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This is a list of courses on ecology — from the desert dust that feeds the Amazon to the farmers re-greening the Sahel, and how to share wild biomes with the solar farms of an AI-hungry future. Let us know if you find these useful!
NASA | Satellite Tracks Saharan Dust to Amazon in 3-D
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How Saharan Dust Feeds the Amazon — a NASA satellite visualization, featuring the study's lead author, tracing how desert dust makes its trans-Atlantic journey to fertilize the world's largest rainforest. You can find out more on NASA's science site: science.nasa.gov
An Underground Forest: a solution to restoring degraded land at our feet | Tony Rinaudo | TEDxSydney
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Tony Rinaudo - "The Forest Maker" — pioneer of Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration. In this TEDxSydney talk he explains how activating the living stumps and roots of an "underground forest" restores barren land at scale. You can find out more about Tony Rinaudo's re-greening work through World Vision: worldvision.com.au
The Man Who Stopped the Desert
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Meet Yacouba Sawadogo, the Burkinabé farmer who used the traditional zaï planting technique to turn barren, desertified land back into a 100-acre forest.
The Forest Maker
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The official trailer for the feature documentary on Tony Rinaudo's Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration method and its spread across Africa.
How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory
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Allan Savory - Holistic management and grassland restoration. In this widely-discussed TED talk he argues that properly managed grazing herds can reverse desertification on the world's grasslands. (A provocative, debated idea — a good one to weigh against the re-greening approaches above.) You can find out more about Allan Savory's holistic management framework at the Savory Institute: savory.global
Greening the Desert with Solar
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A look at China's massive Xinjiang solar installations — where panels create their own local micro-oasis effects, illustrating both the promise and the paradox of desert solar.
Johan Rockström on navigating planetary boundaries for a sustainable future
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Johan Rockström on navigating planetary boundaries for a sustainable future. Rockström, who directs the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, walks through the nine planetary boundaries framework as a specification you can actually engineer against. Find out more on their channel: @FrontiersPlanetPrize
See the full series on OperatingTheEarthEngineLet the environment guide our development | Johan Rockstrom
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Let the Environment Guide Our Development — Johan Rockström's original public framing of the planetary boundaries concept (TED Global, 2010). The argument holds up; the numbers have all moved since. Find out more on their channel: @TED
See the full series on OperatingTheEarthEngineClimate Emergency: Feedback Loops - Part 1: Introduction
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Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops — Part 1: Introduction. Narrated by Richard Gere and built on interviews with working climate scientists. Find out more on their channel: @feedbackloopsclimate
See the full series on OperatingTheEarthEngineClimate Emergency: Feedback Loops - Part 3: Permafrost
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Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops — Part 3: Permafrost. The clearest short illustration of a stabilizing carbon reservoir converting into an amplifier. Find out more on their channel: @feedbackloopsclimate
See the full series on OperatingTheEarthEngineMilitaries are fuelling the climate crisis | All Hail The Planet
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Militaries are fuelling the climate crisis — All Hail the Planet. Ali Rae in conversation with Nick Buxton (Transnational Institute), Neta Crawford (Brown University's Costs of War project), and Marwa Daoudy (Georgetown). Find out more on their channel: @aljazeeraenglish
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Earth System Science: Tipping Points and Feedback Loops — an educational overview of the critical thresholds behind planetary boundary science. @imooxat
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