Climate change and rapid biodiversity loss represent dual planetary crises motivating much ecological research. Ecologists are tasked with mechanistically understanding ecological responses to these ongoing crises across levels of biological organization as well as developing useful predictive models for key ecological forecasting tasks. Incorporating individual-scale processes such as animal behavior, intra-population/species heterogeneity, etc. into both mechanistic and predictive models of climate change and biodiversity loss remains a key challenge for ecologists. Animal movement is one such individual-scale process with potentially substantial implications. Animal movement can modify the environmental and biotic conditions (and thus selective pressures) to which individuals are exposed. Movement can also directly influence population-scale processes like assortative mating and dispersal which directly influence, for example, range shift predictions. Moreover, in highly vagile species, such as long-distance migrants, the movements themselves can influence demographic processes via, for example, direct effects to survival during migration or indirectly through inter-seasonal carry over effects across spatiotemporally linked populations.Recent advances in animal tracking technology (e.g., miniaturized archival tracking devices, automated telemetry networks, satellite-borne remote tracking platforms like ICARUS, and more) have ushered in a “golden age” of movement ecological research. Researchers are now collecting more individual movement data with greater spatial precision and fewer sampling biases than ever before. Simultaneously, the availability of high resolution remote sensing products and increasingly robust analytical workflows have allowed researchers to move beyond more descriptive paradigms for animal movement research. As such, there is massive opportunity to leverage movement ecological research to increase our understanding of and make better predictions about these twin planetary crises.In this session we will highlight research that leverages one or more of these recent breakthroughs in movement ecology to inform research about climate change and/or rapid biodiversity loss. These studies highlight how new technology, better methods, bigger datasets, and a paradigm that moves beyond traditional descriptive studies can produce novel ecological insights.