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Resisting the carbonization of animals as climate solutions - Nature Climate Change

Aug 20, 2024 | nature.com | Ethan S. Duvall |Elizabeth le Roux |Heidi Pearson |Joe Roman |Yadvinder Malhi

Large animal conservation and rewilding are increasingly considered to be viable climate mitigation strategies. We argue that overstating animal roles in carbon capture may hinder, rather than facilitate, effective climate mitigation and conservation efforts.
Animals eating, pooping, and dying produces flows of nutrients

Jan 16, 2024 | nautil.us | Joe Roman

The Kumulipo, the Native Hawaiian creation chant, says the world began with a single coral polyp. This story was recounted to me by Mark Hixon, a reef ecologist at the University of Hawaii, one afternoon on Hanauma Bay, one of Oahu’s most beautiful beaches. Green volcanic peaks curtained the horizon; a near full moon rose to the east. The soft warm sand had been groomed smooth.
Surtsey at 60

Nov 30, 2023 | science.org | Manuel Maestre-Reyna |Ning Yang |Robert Hinch |Joe Roman

Get full access to this articleView all available purchase options and get full access to this article. References and NotesThis article has been adapted from Joe Roman’s latest book, Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World (Little, Brown Spark, 2023). B. Magnússon, G. A. Gudmundsson, S. Metúsalemsson, S. M. Granquist, Surtsey Res. 14, 115 (2020). BooksEat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World Joe Roman Little, Brown Spark, 2023. 288 pp.
Joe Roman at Harvard Book Store

Nov 7, 2023 | harvard.com | Joe Roman

presenting Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World In conversation with DAVID ABEL Location Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets This event is free; no tickets are required. Harvard Book Store welcomes JOE ROMAN—conservation biologist and marine ecologist—for a discussion his new book Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World. He will be joined in conversation by DAVID ABEL—award-winning reporter for the Boston Globe. If forests are the lungs of the...
Eat, Poop, Die

Mar 2, 2023 | hachettebookgroup.com | Joe Roman

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