands: disturbance ecologies and the social organisation of past super-resilient landscapes• Radical Nature Connection (RNC)• My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem• Queer Nature• Rewild Portland • Weaving Earth• We are the 99%• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall-Kimmerer• The Old Way• Access to You is a Privilege• What Kinship is and What it is Not by Marshall SahlinsSupport the show
In this episode Lexman interviews Saifedean Ammous, a financial author and investor. They discuss the basics of thermopiles, anthropogenic climate change, and subzone economics.
Today we are talking with Dr. Erica Nol of Ontario, Canada about challenges of the arctic-breeding shorebird. Dr. Nol is a professor at Trent University in Canada. Her research interests lie in the biology and conservation of shorebirds across many areas in Canada and beyond. In particular, she studies the impacts of climate change on the habitats and life histories of arctic and subarctic breeding shorebirds.
Humans have adapted to meet their water needs across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations. Yet, as temperatures rise and freshwater sources become depleted, it is critical to understand 1) how populations modify their environments to meet their water needs, and 2) the consequences of these anthropogenic - or human caused changes - on the environment and further on human health. This talk will provide an overview of different global water challenges and focus on a couple of case studies to highlight how development projects in remote areas that provide easier access to water, which may be high in salt or other contaminants, can unintentionally worsen health outcomes and hasten water depletion. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 37908]
Humans have adapted to meet their water needs across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations. Yet, as temperatures rise and freshwater sources become depleted, it is critical to understand 1) how populations modify their environments to meet their water needs, and 2) the consequences of these anthropogenic - or human caused changes - on the environment and further on human health. This talk will provide an overview of different global water challenges and focus on a couple of case studies to highlight how development projects in remote areas that provide easier access to water, which may be high in salt or other contaminants, can unintentionally worsen health outcomes and hasten water depletion. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 37908]
Humans have adapted to meet their water needs across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations. Yet, as temperatures rise and freshwater sources become depleted, it is critical to understand 1) how populations modify their environments to meet their water needs, and 2) the consequences of these anthropogenic - or human caused changes - on the environment and further on human health. This talk will provide an overview of different global water challenges and focus on a couple of case studies to highlight how development projects in remote areas that provide easier access to water, which may be high in salt or other contaminants, can unintentionally worsen health outcomes and hasten water depletion. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 37908]
Humans have adapted to meet their water needs across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations. Yet, as temperatures rise and freshwater sources become depleted, it is critical to understand 1) how populations modify their environments to meet their water needs, and 2) the consequences of these anthropogenic - or human caused changes - on the environment and further on human health. This talk will provide an overview of different global water challenges and focus on a couple of case studies to highlight how development projects in remote areas that provide easier access to water, which may be high in salt or other contaminants, can unintentionally worsen health outcomes and hasten water depletion. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 37908]
CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video)
Humans have adapted to meet their water needs across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations. Yet, as temperatures rise and freshwater sources become depleted, it is critical to understand 1) how populations modify their environments to meet their water needs, and 2) the consequences of these anthropogenic - or human caused changes - on the environment and further on human health. This talk will provide an overview of different global water challenges and focus on a couple of case studies to highlight how development projects in remote areas that provide easier access to water, which may be high in salt or other contaminants, can unintentionally worsen health outcomes and hasten water depletion. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 37908]
