Huge new work in the central Congo peatlands, showing that the peatlands began forming 42,000 years ago. Culmination of around 15 major expeditions over the past decade, and a huge effort by many people.
30.07.2025 17:32 — 👍 27 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
World’s largest tropical peatlands revealed to be more than 40,000 years old
A peatland complex in the Congo Basin which is known to be a globally important carbon store is twice as old as previously thought, according to a new scientific study.
Our new study, led by Greta Dargie and published yesterday in Environmental Research Letters, shows that the Congo Basin peatlands are twice as old as previously thought. www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n... @congopeat.bsky.social @simonlewis.bsky.social @iopp-environment.bsky.social
30.07.2025 14:01 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
Ahead of their next field mission, ECRs from Congo and DRC involved in peatland mapping work for IKI Congo Peatlands project convene with colleagues at Congo Basin Forum 2025, Kinshasa. cbforum.crrebac.org
13.06.2025 20:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Collecte de données météorologiques à la station de recherche de Yangambi en RDC. Crédit image : Nichole Sobecki.
En avril 2025, le National Geographic révèle l'histoire d'une génération pionnière de scientifiques d'Afrique centrale qui s'efforcent de comprendre les écosystèmes du bassin du Congo à un moment où nous en avons le plus besoin. www.nationalgeographic.fr/environnemen...
28.04.2025 15:21 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Collecting climate data at Yangambi Research Station, DRC. Credit: Nichole Sobecki
Feature in April 2025 National Geographic reveals the story of a new vanguard of central African scientists who are striving to understand the ecosystems of the Congo Basin at a time when it is needed most: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
28.04.2025 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
3 week visiting fellowships for ECRs - looks cool
30.03.2025 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
@DargieGreta gets our @royalsociety.org African peatlands meeting off to a great start with a review of state of knowledge of these globally important carbon-dense ecosystems @congopeat.bsky.social
17.02.2025 09:18 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Scholarships | Congo Basin Science Initiative
Discover CBSI Scholarships: funding opportunities for science students focused on the Congo Basin. Explore now...
Vous êtes ressortissant du Gabon, Cameroun, Congo ou la RDC et vous vous intéressez au climat, à l'écologie ou à l'économie du bassin du Congo?
CBSI dispose de 28 bourses d'études supérieures. Posez votre candidature avant le 28 février. Plus d'informations ci-dessus, n'hésitez pas à les partager!
11.02.2025 12:43 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Scholarships | Congo Basin Science Initiative
Discover CBSI Scholarships: funding opportunities for science students focused on the Congo Basin. Explore now...
Are you, or do you know, a national of Gabon, Cameroon, Congo or DRC interested in studying the climate, ecology or economy of the Congo Basin?
CBSI has 28 fully-funded scholarships across a wide range of projects, applications due February 28th. More info here: shorturl.at/5flYY
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11.02.2025 12:43 — 👍 15 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1
Poster advertising the dates and organisers of the upcoming meeting on African tropical peatlands
The programme for our upcoming scientific meeting on the theme of tropical #peatlands in Africa is now live.
The meeting will be held at the Royal Society in London and will be streamed online.
To register for free or find out more visit: ow.ly/BEu550UCvZg
@royalsocietypublishing.org
28.01.2025 11:49 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Two researchers from the CongoPeat research group are seen discussing maps of forest cover and peatland extent in the central Congo Peatlands
Welcome to the CongoPeat Bluesky account.
We are a scientific program researching the past, present and future of the world's largest tropical peatland complex.
Please follow our page to keep up to date with research, news and events regarding the central Congo peatlands.
28.01.2025 11:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Intergovernmental treaty providing frameworks for the conservation & wise use of wetlands & their resources.
www.ramsar.org
Anthropologist & behavioral scientist studying motherhood, cooperative foraging & childcare, and knowledge transmission among BaYaka foragers in Congo
Research Fellow @IAST
Data Editor @ProcB
PhD @MPI-EVA
DISI 2018
https://www.iast.fr/people/haneul-jang
Lecturer at University of Leeds. Research into climate and meteorology, mostly focusing on Africa. Views are my own.
https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/12868/dr-caroline-wainwright
Assistant Prof @UCLA | http://tropicalforestscoping.com
#Forests #Agriculture #TropicalEcology #RemoteSensing | she/her/hers
sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/eeb-ordway/
CBSI is an independent scientist-led platform promoting long-term investment in science within the Congo Basin. Our mission is to build scientific capacity and produce groundbreaking research within the world’s second largest extent of tropical forest.
Uni Leicester geographer, researching peatland science in the tropics and UK. Carbon, GHG emissions, peat fires, ecosystem restoration, climate mitigation
Prof of Ecosystem Science at Oxford, working on #naturerecovery, especially loves tropical ecosystems; Director Leverhulme Centre for @NatureRecovery.bsky.social; Trustee @nhm-london@bsky.social; ex-President of @BritishEcolSoc.bsky.social ; CBE FRS
Scientist, trees, forests, carbon, ecosystem structure and function, in all the ways. One tree at a time. Prof at UCL Geography, and NCEO
Ecosystem ecologist, interested in understand forest ecosystem functioning, carbon cycle, and belowground traits.
Adfer Mawndir Cymru, cynllun cenedlaethol sy’n anelu am #NaturUwchCarbonIs.
Wales Peatland Action, a national initiative aiming for #HighNatureLowCarbon.
Five-year, £3.7m international research project to assess the risk that climate change poses to peatlands. Funded by @NERCscience
Global non-violent direct action movement demanding a response to the climate and ecological emergency.
More: https://linktr.ee/rebelforlife
Award-winning journalism focused on #climatechange, science, energy and policy. Subscribe to our free newsletters: http://bit.ly/CBnewsletters
Climate activist, born 364ppm, based in Berlin
Human Rights/Climate campaigner, TheGreensWA candidate, former Human Rights Watch researcher, Ex-ABC news reporter, Author 'We Can't Say We Didn't Know, Freo tragic, Gram: sophie_mcneill 🇵🇸
40 years of prize-winning sustainability journalism, mostly @nytimes, #sustainwhat webcaster https://revkin.substack.com, #Anthropocene Working Group member, solution seeker, songwriter https://j.mp/revkinlinks
They say I’m outspoken. Professor of Global Change Science at UCL and University of Leeds. Author, The Human Planet. Trying to understand the world and change it too.
