#ECOLOGY
European Homeowners Battle Insurers Over $2.9 Trillion Climate Risk
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2025/06/13/827625.htm
#Europe #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Restoring seascapes: New study calls for urgent habitat reconnection to meet climate and biodiversity goals
University of Portsmouth
7–9 minutes
Scientists warn that the future of our oceans and climate goals depends on reconnecting the ecological threads that hold coastal habitats together
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-seascapes-urgent-habitat-reconnection-climate.html
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Study Shows Mercury Levels in Arctic Wildlife Could Rise for Centuries
Even as global emissions plateau, new research shows that wildlife in the Arctic is exposed to rising levels, posing a risk to those who eat it
#Arctic #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Check out our latest issue with some outstanding papers from outstanding authors! As always, we are fully #openaccess, free for both authors and readers.
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/issue/372/info/
Trump pulls out of Salmon Treaty with states. Impacting Columbia River.
#BCPoli #Fish #Ecology #ColumbiaRiver
https://mstdn.ca/@TheresaReason/114677877588643448
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Voilà, à part ça faut surtout rien faire, continuons avec notre mode de vie qui détruit tout...En 5mn
Nature as Social Materiality
Have you ever loved anyone but not wanted to be anywhere near them? Have you ever had a genuine friend you consistently and continually avoided? I expect the answer to those questions is “No” because if you really love someone or participate in a genuine, heartfelt friendship then you find these things to be naturally maintained and enhanced by means of physical interaction with the people concerned. Having friends or loved ones almost certainly means physically interacting with them whenever you can, desiring to, and finding that doing so is a very material means of deepening the meaning and value to oneself of such relations and making you happier (whilst disseminating that amongst the participants generally as well). So this has material payoffs in terms of mood, temperament, mental health, and so on, for we must remember that feelings and emotions are things that are materially mediated and experienced too.
Personally, I would argue that such an understanding of relationships is one that accords with nature in the round in its material reality and manner of operation. On this understanding nature is, first and foremost, a material, physical place in which the life that is involved is socially entangled (to material benefit if also at material risk) as the normalised and regularised reality. Take a forest, for example. It is populated by trees, plants, animals and fungi (including underground mycelial networks) which is all interconnected in terms of its common existence (often by the making of literal physical connections, not least under the soil) and, without knowledge aforethought as humans might understand that, becomes a functioning organism in its own right (in such a way as it can, for example, at the macro level affect local weather or the moisture content of the forest floor) because of the interactions of supposedly independent forms of life across both species and phyla. In a forest, as in many other habitats, things that are completely different socially and materially interact with each other for common gain. (Imagine what might happen if they were socially isolationist and they didn’t do that!) In actual fact, the “common gain” part of that equation is not even necessary for even selfish gain is nevertheless a socially material achievement and requires engaging in the social materiality.
What applies to the forest also applies to the river (as Robert Macfarlane has recently argued in Is A River Alive?), to the sea or to the human town or city. We live in a physically material world and so social action in the material world is the means to achievement of desired outcomes including, but not restricted to, the needs of life maintenance itself. There are even people (such as atmospheric chemist James Lovelock or microbiologist Lynn Margulis) who argue that the earth’s surface (whether sea or land) and the atmosphere together are “alive” and that their social materiality, described in phenomena like symbiosis (life forms living together or actively co-existing) and autopoiesis (a faculty of self-maintenance natural to life and living systems and ecosystems), is actually what makes anything alive at all. In this understanding, everything is alive, as it were, “as one” in a relational, processual and systematic way; it is part of a social, participatory and material ecosystem of life that requires social materiality.
We do not know so much about the emotional needs of things like trees, plants or other animals, although studies (not to mention simple eyesight) don’t exactly deter one from thinking that most things like to “have friends” and “be happy” (often these seem connected), but we do know that most life, including we humans, is exceedingly social and there aren’t many things that survive better alone than socially. Many simply die much faster alone and live hard lives of little achievement into the bargain as the price that must be paid for being alone. (One example here is that studies of trees cut off from other examples of their kind have shown that such trees lose the powers of communication that trees in woods or forests seem to have. Not being able to use such a faculty, the tree loses it completely. The same is true of crops treated with artificial human pesticides that ignore the material sociality of the plant and its natural interaction with its habitat in favour of an artificial activity instead, one which actively changes the plant in the process.) The lion is better off in its pride, the bee better off in its hive, the fish better off in its shoal or the tree better off in its forest than it is in forsaking sociality for a singular existence. Of course, nature is not always so simple and all kinds of forms of life sometimes find themselves on their own and divorced from a sociality of species, kind or desire. So much the worse for them, so it seems. The best way to fulfil needs in a material world (in which needs, even emotional ones, can almost certainly be defined materially since emotions have material consequences) is to have material social relations which can satisfy them.
