Forests Forever
Forests across the planet are under threat. We need to act urgently to not only protect our existing forests, but to allow forests to return where they once were.
- Reposted by Forests Foreverhere you have the newest numbers - runaway terrain now... "Permafrost and wildfire carbon emissions indicate need for additional action to keep Paris Agreement temperature goals within reach"; www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverExtreme weather disasters and climate tipping points aren't in economic models of the impact of climate change on the global economy The result "is widespread complacency amongst investors and policymakers" We will all suffer as a consequence www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverSenior executives at Drax raised concerns internally about the validity of the energy company’s sustainability claims while it publicly denied allegations that it was cutting down environmentally important forests for fuel. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverScientists who monitor Canada’s environmental health and protect Canadians from extreme weather events and industrial disasters could soon find themselves on the federal government’s chopping block www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverNigeria 'Prolonged rainfall delays harmattan, disrupts crop fruiting season The unusually prolonged rainfall recorded in Jan & Feb '26, well outside the typical 2025 rainy season cycle, has raised concerns among farmers, who fear it could disrupt the fruiting cycle' businessday.ng/agriculture/...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverOne of the upsides of walking the mountain on a day of Atlantic showers!
- Reposted by Forests ForeverHow much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9
- Reposted by Forests ForeverWilliam Shakespeare wrote this speech 400 years ago about people in London wishing that immigrants go back to where they came from, performed by Sir Ian McKellen on the Stephen Colbert show:
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Forests ForeverTrees don't so much need deep, fertile soil, as protection from hungry sheep and deer, as this rowan seeded into a rock crevice – likely by a bird – shows. Freeing the land from artificial overgrazing would see our lost wild native forests return naturally. Can you picture it?
- Reposted by Forests ForeverI'm totally pinching myself announcing this, but a film about my life journey rewilding a West Cork farm, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, will get its first screening at the Dublin International Film Festival on Saturday the 28th of this month. Tickets are available here: www.diff.ie/programme/an...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverThe German forest study analysed data collected at 13 plots over 24 years and found that as forest floor soils dry and warm, they absorb more methane due to the increased pore size which makes the gas more accessible to microbes in the soil. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #methane #forests
- Reposted by Forests ForeverTwo new studies show positive signs of how warming is increasing the destruction of the number 2 and number 3 Green House Gases. Forest soils are absorbing more methane and nitrous oxide break down in the stratosphere is accelerating. #Greenhousegases #climatechange
- Reposted by Forests ForeverSlime mold, Craterium minutum on lichen, Parmelia sulcata. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends The slime mold sporangia are only about 2 to 3mm high.
- Reposted by Forests ForeverA rare view of an Irish rainforest: from high up in the canopy. One of so many things I love about these places is their wonderful 3-D complexity. Such a sheer contrast to the flat, sterile livestock pasture that has replaced around 99% of cover.
- Reposted by Forests ForeverVery important article by Josephine Lulamae, with warnings for those who may be tempted by narratives of rural revivalism and "Uncivilisation". “Any group that follows a purity mentality, seeking deep, unadulterated roots in nature, risks nativist thinking.” www.codastory.com/polarization...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverWes Streeting and Peter Mandelson and Peter Thiel are much too friendly. Lex Wexner - billionaire friend of Epstein - owned Abercrombie & Fitch, whose CEO is accused of sexually abusing boys in his employment. Peter Mandelson - friend of Epstein didn’t meet any of them? And Wes Streeting?
- Reposted by Forests ForeverGet Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverThis Bonaire v Netherlands climate ruling is *fascinating*. Also hugely recommend signing up for @isabellakaminski.bsky.social’s newsletter if you have even a passing interest in climate cases, it’s terrific! www.the-wave.net/r/ee9c1bff?m...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverClimate is not the murderer. The elites are. Climate is the knife; the murderer is the one who uses it. rogerhallam.com/the-elite-de...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverA new report maps 816 ocean areas vital for threatened sharks and rays — covering under 3% of the sea in studied regions, suggesting protection is achievable. The findings arrive ahead of a U.N. migratory species summit where marine protections are on the agenda.
