🎄Is your #Christmas tree talking to you - and if it was, would you want to know?! Translating the bio-signs of your festive fir, ecologist @canopyrobin.com brings a Quantum Qristmas to #Farsley @oldwoollen.bsky.social! 2nd Dec, tickets at tinyurl.com/ye5dwtm5 🧠 Bring your brain & pull up a pint! 🍻

🌍 New Toolkit Alert!
 Tropical #deforestation is heating up local climates - with serious risks for #health, agriculture, and climate resilience 🌳🌡️ 🔗 cemac.github.io/deforest-web/map.html @envleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @domspracklen.bsky.social

Deforestation is leading to temperature increases of up to 5°C in some tropical regions, according to data revealed in a new interactive map Released just before #COP30, the map uses the work of Priestley members @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social & Dominick Spracklen climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/ahead-o...

📢 PhD opportunity! 📢 Join me, @ejduncan.bsky.social, Tom Sloan + the wider #GairWood team to investigate climate-resilient woodlands in the UK 🌳 with @yes-dtn.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social

Fancy doing a PhTree? Here's a thread of some fantastic PhD opportunities advertising right now to research trees and forests! 🧵🌍🌐🧪🌳

New study from @treeswithhazel.bsky.social! Increasing UK woodland area from 13% to 19% will likely increase biogenic emissions but by avoiding exclusive planting of the very highest emitters, we can ensure that new woodlands deliver for climate + nature, whilst minimising impacts on air quality ⬇️

FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act Feat. OG authors of the Act & more www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

I’m really excited to say the first paper of my PhD has been published in Biogeociences today! The paper examines the impact of net-zero aligned afforestation in the UK on biogenic emissions. 🌳 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

The Amazon forest plays a critical role in the water cycle. A new study shows recent deforestation has caused reduced dry season rainfall across the southern Amazon. New story from @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/09/more...

It was an honour to be at the launch of the Ingleborough NNR into the King's Series of NNRs earlier this month - check out the blog below for more on what the #WildIngleborough partnership has achieved since forming in 2021 🌳🦋🐦

Ingleborough just got wilder! 🌿 Now the size of 2.2 billion Yorkshire Tea bags—brewing a brighter future for nature! www.gov.uk/government/news/yorkshires-natural-beauty-recognised-as-ingleborough-nnr-expands #WildIngleborough #NNR

Ingleborough National Nature Reserve expanded - great news for the UK's best limestone habitats and wildlife. Research and monitoring by @universityofleeds.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dr Carly Reddington and Professor Dominick Spracklen (both Earth and Environment) co-authored a study showing that deforestation-induced heat has caused over 500,000 deaths in the tropics over the past 20 years.

🌍 Our new study in @natclimate.nature.com shows tropical #deforestation may cause ~28,000 heat-related deaths/year. 🌳🌡️💻🛰️ Using satellite data & mortality models we quantified the impact of deforestation-driven local warming on human health in the tropics. 
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🔗 rdcu.be/eEUbI

New study led by @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social tracks climate heating and human health impacts of tropical deforestation @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tropical deforestation is a major public health issue. New study led by @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social, story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

With millions of pounds being invested in woodland creation every year across the UK, we need to ensure that trees planted really do turn into woodlands established 🌱➡️🌳

"My motivation kind of grew with the trees" Volunteers at our #GairWood research and woodland creation site contributed to this new document on the experiences and motivations for volunteering in British woodlands, created by @forestresearchuk.bsky.social

Please share our #rewilding survey with ecologists, land manager and archeologists.

Thinking about studying at Leeds? Join us for our Open Day on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 June to: 🎓 Find out more about your course 💬 Speak to staff and students 🏛️ Get a feel for campus life Book your place 👇 bit.ly/43crDNj

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

🌳🌲🐾 #SafeNet is officially launched! We are working to #safeguard #biodiversity and #carbon-rich #forest #networks across Europe. Meet the project, explore the science, and see how we are collaborating for resilient forests: 🔗 safenet-project.eu 🔗 bit.ly/SafeNet-Launch @luke.fi #BiodiversityWeek

Last couple of days to apply for this exciting new role with us! Please share!

