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Chile's new Cape Froward national park is a wild expanse of wind-torn coastline and forested valleys that harbours unrivalled biodiversity and has played host to millennia of human history.
“I have been to many exceptional places, and I can tell you that the Cape Froward project is the wildest place I have walked through,”
said Kristine Tompkins, the renowned US conservationist at the heart of the project.
“It’s one of the few truly wild forest and peak territories lef…

Spain just fired up a biomass plant that fights wildfires while generating clean energy.
ACCIONA Energía's new 50 MW facility in Caceres uses forestry residues as fuel, clearing fire-prone vegetation while producing 380 GWh annually—enough to avoid 187,000 tonnes of CO2.
Beyond energy, it's creating 200 forest management jobs.

ACCIONA Energía starts renewable supply from Logrosan plant in Caceres
ACCIONA Energía has commenced supplying renewable energy from its Logrosan biomass plant located in Caceres, Spain, to the grid.

"Brazil expands Indigenous territories as COP30 protests spotlight the stakes"
#Brazil #COP30 #ClimateSummit

Brazil expands Indigenous territories as COP30 protests spotlight the stakes | The Optimist Daily
Brazil recognizes 10 new Indigenous territories during COP30, strengthening land rights and offering hope for forest protection amid rising tensions.

Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interf…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

WIRED: Sam Altman’s new brain venture, Merge Labs, will spin out of a nonprofit, Forest Neurotech https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interface-merge-labs-spin-out-nonprofit-forest-neurotech/ Focus on usin…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

A New Tropical Forest Fund Will Pay Countries, Locals and Indigenous Tribes to Protect Their Trees - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22112025/tropical-forest-fund-protects-trees/

Malaysian companies dominate PNG forest-clearance permits: report https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/malaysian-companies-dominate-png-forest-clearance-permits-report/

Malaysian companies dominate PNG forest-clearance permits: report
Papua New Guinea’s rainforests, which span 28.2 million hectares (69.6 million acres), are among the most biodiverse in the world, hosting an estimated 5-8% of all species. The country also has one of the world’s highest rates of communal land ownership, with around 97% of land legally recognized as being customary tenure. Despite the ecological […]

0 days since I've stepped on a nail, in a forest, in new shoes.
Yes, again. The previous shoes got a similar treatment. It didn't reach the feet.

a beautifully weird mckenna-ish mystery: chinese mushrooms that reliably bring the little people, but don't seem to contain any psychoactive elements (& yet obviously do) https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-cau…

Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.

"Amazon could lose over a third of forest cover by century's end"
#Amazon #Trees #Environment

Amazon could lose over a third of forest cover by century's end
A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38% of the Amazon rainforest by the end of the 21st century.

Adobe updates Firefly's app to add a prompt-based video editor using Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/adob

Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models | TechCrunch
Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.

📢Forest Research in the UK is seeking two new members for the Expert Committee on #Forest #Science. 🧬🌳📖🌲🪵
Please boost.
* one early-career,
* one from the forestry sector,
Please see details on the link below.
The ECFS provides independent research oversight for Forest Research, the largest research and evidence organisation in the sector. Chaired by me; covering a fascinating range of research and engagement from urban #trees to timber security and #climate science.
Apply below, closing 30th January 2025.
➡️ https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/about-us/careers/current-opportunities/149805-2-x-committee-members-forestry-commission-expert-committee-on-forest-science/

#ThrowbackThursday Platinum printing session at the now defunkt Oregon College of Art and Craft. The pictures are from an unforgettable winter hike in the Eagle Creek valley, just a few days prior (and 6 months before a wild fire consumed the entire valley)...
(Also see my prev. message for my new darkroom setup :)

Pulp giant RGE admits possible deforestation breach in Bornean wildlife habitat https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/pulp-giant-rge-admits-possible-deforestation-breach-in-bornean-wildlife-habitat/

Pulp giant RGE admits possible deforestation breach in Bornean wildlife habitat
JAKARTA — One of the world’s biggest pulp and paper companies has acknowledged to Mongabay a potential breach of its no-deforestation commitment in its supply chain, raising questions about the company’s attempt to regain sustainability certification under the Forest Stewardship Council. A new report by U.S.-based campaign group Rainforest Action Network (RAN) alleges that Singapore-based […]

"African forest hornbills gain new protections from unsustainable trade"
#Birds #Animals

African forest hornbills gain new protections from unsustainable trade
Negotiators discussing wildlife trade rules have agreed overwhelmingly to back a proposal that regulates the currently unrestricted trade in all seven species of African forest hornbills. Eight West and Central African countries had tabled the proposal at the ongoing summit of CITES, the global wildlife trade convention, taking place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It calls for […]

Since it got cold I haven't been too brave about going out and between that trip to the beach, a breakthrough in another project I've been working on for 8 months, and new project that's making me revive even more old projects my #photography has been slowing down: this trail in Shindagin Hollow skirts the side of a steep and deep gorge

When we close streets to cars and open them up to people, we can't just leave them as-is for half a decade. We need to build infrastructure to ensure that cars *can't* come back. Otherwise, it's too tempting for drivers who see a pristine stretch of unclogged road to be like, "hey I could be breaking the speed limits or storing my car there for free!", lobby their local weak-spined politicians, and reclaim the road for SUVs.

Good lord, this new Rosalía album is powerful magic.
#music

"Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30"
#Brazil #COP30 #Environment

Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30
Tropical countries from Cameroon to Colombia could earn tens of millions of dollars a year under a novel approach to protecting the world's rainforests being launched at the COP30 summit in Brazil.

I lose some #followers and meet some new ones, so hi to everyone who just #followed me!
I’m in love with #Linux, especially

The Land of Via Claudia Augusta
(Pre-sunset light on New Year's eve, overlooking a small part of the northern Alps, a view which I imagine was already enjoyed by the Romans who had built a settlement on this hill in 13AD...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

This week, public power is stepping up.
Great British Energy is targeting 15 GW of wind, solar and storage by 2030. New York's NYPA is building 5.5 GW of renewables. Bolivia launched its first Indigenous protected area with forest monitoring. Tennessee turned a former farm into Middle Fork Bottoms State Park, reconnecting floodplains to reduce flooding.
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Welcome This week feels like work and wonder at once. Night comes early in the north and the Geminids begin to stitch bright threads across the cold sky. Far south, heat lifts and cicadas test their summer chorus. In that split screen of seasons, our stories settle on two steady

"China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990"
#China #Environment #Trees

China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990

Good afternoon, from the forests around Thetford, England. I hope a bright new year is just ahead for you all! #NewYear #outdoors #walking

Only **you** can prevent forest fires...
#noxp #nodebb #fediverse #fediversemeta

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Richard Wagner, New York Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta:
🎵 Siegfried, WWV 86C: Forest Murmurs
#RichardWagner #NewYorkPhilharmonic #ZubinMehta
https://open.spotify.com/track/4AvNtWu8daCzQ2h5MsgDJM