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researcher, educator
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CIFOR-ICRAF
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Did you know? A single mature tree can cool the air as much as 10 air conditioners running for 20 hours! Trees are nature’s climate control, protecting people and the planet. Learn more ➡️: bit.ly/4hi7MQA
#ForestsMatter
#ForestDay
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The Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL)
about 1 month ago
Come and hang out with us after dark! Our next LATE takes place in 2 weeks' time. Join us for talks, activities, and drinks, and explore the galleries in a different light. Book your tickets via our website:
merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/spr...
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Spring LATE
Step into The MERL after dark for an evening of music, drinks, and creativity.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/spring-late/
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We have a new paper out, looking at barriers to
#agroforestry
. Alongside the usual suspects (money & knowledge), there is a strong
#farmer
identity influence. As in 'what kind of a farmer am I?' strongly influences whether I go for agroforestry or not.
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Redirecting
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.108008
about 1 month ago
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Some of these look pretty beautiful, I have to say. Vote open now.
www.treeoftheyear.org
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
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Explore the trees with the most interesting stories – Tree of the year
The European Tree of the Year 🌳 is a popular competition that takes place every year in February and features the winners of the national rounds.
https://www.treeoftheyear.org/
2 months ago
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Dr Tom Harris
3 months ago
Ancient pine trees growing in eastern Spain have quietly recorded more than five centuries of Mediterranean weather. Analysis of tree rings clearly shows that todays storms and droughts are becoming more intense and more frequent than almost anything the region has experienced since the early 1500s.
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Juraj Mikurcik
3 months ago
Meanwhile in Slovakia: Bears > 1000 Wolves > 600 Lynx > 300 Wild boar > 60000 Beavers > 700 Bison > 200
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ReForest Project
4 months ago
We’re pleased to share the ReForest Toolbox for Agroforestry! It includes: • Case studies • Knowledge Hub • Digital tools 🔗 Explore the Toolbox:https://reforest.euromed-economists.org/toolbox/#1755795576358-ffc7b132-090f
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We have a new paper useful for tree or carbon modellers. As we suspected, it turns out that biomass models based on planted trees (which likely constitute the majority) cannot be reliably transferred to naturally regenerated forests.
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Height-based biomass models differ for naturally regenerated and planted young trees
This study investigated biomass allocation in young stands of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) across 3…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2197562025001150
4 months ago
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
5 months ago
Anyone who thinks the invasive species problem is exaggerated, that it's "all just nature", should experience the cemetery that is a native Irish rainforest choked by rhododendron, as so many are. Invasives are a *human* impact, and one of the top causes of biodiversity loss on Earth.
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Marina Purkiss
5 months ago
A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...
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Agroecology Map
6 months ago
🌱✨ Agroecology Map App 2.0.2 is here! 🌍💚 Now available in 🇧🇷 Portuguese, 🇫🇷 French, and 🇪🇸 Spanish! Enjoy smoother navigation, ❤️ “Like” button for localizations, and 🚀 faster performance. Let’s grow the global agroecology network together! 🌾🤝🌻
#Agroecology
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agroecologymap.org/mobile
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CIFOR-ICRAF
6 months ago
Catch us at the
#WCA2025
, as we join global leaders to discuss how trees can power sustainable development for people and the planet. Agroforestry for People, Planet and Profit. 📅 20–24 Oct 📍 Kigali, Rwanda Learn more🔗: https://t.co/0cHhYsksaa
#Trees4Resilience
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EXCELLENTIA_HE
6 months ago
🚨Join us on Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 16:00 CEST (Prague) for our 🧪
#forest🍁#ecology
seminar, MENDELU, CZ "Landsharing: can
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enhance
#biodiversity
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@mtnlkc.bsky.social
, University of Reading, UK. Zoom:
excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/seminar-series
. Free. Q&A via chat
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Barrett Davis
7 months ago
Another favorite from this past winter’s road trip out west, taken along an unplanned detour up the side of Colorado’s Blanca Peak
#TheRoad
#BlueSkyArtShow
#IR
#Landscape
#Mountains
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Jessica Lovering
7 months ago
So, agree we shouldn't ignore the land used by extractive industries, but there is a metric to compare this apples-to-apples: land use intensity of energy (or electricity). We did a meta-analysis for electricity production if you are interested!
