Meet the box jellyfish 🌊⚠️
This deadly #jellyfish has 24 eyes in six clusters!
How many other species do you know with 24 eyes or more?👀
[Spoiler Alert: It depends on how you define 'eye'!]
🎥Video via @oceana
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Breathtaking...
Did you see the Great Conjunction in 2020?💫
This extra-close Jupiter-Saturn #conjunction won't be matched again until 2080✨
🎥@WorldAndScience via International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
nitter.vloup.ch/WorldAndScience/…
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An arctic fox captured in a snow blizzard in Spitsbergen, a total solar eclipse in Svalbard and more... ❄️🦊
Here's something to inspire your weekend in #nature🐾
via @CNNTravel @TPOTY
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From beluga whales🐋 to bats🦇 and even to humans👨💻, many animals make #sounds📢 that bounce back from objects to help with navigation and hunting
Learn more about #echolocation nature's sonar 📡
📰@LizLangley via @NatGeo
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Madrid 🇪🇸 is planning a huge forest🌳 belt around the city🏙️
There are many benefits to spreading #green spaces in cities💡
What do you see as their greatest benefits?
#CitiesWithNature #ForNature #COP15
🎥via @wef
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'By 2030, Latin America & the Caribbean have significantly advanced in projects in restoration of marine, terrestrial & inland water #ecosystems at a spatial scale relevant to revert the impacts of degradation'
—New Action Plan for #EcosystemRestoration➡️
wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.50…
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The 🌍 is in crisis
We have to do our part as citizens of planet Earth"
Check out this new music video by @tcomasmusic, inspired by the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment, hoping to raise awareness & inspire action 💪 for an Earth in crisis #ForNature: tcomas.com/at-the-worlds-end…
The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
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'Fight against illegal trafficking to reduce risk of future #pandemics & [strengthen] #wildlife #conservation, since ecosystems degradation increases risk of appearance & spread of zoonotic diseases'
—Bridgetown Declaration for Latin America #ForNature
wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha…
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Biodiversity fosters further diversity in microbiomes that are initially less diverse—to a point📈🔴
A @mcgillu study could help scientists better understand how #microbiomes might recover from #biodiversity loss
via📰@ScienceDaily #Science #ForNature
sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
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🐸#DYK that male glass frogs are attentive parents?
Fathers transfer moisture through their skin to prevent the eggs from drying out and defend the clutch against predators like wasps.
🎥via @NatGeo
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🦋 @eButterfly_org North American butterfly project shows #tech adaption for #Conservation has many untapped possibilities for #CitizenScience to make important contributions to the work of #biodiversity and ecology
See their 2020 review:
e-butterfly.org/en/content/2…
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The impact of birds 🐦 on people's happiness is invaluable. Inspiration and beauty are just some of nature's many contributions to people #NCP
But #DYK that #birds are also a good indicator of healthy #biodiversity 🦉?
🎥Learn more from @wef
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'The way we have been producing #food over the last 50 years has been driving #biodiversity loss. '
🚜🍅🌽🧅🍎
#NowReading: 'Food System Impacts on Biodiversity Loss’ by @UNEP @ChathamHouse & @ciwf
Full Report👉
unenvironment.org/resources/…
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An extraordinary voyage is about to begin🚢❄️
Polar researchers will embark on a remarkable expedition to explore the vast #iceberg, A68a, that has been spiraling northwards from #Antarctica for the last year ⌛️
✍️@RobinMcKie @guardian
theguardian.com/world/2021/j…
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📉 "Scenario studies for #Europe & Central Asia, with time horizons up to 2100, show trade-offs between different #ecosystem services with implications for #biodiversity"🌼
—@IPBES #RegionalAssessment of biodiversity of Europe & Central Asia
➡️ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
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'The #DasguptaReview highlights the value of what Mother Nature gives us w/out demanding a paycheck. @Starbucks they want to be paid for that ☕...Mother Nature is providing services but not demanding payments.' - @mattkahn1966
@catrineinhorn @nytimes
nytimes.com/2021/02/02/clima…
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📢Are you between 18 and 35? Have you filled out the @GYBN_CBD survey?
The Global Youth Biodiversity Network has launched a survey to bring together youth voices for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework!
👉bit.ly/gybnsurvey
#BiodiversityNeedsYouTH
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💡🌍'To pursue a sustainable future will require a #TransformativeChange in our mode of thinking and acting'
The #DasguptaReview proposes options for change incl. addressing the imbalance⚖️ btw. our demand & nature’s supply, & increasing nature’s supply
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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🌳 'When only econ. values of #EcosystemServices are taken into account, #Nature’s contributions to ppl in terms of total ecosystem services value per area & per capita values, are highest for #SouthAmerica'
—@IPBES #RegionalAssessment of the #Americas
➡️ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
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⛰️🌱Melting glaciers may threaten alpine plants
'Up to 22% of species studied on four #glaciers in the Italian Alps🇮🇹 would disappear from the area once the glaciers have gone'
🔍@Stanford @Uni_Insubria @GiBurrasca
📰@phoeb0 via @guardian
theguardian.com/environment/…
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