ecology

Returning to Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez

A literary classic doubles as data, helping scientists trace decades of ecological change in the Gulf of California.

By: Matthew Wills

https://daily.jstor.org/returning-to-steinbecks-sea-of-cortez/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KM0B5DPVP6ETDVJM44EZ1V33&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Ecology at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/224

#books #ecology #marine_biology

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WayWORD Spring Programme 2026
Aberdeen, 12–22 May

A series of events bringing together literature, ecology, sound and live research. Events include

Publishing in Scotland Today
Tapsalteerie Poetry Showcase
Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop
Women in Nature
Douglas Stuart: John of John Book Launch
Geothermal Soundwalk

https://waywordfestival.com

#Scottish #literature #ecology #sound #science #Aberdeen #Wayword

Solar power stations are restoring ecosystems in England.

So there's another reason conservatives will oppose solar power.

https://www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-panels-attract-birds-in-england/20562/

#SolarPower #Solar #Ecology #Environment #Birds

i try to emphasize good news

and if i can't do that i try to emphasize anger over sadness

but there's nothing i can do about this bit of news except be depressed:

"Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor #penguins at risk of #extinction"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/mass-drowning-of-chicks-puts-emperor-penguins-at-risk-of-extinction

essentially, #globalWarming, the #climateCrisis, is breaking up the ice the #emperorPenguin depends upon to raise its young, and this is resulting in mass killings of their young now

😔

#penguin #science #climateChange #ecology

I am very excited to share that University of Chicago Press is giving away my book OIL BEACH for FREE this month (as an e-book)

Link is here: https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

#STS #Bookstodon #EnvHist #CriticalLogistics #OilBeach #FossilFuels #oil #pollution #AnimalStudies #ecology #ports #LosAngeles

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#AI

Realistic AI-generated climate disaster images decrease support for climate action when artificial origin is suspected

Policymakers and environmental advocacy organizations are increasingly using AI-generated images of climate disasters to advocate for climate interventions. Here we show that highly realistic AI-generated climate disaster images do not increase support for climate action

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-026-00092-0

#ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Male Blue Rock Thrush (eastern subspecies, Monticola solitarius philippensis), Asia and the western Pacific. While they like cliffs, hillsides, ravines for nesting, they'll settle for old brick buildings, concrete structures & quarries. #birds #wildlife #biology #nature #photo #ecology

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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- The last of the books from the NHBS January sale: Michael Ruse's The #Philosophy of Human #Evolution, published by Cambridge University Press
- A lovely version of Humphrey Carpenter's highly praised J. R. R. #Tolkien: A Biography, published by HarperCollins
- A second-hand copy of Ant Ecology, published by Oxford University Press

#HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Fantasy #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #Myrmecology #Ecology #Insects #Entomology #Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm @bookstodon

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When eating food lets think of the tiny little insects that help us by pollinating the flowers.
#pollinators #pollinationweek #bees @thebeeguy
@B123 #gardening #garten #garden @gardening
#nature #biodiversity #mastodonbees #ecology #photography #photographers
#flowers #NECTOR3_elements

Walter Scott country

Currently on BBC Sounds: Martha Kearney looks at how Walter Scott’s writing explored Scotland’s environmental history, & how he incorporated ecological themes in his novels, using landscapes as active components of storytelling.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00325d6

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #ecology #environment #environmentalism #Scotland

A few months ago, I wrote about becoming deputy-director of the SETE in Moulis next year, in a transient 2-years arrangement. Well, that situation escalated quickly ! After a few months acquainting myself more with the direction tasks, getting to know the nitty-gritty of the lab, and writing a detailed direction program, I received the green light from INEE last week to become full-director of […]

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Some interesting fungosities arising from the Earth in the middle of Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

Note: "Fungosity" is actually a word. See https://tinyurl.com/3254pxsm.

#fungus #forest #fungi #mushrooms #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests

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#Hierarchy is bad for everyone. #Enclosure and #exploitation of the #commons by #industrialists and #rentiers dysregulates species and #ecosystem homeostasis, speeding biological #entropy. Resist. #ecology #climate #pollution #environmentalhealth #communityhealth

https://manzokuan.blogspot.com/p/information-for-future-envirohealers.html

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@KorinnaAllhoff/117286005582667449

We are very happy to hear that Ethan arrived safely in #Germany and is now with you at Hohenheim. We wish him a wonderful and successful seminar today. 🤗

Sending warm greetings from #Uganda to Ethan and Korinna! 🇺🇬 🤞

#Sustainability #ecology #ClimateEducation

@ethan256 @KorinnaAllhoff

New blog post. This one is about land "development" and how we can learn about worship from watching the trees.

https://catecheticconverter.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-undeveloped-land

#theology #ecology #environment #nature #Episcopal #Anglican #Christianity #Jesus

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I adopted a damaged copy of Ian Newton's second edition of The Migration #Ecology of #Birds, published by Academic Press
I bought two books by Cambridge University Press second-hand
- Patricia A. McAnany & Norman Yoffee's Questioning #Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire,
- and The #Atmosphere and #Climate of #Mars in their Cambridge #PlanetaryScience series

#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Ornithology #Astronomy @bookstodon

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Two new pages of the #carnivorousPlant #zine are up! Click the link for the whole thing :)

Edited to replace the second page where I somehow managed to line up the text around the image without realizing I had duplicated an entire paragraph, because I'm sooo professional.

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bog-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/

#sciArt #tardigrade #wetlands #frogs #goblincore #bogwitch #illustration #humanMadeArt #art #wetlands #ecology #nature

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We have not yet tired of the fungi.

Harvard Forest, north central Massachusetts, various times and places.

#mushrooms #forest #fungus #fungi #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests #photography #mushroomsofmasmastodon

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So what do #bogBodies have to do with #carnivorousPlants? New zine update features definitely my favorite illustration so far. :)

#sciArt #zine #VenusFlytrap #wetlands #ecology #illustration #traditionalArt #spookySeason

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/sphagnum-moss-makes-bog-bodies/