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Land-use intensity of electricity production and tomorrow’s energy landscape
The global energy system has a relatively small land footprint at present, comprising just 0.4% of ice-free land. This pales in comparison to agricultural land use– 30–38% of ice-free land–yet future ...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0270155
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ReForest Project
7 months ago
🌳 Big shoutout to the ReForest team at the 10. Forum Agroforstsysteme! 🎤 Rico Huebner presented the project in a session on climate farming. 📌 Dr. Prajna Kasargodu Anebagilu showcased her poster on agroforestry decision tool!
#Agroforestry
#ClimateFarming
#HorozonEU
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ReForest Project
7 months ago
🌳🐑 How can silvopasture really work on an upland beef & sheep farm? Join us at the ReForest
#TrainingHub
for a hands-on workshop to exlore 🌿 Design options 🌿 Tree species, trade-offs, constraints 🗺️ Interactive mapping Hosted by Katie Bliss as part of our Living Labs 🤝 Come share, learn, co-design
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ReForest Project
7 months ago
🌿 Do your farm trees deliver for your business? Join us at the Agroforestry Show for a hands-on session with Will Simonson & Rico Hübner 🌳 ✅ Farmer stories ✅ Functional metrics ✅ Practical takeaways 🔗
www.agroforestryshow.com
#AgroforestryShow
#TreesOnFarms
#FarmPlanning
#ReForest
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@reforestproject.bsky.social
is running agroforestry training sessions in a 16th century barn. What a way to connect farming history with producing food today!
#AgroforestryShow2025
7 months ago
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ReForest Project
7 months ago
Agroforestry is on the rise — but how do we bring it to life on farms?
#ReForest
is launching the
#TrainingHub
at the
#AgroforestryShow
. This isn’t theory — it’s all about your farm. Real change starts on the land. 📅 Sept 10-11 📍 Find us under the Black Barn 🔗 Full programme:
agroforestryshow.com
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ReForest Project
8 months ago
🌳 ReForest joined the 19th North American Agroforestry Conference! Martin Lukac, our project coordinator showcased 🧩 FarmTree 💰 Financial tools Field highlights? 🌰 Chestnut–wheat alley cropping 🐑 Silvopasture with rotational grazing 🔗 Dive into updates:
agroreforest.eu/event/19th-n...
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Colin Baldy 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🌈 🔶#FBPE
11 months ago
I don't always agree with George Monbiot but he's spot on here. "Labour... wants to rule alone. The result is that most of the time it doesn't rule at all." 2 party politics and FPTP does Britain no good at all. Electors have had enough. Time for change.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George Monbiot
Labour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/27/smash-britain-two-party-system-election-labour-reform?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Annette J Beveridge - Go Wild
about 1 year ago
Finally.... Burning vegetation on deep peat will be banned under government plans to protect nature and reduce carbon emissions. Vegetation on peatland is often burned to create habitat for grouse, which like to feed on the fresh shoots of new plants...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Peatland burning ban aims to protect wildlife and England’s carbon stores
Labour’s measures to ban deep-peat burning aim to safeguard habitats, tackle carbon emissions, and protect wildlife, so why are hunters up in arms?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/31/peatland-burning-ban-aims-to-protect-wildlife-and-englands-carbon-stores
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Andreas Mölder
about 1 year ago
Very happy about our new study together with
@plieningerlab.bsky.social
! 🤩 👉 Drivers of private
#forest
owners' management behavior and attitudes are identified 👉 Gender-specific outreach should be complemented by targeting specific forest owner groups
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Does gender really matter? How demographics and site characteristics influence behavior and attitudes of German small-scale private forest owners
When analyzing management behaviors of small-scale private forest owners, demographic variables such as income, age, or profession, and land character…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934125000061?via%3Dihub
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Our publication on hazel biomass prediction is out! We show that you can predict the amount of carbon in hazel shrubs based on their crown volume or just the height. Which is handy if all you have is a remotely-sensed observation of your ecosystem from a drone.
