These people are amazing! Two Years With America’s Elite Firefighters nytimes.com/2023/11/21/us/…

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This all-electric hydrofoil ferry saves energy by going airborne and "barely makes a sound as it glides over a metre above water" Carries 30 passengers at 30 knots, reducing "energy per passenger-km by 95%" vs diesel ships transporting passengers euronews.com/green/2023/11/…

Want to make anthrome maps? (in a GIS) > Maps in shapefile format for 10,000BCE to 2017CE doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SZ… > From our 2021 paper in PNASNews doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Full dataset here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/anth… Nick Gauthier Harvard Dataverse (thanks Ruben Dario Palacio, Ph.D.!)

NEW: We got an internal FDNY/City Hall document showing what projects get to cut the line for fire safety inspections The list started as a way to help small biz/public needs but morphed to fast-track high-profile projects from NYC’s biggest developers gothamist.com/news/internal-…

Parks Jobs Corps to End Under Adams Budget Cuts thecity.nyc/2023/11/21/par…

EDITORIAL | Build for the future: N.Y. needs lots more housing The surest way to bring down the cost of living here, which boils down more than anything to the cost of housing, is to create more places for more people to live, our Board writes. trib.al/dPSXfEk

It's official! I am delighted to announce I'm joining the NaturalHistoryDK at the Københavns Uni as a Mycology Curator/Assist Prof to continue working on Cordyceps fungi across Tropical forests and now, also exploring the Arctic! Beware, the zombie-ants are taking Europe! 🧟‍♂️🍄🐜

The order to put 50 Hudson Yards first in line for pre-opening FDNY safety inspection came from the Mayor's Office, GregBSmith reports. The FBI is looking into whether campaign donations got select developers onto City Hall's fast-track list. thecity.nyc/2023/11/22/fdn…

The Garden is closed this Thursday, Nov. 23—but we'll be open again on Friday and all throughout the weekend! 🦃 From all of us at NYBG, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday, and we'll see you here at the Holiday Train Show as we ready for the beauty of winter to come. ❄️

Blue lobsters are rare, the chance of seeing one is one in every 2 million A genetic mutation leads to an excess production of astaxanthin-wrapping proteins. These proteins convert the red astaxanthin into a blue pigment known as crustacyanin

BBC News - Blue whales: Ocean giants return to 'safe' tropical haven bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Why We Should Bring Back the Buffalo nytimes.com/2023/11/23/opi…

Why Warblers Flock to Wealthier Neighborhoods nytimes.com/2023/11/21/sci…

Need to know: Nom Nom Nom. What’s the Deal With Cookie Monster’s Cookies? nytimes.com/2023/11/27/art…

1.5 Degrees Is Not the Problem nytimes.com/2023/12/04/opi…

A No-Brainer for Climate Action: Nature Your City » New York Botanical Garden (nybg.org) #COP28

Cities are powerful places to effect climate action, as more than half of the world's human population lives in urban settings. Learn how NYBG scientists are working to "pull the lever on climate change" through the examples cities like NYC can set. #COP28 brnw.ch/21wF5zV

Our new paper describes the 1,150 species we found in our urban backyard in Brisbane City over 1yr. Trees, shrubs, & weeds (instead of manicured lawn) provided lots of habitat for a shocking amount of wildlife on an urban lot doi.org/10.1002/ecy.42… in Ecology

Visualizing GEDI L4A Footprint Level Aboveground Biomass Density Notebook: leafmap.org/notebooks/85_g… Dataset: daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsview… #dataviz #geospatial #GEDI