Another important reality is that Greenland holds major potential for future peat accumulation and carbon sequestration. Where will the bogs of tomorrow be? Not Canada. Not Siberia. But definitely Greenland.

Pleased to see this new paper with Dylan Young published: "Understanding the Carbon Balance of Peatlands: A Comment on Heinemeyer et al. (2025)". See: www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1547...

We'll be looking at ways, past and present, that #Manx people value #peatlands

Fascinating paper on ecological time lags and extinction debts besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#HappyNewYear! Onwards and upwards as we upscale capacity and triple peatland restoration by 2030! Thanks to all for your efforts in protecting peatlands and the support to #WalesPeatlandAction cdn.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/av3hhxjt/npa... #HighNatureLowCarbon @natreswales.bsky.social

A member of the public took a photo of the #peatland at Castell Nos in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 every Sunday this year and even sent me this video he made! I really love how people have embraced #PeatColours across the world

@bes-peatlandsgroup.bsky.social Anyone planning on participating in the Defra peatland evidence review? www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/get-involved...

#Writing and #Research 2025: My biographical research into the international #freshwater career of Dr. Kathleen Carpenter featured in @kickasswomenof.bsky.social #podcast while we resampled her Welsh study sites 100 yrs later. @aberdlsagb.bsky.social #envhist #Wales www.podbean.com/ew/dir-84shh...

New #peat paper by Caroline Daun et al. from @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social on the climate effects of removing agricultural topsoil for establishing Sphagnum in paludiculture or bog restoration: -Rewetting agricultural topsoil leads to substantial methane emissions likely above the natural reference /1

Take home message for #paludiculture and bog #restoration: Get rid of the agricultural topsoil, conserve intact peat layers. @terhorab.bsky.social @tannebergerf.bsky.social

Cool paper doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Who should pay when commercial forestry creates conservation problems? New analysis shows 200,000-971,000 ha of UK peatland at risk from conifer invasion. Based on our @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social poster. #peatlands Link - tinyurl.com/yc3b2s9h Feedback/ comments welcome—not my usual writing style!

A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology. Today the sequel just dropped! "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1/3

Looking forward to lots of #peatland and #wetland chats at #BES2025 with our thematic session and social. Come and chat to us to find out more about the group and how to get involved!

3 of our PhD researchers presenting their posters @ #BES2025 Tues 16 Dec @dylanoliver58.bsky.social Wet woodlands as biodiversity assets @stephbatten.bsky.social CH4 fluxes in a temperate wet woodland Wed 17 Dec @eduley.bsky.social Carbon and ecosystem dynamics in peat-forming wet woodlands

On behalf of the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab I'm happy to announce the winner of the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize for top Intl #PeatPaper Congrats to: Nijp et al. "Ecohydrological feedbacks increase water storage, streamflow, and resilience of natural peatlands" Journal of Hydrology #Peatlands

#peatlands interesting piece from @renewableuk.bsky.social here www.renewableuk.com/media/wrdgro... I’m dubious about the argument that these habitats are replaceable over human timescales based on the ability to restore hydrological funtio . But I’d value bluesky #peatland experts thoughts!

At the end of every new road/track in Iceland is a new summer cottage, a tourist development, a newly planted forest or energy infrastructure. All these developments impact breeding waders but the birds' problems start with the road. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r... #ConservationScience🌍

Question for the worldwide peat feed - are people aware of studies for Caesium 137 contamination for your work patch and is that something that anyone feels they need to consider for restoration works? Either as a driver for management or a constraint for what you could do? Thanks!

An incredibly proud moment seeing my Sphagnum moss stitch amongst the other fantastic displays from the moss worlds project at the Castlefield Viaduct visitors centre. Huge congrats to the moss worlds team on a fantastic project and great exhibition. If you’re around Manchester - go and see it!

First field day in a while this week at probably my favourite peat site of the year at Cwmparc. We managed to find some incredible macrofossils preserved close to the boundary with the underlying clay and bedrock strata. Almost intact Sphagnum plants with entire stem and branch sections! Great fun

Some amazing #peat macro fossils today at Cwmparc when augering with @bootlegbryos.bsky.social . Plenty of sphagnum, occasional bilberry and sedge I think!

