Carrifran 1999 and today 26th July 2024. Landscape scale habitat restoration in Scotland. 🌳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #RewildScotland #RewildOurPlanet

Declining planetary albedo is contributing hugely to the acceleration of global warming, but why is the planet getting darker? This new PhD studentship, with Mark Williamson and me, sets out to answer that vital question. Please retweet. exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Been making the case that inter-disciplinary research is not only about physical scientists working with social scientists, artists, etc But also we need to be better at working across disciplines even within the environmental sciences - ecology, pollution, climate, hydrology...

Fifteen years minus one day between these photos. Taken at the Rhone glacier in Switzerland today. Not gonna lie, it made me cry.

“The problems facing the world aren’t problems caused by a lack of intelligence or computing power The fixes are difficult to implement because of social and political forces, not a lack of insight, thinking, or novelty” Excellent piece on AI hype theguardian.com/news/article/2…

It is too simplistic to think that introducing single species (eg, beaver, bison, pine marten) can fundamentally repair degraded ecosystems Even if we call them keystones Rewilding is about rebuilding complexity, which includes complex trophic structures science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I like compiling observational estimates of AMOC strength. I recently became interested in how well the Copernicus compilation of reanalysis was doing. Here is the Copernicus reanalysis in grey, RAPID in red, and Emma Worthington's in black.

Catching up on some boundary layer meteorology papers and doesn't this just some up the field: Most current climate and weather models assume that roughness for momentum and heat are linearly proportional. This is not supported by observations (study 1 (1984) 2 (1987),3(1993),...

The Arctic is rapidly losing sea ice. More open water results in more waves, more wave-ice interaction, and more breaking-up of sea ice. The ForWArd project at the The Nansen Center / Nansensenteret aims to quantify and predict this effect. Guillaume Boutin Richard Alan John Davy nersc.no/en/features/an…

Just magical to see the wild Exmoor Ponies gallop through the beaverwoods at Bamff.

Interessant om kjernekraft i Storbritannia ‘A viable business’: Rolls-Royce banking on success of small modular reactors theguardian.com/environment/20…

Looking like a quite high risk of a marine heatwave in the northern aquaculture production zones this summer: …asonalforecastsfornorway.shinyapps.io/MarineHeatwave… #seasonalforecast #aquaculture #salmon #Norway