🐸 Check out this great @visualcap infographic on natural carbon sinks: #wetlands are in the lead! #WorldWetlandsDay on 2⃣ February reminds us that when we #ActForWetlands, we act for #Climate. worldwetlandsday.org 🐸Convention on Wetlands #united4land #wetlandsandhumanwellbeing

Fab new paper out on herbal lays vs grass-clover and soil properties. Def more research needed to optimise mixes. Great work Dr Emily Cooledge on your 1st PhD paper 🥰

The latest State of our Rivers report has been published by The Rivers Trust, an important read, we need to improve!! theriverstrust.org/about-us/news/…

Great event today Loughborough University celebrating our promotion success (@mpmon, Duncan Depledge, Edwin Baynes , Dr Clare Hutton) within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (thanks Elizabeth Peel for the support 🤩) Congratulations everyone and to those who missed the picture 🎊

Read our @BES_AquaEco report, led by India Stephenson, Stephen Thackeray @UKCEH and Emma Ransome Imperial College London on the critical actions needed to address pollution and biodiversity loss in UK freshwaters here: britishecologicalsociety.org/freshwater-rev…

|| OUT NOW || Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem 📃 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @arthurbroadbent Soil Ecology Lab UoM BES Stirling Functional Ecology: UIBK Research Group

Whilst I can't be at #EGU24 😞 great to see Luigi Marfella from Loughborough Geography and Environment having fun and presenting his PhD research on peatland recovery 5 years post #wildfire on The Roaches, Peak District StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇 #proudsupervisor

Great day with Maye X exploring #biodiversity as part of our new Loughborough Geography and Environment Global Environmental Change at the Local Scale module. Students learn about Loughborough University & local area historical land use change, soil, and water quality, biodiversity and geodiversity #livinglab

Fantastic 2 days of field trips for our 1st year Loughborough Geography and Environment students learning about #geodiversity of Charnwood Forest Geopark led by Dr Jack J Matthews who was incredibly knowledgeable and engaging as we learnt about Morley Quarry and Beacon Hill geology #geologyrocks esp in the sun!

Land degradation factors: Water & wind erosion Organic carbon loss Salinization Acidification Compaction Nutrient imbalances Pesticides Heavy metals Vegetation degradation Groundwater decline Aridity New study found 1/3 of 🇪🇺 agri soils hit by 2 factors➡️nature.com/articles/s4146…

Paper number 2 out for my superstar PhD student Luigi Marfella Loughborough Geography and Environment looking at long-term impacts of wildfires on soil properties in an Italian forest. Great work by a fantastic and supportive team. Well done Luigi 👏 (I owe you more cake 🎂!!) doi.org/10.1007/s10342…

Great start to the High Reoslution Water Quality Workshop James Hutton Institute (representing Loughborough Geography and Environment)with Phil Jordan talking about high frequency monitoring. Great to be back to in person meetings and catching up with old friends @DrSarahHalliday.

So great to present on our PhD student Faith's research. Generate some great discussions on reservoirs, and lakes, and how we know so little about whats lurking in the sedimentary depths, such an exciting area to be researching

How do microbes control carbon storage in pioneer soils? Arctic glaciers ❄️ are melting faster 🌡️ & ice retreat exposes vast new landscapes 🏔️ In PNASNews we found that fungal basidiomycete yeasts promote C stabilization in new soils 🦠 Link & 🧵👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🏆2/3 New Hot Papers: Dual nature of soil structure: The unity of aggregates and pores. Geoderma - the global #OA journal of soil science 💥doi.org/10.1016/j.geod… Anna Yudina Anna Yudina

🎊 Super proud to introduce the newly crowned Dr Luigi Marfella 🎊 Luigi has had a difficult journey on his PhD largely covid and moving universities midway through, but he's done it, with 2 papers published too. He's my 1st PhD student as well, super proud 🤩 Loughborough Geography and Environment

Excited to share a newly published review of possible sources, fate & impact of plastics in agricultural soils. Open access at this link rdcu.be/ek53R #bioplasticsinnovationhub #plastic

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