“When I started working here in 2001, these ideas were regarded as very radical, even laughable. That is no longer true. Within a human generation, we could feed millions while repairing soils that took millennia to form." Read more from @mountainogre.bsky.social in @theguardian.com

"Soil is more important than oil!" My latest @theguardian.com dian.com: the perennial grain revolution Kernza's 3m roots BUILD soil vs DESTROYING it. Wheat yields could be matched in 15 years. It works for rice Most hopeful story I've reported 🌾🌳🎄 @thelandinstitute.bsky.social tinyurl.com/34m2cnwf

This is a laser weeder. I saw it while researching an article about regen farming It kills millions of weeds with zero nasty chemicals that kill microbes and wreck soil health (out today👇)

A powerful piece by @mountainogre.bsky.social on #microbes and #Arctic change, featuring our work on glacier ecology @aberdlsagb.bsky.social and work on methane cyclers by colleagues at UNIS www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

A really lovely little review by BookTrust of @mountainogre.bsky.social and my book ‘The Brain’. www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme...

This is painful. But please read. Please share. Please consider what else you might do? It can be hard to feel as if you can make a difference. But every voice adds up. Silence is not neutrality. Silence is complicity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Meet the coral holobiont: a powerhouse of teamwork between corals, algae, & microbes, recycling nutrients to sustain life. These creatures evolved over millennia to create nature’s finest circular economy. Yet, #ClimateChange threatens this delicate balance. @mountainogre.bsky.social #CoralReefs

My new piece in Guardian: 🪸How corals conjure magnificence from nothing! 🪸 Corals build massive reefs in wet deserts by working with microbes to create the ultimate circular economy They've survived mass extinctions but now face dire climate threats #CoralReef #EarthsMicrobiome

This week I’m guest on Now Go Create podcast about the neuroscience of creativity. From the magic of incubation, to why exercise and awe are essential, it's a fun chat and, i hope, a useful one podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n... open.spotify.com/episode/3Unf... #neuroscience #creativity

🐺 Can’t wait to chat with the #Rewilding legend that is Derek Gow at Wild Writers Festival in Peebles on Sunday! The man who brought beavers back to Britain now tackles wolves in his gripping new book HUNT FOR THE SHADOW WOLF. Come! eastgatearts.com/events/hunt-...

📚 Excited to talk #Rewilding at Wild Writers Festival, Peebles this Friday! Pupils from my old high school will grill me on: 🐺 Scotland's wolf-readiness 🦣 Mammoths 🐋 Whale poo How to rewild the 🌍 and who knows what else Join us! eastgatearts.com/events/rewild/ @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social

I have a new piece in The Guardian Bravo to @rewildingbritain.org.uk for this push to keep youth at the heart of rewilding and to the Scouts for jumping aboard

Totally delighted REWILD has a prize! I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever written. And it’s about the most urgent issues of all: humankind’s relationship with nature - including ideas on how to fix it

🎉 Happy New Year, Happy New BOOK! 📖📕 It's out TODAY, illustrated by the awesome @MooseAllain and it's about the most extraordinary object in the universe...

🌳 Shoots of hope for UK's ash trees. My piece for @theguardian.com is not quite 'good news', but ash dieback isn't the apocalypse first feared. This microbe nerd's excited by possible microbiome solutions 🦠 Let's control 🦌 too, so natural regen works shorturl.at/s717W #ashdieback #microbiome