doi.org/10.1016/j.fe...
about 1 year ago
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Anna-Liisa Laine
about 1 year ago
Fragmented landscapes have lower α diversity and lower γ diversity refuting claims that habitat fragmentation can increase biodiversity at landscape scales. We need to restore habitat and increase connectivity to minimize biodiversity loss at ever-increasing scales.
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Species turnover does not rescue biodiversity in fragmented landscapes - Nature
An analysis of habitat fragmentation using a dataset of more than 4,000 species worldwide shows that fragmentation reduces biodiversity at all scales, and that increases in β diversity do not compensa...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08688-7
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Dr Coralie Mills
about 1 year ago
Had to stop to photograph these old pollarded
#sycamore
#trees
while out assessing a farm building yesterday in
#Stirlingshire
🏴 A big favourite for planting around farms and estates in the Improvement Era, because they grew so fast here. Was called the Scottish Plane in 18th/19th century records.
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Sammy
about 1 year ago
www.carbonbrief.org/qa-will-engl...
This is the UK
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I work at a university in a different country. The 'system' works exactly as described. The money must come from somewhere, end of. Pushing for no overhead means the funder loses oversight.
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about 1 year ago
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Richard Waite
about 1 year ago
An acre of land can power a car to go 13,000 miles per year using biofuel (corn ethanol), or 900,000 miles per year using solar.
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Parody Nigel Farage
about 1 year ago
Nigel Farage decides to be honest about Brexit.
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Dr Tom Harris
about 1 year ago
A University of Reading study confirms ocean warming is accelerating.
phys.org/news/2025-01...
#climatechange
#oceans
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Ocean-surface warming has more than quadrupled since the late-1980s, study shows
The rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past four decades, a new study has shown. Ocean temperatures were rising at about 0.06 degrees Celsius per decade in the late 1980s, but are...
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ocean-surface-quadrupled-late-1980s.html
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David Honig
over 1 year ago
Trump is a One-Dimensional Negotiator I'm going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don't know, I'm an adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law and I teach negotiations. Okay, here goes.
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lukelukeluke
about 1 year ago
Here is a nice mushroom
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Happy New Year! speaking of NEW, we have an exciting
#PhD
on
#RegenAg
, looking at facilitating the transition to
#regenerative
#agriculture
.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
over 1 year ago
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Kate Marvel
about 1 year ago
physics of climate impacts 101: - Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves) - Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall) - Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk) - Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms) - Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)
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Happy New Year! speaking of NEW, we have an exciting
#PhD
on
#RegenAg
, looking at facilitating the transition to
#regenerative
#agriculture
.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
over 1 year ago
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Yorkshire Bylines
over 1 year ago
🌳 Campaign to save the Otley Tittybottle oak and tulip trees Otley campaigners urge Leeds City Council to rethink plans to chop down a 180-year-old oak, amid climate and biodiversity concerns By Sarah Mumford
@mumfordsa.bsky.social
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Campaign to save the Otley Tittybottle oak and tulip trees
Otley campaigners urge Leeds City Council to rethink plans to chop down a 180-year-old oak, amid climate and biodiversity concerns
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/campaign-to-save-the-otley-tittybottle-oak-and-tulip-trees/
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Two days to go in our Rainforest Saver campaign! Donate now to support smallholder farmers and your money will be doubled.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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Regenerative Farming in Cameroon and Ecuador
We support community leaders to train farmers in agroforestry using Inga trees, planted in rows (alley-cropping) with crops between. Mulch from trees builds long-term fertility and replaces regular bu...
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a056900002TPSSXAA5
over 1 year ago
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Indeed, far better. The lack of electricity storage used to be a problem, but electric car batteries are sorting that too.
