#Scientists have a dire new warning about the state of the planet
They add recent #climatic developments “emphasize the extreme insufficiency of global efforts to reduce #greenhousegas #emissions and mark the beginning of a grim new chapter for life on #Earth.”
In #2023, for instance, ability of the land to absorb our #carbon emissions dropped significantly. The report confirms that last year was the hottest on record, and was likely the hottest in at least 125,000 years.
https://grist.org/climate/scientists-have-a-dire-new-warning-about-the-state-of-the-planet/

👏👏 Congratulations to our colleague Marjolein D. Bosch on receiving an #ERC Starting Grant for her COPE project. She will explore how Ice Age hunters and gatherers responded to cold temperatures, resource scarcity 💦 🦌 🌱 , and environmental changes 30,000 years ago.
Using sediment biomarkers, isotope analysis, and paleogenetics, she is studying a site in Lower Austria to gain a new understanding of human resilience in extreme #climatic conditions.
More info: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/media/news-archive/news-detail/cope

Fascinating new work by Wang et al. shows how #climatic barriers and local #environmental selection collaborate to facilitate adaptation to heterogeneous landscapes in East #Asia from a #phylogeographic perspective.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13197 @WileyEcolEvol #systematics #JSE #ClimateChange

La Gravière - Genève #streetart #mural #avengersclimatic #avengers #climatic #suisse #geneve

Yan et al. explore the #climatic niche breadth of Betula spp.--likely to be a key attribute in their ability to avoid decline or #extinction under #ClimateChange.
Find out more in this remarkable new #JSE paper!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13176
@WileyEcolEvol
#ecology #evolution #PlantSci #botany #OpenAccess

#Climatic factors have #TemporalEffects on #VegetationGrowth, Ning Liu et al. investigated the response of #VegetationPhenology to the #TimeLag and #TimeAccumulation effects of climatic factors, under both time-lag and time-accumulation effects scenario.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac063

#EvergreenBroad-leavedForest ( #EBLF ) is climax vegetation in East China, and Jiangxi Province is located at the center of EBLF. In this study, Yizhen Liu et al. provided a high-level #ClassificationFramework for EBLF in #Jiangxi and exploring the roles of #Topographic and #Climatic factors in driving their distributions.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac059

#WeekendReading: Yasuhara et al., on #food supply regulation of deep-sea ecological regulation as a signal carrier of #climatic forcing of the Southern #Ocean over the last half million years.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01567-7

Thousands of #sinkhole's opening in #Turkey recently, getting closer to settlements. Size ranging from 4 up to 100 meters, depth usually 5 to 40 meters, and they are opening in a few seconds.
Said to be caused by the extremely lowering level of #groundwater due to #climatic catastrophe and irrigation.

The #National #Climatic #Data #Center is based in Asheville, North Carolina.

As I write this, the center's website remains offline.
That's because Asheville, a city in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is the epicenter of catastrophic flooding from #Hurricane #Helene that has played out over the last week.
🔥The climate data facility is inoperable because water and electricity services in the region have entirely broken down due to flooding.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/were-only-beginning-to-understand-the-historic-nature-of-helenes-flooding/

"By 2090, Sydneysiders could swelter through another week’s worth of days above 35 degrees, and sea levels could rise 35 centimetres – and that’s if the Paris Agreement succeeds.

While the modelling shows that some #climatic changes are baked in, it highlights the stark difference between countries achieving decarbonisation versus a business-as-usual approach."

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/state-s-climate-future-revealed-success-is-hot-and-failure-is-hotter-20240819-p5k3ix.html
#NewSouthWales #Australia

#GenderEquality in #Africa Has Everything to Do With #ClimateChange

When a #climatic #disaster #strikes, #women have nowhere to go.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Kenya #Representation #Culture
https://allafrica.com/stories/202408160122.html

The #vegetation’s 🌿 speed of adaptation to temperature 🌡️ changes through eco-evolutionary processes can strongly influence global rates of organic carbon burial and silicate weathering. The calculated carbon sinks do not match the reconstructed rates of carbon release by degassing and oxidative weathering. Imbalances of this magnitude are implausible as they would have resulted in a runaway #greenhouse effect and extreme #climatic conditions on #Earth https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adj4408

#ClimateChange

The prevailing #climatic conditions found in a particular region are the primary determinant of the suitability of that area to support #plant #pests and #diseases. Review in the journal EPPO Bulletin of the uncertainties of #climate change and how they affect pest risk assessments by Catherine Bradshaw and others - https://doi.org/10.1111/epp.12985

🌳Geng et al. explore demographic complexity within #walnut species and reveal insights into the heterogeneity of #geological and #climatic fluctuations in East #Asia.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13061
@WileyEcolEvol
#PlantSci #forestry #Biodiversity #evolution #climate #QTP #botany

The #bread of the future｜
Researchers from the University of Liège and the University of Ghent worked together with Drossche Mills to test the bread baking quality of #flour made from #wheat which was grown under present and expected future #climatic conditions.
https://www.terra.uliege.be/cms/c_12493982/en/the-bread-of-the-future-tough-dough?id=c_12493982

#ULiège #BIOFAIR

Are #nerdy #membrane-spanning #lipids produced by #bacteria and #archaea admitted on #Mastodon?

These lipids, named glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (#GDGTs), are my favorite #biomarkers for their usefulness as #climatic and #environmental #indicators and for having been the #protagonists of my #PhD #research.

Recently, I participated to an #international #workshop organized by #GDGT #nerds for GDGT nerds, sadly not active on this #platform as far as I know.

#Science #ScienceMastodon

The human #pathogenic #diseases and transmission pathways aggravated by #climatic hazards are too numerous for comprehensive #societal #adaptations, highlighting the urgent need to work at the source of the problem: reducing #GHG #emissions: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01426-1

Weird time to be alive:
1) We might be on the #threshold of a global #climatic reset. Of *many* examples at the moment, the big one for me is the #Antarctic ice extent now 6(!) standard deviations below baseline.
2) We might also have just developed the means to produce a #superconductor that operates at #ambient temperature and pressure. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008

@MichaelEMann @geomar_de

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...are understood not really well enough for precise predictions, and local #climatic changes (e.g., the #BalticSea and the #NorthAtlantic are already experiencing unprecedented consequences.)

For some regions, the time has already run out.

It is hard to understand why not *all* climate researchers are not shouting it from the rooftops on a weekly basis?!?

How can...