Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Despite covering just 3-4% of Earth’s land surface, they’re thought to store more carbon per area than the world’s forests combined. In honor of World Peatland Day on June 2 here's three recent Mongabay stories on this critical ecosystem...

World Peatland Day: Protecting a crucial carbon sink

Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. These naturally waterlogged boggy swamps can hold thousands of years’ worth of compressed, partially decomposed vegetation matter — despite…

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What do you do when three of your mine water sites are dominated by a pair of cooccurring SOB, while all other sites are dominated by a pair of cooccurring FeOB and the pattern can’t be explained by any of the measured variables? You start digging! doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Kathleen Drew Baker, Mother of the Sea.

Catherine Duigan@cduigan.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is National #Laverbread Day in Wales - how 1949 visit to Rhosneigr coast #Anglesey #Wales was a #Eureka moment for Kathleen Drew-Baker, #seaweed scientist #algae #nori #Japan #womeninscience #envhist #sushi #foodsky #foodscience www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bird chirping 🎶 #Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth in Spring colours 🌸🌷

Great to see that Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru | Learned Society of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 has just joined #blusky Give them a follow at: @lswalescddcymru.bsky.social

It's International Year of Glacier Preservation and the inaugural World Glacier Day. But why should we preserve these glaciers? from.ncl.ac.uk/why-should-w....

Why should we preserve glaciers?

Newcastle University experts explain why glaciers are vital and how we can help preserve them, marking World Water Day and the first World Day for Glaciers.

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It’s the first-ever #WorldGlaciersDay! Glaciers are critical to life, yet climate changes causes them to disappear at an alarming rate. #ClimateAction is key to protecting them & supporting those who rely on glaciers. www.un.org/en/observanc...

On this first-ever World Glacier Day, we are reminded of an undeniable reality: the glaciers of the #HinduKushHimalaya (HKH) region—our planet’s “Third Pole”—are melting at an alarming rate. #Glacier2025 #IYGP2025

Melting glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, UN warns, as current rate of retreat is “unprecedented” #climatecrisis Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2 billion people, says UN

Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sources

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First UN World Day for Glaciers – A call to climate action in desperate times

Accelerating ice melt from glaciers worldwide means an increased loss of freshwater resources, ever-faster sea level rise and life-threatening floods and landslides. In some regions, ice loss is al…

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Arctic Centre at Umeå University@arcticcentreumu.bsky.social · last yr.

Did you know that today, 21 March, is the first-ever World Day for Glaciers? Today, we acknowledge the rapid melting glaciers, and the research conducted to preserve them. 💙 #WorldDayForGlaciers #Arctic #ArcticResearch #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Glaciers #UN #UnitedNations #FN

Happy St. David's Day Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! #Aberystwyth #NationalLibraryofWales

Clear views of the moon this morning over South Georgia. #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

The idea of renaming "Greenland" to "Red, White and Blueland" must have come from our 2020 Science paper where we (Ben Smith and 14 others) used NASA's ICESat and ICESat-2 laser altimetry to show how much the ice sheet surface went up or down in 16 years.

The Polar Impact Mentorship Initiative invites you to join us! During this panel, we will consider "successful" collaborations through multiple lenses and embrace the benefits of engaging with interdisciplinary research groups, policy and decision makers, and Indigenous and local community members.

Hi everyone! CryoCommunity is now on BlueSky! Please share us around so everyone who has switched over to this app can find us! Thank you! ❄️ #glaciology #cryosphere

Organising an academic conference in 2025? See our reflections here from the @quaternaryra.bsky.social Annual Discussion meeting: www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/01/how-...

How to organise a conference: advice and reflections from the 2025 Quaternary Research Association (QRA) Annual Discussion Meeting - AntarcticGlaciers.org

By Christine Batchelor, Louise Callard, Becky Sanderson and Bethan Davies 1. Introduction Together with other colleagues from Newcastle University, we organised the Quaternary Research Association (QR...

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Tears in Rain is a great podcast with inspiring speakers and I am sure many more in coming days. It's a good feel podcast.

Sebastian S. Cocioba@atinygreencell.bsky.social · 2y ago

If anyone is interested in being on my podcast, let me know! The folks I've had on have been nothing short of inspiring. Come hang out. :) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Mari Lwyd #Aberystwyth #Wales

Hello Bluesky! We're excited for our new home. We're an inclusive network of racial & ethnic minorities and allies in the polar research community. More about us: www.polarimpactnetwork.org Please share your recommended feeds related to polar science and folks who live/work in polar regions.

Polar Impact

Polar Impact is an inclusive network of racial & ethnic minorities and allies in the polar research community.

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Delighted that our Juneau Icefield paper made it into the top 10 climate papers featured in the media in 2024, in this @carbonbrief.org analysis. Along with another on how melt in polar ice sheets is changing the Earth's rotation: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the... @iamdonovan.bsky.social

Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 - Carbon Brief

Thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles were published over 2024, helping shape online discourse around climate change.

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Two UKRI funded #PhD opportunities to join our lab @aberdlsagb.bsky.social 1. #Dormancy in soil #microbes: findaphd.com/phds/project... (closing 03/02) 2. #Aerosols and #zoonoses: findaphd.com/phds/project... (closing 31/01)

🚨New post!🚨 Fieldwork in high mountain Nepal. Fieldwork diary by Gunjan Silwal, detailing her recent challenging expedition to chart the loss of glaciers here. Evocative, thoughtful and compelling, and details the challenges of working in these areas. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/01/fiel...

Fieldwork in Nepal diary: Langtang Glaciological expedition - AntarcticGlaciers.org

A diary for glaciological fieldwork in Nepal, Himalaya, in November 2024, detailing the challenges, hurdles and opportunities of remote fieldwork.

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UN International Year of Glaciers' Preservation starting appropriately with this in @nature.com ❄️🦠🏔️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diversity and biogeography of the bacterial microbiome in glacier-fed streams - Nature

Leveraging metabarcoding and metagenomics, a survey of bacteria in the benthic microbiome across 152 glacier-fed streams (GFSs) provides a global reference for future climate-change microbiology studi...

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#DYK glaciers are sensitive indicators of #ClimateChange and are retreating globally due to rising temperatures. Find out more about the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation #IYPG2025, implemented by @unesconow.bsky.social & @wmo-global.bsky.social : www.un-glaciers.org/en/homepage

Are you an analytical aqueous geochemist interested in a postdoc to study biogeochemical element cycles in terrestrial polar environments ? Come join us in Potsdam Team and research details @ www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/i... Application deadline Jan 5th 2025 www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/career/jo...

Happy to share our latest paper published in Environmental Research, a collaborative effort with our colleagues from China. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Methane production related to microbiota in dairy cattle feces

Methane (CH4) emission from livestock feces, led by ruminants, shows a profound impact on global warming. Despite this, we have almost no information …

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After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5put A thread…

Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake

Nature Microbiology - A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response...

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Congratulations to @dnthomas01.bsky.social who is awarded an honorary doctorate from Bangor University today (to add to honours such as a glacier named after him & the polar medal!). Well deserved. www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2024-12...