- Reposted by Forests ForeverChocolate Tube Slime Mold. #Newfoundland, Canada. The slime mold is about 3cm high. #myxomycete #fungifriends
- Reposted by Forests ForeverHey next level rural high performance insulation product manufacturers. Thermal conductivity of straw(s) can vary A LOT. "Analysis of the Possible Use of Straw from Agriculture as an Environmental Insulation Material in Buildings". Peterkova et al '25 #strawhouse www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverAnd you can also almost see in that graphic the “blanket” of greenhouse gases trapping the heat underneath it. This graphic from @zacklabe.com for July 2025 over the Northern hemisphere shows that “blanket” effect slightly more clearly:
- Reposted by Forests ForeverIsabel Esterman, Mongabay’s Southeast Asia managing editor, says journalism’s impact is cumulative — built by staying on stories long enough to shift understanding, from Sumatran rhino numbers to contested land deals. ** Her interview is part of the 'Inside Mongabay' series.
- Reposted by Forests ForeverIt’s a real shame this hasn’t already been done, so very welcome news. My thoughts are with Andrew RT Davies and Reform UK at this very difficult time 🙏 nation.cymru/news/school-...
- Reposted by Forests Foreverjournalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
- Reposted by Forests ForeverI am again calling out the vacuous nature of declaring an area a National Park without plans, resources or management measures. This time following the report showing that over a thousand seals were drowned in fishing gear around the Blasket Islands. www.radiokerry.ie/news/ecologi...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverIrish national parks remain an utter farce.
- I am again calling out the vacuous nature of declaring an area a National Park without plans, resources or management measures. This time following the report showing that over a thousand seals were drowned in fishing gear around the Blasket Islands. www.radiokerry.ie/news/ecologi...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverNext study that the Arctic will burn big time Its a compost heat drying out essentially So many processes of self amplification now at play... Soil moisture is a real feedback kicker in various ways #earth #climate
- Reposted by Forests ForeverLiverwort in the woods. These are some of the oldest terrestrial plants on Earth, with fossil evidence indicating they were among the first organisms to colonize land around 475 million years ago. Try wrapping your head around that. The magic of an Irish rainforest. 🌏
- Reposted by Forests ForeverTorc waterfall in Killarney National Park, in full, magnificent, roaring spate after the recent heavy rains. The cascade's name derives from the Irish for wild boar, a native species that's crucial to forest ecosystems but driven to extinction. They should be prioritised for reintroduction.
- Reposted by Forests ForeverThe chaos in government today has potential to seed huge gains a few years from now; more on that later. For now we must stem disastrous ideas. See Fix Our Forests Fiasco – mailchi.mp/caa/fix-our-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/fix-our-fo...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverCan we please never forget this. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
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- Reposted by Forests Foreverjust some of the recent papers suggesting a (much) higher sensitivity: "Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2"; www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverI’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene. Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
- Reposted by Forests ForeverThe hydrological situation across a large part of the Iberian Peninsula is alarming, to say the least, and conditions are set to worsen as several powerful atmospheric rivers are forecast; major flooding cannot be ruled out.
- Reposted by Forests Forever#Mozambique is facing its worst #floods in decades. Nearly 700,000 people have been affected, over 100 are dead and many remain missing. Homes and critical infrastructure have been destroyed. The video shows #Copernicus #Sentinel2 before and after the #flood. #climateemergency
- Reposted by Forests Forever"Speleothem evidence for Late Miocene extreme Arctic amplification – an analogue for near-future anthropogenic climate change?"; cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverHere you can see at Bioblow what you need in extra infrastructure to switch to #strawhouse #strawbuilding. Nothing, it works with the existing infrastructure. Why? It's already there. Using straw leads to the smallest foot prints in construction with performance. www.linkedin.com/posts/bioblo...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverLast week there was so much news I recorded two Franklies – this one includes my reflections on a recent seminal essay posted by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, likening Artificial Intelligence as a “rite of passage” for the human species rather than just a narrow technological breakthrough.
- Reposted by Forests ForeverIn a state of winter undress, trees' true, unique shapes are revealed. This dancing wild Irish Atlantic rainforest sally (willow), for example.
- Reposted by Forests ForeverI fell for this one. Not Ireland, not temperate rainforest but in a beautiful beechwood.
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- Reposted by Forests Foreveri love trees in winter
- Reposted by Forests ForeverFertilisation of the ocean with mineral dust promotes algal blooms that capture carbon, but when the same thing happens in Greenland, it reduces albedo leading to accelerating melting. A new study analysed dust collected from the Greenland Ice sheet and found minerals essential to algal growth.
- Reposted by Forests ForeverArctic speleothems reveal nearly permafrost-free Northern Hemisphere in the late Miocene"; www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Forests Forever"Late Miocene speleothems show significant warming, temperate vegetation, and wildfires in Arctic Siberia"; www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Forests ForeverBrazilian influencer encouraging leopards to eat faces, has face eaten by leopards.
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