One week left to apply for our new Nature Recovery Project Manager role, based in @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social - see below for more details:

2025: setting all the worst records 🔥

At #EGU25 this week and interested in the wider impacts of afforestation? Check out @treeswithhazel.bsky.social's talk on potential BVOC emissions from expanded UK forests in session BG3.2 today! 🌲🌳🧪💻

I’m at #EGU25. Come along to my talk on Wednesday in Biogeosciences session BG3.2 land use and land cover change to hear about afforestation in the UK and future emissions of BVOCs 🌳 More info here meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

Good morning #EGU25! For anyone interested in #tropical #deforestation and/or #climate & heat-related #health impacts - come to (the very hard to find!) PICO Spot 2 for the morning session (it's in the purple hall X2, downstairs 😄) 🌴🌳🥵🌡️

Cumbria Woodlands are running a great, free event at Hardknott Forest. Learn more about temperate #rainforests and how we're creating more of it. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

We're hiring for a Nature Recovery Project Manager to work with a diverse range of partners to deliver community-led and evidence-based nature recovery across Northern England: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job opportunity: we're advertising for a Nature Recovery Project Manager. This vital new role will help us to coordinate the creation, restoration, and research of woodlands across the north of England, as well as maintaining and building key partnerships. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Come & work on a project with me! Fab #postdoc role at University of Kent on @greenme-project.bsky.social , collaborating with Mike Hardman, Penny Cook and myself at University of Salford, & 6 other countries! Nature, wellbeing, GIS, surveys! Deadline 3rd April! jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

It's #InternationalDayOfForests! If you want all our latest forest science in one place, make sure to follow @leedsleaf.bsky.social 🌳

We're recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forest Carbon Storage @universityofleeds.bsky.social! You'll be part of @safenet-eu.bsky.social project, mapping above + below-ground C stocks in European forests 🛰️🌳💻🌲 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @leedsleaf.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

Check out @jesstreebaker.bsky.social and the team's latest review of climate benefits from Amazon secondary tropical forests! 🌳🧪🌎🌐

New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, we’re excited to share our PRIDE Guidelines for LGBTQ+ inclusive field work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride. Please share widely and see the thread below for more details 🧪🌍🌐

🌲 The SafeNet project kicks off—in dreamy Tuusula, Helsinki!🌲 We are building a network to safeguard forests, starting with a thread (literally) to show how we are all connected. Because protecting trees starts with loving them, frostbite and all! ❄️🌍 #Biodiversity #Carbonrich #OldgrownForests

Happy to start tweeting in Bluesky by announcing that we have just started a new Horizon Europe project SafeNet we’re coordinating at Luke with my dear colleague Jukka Forsman and me. Aiming at improving biodiversity and protecting old-growth forests of Europe. Regards from the kick-off @luke.fi

Looking for a postdoc to come and work on tropical land-atmosphere interactions with me! Please share: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Wolf reintroduction to Scotland could support native woodland expansion and carbon sequestration. @domspracklen.bsky.social's new study is out today! 🌳🐺🧪 doi.org/10.1002/2688...

New study from @domspracklen.bsky.social highlights potential for carbon uptake by regenerating woodlands in a future where the Scottish Highlands once again feature wolves 🐺🌳🐺🌳 Read the paper here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @leedsleaf.bsky.social

Hi everyone. We're currently at £230 of our £1000 target for the tree nursery. Thanks to all who have donated, it would be great if we could get to £500 by the end of the week. Anything you can afford is a big help. Thanks. @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social gofund.me/9671d159

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

Calling atmospheric scientists (skysky?) 🧪 Does anyone know a good atmosphere or climate tabletop science demo for primary school kids? #scicomm

Interested in following all the very cool tree scientists I work with? There's a starter pack for that! go.bsky.app/7cwhin3

The #GairWood team expanded recently! Welcome @sophiebrandon.bsky.social!

Thanks so much for joining us @hardknottforest.bsky.social! Was great to have you all along and to exchange knowledge between our project teams 🌳🍃