👀 Organic carbon weathering as an amplifier of climate warming 183 million years ago: “Weathering of sedimentary carbon-bearing rocks, such as shales, can emit significant quantities of CO2, causing temperatures to rise and further weathering to occur” ⚒️🧪
www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/not-...
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Kick off your morning with a very nice write up in Mongabay about our recent Lac Mai paper. @johansix.bsky.social @jordonhemingway.bsky.social @saegroupethz.bsky.social
Reminder, three more days to apply for our *two* fully funded PhD positions on tropical African biogeochemistry! @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social @draketw.bsky.social @johansix.bsky.social
MDPI is predatory, compromised, and a drag on science publishing. Boycott them!
Ryan (and me) are hiring a PhD student! Sweden is a great country to do a PhD, see the link or ask us for more details, or share with potential students!
Two major humic lakes in the Congo Basin are emitting ancient carbon from nearby peatlands into the atmosphere, reports a study in Nature Geoscience. These findings challenge the prevailing understanding that CO2 emissions from pristine humic lakes are derived from modern, rapidly cycling carbon. 🌍🧪
New job! Please RP! 🥼🧪 ⚒️
Laboratory Manager (gr8, permanent) @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
Leading the Geolabs, with cutting edge facilities in water #geochemistry, #ecosystem science, #eDNA, luminescence
Apply by 13 March or please get in touch with any Qs
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Very happy to see our @agu.org @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social paper on greenhouse gas emissions from Congo lakes published! Following up from @draketw.bsky.social's companion paper last week. With @johansix.bsky.social et al.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
In case our short communications paper was too long 😆, you can now read Research Briefing about our recent study showing aged carbon outgassing from Congo lakes!
rdcu.be/e6W6l
@jordonhemingway.bsky.social @johansix.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @natgeosci.nature.com
That’s a hundred queries. Even at that high number it’s far less energy than other daily activities. A bit surprising given the rhetoric around AI energy use…
We are hiring a PhD student at Umeå University to work on GHG dynamics in boreal streams and groundwater. See the following advertisement and reach out with any questions!
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
@grocherros.bsky.social
Read the Review here: www.nature.com/articles/s43... ⚒️🌏
Congo Basin blackwater lakes release ancient peat carbon—challenging long‑held climate assumptions. Land‑use change may worsen this trend.🚨🌍Research by @draketw.bsky.social and colleagues.
#ClimateResearch #ETHZurich #Peatlands #CongoBasin
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
Correct. Its most certainly a mixture of modern and peat-derived C. Hard to know without porewater sampling across a large area what age/depth of peat is being mobilized + released...
Indeed relative to the entire peatlands LMN outgassing is small, but it should rather be compared to each lakes’ watershed boundaries and even that doesn’t include all the outgassing upstream. The Ruki’s CO2 was also quite old, so it’s likely a cuvette-wide phenomenon
With collaborators: @saegroupethz.bsky.social @jordonhemingway.bsky.social @johansix.bsky.social Funded by: @snsf.ch
Here is what we found:
-Nearly 40% of the inorganic carbon in Lakes Mai Ndombe and Tumba comes from ancient peat.
-Microbes likely respire this old carbon deep underground, sending it to the lakes to vent like a "chimney"
-It's yet unknown what this means in terms of Congo's peat stability
New paper alert! 🚨 Our new study shows that massive lakes in the Congo Basin are outgassing millennial-aged carbon. This challenges the idea that lake CO₂ only comes from modern vegetation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thread below! 🧵👇
Thanks Biden
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened. The last 30 years are the fastest warming period since 1880, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data. By John Muyskens and Shannon Osaka
Excellent @washingtonpost.com piece on the signs that global warming is accelerating by @shannonosaka.bsky.social and @johnmuyskens.bsky.social, featuring @hausfath.bsky.social @rarohde.bsky.social @cjsmith.eu
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
How do glaciers drive and interact with Earth's regional and global biogeochemical cycles? ❄️🏔️🦠🪨🌊🌎🧪⚒️
@natrevearthenviron.nature.com
Expertly led by Jon Hawkings & many collaborators
@mioceanologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @cnrs-insu.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Very excited to announce *TWO* fully-funded PhD positions starting this summer focusing on greenhouse gases in the peatlands of the Congo Basin! Both positions are joint between my group in @eth-eaps.bsky.social and that of @johansix.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social. Come join us!
"Halving" one's publishing rate to "only" 7 papers per year will still crash the system. This strange humblebrag from the author correctly identifies a major problem, but he and his kind are still the root of it.
Nice socks!
Can’t read your paywalled article. Care to summarize it here?
We need greater reward for primary research, often labor intensive and often done by small groups, and less reward for large multi-author review papers.
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Oogie is a fantastic scotch. Their Corry and An Oa variants are also top!
