Ecology

Wildfire Smoke Maps USA: 2009-2020

Noise Pollution Map

New map shows America’s quietest places | Science | AAAS  

The 6th Great Extinction

Nature crisis: Humans ‘threaten 1m species with extinction’ – BBC News

Decoupling of GDP Growth from Environmental Impact? PLOS

Is Decoupling GDP Growth from Environmental Impact Possible? | PLOS ONE The material footprint of nations (pnas.org)  

Climate Change in US Western Forests PNAS 3/2023

Climate change, tree demography, and thermophilization in western US forests (pnas.org) US forests are failing to keep up with climate change, finds study (phys.org)

Bird Declines in the Anthropocene

Taxonomic List of On-Alert and Tipping Point Species – State of the Birds 2022 Three Billion Birds Lost 1 in 4 breeding birds have been lost from the United States and Canada in the past 50 years.  

Trophic Rewilding

The Proud Holobionts: Trophic Rewilding: A Cure for a sick Planet?

America’s Most Endangered Rivers 2023 Report

AR_2023-Most-Endangered-Rivers_lowres-3.pdf (americanrivers.org)

Plant Intelligence

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Scaling Laws

The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization | Journal of Experimental Biology | The Company of Biologists