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Photos of Atlantic puffins by Neil Dawe (taken on an island just off the west coast of the UK):

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The Secret Swamp Behind the Beach 🌿

"Kigali’s project cannot stop floods on its own or reverse climate change, but it represents a rare, citywide effort to rebuild nature-based infrastructure — offering one of the continent’s clearest models for urban areas seeking to boost their resilience." #NbS #resilience

Can restoring land help restore peace?

From Nigeria to Chad, communities along the #GreatGreenWall are regreening their landscapes, and rebuilding trust in conflict-prone areas.

5 key lessons from the Sahel and Horn of Africa:🔗 https://bit.ly/45pDw26

#RegreenAfrica

Mangroves - truly amazing ecosystems

#Mangrove Monday. #Ecosystems, particularly mangroves are important to people, but putting detail on this is crucial to support #sustainable resource use and balance #ecological sustainability with #livelihoods. @yesiuoy.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social

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Delighted to have a paper on wetlands archaeology in this global review of wetlands, with Ben Gearey and Rosie Everett

There is something magical about the tropical peatlands.

Voilá! 🎉
#PeatECR (peatecr.com) is excited to announce that the #2026PeatECRCalendar is officially ready!
This year’s calendar showcases 12 stunning peatland wild life photographs contributed by peatland researchers.

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Carbon Dioxide Removal methods

including #nature action for #ClimateAction

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original graph by IPCC

Very excited to be working with some excellent partners across Europe and Africa to strengthen our understanding on the importance of Mountains for navigating future climate, biodiversity and sustainability challenges @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social
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Protecting peatlands is one of the smartest, most effective climate actions we can take. Visit our website to learn more: https://f.mtr.cool/hcgjtomdyn (5/5)

Hey Skeeters, climate change is real!

Addressing landscape multifunctionality in conservation and restoration Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 30 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00091-4Multifunctional land-use systems supply multiple ecosystem services while contributing to biodiversity conservation. This Review summarizes the provision of ecosystem services and their trade-offs and synergies with biodiversity at the landscape scale, explores traditional, contemporary and emerging land-use systems, and highlights strategies and challenges to achieve multifunctionality in conservation and restoration.

New online! Addressing landscape multifunctionality in conservation and restoration

Peatland fires in Southeast Asia pose a serious threat to the environment, public health, and the economy.

This manual draws on scientific progress and 20 years of experience to present new methods and strengthen community fire management.

Read more: https://bit.ly/46qxYoB

#Trees4Resilience

Really excited to be kicking off this series of Palaeobotany evening lectures at the Oxford University Botanic Garden. All are online and free to attend 👇👇

SHIFT

I am SO EXCITED about this!

Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths.

Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers.

jointheshift.earth

A half-day carbon sequestration class, letting students record campus trees for biomass carbon storage. Full of learning and energy.

Some 25 years in the making! Detailed insights into how #ecosystems have changed across East African mountains over the past 50000 years is now out in print version in the Journal of #Biogeography

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Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere

Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere

Could large‐scale silicon supplementation of crop‐lands mitigate the impacts of climate change? Intervention strategies that involve supplementing crop-lands with silicon have significant scope for carbon capture and drought mitigation, offering wide-ranging societal impacts. These include cont...

Just spotted this very interesting paper, combining silicon supplementation of crops with carbon sequestration in #phytoliths. Surely this has to be worth further investigation? #climatechange #plantscience #soil 🧪
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Next time you feel the sharp sting of a nettle (Urtica), think of its fascinating stinging microhairs - here around 150–200 µm in length - with irritating chemicals stored in their bulbous heads. The study study investigates plant silica bodies (phytoliths), including these microhairs and other morphotypes, of extant dicotyledons prevalent in North-Western Europe, establishing a baseline for botanical, archaeobotanical, and palaeoecological research.

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline’ by R. Hermans et al. is now #free for a limited time 1/7

👉 doi.org/pdrp

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Missed our latest #WKE webinar? No problem! 🎥🌍

🌱💚 The recording of "Wetlands as Fast-Acting and Sustainable Natural Climate Solutions", presented by Dr. Irena Creed is now available to watch on the #CCLM portal!

👉 www.cclmportal.ca/resource/web...

Most of Britain’s peat bogs could stop forming new peat as the climate changes – new study But bad news for peatlands could trigger the funding needed to preserve them.

While our recent paper on bioclimatic envelope modelling of peat might seem like doom and gloom, there's plenty to think about in terms of how potential increasing rates of degradation could leave to more carbon finance being available.

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A landscape showing a coastal wetland in northern Michigan

A landscape showing a coastal wetland in eastern Michigan

A landscape showing a coastal wetland in western Michigan

A landscape showing a coastal wetland in northern Ohio

Coastal wetlands of #GreatLakes come in all shapes and sizes, but the one thing they share in common is how important they are!

They're kind of like the rainforests of the #GreatLakes - lots of biodiversity and productivity, and also facing threats from development #WorldWetlandsDay

Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth An experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35% compared to non-warmed controls.

Check out our new article just out in The Conversation highlighting the effects of warming leaves +4°C in tropical trees. 🌿🌡️ theconversation.com/study-shows-...

PhD student Aamir Shehzad Khan leads our first large-scale research on restoring cyperaceae-brown moss #peatlands (rich fens) in Quebec's Lower St. Lawrence. 📚✨

Post-restoration, vascular plants thrived more than bryophytes. Low helophyte presence and no flooding were key for effective #rewetting 🌱

Nutrients, isolation and lack of grazing limit plant diversity in restored wetlands Restoration of plant diversity in wetlands is challenging, but our results point to potential remedies: plan restoration areas near colonisation sources of the target biota, restore hydrology to near...

Restored vs Near-natural #wetlands: lower plant diversity incl rare species - but #grazing had positive effect as did available species pool size, prior presence of near-natural habitat & restored #hydrology; high soil Fe+N had negative effects🌿🐂💦 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...