Make 2026 the year you become our Specialist Advisor in Peatland Hydrology! Join the dynamic Wales peatland team as technical lead for peatland hydrology monitoring. £41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor... #jobs @natreswales.bsky.social #Wales

Swydd ffantastig - Cynghorydd Arbenigol Monitro Cynefinoedd Mawndir. Ymuna â thîm deinamig mawndiroedd Cymru yn arwain elfennau arolygu a monitro ecolegol. £41K-£44K+ y/f. Cau 14/12/2025. Amdani! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor... @natreswales.bsky.social #swyddi #Cymru #amgylchedd

Fantastic job: Specialist Advisor in Peatland Habitat Monitoring. Join the dynamic Wales peatland team to lead ecological survey & monitoring elements. £41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor... @natreswales.bsky.social #GreenJobs #environment #Wales

Hen Harrier found poisoned on a grouse moor in North Yorkshire raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/01/h...

Peat friends! Our #EGU26 session "Peatland hydrology: From tropical to subarctic latitudes" 🌍🌿💧 is open for abstracts. We welcome studies on a broad range of hydrological processes in peatlands. Submission deadline is Thu 15 Jan, 13:00 CET. Full info here: www.egu26.eu/session/56151

Interesting looking #PhD opportunity www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Voilá! 🎉 #PeatECR (peatecr.com) is excited to announce that the #2026PeatECRCalendar is officially ready! This year’s calendar showcases 12 stunning peatland wild life photographs contributed by peatland researchers.

The government's plans for carbon capture + hydrogen could consume 860mn litres of water a day - which may leave some parts of England without enough water to meet demand, even with additional reservoirs being built, report finds. Our latest article, out now: share.google/GiSGJ9xD2ES3...

An incredible opportunity to work with the @rspb.bsky.social and Storm petrels as part of your Master's degree! 🕊️ #research #seabirds

Something to celebrate - our 2025 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker report - successful breeding season, the most nests monitored & highest number of chicks fledged per nest since we started in 2015. Acoustic monitoring giving amazing results too, download here www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/images/L_S_W...

Want to restore your peatland as an asset for future generations? £10K-£250K grant to develop a plan and/or to action its restoration. Recorded guidance webinar now online youtu.be/eTIOtUStmPY Deadline 14/1/2026. More here: bit.ly/4qbX6bT @natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social #farming

Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one? RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #ornithology #conservationscience 🌍

Want a breath of fresh air? Join the peatland team! 3 perfect posts to make a positive difference monitoring the success of the peatland restoration programme expanding Wales-wide. Salary £36,246 - £39,942. Closing 3/12/2025. Go for it! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor... #GreenJobs #Wales

Restoring peatland. Capturing carbon and providing breeding habitat for waders. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/p... Paper by Rob Hughes & Chris Bingham #ConservationScience🌍

If we focus on restoring ecosystem processes rather than a reference species assemblage Can we derive general rules? Here we find plant-pollinator networks in grasslands & plant-herbivore ones in woodlands both become more complex with restoration age & area www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Less than a week… To register for a free guidance Webinar for the £10K-£250K Peatland Restoration Grant. Register here for 7/11/25 WEBINAR: bit.ly/4oITBb8 Grant application deadline 14/1/26. More here: bit.ly/4qbX6bT #WalesPeatlandAction #HighNatureLowCarbon @natreswales.bsky.social

A video is now available of the lecture I gave last week to the Linnean Society & British Ornithologists' Club in London, on woodland birds, Marsh Tits & Willow Tits (~45 mins): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HF... #ornithology #ukbirding @ukceh.bsky.social

New PhD opportunity: Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @chrissuthy.bsky.social @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social 📷Ben Andrew

The annual rarities report from @britishbirdsbbrc.bsky.social, always a good read for a winter evening. But en route, do stop and read a fascinating @britishbirds.bsky.social 'Eye' article from Sula Brookes about developing names for birds in #BSL British Sign Language. Brilliant work.

The 2026 WOS Calendar is now available by post - here’s how to buy: welsh-ornithological-society.sumupstore.com

Lovely day @birdsinwales.bsky.social conference on Saturday. Lots of interesting talks and catching up with friends. Hopefully lots of people inspired to start doing some bird recording. Check out @btobirds.bsky.social surveys here www.bto.org/get-involved... or just use @birdtrack.bsky.social

PhD on carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes in ditches. Supervised by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social at Uni Glasgow with @peatymike.bsky.social, Amy Pickard (@ukceh.bsky.social ) and me. Get in touch if interested and circulate to potential candidates! 🧪 #GreenhouseGases share.google/lvswIyC9TYg5...

Come and work with the InSPIRE project on understanding how proglacial #peatlands lock away carbon as glaciers recede. Details below for this 24-month post-doc position.

Alongside @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk & @wclnews.bsky.social, we’ve responded to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 's piece on the Planning Bill. He’s right: it’s a grave threat to nature. But we’ve never been silent. We’ve challenged it at every turn & we won’t stop now.