Phil Metcalfe

Quantifying NFM through peatland re | University of Exeter The University’s Department of Geography invites applications for a PhD studentship funded by the Environment Agency and South West Water and the University of Exeter to commence as soon as possible t...

New PhD funding opportunity: Quantifying natural flood management through peatland restoration in the upland moorland environment (Physical Geography @exeter.ac.uk )

@dpanici.bsky.social @philipimetcalfe.bsky.social @uoe-creww.bsky.social

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‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals Subtle DNA changes in trees demonstrate Charles Darwin’s natural selection – although human help may be needed

"Through the death of a million ash trees, a more resistant population of ash is appearing."

Spectacular news!!
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I will be delivering a seminar on #OurFragileMoments at the @exeter.ac.uk, UK on Thursday, May 8th from 4-5PM local time:

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The reality of sex and gender is complicated. It calls for nuanced examination and thought. The public sphere is terribly bad at this. Add in the close ties between gender and people's self-image, and the issue is ripe for demagoguery.

Or you could just be kind to people different from you.

I’m am adaptation scientist and here’s what I had to say about this—many years ago already.

Who’s Afraid of Lab-Grown Meat? Mississippi became the third state to ban cell-derived meat, a product not for sale in the United States. But not all livestock producers are opposed to cultivated protein.

People are afraid of lab-grown meat because everyone keeps calling it lab-grown meat

People will stop being afraid of it when they try it and realize it tastes good

But politicians can't keep interfering with the freedom to try it in the first place

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Tracks on a peatland

📣 New publication! Our latest #Briefing document, covering the issue of tracks and roads on peatlands, is now available on our website.

Read Networks of change: Tracks and roads on peatlands bit.ly/3Fx9xMq #Policy #Science #Peatlands

📷 Richard Lindsay

Great resource, thank you for sharing! Will be interesting to ask questions and apply some of the findings across Dartmoor 🙂

Labour MP Richard Burgon raises looming welfare cuts during PMQs, criticising the “easy option” of cutting benefits for the poor and vulnerable:

“So instead of cutting benefits for disabled people wouldn’t the moral thing to do…introduce a wealth tax on the very wealthiest people in our society”

🌞 Solar just keeps getting better!

The latest NREL PV efficiency charts highlight record-breaking solar tech:

⚡ 33.9% – Longi’s perovskite-silicon tandem
⚡ 27.09% – Longi’s heterojunction back-contact
⚡ 23.64% – First Solar’s thin-film CIGS
⚡ 47.6% – Fraunhofer ISE’s four-junction cell

Pls help me spread word tomorrow (Tue) 8pm on ITV I'll be talking you through how to check if you can boost your State Pension by possibly £10,000s. There is an urgent deadline coming after which many lose the opportunity.

This is a must watch for anyone age 40 to 73.

Trees in flower with a blue and partially white cloud sky in the background

Crescent moon and Venus in the late evening sky with silhouetted trees in the foreground

The magic thing about a few sunny days in a row, is knowing that the night sky will be wondrous ✨

Beaver wild release: a milestone for nature recovery in England By Stuart Otway, Principal Officer in Natural England’s Complex Cases Unit and Delphine Pouget, Principal Officer in Natural England’s Species Recovery & Reintroductions Team  After centuries of absen...

Huge news!! 🥰🥳

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NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040

⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought
💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP)
🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400
🔌Electrification is key

THREAD + charts

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Great book. Great chapter. Grotesque men.

#beaver droning with Devon Wildlife Trust today. Amazing seeing the dams and wetland spread all the way across the valley bottom now at this site #NatureBasedSolutions @exeter.ac.uk @uoe-creww.bsky.social

NT Arlington in North Devon is absolutely awash with them ❤️ Especially along the floodplain of the Barnstaple Yeo river. Perhaps one to add to the map?

New agroforestry maps plot environmental, social and economic benefits of trees There's a longstanding attitude in many farming communities that trees and agriculture don't mix. But agroforestry—the intentional integration of trees and shrubs in agricultural systems, such as plan...

Facinating new tool to investigate the environmental, social and economic benefits of agroforestry from the University of Illinois 🌳🐄🌳🌾

I'll be diving into the platform to see how it works. Interested to see if we should pilot a similar platform here in the UK? #agroforesty phys.org/news/2025-02...

Landscape character, historic environment, common land, designations, habitat homogeneity etc don't make delivery of grants terribly easy either.

Fantastic word! And much needed after the cold winds of late 🙏

My better half and I had this very conversation yesterday. An extraordinary act of self harm, were it not in the pursuit of greater riches?

Hey, folks, do you want to follow real, science-based solutions to climate change? Especially in these dark times?

Then please follow @projectdrawdown.bsky.social and sign up for our newsletter!

We will be your fearless, fact-based source of climate solutions! Let’s go!

Wonderful shot! And a wonderful place. My wife and I went on honeymoon there (staying in Campione d'Italia). We want to retire there!

Fantastic photos! Really impressive to wood pasture at these scales!

A vision of what the UK could become 🤞... If the agroforestry grant scheme and farm advisory network support farms to move in a more resilient and sustainable direction.

72 species of saproxylic beetles!! 🤯 👏👏

Dead wood is surely one of the most undervalued biodiversity treasure troves of habitats! 😍

Let the avalanche of false promises coming to light commence 🏁

👏👏👏💪

UK Food Security Report 2024 published UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has published the UK Food Security Report 2024

UK food security 2024 (links to full report).

Climate shocks continue to threaten domestic food supply as well as global imports. Drought and water stress on Spanish produce particularly worrying 🙈

The race is firmly on to improve domestic resilience and sustainability. www.gov.uk/government/n...

#JustOut Modeling carbon sequestration in soils and biomass in heterogeneous #agroforestry systems? See our new study using the DayCent model on 5 temperate silvoarable and 1 silvopastoral systems @usyseth.bsky.social @johansix.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social

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