Professor of ecology at UCNZ | Using science to anticipate where our living world is headed | Writing Predirections newsletter on biodiversity, climate & water → https://predirections.substack.com | https://tonkinlab.org
Go help some rivers! They’re worth it — trust me.
American RiversWorld Nature Conservation Day! 🌿💧With so much going on in the world, it can feel overwhelming to know how to help. We’ve put together 5 simple actions you can take to make a real impact for rivers today: https://www.americanrivers.org/2026/07/5-things-you-can-do-for-world-nature-conservation-day/
🌎🌐🍁 New paper! Our study, led by Dr. Joanna Lumsden-Pinto, shows how forest structure & understory plant communities in Long Island's pine barrens change with time since last fire to help us understand long-term wildfire effects. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #ForestEcology #FireEcology
This is it! Hopefully some lessons will be learned from these events. In NZ, we still see massive new pine plantations -- even in places that have burned multiple times in recent years (e.g. Christchurch).
juli g pausasForest plantations sustainable under the 20th‑century climate may become unsustainable in the 21st-century climate One of Europe's largest pine plantations (Pinus pinaster) is burning in West Bordeaux ( #Gironda, #Biscarrosse) 🌍🔥🌳🔥🍁 wildfire besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
That’s apocalyptic! We’re seeing too many of these images worldwide. Time for action.
Prof. Stefan RahmstorfHoliday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
10 questions I ask myself — some explicit, some implicit. Starting with: is this pattern real, or am I just primed to see it? New post out today 👇
10 questions I ask myselfI don't always have the answers. These are the questions I keep coming back to.predirections.substack.comHow can we explore and rewrite the story of biodiversity's future? Applications now open for the 9th ANdinA workshop, an interdisciplinary "walkshop" in Burren, Ireland (7–11 June 2027). Ecologists, conservation scientists, modellers, social scientists, humanities scholars welcome. andinaburren.com
It's cool how @revkin.bsky.social and I converged on the same idea a decade or so apart.
Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.comIn 2012 I talked and wrote about the need to meld urgency and patience in pursuing climate progress. Still necessary, as @jdtonkin.bsky.social has been writing on Substack.
