Lines in the landscape - Communications Earth & Environment

Ditches have many overlooked environmental and societal roles, including impact on biodiversity and pollution, and management strategies to enhance their multifunctional landscape-scale benefits are n...

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Mapping the hidden black gold that is peat soil

The maps we use have profound implications for calculating greenhouse gas emissions from our land sector

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The far right are trying to destroy the Green Deal

We need to do everything we can to stop them - here’s how.

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Let baby milk into Gaza!

Newborns in Gaza are dying before they’ve even had a chance to live. With mothers too weak from hunger to breastfeed, these babies need life-saving formula, fast. Sign the urgent call to let baby milk...

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Research 488: Habitat Mapping, Assessment and Monitoring with High-resolution Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle Imagery (iHabiMap)

Ireland has a wide range of important habitats, identified under Annex I of the EU Habitats Directive, needing protection and restoration. Monitoring, reporting, and verifying these habitats is an essential activity under this directive, but this can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, particularly over large remote areas. This research (iHabiMap) has enhanced our ability to do this by integrating ecological and UAV surveys, image analysis, and machine learning to accurately map coastal, grassland, and upland habitats. iHabiMap produced habitat maps with over 90% accuracy, demonstrating the potential of UAV and AI technology in habitat monitoring. The methodology can support regular habitat assessments, is transferable to other habitat types, and can help monitor the degradation and rehabilitation of dune systems, salt marshes, uplands, and grasslands. The agile research methodology was also adapted to map and monitor the invasive species Spartina anglica in saltmarshes.

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Digital mapping of peat thickness and carbon stock of global peatlands

Peatlands, occupying merely 5% of the Earth’s land surface, are an important carbon sink, storing up to double the carbon of the world’s forests. The …

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Orangutan extinction for gold?

Only 800 of them remain, and now a mine expansion could wipe them out. Act now!

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UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live

UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians

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EGU, the European Geosciences Union, is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide.

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Climate Action Plan 2025

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HOME | Rewild!

Join a growing network of people in Ireland taking action in the face of the biodiversity emergency

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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

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World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study

Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets

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Marine Institute Bursaries 2025

Applications are now open for the 2025 Marine Institute Bursary Programme! Undergraduate students can gain practical work experience in a number of marine areas such as Fisheries, Oceanography and Aqu...

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Eamon Ryan: Storm Éowyn is a reminder why we need more EVs and fewer Sitka spruce trees

It makes no sense to put public money into a forest that is going to be blown down again in 10, 20 or 30 years' time

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Bridge your Twitter/X followers to Bluesky. Detected Users: 372

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