Drained peat soils are a worldwide problem. German drained organic soils emit more than 55 Mt CO2-eq. per year. This is equivalent to around 6.6% of the national GHG emissions in 2014. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Tune in tonight Tuesday 9.35pm @ RTEONE for Hot Air: Ireland’s #ClimateCrisis” where Philip Boucher-Hayes and Flo Renou-Wilson 🔕 will be discussing the potential of peatlands to lock in carbon and mitigate climate change #KeepItInTheGround #Peatlands EPA Research News

5 Dec is #WorldSoilDay. No #soil = no food, no carbon sink, no ecosystem services, no life, no future. Wet #peatlands soil = better chance to reduce climate chaos; cleaner air; more ecosystem services, better future EPA Research News UCD Earth Institute

#WorldSoilDay tomorrow 5 Dec, peatlands is our biggest store of carbon also in Ireland; From the atmosphere perspective, locking it in is just as good as trying to plant trees somewhere else. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Very interesting PhD topic on peat mining as an unwritten chapter in the fossil fuel age with a fantastic environmental historian

Widespread drying of European peatlands... could this vast carbon stock be under threat? nature.com/articles/s4156…

Great 3 min video explaining the impacts of draining peatland on carbon emissions, hydrologoy and peat structure thanks to IUCN UK Peatlands Richard Lindsay EPA Research News youtu.be/DUFqrN1dxjU

Congratulations Rosie M. O'Neill

Great new paper! Have a read and share #peat #peatlandsmatter #PeatTwitter

This week #EGU20 we presented provisional results from the Auger Project with our postdoc Alina Premrov gave insights into peatland biogeochemical modelling of CO2 using ECOSSE process based model. Our PhD Kilian Walz uncovered the factors affecting carbon stocks in Irish peatlands

Nor forgetting the pollution of water ways as carbon and ammonia are being pumped out of those boggy field into streams and drinking water supply :-(

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Happy bog day this Sunday 26th July!

JUST PUBLISHED: Development of new drainage factor for an improved ECOSSE water table simulation approach for modelling CO2 fluxes from drained and rewetted peatlands sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Co-authors @peatyGHG, Matt Saunders, Jagadeesh Yeluripati & Flo Renou-Wilson 🔕 EPA Research News

The final version of our paper is now available online Alina Premrov Flo Renou-Wilson 🔕 Matt Saunders @peatyGHG Jagadeesh Yeluripati Auger Project doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…

Delighted to be presenting today at #vEGU21 😄 EGU21-1871 | vPICO presentations | BG3.8 | Thu, 29 Apr

The AUGER report is out just in time to celebrate #WorldWetlandsDay2022 Irish bogs are the main subclass of wetlands in Ireland --> 1ha of near intact raised bog store 3000 tonnes of carbon We need to keep this carbon locked up as well as bring back clean water and biodiversity

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Robust results from 5 years monitoring confirms that rewetting drained bogs 1) reduce C emissions 2) establish optimal conditions for C sequestration & 3) set the site on a climate cooling trajectory. Funded by EPA Ireland Auger Project onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… EPA Research News

9. And recent work by Auger Project estimates that Irish peatlands store a staggering 2.2 billion tonnes of carbon. However, less than 15% of Irish peatlands are in near-natural state, and the area actively sequestering carbon is likely to be even less. epa.ie/publications/r…