With prolonged hot weather, and wildfires burning across the UK and Europe, what does this mean for air quality in the affected areas or places downwind? ncas.ac.uk/what-do-wild... #earth-science #SciComm 🧪

What do wildfires mean for air quality? - NCAS

Wildfires can have significant impacts on air quality, as wildfire smoke contains a mixture of hazardous air pollutants.

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Do solar panels belong on bogs? New research suggests that, in certain situations, it can bring biodiversity benefits☀️🐦

Solar panels on bogs could be a climate and nature win-win - British Ecological Society

Why putting solar panels on rewetted peatland could deliver more than green energy.

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Calling all peaty people. Still time to submit to our special issue on peatlands. Details below. Free free to DM/email me if you want to ask any questions.

Mike Peacock@peatymike.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

This week on Wonkhe: Local resilience forums are one of the UK’s key ways to organise emergency responses. Gary F Fisher explains why the system works best when universities play a central role

Universities are the missing partners in local resilience

Local resilience forums are one of the UK’s key ways to organise emergency responses. Gary F Fisher explains why the system works best when universities play a central role Local resilience forums are...

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A new project is transforming badly affected peatlands from dark moonscapes to vibrant green moss-scapes.

The Pennine hills are full of holes – here’s how they’re helping fight climate change

A new project is transforming badly affected peatlands from dark moonscapes to vibrant green moss-scapes.

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Call for speakers and posters at this year's UK Wildfire Conference is still open. We welcome papers that connect to the conference theme 'New Perspectives, Shared Solutions'. For full details and submission form visit: ukwildfireconference.co.uk/participate. Deadline 24th April

Rather than working in silos, the team learned each other’s languages, tested ideas in operational settings and adapted the science in response to practitioner feedback. Read more: www.manchester.ac.uk/research/imp...

In response to growing UK wildfire risk, researchers at The University of Manchester brought together ecologists, hydrologists, remote-sensing experts, modellers, fire services and land managers to co-produce new tools to assess fire behaviour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYTu... #ShapedTogether

Building a unified response to wildfires

YouTube video by The University of Manchester

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Call for Papers @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Meeting 'Burning Inequalities: Critical Geographies of Fire'. Deadline 27 Feb Full details can be found attached or via main RGS list of advertised Calls for Papers tinyurl.com/mu38e575. Please share! @aisling-orourke.bsky.social #geosky #fire

New paper! We took our peatland moss expertise and methods and applied it to fill and spill water storage dynamics to examine the hydrological controls on rock barrens moss and lichen mat growth. Mat NPP increases with increasing bedrock depression storage. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Call for Papers @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Meeting 'Burning Inequalities: Critical Geographies of Fire'. Deadline 27 Feb Full details can be found attached or via main RGS list of advertised Calls for Papers tinyurl.com/mu38e575. Please share! @aisling-orourke.bsky.social #geosky #fire

🔥 Call for Papers: Wildland–Urban Interface Fires 🌳🏠 Submission deadline extended to 1 March 2026. We welcome research on fire dynamics, risk modelling, exposure & impacts, mitigation, recovery, and community resilience. 🔗: connectsci.au/wf/pages/cal... #FireScience #WUI #IJWildlandFire

🔥 New research shows how surface fire weather + synoptic weather patterns lead to vegetation fires across England

Were you impacted by the 2025 #UKwildfires? 🔥 The FiRES survey “Living with Wildfire in the UK and Ireland” has been re-opened to enable people to share their direct or indirect experiences of #wildfires or associated smoke. Please share/ re-post. www.surveymonkey.com/r/firesukie

LIVING WITH WILDFIRE IN THE UK AND IRELAND

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Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏@drtels.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025. 2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record. Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations. 🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires

Here's a map of UK fire activity in 2025. 2025 was a record year for both number of fires and burnt area in the UK, according to the satellite record. Data from EFFIS, based on MODIS and Sentinel observations. 🔥#ukwildfires #wildfires

Our latest #PeatPaper published in Hydrological Processes and led by MSc student Maia Moore! “Ecohydrological Controls on Post-Fire Sphagnum Moss Recovery in Boreal Shield Peatlands” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive is now open for registration! 🏭🌊 In person symposium at The National Archives on 4th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re... Afternoon of online talks on 5th December: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-re... #envhum #envhist

Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive (in person)

Explore histories of pollution, contamination, and environmental damage in the archive at this one-day symposium at The National Archives.

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🚨 Expressions of Interest Now Open! 🚨 Are you a new #PhD student in #geomorphology who started in 2025? Or are you supervising a new PhD student in geomorphology? Don’t miss the chance to join the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor PhD Training Workshop. 1/

Looking for a PhD in environmental science? I will soon have an advert out for a project at @liverpooluni.bsky.social with @ukceh.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk. "Peatland drainage + rewetting across the UK uplands + lowlands" All about GHG emissions and aquatic carbon. Watch this space!

PhD opportunity: "Mapping, modelling and monitoring peatland pollution" Led by @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social and co-supervised by myself and Prof. Jonny Huck. Full details and how to apply can be found here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... If you are interested, please do get in touch!

[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Mapping, modelling and monitoring peatland pollution at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Mapping, modelling and monitoring peatland pollution at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🚨New Paper 🚨 The PeatPic Project: Predicting plot-scale green leaf #phenology across #peatlands So happy to see this paper online — one of my favourite projects! We explored how to capture how peatlands change colour using smartphones and community science! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

For a peat to form you don't just need wet conditions you also need stagnant conditions link.springer.com/article/10.1... Our new study follows the thermodynamic profiles to show how fens and bogs significantly differ in when they become closed. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We’re looking for a #Postdoc to play a key role in a new #interdiscipinary project on the risks to human health from mining activities across Africa. Full details: shorturl.at/X7Tbr @uomseed.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social @sustainableuom.bsky.social #academicjobs #ECRjobs

#TansleyReview: The effects of #drought on #Sphagnum #moss species and the implications for hydrology in #peatlands Keane et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Does your research involve fire and shrub fuels? 🔥🌿 Please submit to our special session: "Shrubland fuels and their fire behaviour modelling challenges" at the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, New Orleans! Abstracts due soon-15th July! afefirecongress.org/special-sess...

I have a fully funded PhD position open for start in Jan or May 2026. Field work in peatlands of the Northwest Territories, with lab work to understand potential downstream mobilization of carbon, nutrients, mercury after thaw or wildfire. Reach out for more information, and please send on!

New paper out today: Sphagnum C flux response and recovery to drought www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recovery of Sphagnum from drought is controlled by species-specific moisture thresholds - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Recovery of Sphagnum from drought is controlled by species-specific moisture thresholds

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🔥Call for Papers: Wildland-Urban Interface Fires Special Collection in IJWF!🌳🏠🌳 Share research on fire dynamics, risk modelling, resilience & more. If you have any questions, reach out to the team. 📆 Submit by 31 Dec 2025 More Information: www.publish.csiro.au/wf/content/C... #FireScience

Excited to share our new paper in Environmental Research: Water! We studied how wildfires and drought mobilise legacy metal contaminants from peatlands, focusing on the 2018 Stalybridge Moor fire in the UK. Read it here: iopscience.iop.org/journal/3033...