Emilio Vilanova 🌳
@evilanova
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🇻🇪 Venezuelan | Senior Program Officer - Forest Carbon @VerraStandards. Tweets, views, and opinions are my own en English & Español
Massachusetts, USA
Joined July 2010
Extreme warming of Amazon waters in a changing climate Our new article in Science | @ScienceMagazine highlights the widespread warming of Amazon lakes in last decades. Lake heatwaves in 2023 and 2024 led to major social-ecological impacts in the region. https://t.co/qxiJ8CP8D9
science.org
In 2023, an unprecedented drought and heat wave severely affected Amazon waters, leading to high mortality of fishes and river dolphins. Five of 10 lakes monitored had exceptionally high daytime...
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Extreme warming of Amazon waters in a changing climate | Science
science.org
In 2023, an unprecedented drought and heat wave severely affected Amazon waters, leading to high mortality of fishes and river dolphins. Five of 10 lakes monitored had exceptionally high daytime...
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Fearing US effort to remove him, #Maduro urges Venezuelans to snitch via app - @CNN
#ThisIsVzla
https://t.co/LRgzbeQV2R
cnn.com
Faced with the prospect of armed conflict with the United States, Venezuela’s government seems to be encouraging citizens to spy on each other by using a revamped mobile application to report...
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While not calling for widespread logging, this paper led by @ymalhi is a great example of the value of managed/logged forests in the tropics and summarizes the need to recognize them as tools for conservation and resources for people's livelihoods https://t.co/xCnIhqzd69 (3/3)
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Nature - Logged forests in Borneo have higher energy flow from vegetation to and broad range of bird and mammal species relative to old-growth forests and oil palm plantations, showing that they...
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...it is incredibly frustrating to continue reading about the need for Reduced Impact Logging or a plea to stop the complete disregard for forest management, especially when the only alternative is a complete land conversion (2/3)
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I remember my early days teaching forest management, ~ 20 years ago, using some of F.E. "Jack" Putz's early work to illustrate the need for improved management, especially in the tropics. While I enjoyed reading this new sort of "reflection" piece (1/3)
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Financing Nature Conservation: Will the Tropical Forest Forever Facility Finally Do It? https://t.co/z8EseM3XeM via @WorldResources
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As nations prepare for COP30, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility aims to mobilize $125 billion to reward countries that keep low deforestation rates.
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Our new Science paper shows that extreme drought caused much more peatland carbon loss under warming and elevated CO2 than current conditions, due to warming-induced water table decline, prolonged low water tables, and CO2-enhanced substrate availability.
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Extreme drought events are predicted to increase with climate change, yet their impacts on ecosystem carbon dynamics under warming and elevated carbon dioxide (eCO2) remain unclear. In a peatland...
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Working with environmental data often means searching through multiple sources and handling messy file formats. The forestdata R package solves this by bringing global forest, land-use, and canopy height datasets directly into R. It makes exploring large-scale ecological data
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Great to see our paper (led by @nanimuelbert) about the increase in tree size in Amazonia featured on the cover!
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Searching for income and despite environmental fears, Venezuela boosts coal output
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Venezuela, casting around for income amid U.S. sanctions, recently restarted coal production with a Turkish company and is looking to export more than 10 million tons of the fuel this year, company...
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According to this paper, there could be c. 55.5 million tall trees (> 60 m height) across the Brazilian Amazon, with the highest density in the northeast portion. These trees have a disproportionate contribution to the carbon stored in these forests! https://t.co/9T03RFIjNN
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New Science paper by Ohlert et al with a rainfall-exclusion experiment at 74 sites over the globe shows extreme droughts caused high productivity declines and low recovery, especially in drier locations with low plant diversity.
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As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with...
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Improving Predictions of Tropical Forest Response to Climate Change. New #PhD opportunity @universityofleeds.bsky.social #Amazonia
https://t.co/bH2rYAy9fF
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Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, for her work promoting democracy.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights.” Ms. Machado, who built one of Venezuela’s most important political movements, has been in hiding since last year.
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BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to
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Breaking news: The 2025 #NobelPeacePrize is awarded to María Corina Machado🕊️ Congratulations!
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Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires | Science
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Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially...
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AI reveals vast ‘ghost forests’ along U.S. coast | Science | AAAS
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Machine learning method counts nearly 12 million dead trees, many likely killed by rising seas
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