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over 1 year ago
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Kai Kornhuber
over 1 year ago
'Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model simulations' our new paper in
@pnas.org
with S. Bartusek, R. Seager. J. Schellnhuber and M. Ting investigating the tail behaviour of extreme heatwave trends.
@iiasa.ac.at
@columbiaclimate.bsky.social
@lamontearth.bsky.social
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Diego Griffon
over 1 year ago
I hope we can share information here, just like on the previous site. Maybe, someone will find this useful: Agrobiodiversity, Community Participation and Landscapes in Agroecology
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
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We have a short panel discussion on financing
#agroforestry
at the
#COP29
.
euromed-economists.org/emea-side-ev...
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EMEA Side Event at COP29 – Financing Agroforestry: Exploring Diverse Financing Schemes for Sustainable Land Use - EMEA
Agroforestry, the practice of integrating trees and shrubs into agricultural landscapes, offers significant environmental, economic, and social benefits. It enhances biodiversity, improves soil...
https://euromed-economists.org/emea-side-event-at-cop29-financing-agroforestry-exploring-diverse-financing-schemes-for-sustainable-land-use/
over 1 year ago
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Ed Hawkins
over 1 year ago
Using up the carbon budget for 1.5°C
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Gavin Schmidt
over 1 year ago
With the (belated) September data now in, the updated prediction is that 2024 is almost certain to be a new annual surface temperature record, and possibly by more than 0.1ºC. 50% change of exceeding 1.5ºC above the late 19th C.
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Will be interesting to see the tussle between
#agroforestry
and
#agrivoltaics
. One feeds energy to the soil, the other to the grid. We have place for both, I think.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
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Under a Texas sun, agrivoltaics offer farmers a new way to make money
The solar industry built expansive farms by leasing farmland and allowing sheep to graze on the same land. Clean energy now powers the grid, even in Texas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/solar-farms-agriculture-agrivoltaics/
over 1 year ago
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Nick Hedley
over 1 year ago
Growing wine grapes under solar panels postpones harvests, reduces water use, and improves wine quality
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/09/18/a...
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Agrivoltaics postpone harvest, improve wine quality
Italian winemaker Svolta Srl has deployed an agrivoltaic facility at its vineyard in Apulia, Italy. The PV array allowed the cultivation of vines that are normally not viable at this latitude.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/09/18/agrivoltaics-postpone-harvest-improve-wine-quality/?utm_source=Global+%7C+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d440e42ba6-dailynl_gl&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6916ce32b6-d440e42ba6-160525155
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Dr Claire Asher
over 1 year ago
This is extremely disappointing — we can't afford to compromise on nature's recovery. 🌍 "Government is to slash the nature-friendly farming budget in England by £100m"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Nature
#Wildlife
#LabourFail
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England’s nature-friendly farming budget to be cut by £100m
Exclusive: Cut would mean at least 239,000 fewer hectares of nature-friendly farmland, according to RSPB
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/03/englands-nature-friendly-farming-budget-to-be-cut-by-100m
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New paper just out - turns out that diversifying arable rotations can increase soil carbon faster than we hoped.
#argiculture
#organic
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Modern arable and diverse ley farming systems can increase soil organic matter faster than global targets | Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems | Cambridge Core
Modern arable and diverse ley farming systems can increase soil organic matter faster than global targets - Volume 39
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renewable-agriculture-and-food-systems/article/modern-arable-and-diverse-ley-farming-systems-can-increase-soil-organic-matter-faster-than-global-targets/C496333338249914CEEF162440416FFF
over 1 year ago
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Now this WOULD be something!
www.ft.com/content/d432...
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London’s mayor announces plan to pedestrianise Oxford Street
Sadiq Khan’s proposal argues that famous shopping thoroughfare requires ‘major regeneration’
https://www.ft.com/content/d4324f4f-3c39-480e-b300-6f7f06977699#comments-anchor
over 1 year ago
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