This is a great step forward, but let's remember that this is not new. Many peoples and communities long ago recognised the identity and rights of nature. But some societies just decided that was inconvenient. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The heatwave couldn't stop me trying out our new tree chambers! We tested them at RHUL yesterday in prep for taking them to measure tree methane fluxes from our wet woodland site at Wakehurst, Kew Gardens