VP Urban conservation @NYBG, formerly @TheWCS. Author, Father, Hubby, and City Island musselsucker. Fond of plants and animals. Mastodon @[email protected]
Cities are powerful places to effect climate action, as more than half of the world's human population lives in urban settings. Learn how NYBG scientists are working to "pull the lever on climate change" through the examples cities like NYC can set. #COP28 https://t.co/GKo33dnkGW
Our new paper describes the 1,150 species we found in our urban backyard in @brisbanecityqld over 1yr. Trees, shrubs, & weeds (instead of manicured lawn) provided lots of habitat for a shocking amount of wildlife on an urban lot https://t.co/xqpCHWYV93 in @ESAEcology
Blue lobsters are rare, the chance of seeing one is one in every 2 million
A genetic mutation leads to an excess production of astaxanthin-wrapping proteins. These proteins convert the red astaxanthin into a blue pigment known as crustacyanin
https://t.co/6PCC7lE234
The order to put 50 Hudson Yards first in line for pre-opening @FDNY safety inspection came from the Mayor's Office, @Gregbsmithnyc reports. The FBI is looking into whether campaign donations got select developers onto City Hall's fast-track list. https://t.co/hWBYa23fFN
EDITORIAL | Build for the future: N.Y. needs lots more housing
The surest way to bring down the cost of living here, which boils down more than anything to the cost of housing, is to create more places for more people to live, our Board writes.
https://t.co/rtGG3UR9v7
It's official!
I am delighted to announce I'm joining the @NHM_Denmark at the @koebenhavns_uni as a Mycology Curator/Assist Prof to continue working on Cordyceps fungi across Tropical forests and now, also exploring the Arctic! Beware, the zombie-ants are taking Europe! 🧟♂️🍄🐜
The Garden is closed this Thursday, Nov. 23—but we'll be open again on Friday and all throughout the weekend! 🦃
From all of us at NYBG, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday, and we'll see you here at the Holiday Train Show as we ready for the beauty of winter to come. ❄️
This all-electric hydrofoil ferry saves energy by going airborne and "barely makes a sound as it glides over a metre above water"
Carries 30 passengers at 30 knots, reducing "energy per passenger-km by 95%" vs diesel ships transporting passengers
https://t.co/gx1kODzGBg
Want to make anthrome maps? (in a GIS)
> Maps in shapefile format for 10,000BCE to 2017CE
https://t.co/LDn2fOdZWh
> From our 2021 paper in @PNASNews https://t.co/do6WvsTUbU
Full dataset here: https://t.co/OtGu8P5UWb @nick_gaut@HarvardDV (thanks @rdpalacio!)
NEW: We got an internal FDNY/City Hall document showing what projects get to cut the line for fire safety inspections
The list started as a way to help small biz/public needs but morphed to fast-track high-profile projects from NYC’s biggest developers https://t.co/e5SuAIMHCl