The study: The Cerrado crisis review: highlighting threats and providing future pathways to save Brazil's biodiversity hotspot

Cooperative breeders remind us that success in nature doesn’t always come from independence—sometimes, it’s interdependence that keeps species thriving. These birds thrive not in isolation, but in networks of shared responsibility, patience, and long-term care.

The treaty’s first challenge will be choosing the right areas to protect,

Enforcement will also be difficult.

While the treaty has been signed by 145 nations, it’s only binding on those that ratify it. So far 83 have, but not the UK, US, Canada or Australia.

The arguments in this short podcast sounded pretty convincing to me. That said, I don't have the proper background in chemistry to back what is said, so I thought of sharing it, hoping to get some input. So please, let me know what you think about it!

Researchers emphasize that villagers are not rejecting renewable energy. Instead, they are resisting what they describe as unjust implementation, including health risks from geothermal emissions, threats to farmland, loss of livelihoods and opaque decision-making processes.

The researchers noted that geothermal in Flores reflected a broader pattern of green extractivism, where profits were privatized and risks externalized.

On Jan. 16, 2025, the Vistra Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility, about 20 miles south of Monterey, burned for several days and distributed a fine layer of heavy metals across the landscape. Today, a cleanup of the facility is ongoing as long-term health and ecological impacts remain uncertain.

The cause of the Vistra fire is still unknown.

In a new report published in Nature Plants, researchers based at more than 50 botanic gardens and living plant collections warn that a patchwork of incompatible, or even absent, data systems is undermining global science and conservation at a critical moment.

They call for a unified and equitable global data system for living collections to transform how the world's botanic gardens manage and share information. This would enable them to work together as a 'meta-collection' to strengthen scientific research and conservation efforts.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/32309114

Hello delicious friends!

I am very excited to meet you and introduce myself properly - I go by Greenbeard and have been co-opted as a new moderator of this lovely community, and promise will do my best to help run everything nice and smoothly alongside @quercus@slrpnk.net and @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net

Check out new food help resources on the Wiki!

One of the things we started working on together with Quercus is this List of resources on how to stay fed this winter with the weather what it is and economy going to shit, it is important that everyone knows how to access these resources for their own sake as well as their community. And if these are not of use to you, maybe it would be a cool New Year's thing to get involved with them as a volunteer? This wiki is like a community fridge, take what you need and leave what you can, as you can see it is still very much Work in Progress, so if you have an idea to add to it, definitely do so (you can log into the wiki with the same login and password that you use for SLRPNK.NET) or let us know your ideas in the comments here or in the chat.

Yeah, I said chat!

Did you know that you can come over and hang out with us and talk all things solarfood in our brand new chat? Now you know! Again, you can use the exact same credentials as you use for SLRPNK.NET, how convenient is that?!

Say hi!

Also, say hi in the comments, let us know about all the cool and interesting things that you found out about everything and anything foor and/or solarpunk related, or maybe you have an amazing project/plan/idea to do in 2026? I'd love to hear it!

Friends

Also, show some love to a new community here, !foodnotbombs@slrpnk.net, it is an amazing initiative; I personally was a member of Food Not Bombs collectives in two different cities that I lived, definitely go and give them a look!

BTW, the graphic in this post is "Solarpunk Anarchy" by Sean Bodley at Story Seed Library licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0, definitely go and give him a good look, and some monies if you can!

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/32309114

Hello delicious friends!

I am very excited to meet you and introduce myself properly - I go by Greenbeard and have been co-opted as a new moderator of this lovely community, and promise will do my best to help run everything nice and smoothly alongside @quercus@slrpnk.net and @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net

Check out new food help resources on the Wiki!

One of the things we started working on together with Quercus is this List of resources on how to stay fed this winter with the weather what it is and economy going to shit, it is important that everyone knows how to access these resources for their own sake as well as their community. And if these are not of use to you, maybe it would be a cool New Year's thing to get involved with them as a volunteer? This wiki is like a community fridge, take what you need and leave what you can, as you can see it is still very much Work in Progress, so if you have an idea to add to it, definitely do so (you can log into the wiki with the same login and password that you use for SLRPNK.NET) or let us know your ideas in the comments here or in the chat.

Yeah, I said chat!

Did you know that you can come over and hang out with us and talk all things solarfood in our brand new chat? Now you know! Again, you can use the exact same credentials as you use for SLRPNK.NET, how convenient is that?!

Say hi!

Also, say hi in the comments, let us know about all the cool and interesting things that you found out about everything and anything foor and/or solarpunk related, or maybe you have an amazing project/plan/idea to do in 2026? I'd love to hear it!

Friends

Also, show some love to a new community here, !foodnotbombs@slrpnk.net, it is an amazing initiative; I personally was a member of Food Not Bombs collectives in two different cities that I lived, definitely go and give them a look!

BTW, the graphic in this post is "Solarpunk Anarchy" by Sean Bodley at Story Seed Library licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0, definitely go and give him a good look, and some monies if you can!