Humans have adapted to meet their water needs across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations. Yet, as temperatures rise and freshwater sources become depleted, it is critical to understand 1) how populations modify their environments to meet their water needs, and 2) the consequences of these anthropogenic - or human caused changes - on the environment and further on human health. This talk will provide an overview of different global water challenges and focus on a couple of case studies to highlight how development projects in remote areas that provide easier access to water, which may be high in salt or other contaminants, can unintentionally worsen health outcomes and hasten water depletion. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 37908]
Humans have adapted to meet their water needs across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations. Yet, as temperatures rise and freshwater sources become depleted, it is critical to understand 1) how populations modify their environments to meet their water needs, and 2) the consequences of these anthropogenic - or human caused changes - on the environment and further on human health. This talk will provide an overview of different global water challenges and focus on a couple of case studies to highlight how development projects in remote areas that provide easier access to water, which may be high in salt or other contaminants, can unintentionally worsen health outcomes and hasten water depletion. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 37908]
Humans have adapted to meet their water needs across disparate environments over time using behavioral adaptations. Yet, as temperatures rise and freshwater sources become depleted, it is critical to understand 1) how populations modify their environments to meet their water needs, and 2) the consequences of these anthropogenic - or human caused changes - on the environment and further on human health. This talk will provide an overview of different global water challenges and focus on a couple of case studies to highlight how development projects in remote areas that provide easier access to water, which may be high in salt or other contaminants, can unintentionally worsen health outcomes and hasten water depletion. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 37908]
Mining, fracking and other georesource activities pose various environmental hazards - groundwater contamination, air pollution, and even significant earthquakesThe EPOS Thematic Core Service for Anthropogenic Hazards (TCS AH) was created to facilitate global-scale open data access and research of anthropogenic hazards related to georesource exploitation. Find more about TCS AH at their website, or in this article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0429-3
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While no longer national news, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is still impacting the ecological health of the Gulf of Mexico and the livelihoods of the communities that rely upon the gulf's aquatic life, as Robert “Joe” Griffitt of the University of Southern Mississippi reveals. Dr. Griffitt and co-hosts Anne Chappelle and David Faulkner discuss how ecotoxicology is both an applied and a basic science, as well as how scientific discovery is not always a linear process. About the GuestRobert “Joe” Griffitt, PhD, is a Professor at and Director of the University of Southern Mississippi School of Ocean Science and Engineering. Ecotoxicology, toxicogenomics, and bioinformatics are the focus of Dr. Griffitt's research. Specifically, his lab investigates the impacts of metallic nanoparticles in aquatic and marine ecosystems and the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the northern Gulf of Mexico. In both cases, his lab uses a combination of molecular and whole-animal endpoints to try to assess toxicological impacts at both cellular and organism levels. Dr. Griffitt earned a BS in marine biology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and an MS in marine science and a PhD in environmental science from the University of South Carolina. He completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Florida.
On Portland State University Week: The changing atmosphere is putting stresses on ecosystems. Elise Granek, associate professor of environmental science & management, determines how to identify solutions to keep coastal environments viable. Dr. Elise Granek graduated with her MES from Yale University and went on to earn her PhD from Oregon State. Her general fields […]
There has been a lot of news lately about the presence of microplastics in everything from our food and water to our bodies. How did this even happen? Guests: Mary Kosuth, Research Assistant and PhD student at the U of M School of Public Health Episode sponsor: Susie Osaki Holm - thank you for your generous support! Show Notes: Mary Kosuth's paper: Anthropogenic contamination of tap water, beer, and sea salt Microplastics: What are they and why should we care? The World's Plastic Pollution Crisis, Explained Waste Land - an episode of Planet Money Plastic Pollution is Killing Sea Turtles Your Laundry Sheds Harmful Microfibers. Here's What You Can Do About It What Companies Are Behind the Global Surge in Single-Use Plastic Loop's Revolutionary Reusable Packaging System - Coming to Some Big Stores Bottle Bill States and How They Work Oregon Bottle Deposit ($ .10) and Bottle Drop Redemption Centers Oregon Governor Signs Country's Second EPR Law For Packaging The Race to Develop Plastic-Eating Bacteria Episode Managers: Susie Osaki Holm and Bruce Anderson Become a Patron of our show! Produced by Riverside Productions LLC Music by Epidemic Sound Twitter @MinnCentral Facebook Featured Songs: Hollow Inside - Daxten Ocean Flow - West & Zander
