By Tamara Layden “Our stories belong in the community. They do not belong to the university or the government. They are ours–our data–and they belong to the Aboriginal community where the research is being carried out.” Pamela Croft-Warcon (Yuwaalaraay) in Lori Lambert’s book, Research for Indigenous Survival Convergence science research aims to bring together diverse [...]
By Julia A. Klein The entrance to COP30 in Belem, Brazil. Inside COP30: A Mix of Progress and Deep Disappointment At the heart of the Amazon, the world gathered to decide the future of the climate, and fell short. Even in the chaos of 60,000 people and nearly 200 nations, one thing was [...]
On May 28, the Higher Regional Court of Hamm released a verdict establishing a powerful legal precedent. It opens the door to holding companies that emit greenhouse gasses liable for their contribution to climate change impacts – even with thousands of miles between the release site and the affected area.Saúl Luciano Lliuya is a small-scale [...]
By: Abriti Moktan, Mountain Sentinels Fellow Traducir al español I embarked on a short, power-packed, impromptu trip to Peru to attend the Mountain Sentinels Summit at Huaraz amidst the chaos of finals week in December. The summit’s core value revolved around Hatun Tinkuy, meaning “large encounter, getting together for a common interest towards sustainable future [...]
Are you interested in East African mountain ranges? Curious about the intersections of biodiversity, land-use and climate change? Are you invested in the risks and opportunities associated with the anthropogenic impacts affecting the biodiversity and ecosystem services of the mountains? Mountain Sentinel network partners yorK Institute for Tropical Ecosystems (KITE)'s Rob Marchant and AfriMont's Aida [...]
Discover the pivotal insights unveiled in this collaborative publication by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Environment Programme. This comprehensive analysis delves into various mountain ecosystem restoration projects, shedding light on the application of the UN Decade’s Ten Principles for Ecosystem Restoration to [...]
Are you interested in community-based conservation and seeking traditional ecological knowledge approaches to socio-ecological models? Interested in participatory/co-design methods in Afroalpine spaces? Are you invested in the co-creation of knowledge and participatory modeling? Mountain Sentinel collaborators authored a paper that sparks interesting discourse on the subjects above! If you are interested, check out the abstract [...]
Anaïs Zimmer, Timothy Beach, Julia A. Klein, Jorge Recharte Bullard
Cara Steger, Julia A. Klein, Robin S. Reid, Sandra Lavorel, Catherine Tucker, Kelly A. Hopping, Rob Marchant, Tara Teel, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Tsechoe Dorji, Greg Greenwood, Robert Huber, Karim-Aly Kassam, David Kreuer, Anne Nolin, Aaron Russell, Julia L. Sharp, Mateja Šmid Hribar, Jessica P.R. Thorn, Gordon Grant, Mohammed Mahdi, Martha Moreno, Daniel Waiswa Abstract: Transdisciplinary research [...]
To view SnowCloudMetrics.app where this was originally hosted, click here. Eric A. Sproles, Ruan L. Crumley, Anne W. Nolin, Eugene Mar and Juan Ignacio Lopez Moreno Abstract: We tested the efficacy and skill of SnowCloud, a prototype web-based, cloud-computing framework for snow mapping and hydrologic modeling. SnowCloud is the overarching framework that functions within the [...]