SIT Panama: Tropical Ecology, Marine Ecosystems, Biodiversity Conservation

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/02/world-leaders-agree-draw-up-historic-treaty-plastic-waste

World leaders agree to draw up ‘historic’ treaty on plastic waste UN environment assembly resolution is being hailed as biggest climate deal since 2015 Paris accord

http://ow.ly/HYH230rwUCf

Digging in: a million trees planted as villages and schools join climate battle Community forest projects have seen a surge in volunteers keen to reduce CO2 emissions by creating new woodlands

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/02/big-day-for-uk-seas-as-bottom-trawling-ban-in-four-protected-areas-proposed

‘Big day for UK seas’ as bottom trawling ban in four protected areas proposed Campaigners welcome fishing restrictions to help restore habitats including Dogger Bank, but say government must go further

http://ow.ly/8LxM30rsKVE

Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic particles from water, study finds Researchers counted particles in seaballs that washed up on beaches in Spain

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/your-money/family-foundation-impact-strategies.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

Small Donations Aiming to Make a Big Splash Environmental issues may seem too big to tackle, but some smaller foundations have figured out ways to have an impact.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/15/happy-corals-climate-crisis-sanctuary-teeming-with-life-found-off-east-africa

'Happy corals': climate crisis sanctuary teeming with life found off east Africa Rare discovery of reef cooled by channels formed during creation of Kilimanjaro is ‘something to hope for’, say scientists

http://ow.ly/QaQf30rnKB8

US plans to protect thousands of miles of coral reefs in Pacific and Caribbean Proposals cite climate change as most severe threat to US reefs, which may be in danger of disappearing in some places

This conference is a great opportunity for students interested in food sovereignty, food systems, and food waste.

Home - Global Food Security 2020 The 4th International Conference on Global Food Security addresses the topic of food security at all levels, from local to global, from an interdisciplinary and systemic food systems perspective. It aims to better understand environmental, nutritional, agricultural, demographic, socio-economic, tech...

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This conference is a great opportunity for students interested in food sovereignty, food systems, and food waste.

Home - Global Food Security 2020 The 4th International Conference on Global Food Security addresses the topic of food security at all levels, from local to global, from an interdisciplinary and systemic food systems perspective. It aims to better understand environmental, nutritional, agricultural, demographic, socio-economic, tech...

https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-will-make-parts-of-the-u-s-uninhabitable-americans-are-still-moving-there

Climate Change Will Make Parts of the U.S. Uninhabitable. Americans Are Still Moving There. Instead of moving away from areas in climate crisis, Americans are flocking to them. As land in places like Phoenix, Houston and Miami becomes less habitable, the country’s migration patterns will be forced to change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBncoMWnjos&feature=youtu.be

The Future of Biodiversity in Latin America & the Caribbean In a collaboration between the Neotropical chapter of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation and the Latin American Chapter of the Ecological ...

This is an extraordinarily beautiful piece...

http://ow.ly/6fSX30rhRR1

Magic in the Dirt What we can learn from the harvest of 2020.