For Meet Me on Planet 3 podcast episode 6, I interviewed Dr. Duncan Cook, a Senior Lecturer of Geography at Australian Catholic University (ACU). (In American lingo, we'd call him a professor.) Duncan describes some of the archaeological data that support the claim that drought, caused by deforestation, forced the ancient Maya to abandon their inland cities. Climate change, anyone? I seriously learned so much from our conversation. You MUST listen to this interview - Duncan's work and his data are fascinating. I secretly (or not so secretly) hope he invites me on his next expedition! Some key terms used in this episode: Anthro: Anthro is a prefix that means human. Anthropogenic means caused by humans. For example, anthropogenic sources of carbon indicates carbon dioxide in our atmosphere due to human activities, such as burning coal for electricity. Paleo: Paleo is another prefix, which means occurring in the distant past. For example, the expression "paleo diet" is used to describe foods that could have been hunted or gathered by ancient humans. Geo: A third prefix, geo, means Earth. A Geographer studies not just maps but also how society interacts with Earth's natural environment. Speaking of geography, two locations that come up include the Petén, which is a region in northern Guatemala, and the Yucatán, which refers to an area of Mexico. Catchment: Catchment is another way of describing a watershed, such as the area surrounding a lake or river. Calcium Carbonate: A little high school chemistry for you! Calcium carbonate is an important chemical in seashells. Its chemical formula is CaCO3, revealing that it consists of one calcium atom, one carbon atom, and three oxygen atoms. Isotope: An isotope refers to the same kind of atom with different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei and therefore different atomic masses. For example, Oxygen-16 and Oxygen-18 are isotopes. They are both forms of the element, oxygen, but they have different atomic masses due to differing numbers of neutrons. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe today, and tell a friend to Meet Me on Planet 3 as well! Also check out my blog, follow @meetmeonplanet3 on Instagram and Twitter, and email me with topic suggestions or questions - meetmeonplanet3@gmail.com.
This episode of the Ground Shots Podcast is a conversation between Kelly Moody and Gabe Crawford. We haven't done an episode together since we were on the Colorado Trail this past summer. So, we wanted to talk about the research we have been doing since we got off of the trail, and while hermiting a bit in our bell tent camp along a riparian corridor, outside of Durango, Colorado. We've been thinking a lot about what land tending means, and definitions of ‘wildness,' and ‘wilderness' since hiking the trail, and wanted to spend some time looking into the literature out there on conservation, ecology and agriculture. We've only touched the surface with our research, but wanted to talk about it on air with ya'll here, and connect some distant tendrils of what we're finding through conversation. Above all, our goal has been to try to understand why anthropogenic (human tended and co-created) landscapes are ignored in scientific literature, hence why ‘wild-tending' seems far-fetched to some folks. And, we want to understand the deeper origins of the invasion biology field of conversation and how it may be connected to ethnocentrism, racism, unexamined colonialist assumptions in the fields of history and science, and more. Since this episode was recorded and edited, we have migrated to where my family is in southern Virginia for the rest of the winter and are trying to adjust to a different culture, climate and navigating the pandemic without public land. In this episode of the podcast, we talk about: the oppressive colonizing force of the Christian church institution in Europe and how this influenced the suppression of land based spirituality some etymology of ‘heretic,' ‘heathen,' ‘villan,' and ‘pagan' how the disregard for historic anthropogenic landscapes is connected to the obsession with ‘pristine' ecology and ‘wilderness' notions how Eurocentric ideas about agriculture influenced what colonists saw as ‘uncivilized' or ‘cultivated' on turtle island and how these ethnocentric biases ignored anthropogenic landscapes the white supremacy inherent in the western scientific interpretation of human cultivation, land management and indigenous influence on ecology biases in the historical accounts of indigenous cultures and the landscapes of Turtle Island, South America, etc. by European explorers yet many of these accounts are used to determine ecological baselines in conservation goals some of the origins of emotive, moral and value based language in invasive biology