We may observe, then, that nature has formed in such a way that its materiality is habitually social. This is necessary for the maintenance of life while it lasts but, in anything that reproduces sexually, also in its creation as well. In many species, having numbers that act in concert is pertinent to survival. If a lion has more chance of catching prey if it has others to hunt with so does a herd of deer or buffalo have a better chance of survival precisely if they exist as a herd. If we think of all the many relationships formed around, and necessary for, parenting of offspring we see these are also based on a necessary social materiality without which species simply would not survive. Surviving on your own is much harder than surviving with others. Ask any bee hive or ant colony. Ask any flower which relies on various critters to pollinate it or spread its seeds. Everywhere we see social activity in a material world leading to both desired and necessary outcomes and to the maintenance of singular and collective well being.
We live in a materially social world for nature is social materiality.
#nature #ecology #environment #naturelovers #politics #anarchy #solidarity #resist #resistance
Awesome book.
Work by Cluster member Janice Brahney is cited in this article from Plant Cuttings.
"Maybe this phenomenon could be turned to the advantage of humankind? Since MPs are accumulated by plants, maybe those same plants could be used to absorb MPs from the air (and soil), so that other plants have less of a plastic burden to bear and are less harmful to other biota?"
À quand une température maximale dans les appartements en été, se plaignent des locataires
Des locataires se plaignent de températures pouvant atteindre 27 °C à 30 °C dans leur appartement
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2171640/toronto-chaleur-maximum-appartements-plaintes
#Toronto #Ontario #canada #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
11-Jun-2025
Study finds ethical justification to eradicate certain harmful species
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087125 #bioethics #science #malaria #screwworm #anopheles #publicHealth #extinction #ecology
Miles Davis or George Gershwin?
Oh, I do hope somebody gets this! Let me know if you do.
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#ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #garden #gardener #gardening #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #sustainable #summer #bloomscrolling #biodiversity #natural #NaturalGarden #WildlifeFriendly #PlanetFriendly #PollinatorFriendly #ecology #climate #ClimateChange #conservation #sustainability
#NewSpecies!
New weevil from #japan just snuck in:
Neomecopus tamaderai
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/410E87C7-537F-FF88-FF2B-F938FE91FC2A
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.10
#Zootaxa #NeomecopusTamaderai
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #weevils
Represented by the Director of Environmental Science and Technology, Bernadette Oguche, Asanye said the project aims to promote environmental sustainability while ensuring affordability, comfort, and adaptability
https://elanhub.net/fg-to-build-bamboo-houses-for-low-middle-income-nigerians/
#Abuja #Nigeria #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Biodice: a network of scientists and institutions with the common goal of promoting research, greater awareness and understanding of biodiversity in Iceland. This objective reflects the growing need to meet the challenges of massive global biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. We explain this initiative and invite others to join the network.
#biodiversity #ecology #iceland #biology #climatechange #lichen #evolution #wildlife #invasiveSpecies
Le sommet de l'ONU sur les océans s'achève vendredi à Nice, après une semaine de débats et de réflexions pour protéger la vie marine. Si des avancées ont eu lieu avec des mesures sur la protection de la haute mer, les enjeux des énergies fossiles et du financement restent néanmoins en suspens
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
#NewSpecies!
New fighting fish from #sumatra just surfaced:
Betta iaspis
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AD88F610-73FC-5211-973C-50078526E61B
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1238.142857
#ZooKeys #BettaIaspis
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishfriday #ichthyology #fightingfish #fighting
Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and 'sponge parks'
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/nx-s1-5340710/copenhagen-climate-change-solutions-flooding
#Copenhagen #Denmark #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate