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In recent months, southern Africa has been affected by a severe #drought , amplifying humanitarian & environmental crises ongoing in the region

Effects of the drought in 🇿🇼🇳🇦🇧🇼🇿🇲 are visible when comparing these #Sentinel2 🇪🇺🛰️ images from 2023 & 2024

[ #FOMACO ] 𝗙𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗖𝗢 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗸𝗶𝘁🗞️

📢 More than 400 participants are expected at the #FOMACO . The opening ceremony will be presided over by His Excellency Umaro Sissoco Embaló Pdt of the Republic of Guinea Bissau🇬🇼

👉urlz.fr/qmXh

Overal kilometers platgestreken effen groen. Zeg me waar de bloemen zijn gebleven volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie…

Floods in the Russian Federation are only gaining strength

In the Tyumen region, the water level in the Ishim River rose by 140 cm in a day and reached 10.5 meters.

Flock of Whimbrel at Connah's Quay, Dee Estuary, this morning - total of 18. Such a delight to see them feeding on the sheep-grazed pasture with the few remaining Curlews.

Groeten uit ⁦Provincie Fryslân⁩! Hoogwater, weidevogels en eindeloos mooie luchten 😊

This is a 'do at yourself' at globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/project… (although it stretches the limits of the current system😅). Yes, it occurred in our #tracking , as bar-tailed #godwit CAMINHATE migrated through the Severn. It seems a rare occasion though at the level of the population.

Two beautiful coastal environments on opposite sides of the planet, mapped in 3D using Geoscience Australia #DEAIntertidal . 🏖 🛰

👈 Grays Harbor, WA, USA
👉 Incheon, South Korea

Mapped from Microsoft PC #Sentinel2 and #Landsat satellite data, loaded with Open Data Cube and SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog!

A distant flock of Black-tailed Godwits tearing through the Sound of Barra this afternoon, heads down, wings back, no time to waste, in full-on migration mode. Next stop Iceland!

#WHIMBREL #migration #time !!!
Although ESCADINHAS looked like the first of tagged #Biagós #whimbrels to depart, it may have been outpaced by ABU, and is now followed, hot on the heels, by ACUNO. Isn't it great that EVERYBODY can see how this race is run? globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/species…

Duitse regering nu zeker dat pesticiden tot beroepsziektes leiden. 'We wisten al heel lang van verbanden tussen blootstelling aan pesticiden op het werk en de ziekte van Parkinson'. Omwonenden kunnen zich nauwelijks beschermen tegen blootstelling aan gif
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New episode of the In Science podcast! 🎧

Prof. of Agroecology and Sustainable Landscapes Pablo Tittonell (Science LinX-Faculty of Science and Engineering-UG) discusses the effects of industrial agriculture, GMO use and the need for a change in agroecology 🌱 Listen now! 👇
rug.nl/about-ug/lates…

Congrats to Anna Courtemanche (& mentor Rozy Bathrick) on presenting her research on Lesser Yellowlegs at the UMass Amherst Undergraduate Research Conf. Anna found that different yellowlegs breeding populations segregate during migration--hugely important for their conservation.

Without knowing yesterday was #WorldCurlewDay , had my 1st 'wilsternetter' experience wt expert trapper Johannes Fokkers at Sneekermeer. We colour-ringed no less than 10 birds as part of a new Global Flyway Network study into movements of this typical spring migrant of Fryslâns interior.

Big Words!

This is about the mapping of recipes for biological entities to cooke up proteins. This is not about what makes cooking chefs tick! Genomes are an important side-show, but a side-show nevertheless. Start reading about the real #nature show in singeluitgeverijen.nl/athenaeum/boek…

Global Flyway Network Instituto da Biodiversidade e das Áreas Protegidas Aissa.Regalla Miguel de Barros Mohamed Henriques African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) PRCM Eco Flyway Tidal Wings Trektellen.org UNO the Bar-tailed Godwit was forced to make a stop yesterday, due to the NE winds, very close to my home at A Coruña city: at the Ría do Burgo tiny estuary. Info about this area at:
->ebird.org/hotspot/L49287…
->avesdelariadoburgo.blogspot.com

It's still #WorldCurlewDay in parts of the USA/Canada.
Long-billed #Curlew is still categorised as 'Least Concern' by BirdLife Data Zone but those who study the species think that that will change.
Why are large #waders #shorebirds in trouble?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/why…
#ornithology

Barwit day on the Severn !! A record Severnside Trektellen.org count of 2176 today (1850 evening) heading east to the Wadden Sea at high tide from Severn Beach. Also arctic skua, 77 whimbrel, 16 arctic tern, swift and a likely (distant) red-throated diver trektellen.org/count/view/520…

Translocation of shorebird siblings shows intraspecific variation in migration routines to arise after fledging | Current Biology | cell.com/current-biolog… | #ornithology

De afgelopen 10 jaar groeide het bollenareaal in Nederland met 21%, meldde het CBS onlangs. Het laat zien dat niet voedselveiligheid (noch duurzaamheid), maar financiële opbrengst het agrarische grondgebruik bepaalt.