Two major humic lakes in the Congo Basin are emitting ancient carbon from nearby peatlands into the atmosphere, reports a study in Nature Geoscience. These findings challenge the prevailing understanding that CO2 emissions from pristine humic lakes are derived from modern, rapidly cycling carbon. 🌍🧪

New job! Please RP! 🥼🧪 ⚒️ Laboratory Manager (gr8, permanent) @oxfordgeography.bsky.social Leading the Geolabs, with cutting edge facilities in water #geochemistry, #ecosystem science, #eDNA, luminescence Apply by 13 March or please get in touch with any Qs my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Very happy to see our @agu.org @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social paper on greenhouse gas emissions from Congo lakes published! Following up from @draketw.bsky.social's companion paper last week. With @johansix.bsky.social et al. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

In case our short communications paper was too long 😆, you can now read Research Briefing about our recent study showing aged carbon outgassing from Congo lakes! rdcu.be/e6W6l @jordonhemingway.bsky.social @johansix.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @natgeosci.nature.com

We are hiring a PhD student at Umeå University to work on GHG dynamics in boreal streams and groundwater. See the following advertisement and reach out with any questions! www.umu.se/en/work-with... @grocherros.bsky.social

Read the Review here: www.nature.com/articles/s43... ⚒️🌏

Congo Basin blackwater lakes release ancient peat carbon—challenging long‑held climate assumptions. Land‑use change may worsen this trend.🚨🌍Research by @draketw.bsky.social and colleagues. #ClimateResearch #ETHZurich #Peatlands #CongoBasin ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Nice presser on our new paper by ETH. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

New paper alert! 🚨 Our new study shows that massive lakes in the Congo Basin are outgassing millennial-aged carbon. This challenges the idea that lake CO₂ only comes from modern vegetation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread below! 🧵👇

Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.

Excellent @washingtonpost.com piece on the signs that global warming is accelerating by @shannonosaka.bsky.social and @johnmuyskens.bsky.social, featuring @hausfath.bsky.social @rarohde.bsky.social @cjsmith.eu www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

How do glaciers drive and interact with Earth's regional and global biogeochemical cycles? ❄️🏔️🦠🪨🌊🌎🧪⚒️ @natrevearthenviron.nature.com Expertly led by Jon Hawkings & many collaborators @mioceanologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @cnrs-insu.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Very excited to announce *TWO* fully-funded PhD positions starting this summer focusing on greenhouse gases in the peatlands of the Congo Basin! Both positions are joint between my group in @eth-eaps.bsky.social and that of @johansix.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social. Come join us!

We need greater reward for primary research, often labor intensive and often done by small groups, and less reward for large multi-author review papers. 3/2

Here we go again!!! 🇨🇩

Like anything by Hannah @hannahritchie.bsky.social, I'm sure this is worth reading: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

In this new commentary for The Conversation Africa, @johansix.bsky.social, Matti Barthel, Glenn Bush, and I discuss what the new "green corridor" law means for the Congo Basin and what might impede its success @saegroupethz.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social theconversation.com/drcs-plan-fo...

How does #biodiversity control 🍂decomposition in #RiverNetworks? In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out! doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” ~ Carl Sagan

Looking the get the most out of your stream CO2 data? Check out the coupled O2-CO2 model developed by Jake Diamond and me, out today in JGRB! The model extends the single-station O2 model by coupling DIC mass balance and carbonate buffering. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Cool! Our Ruki paper was the top viewed article at L&O @aslo.org! 🎉 @johansix.bsky.social @saegroupethz.bsky.social

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Lateral Carbon Dynamics at an Eroding Yedoma #Permafrost Site in Siberia (Duvanny Yar) 📄

Latest paper out of the WS hydrology lab! Here we show spatial variability in lithology is important for streamflow behavior and carbon export, but geogenic solute export behavior is similar. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Let's just roll the dice, eh?

Switzerland’s glaciers are disappearing fast! Without drastic emission cuts, they could be gone by 2100. Our group head, ETH Prof. Daniel Farinotti, discusses the urgency of action in this interview for the first World Day for Glaciers. 🌍❄️ 🔗 Read more: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

How Switzerland cleaned up its rivers and lakes. This success story is encouraging when we address the next step: improving river morphology and riparian vegetation in a warming world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We are hiring a postdoc at Umeå University in aquatic ecosystem ecology. See the link for details! www.umu.se/en/work-with... @grocherros.bsky.social

Fighting continues this morning in several parts of #Goma as further M23 troops move in from western side (and seem to gain ground for now). Ambulances caught in crossfire. In parallel, demonstrators have attacked embassies in #Kinshasa, torching the French & Rwandan premises.

Remembering David Lynch today. When I started watching films by director and came across Blue Velvet, I didn't stop until I'd seen his whole strange, surrealist, and captivating catalog. Such a distinctive, off-kilter perspective that will be missed.

Enjoyed collaborating on this newly published effort! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yikes.

Finding reviewers this time of year is a complete joke. Remember folks, everyone is busy and if you submit papers to peer-reviewed journals, at least two people are going to spend their time giving it the consideration it deserves. ✨ Please pay it forward as well when you are asked to review.

%5 increase in global stream power in ~30 years = more erosion potential Interesting that the Congo Basin has shown a downstream shift in flow distribution -> low lying basin with no upstream shifts in precip and minimal human regulation of flows? fun paper!: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

5th Annual Congo Biogeochemical Observatory meeting, this time hosted in a fancy old Belgian castle, is in full swing!

Since there's been an uptick in activity arpund these parts, re-sharing the 2024-2025 Earth and Environmental Science Jobs List! Crowd-sourced list of academic/research jobs - update and share widely!

An incredible amount of sediment conveyed in rivers around #Acapulco following #HurricaneOtis, as viewed by Planet satellites on Oct 23 and 26. 🧪⚒️

Nice write up by ETH news on our Ruki study: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Our new study on the carbon biogeochemistry of the pristine blackwater Ruki River, DRC is out! aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... The Ruki generates ~20% of the Congo's DOC load despite occupying only 5% of its area.