Lines in the landscape - Communications Earth & Environment Ditches have many overlooked environmental and societal roles, including impact on biodiversity and pollution, and management strategies to enhance their multifunctional landscape-scale benefits are n...

Delighted to see our paper "Lines in the Landscape" published
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Thanks to Dr. Mike Peacock & Dr. Chelsea Clifford for organising a great workshop for ditch "experts" a few years ago in Liverpool. The paper highlights the importance of ditches in our landscapes.

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The far right are trying to destroy the Green Deal We need to do everything we can to stop them - here’s how.

just signed this:
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Let baby milk into Gaza! Newborns in Gaza are dying before they’ve even had a chance to live. With mothers too weak from hunger to breastfeed, these babies need life-saving formula, fast. Sign the urgent call to let baby milk...

Please sign this petition to let baby milk into Gaza:
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Our EPA funded iHabiMap project final report is now available here:
www.epa.ie/publications...

Digital mapping of peat thickness and carbon stock of global peatlands Peatlands, occupying merely 5% of the Earth’s land surface, are an important carbon sink, storing up to double the carbon of the world’s forests. The …

Check out our latest paper looking at mapping peatland depth and carbon stock at a global scale:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Planting trees on peatlands leads to more GHG emissions then those trees sequester.

30cm of peat stores up to 327 tonnes of carbon per ha.

Forestry = 145 T Ca per Ha.

It does not make sense to plant trees on peatland as a climate change solution.

Orangutan extinction for gold? Only 800 of them remain, and now a mine expansion could wipe them out. Act now!

Only 800 Tapanuli orangutans are left — and corporate giant @JardineMatheson plans to destroy their only rainforest home for a gold mine. We're calling on Jardines’ executive chairman #BenKeswick to stop the goldrush and halt the expansion -- join now: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians

Horrific evil

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Map Of Viking Expansion Between 790 & 1066

Full size: brilliantmaps.com/viking-ex...

I think I'll be saving up for a trip to Iceland...

The rental is not cheap but the landscape is absolutely spectacular!!

And then I found this..

A campervan company....@CampEasyIceland

I zoomed in... it looks stunning

I did a bit of a Google Map road trip and found this gorgeous mountain pass...

A spelling mistake took me on a wonderful journey to Iceland this afternoon. I was trying to type in Scholar and ended up with Holar... So I took a look on Google Map.

There's a university there!
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North Iceland looks stunning!!

I want to go....

Search for jobs EGU, the European Geosciences Union, is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide.

Really looking forward to going to #EGU25 next week and presenting in the "Peatlands in greenhouse gas accounting and carbon credit schemes".

Also we have an 18 month post-doc advertised on www.egu.eu/jobs/. Come say hello if you are interested in applying for it!
@egu.eu

Climate Action Plan 2025:
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Join us at Trinity College Dublin!

The ECO-WADE project is looking for postdoctoral researcher to work with @wahajhb.bsky.social and I on mapping peatlands at European scale

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Fantastic day on the bog, measuring peat depth with our 3rd year Geography students @imcoasts.bsky.social

Previously unpublished Irish bog chemical data @jenniroche.bsky.social @mapalljohn.bsky.social

Delighted to hear #peatlands mentioned several times at the #Biospace25 conference. @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social

HOME | Rewild! Join a growing network of people in Ireland taking action in the face of the biodiversity emergency

Launching! 🚀

Today I'm launching a new service for landowners in Ireland who want to rewild their land. I hope this will be the start of a network that will promote rewilding in this country - the time is right!

New social 🙋‍♂️
@rewildyourland.bsky.social

take a look 👇
www.rewildyourland.ie

#Biospace25

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets

World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Background image of a raised bog. Can you share a few minutes of your time? We are building a peatland knowledge and data-sharing platform and need your help. Take our survey: https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/QP56HMV.www.peatsense.org.AI2Peat is funded by Research Ireland under grant number 22/NCF/FD/10969 until June 2025, having started in January 2023. Our consortium includes CeADAR Ireland, iCRAG Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences, and the National Parks & Wildlife Service.

We need your help to improve the PeatSense Platform! Whether you're somewhat interested in peatlands or spend every day thinking about bogs, your feedback matters to us.

Please take a few minutes to complete our survey and share it with your friends and colleagues: eu.surveymonkey.com/r/QP56HMV 💭📝

A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
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"This is a moment to unite."

We're celebrating International Day of Women & Girls in Science! Our Education & Public Engagement programme is committed to ensuring more women and girls have opportunities to contribute to climate, biodiversity, and water research and innovation.

#WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM