On 17.05., the Russian peatland scientist & conservationist Andrey Sirin unexpectedly died in St. Petersburg. Andrey was Head of the Institute of Forest Science, @IPCC_CH author, #GPA lead author, long-term #IMCG member and associate editor of "Mires and Peat". He will be missed.
#DiversityMDPI, Read our new published paper "Microbial Communities of Peaty Permafrost #Tundra#Soils along the Gradient of Environmental Conditions and Anthropogenic Disturbance in Pechora River Delta in the Eastern European Arctic"
Find more details at https://t.co/53giyWoRdv
New research highlights urgent need for global wetland conservation. Despite high rates of wetland loss in many regions since 1700, not all is lost! For more, see the study by Etienne Fluet-Chouinard et al. with contributions from the HydroLAB in Nature: https://t.co/cT4Ohqqmx5
How much wetland cover has been lost globally through conversion to human uses? What are the loss drivers & hotspots? Answers in new paper: https://t.co/MOlavJN1w8 by @etiennefluet @SteniBocker@yuisheng @JoeRMelton @carBenPoulter @Global_HydroLAB et al. #wetlands 1/6
Finally, after more than 4 years of work, the main paper from my PhD thesis is out today in Nature Geoscience!
We mapped the world’s largest tropical peatland, in the Congo Basin. A huge intact carbon store, BUT under direct threat from oil exploration
https://t.co/0k443kNMbV
@UWECWorkGroup@IcoEpl1 That is a great job you are doing. We saw many times how hopeless the International Conventions are in solving the "hot issues" by addressing only long-term policies. But it is wise to bring this information to the upcoming COPs in November (UNFCCC, Ramsar).
1/ 5 Olena Kravchenko from the NGO "Environment-People-Law" @IcoEpl1 in talk with the UWEC about collecting data on environmental crimes in Ukraine since the start of the war in 2014 https://t.co/oPLbln1GEn
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Webinar on the Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services Scenarios-based Model Intercomparison (BES-SIM) organized by @IPBES task force on scenarios & models, w/the support of the capacity-building task force.
📅8 April 2022⏰1pm CEST
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The irony here is extreme. Much of Ukraine’s peatlands were drained by the Soviet Union regime. Drainage makes those peat-rich areas absolute quagmires for transit or logistics. The peatlands #StandWithUkriane.
Именно сейчас, когда все мы мыслями с #Украиной, важным для послов государств-членов #ЕС и других стран является почтить сегодня память Бориса #Немцова, убитого семь лет назад.
We are shocked and stunned by the current developments in #Ukraine. We are in contact with our project partners and friends and try to provide all possible support in this situation!
And there is more!
RU delegation head at UN climate conference, Oleg Anisimov, apologized to the UN for RU aggression: “I apologize on behalf of all Russians unable to prevent this conflict. Those who see what is happening cannot find any justification for attacking Ukraine.” 1/
Ciekawe jak długo będzie wisiał? Banner powiesiła wolontariuszka @PAH_org ze Zgorzelca. Duch w narodzie nie ginie. Ludzie tworzą kartki, dekorują choinki, podejmują różne inicjatywy odwołujące się do sytuacji na polsko-białoruskiej.
To reach climate neutrality in 2050, we need deep emissions cuts as well as sustainable solutions for removing and recycling carbon. Today’s plan on #CarbonFarmingEU will enable the EU to develop the necessary solutions.
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Permafrost stores 2x the amount of carbon in the atmosphere yet is not considered by many climate models. Are we totally screwed??? Here I will explain what we know and why I promote #ClimateActionNow but not panic. 1/
@queenofpeat Considering in a model is good, however, acting is better. For ten years I try to convince expert society to start counting emissions from ecosystem disturbance in the Arctic and Arctic ecosystem restoration as an activity under NBSs. but everybody thinks I'm totally screwed.