and conservation fields the roots of why conservationism is wary to include indigenous peoples in its preservation of ‘pristine wilderness' and how the creation of baselines that doesn't include indigenous land management practices, even though the ecological baselines that might be their goals were anthropogenic landscapes the history of national parks extirpating natives off of their land in order to ‘preserve' an idea of ‘wilderness' and how they continue to ignore how the humans there were a part of creating and managing the landscapes the affluence associated with conservation culture and the western ideas of the museumification of ‘pristine land' the misinformation in the academic literature of invasion biology created through confirmation biases and disproven theories continuing to be referenced as facts Links: A slew of resources related to what we chatted about on the podcast can be found below. Subscribe to our email newsletter, found at the bottom of this link section, for updates on when we will be offering some classes related to these topics. “Rambunctious Garden : Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World” by Emma Marris “Beyond the War on Invasive Species” by Tao Orion “Keeping it Living: : Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America” by Nancy Turner “The Burning Times” by Jeanne Kalogridis Southwest Colorado Wildflowers entry on Triteleia grandiflora (Wild Hyacinth, Large-flowered Onion), where the botanists mention the likelihood that the Utes brought it through trade from the Pacific Northwest and planted it to eat, given it is a very disjunct species from where it is normally found “The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants” by Charles Elton “Charles S. Elton and the Dissociation of Invasion Ecology from the Rest of Ecology” by Mark Davis “Don't Judge Species on Their Origins” by Mark Davis and Matthew K. Chew “1491": New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus” by Charles Mann ECOLOGISTS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, EXPERTS, AND THE INVASION OF THE ‘SECOND GREATEST THREAT' by Matthew K. Chew “The rise and fall of biotic nativeness: a historical perspective” by Matthew K. Chew “Invasions: the trail behind, the path ahead, and a test of a disturbing idea” by Angela Moles "Is rapid evolution common in introduced plant species?” by Angela Moles Torreya Guardians website: “Assisted Migration (Assisted Colonization, Managed Relocation, Translocation) and Rewilding of Plants and Animals in an Era of Rapid Climate Change” “Quantifying Threats to Imperiled Species in the United States: Assessing the relative importance of habitat destruction, alien species, pollution, overexploitation, and disease” by David Wilcove (this article is routinely cited as the reference for invasive species being the second greatest threat to biodiversity when it doesn't even say that, alongside Edward O. Wilson's 1992 book, “The Diversity of Life”) “Invasion Biology : Critique of a Pseudoscience” by David Theodoropoulos “Environmental determinism”: This is a wikipedia article on the history of environmental determinism in the contest of western colonialism and how this philosophy was used to justify abuses to human rights. “How conservation became colonialism” BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK “Forgotten Fires : Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness” by Omer C. 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Anthropogenic mass—concrete, metal, and other human creations—has grown to be heavier than plants, animals, and microbes combined. Planet Earth is not happy.
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In today's episode we continue our series on the early peopling of the Americas, this time focusing on Amazonia and the peoples that occupied and modified this region. Joining us for this episode is Dr. Mark Robinson, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Dr. Robinson's research focuses on environmental archaeology, and applying interdisciplinary techniques to explore human-plant relationships. His research has particularly focused on human-environment interactions, including wood and charcoal identification to understand resource exploitation and anthropogenic impacts on the forest. He has worked extensively throughout the New World, with ongoing projects in Belize, Brazil, Bolivia, and Colombia, with contexts ranging from the peopling of the Americas during the Late Pleistocene, to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. In earlier research, Dr Robinson applied a novel methodology using GIS modelling, vegetation prediction, and isotope geochemistry to isolate humans from climate as the principal driver of vegetation change during the Late Holocene. Currently, Dr. Robinson is using airborne LiDAR to document forest structure and archaeology in western Amazonia. Additionally, ongoing research in the remote Bladen Nature Reserve in Belize has uncovered some of the oldest tropical skeletons in well-defined stratigraphic sequences. To learn more about Dr Robinson's work please visit: Dr Robinson's Website Jungle Mystery: Lost Kingdoms of the Amazon Documentary Series