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🆕 Paper | Biodiversity and Climate Extremes: Known Interactions and Research Gaps 👏 Lead author: Miguel Mahecha (Leipzig University) et al. 📰 Earth's Future, American Geophysical Union 🔎 https://lnkd.in/ezn6i7DG 📑 "Climate extremes are on the rise. Impacts of extreme climate and weather events on ecosystem services and ultimately human well-being can be partially attenuated [...]. However, the ongoing transformation of terrestrial ecosystems through intensified exploitation and management may put this buffering capacity at risk [...]". 👉To read more: https://lnkd.in/ezn6i7DG #climatextremes #impacts #extremeevents #biodiversity #ecosystem Leipzig University IPSL-Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Happy #FossilFriday #ForamFriday everybody! This week's #ForamFact: Culturing live planktonic foraminifera! And what they can tell us! A recent study involving large scale culturing of the planktonic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma reveals that this species shows high adaptability to different environmental conditions. Understanding how planktonic organisms respond to different conditions will help us understand how species may respond to ongoing and future climate change. Read all about it here: Westgård et al. (2023), Large-scale culturing of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, its growth in, and tolerance of, variable environmental conditions, Journal of Plankton Research, 2023;, fbad034, https://lnkd.in/d6i7dZBN #Foramfact created by Dr. Adam Woodhouse

The Role of AI in Climate Change: Quantifying Forest Carbon Storage and Predicting Droughts Discover how AI is revolutionizing climate change research by measuring forest carbon storage and predicting droughts in Africa. Learn how these advancements can inform conservation efforts and help communities prepare for extreme weather events. #ClimateChangeResearch #AIinConservation #ForestCarbonStorage #DroughtPrediction #ClimateChangeMitigation #EnvironmentalPreservation #CommunityResilience #AIAdvancements #SustainableFuture #ClimateAction

“AI can help us in mitigation. It can help us in adaptation. It can help us with addressing loss and damage. It can help us in biodiversity and ecology and much more.” 🌐 As our climate changes and the world faces more extreme weather, Sims Witherspoon believes artificial intelligence could provide solutions. ↓

Yesterday I read an interesting article on WIRED about how Google DeepMind wants to use #AI to tackle the climate crisis. The article outlines three ways in which AI can help: 💡 better understanding climate change 💡 optimizing existing systems 💡 and developing new technologies. In my opinion, this clearly shows how the power of AI and supercomputing can bring solutions to the table that the human mind alone cannot conceive. AI can understand and optimize complex systems in a way that is impossible for humans. This means it deserves a seat at the solution table for major challenges like climate change. Personally, this article touches on two of my passions. 🤖 Firstly, my fascination with AI and its possibilities. 🌍 But also my desire to leave this world in a better state for my children and grandchildren than I inherited it. Let's work towards a sustainable future with innovative solutions like AI, not for ourselves but for the generations after us. What do you think about these developments? #climatechange #AI #artificialintelligence #techforclimate #climateaction #sustainability

Important trends because of the vitality of the ocean which is deeply linked with that of the planet, and all life on it. The ocean is a dynamic system that shapes the Earth’s climate, supports biodiversity and sustains ecosystems around the world. Ocean change is the ocean’s reaction to human-activities as well the variations it undergoes naturally; it is a concept we at Mercator Ocean International work to describe through, for example, ocean data and forecasts, visualisation tools, and in-depth analysis. In Europe, in the summer of 2021, the waters around Scotland turned a bright shade of turquoise, twice. These unusual, visually striking events in the Clyde Sea off the west coast of Scotland, and east of the Shetland islands attracted considerable public interest and news coverage.   Results from the OSR7 showed that this was caused by two unusual blooms of coccolithophores, a marine plankton that influences the marine carbon cycle and shapes the climate by capturing and storing carbon. The coldest April in the last 30 years in the Clyde Sea is thought to have restricted the regular spring bloom, and a wet and stormy May added nutrients to the sea, which, combined with other optimal conditions, led to a large bloom in the summer. Relevant links and information: Article on the OSR7: https://lnkd.in/eAp_6fhu... https://lnkd.in/enJvjwjX

I come across an online course on "AI and Climate Change" from DeepLearning.AI. There are three real life based projects to learn and work on: 💡 Wind Power Forecasting 💡 Monitoring Biodiversity 💡 Monitoring Biodiversity Loss Sounds very exciting! https://lnkd.in/gVbxvy6M