The title page of the article in Ecosystems
Emma hammering in a soil corer
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
@emma-polman.bsky.social sampled soils and vegetation in a wetland-grassland system, and found that despite vastly different plant communities, wet grasslands did not differ from dry grasslands in top soil C stocks.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Overnight, russian drone struck a suburban train in Region. Passengers are all fine, but the driver and his assistant took some hits from shrapnel. They've already been treated by medics on-site.
Imagine, you're going to work and become "military" target for russians.
#Ukrainianview
these people gleefully ripped apart the systems that kept millions of people around the world from dying of starvation and disease and now they go crying to a judge because they're suffering "reputational damage" on the internet
hell is not hot enough
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is raising $5 Billion from foreign governments WHILE WORKING AS TRUMP’S ENVOY IN THE MIDDLE EAST ‼️
Staggering corruption. Where are all the Hunter Biden hunters?🤔@MarshaBlackburn @RepOgles @timburchett @SenatorHagerty
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
This man is outrageous. Standing against all that's decent.
A new cycle begins as calves arrive at the North Wyke Farm Platform 🐮Our scientists will be monitoring their impact on soil health, water quality and greenhouse gas emissions, comparing arable cropping to livestock systems. Data available at: https://nw-farmplatform.rothamsted.ac.uk/
Just one proposed data centre in England would produce annual climate emissions equivalent to all British Airways flights within the UK and to Europe - important story from @adamvaughan.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Seed oils are fine. GMOs are fine. High-fructose corn syrup is bad but no worse than cane sugar. Pasteurizing milk is good. Glyphosate is not causing a disease epidemic.
I wrote about RFK’s food and farming insanity. It’s related to his vaccine insanity!
www.thebulwark.com/p/robert-ken...
At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).
Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."
Agriculture needs fertilizer to grow food & fuel to transport it
Higher costs lower yields and raise food prices
The poorest spend the highest share of their income on food & so face the most severe impacts
Energy crisis -> food price crisis -> hunger crisis
The decision by @ukri.org to scrap the UK's flying atmospheric laboratory (FAAM) after spending >£40M on an upgrade & with zero consultation, is short sighted. FAAM has saved the UK economy more than it costs through responding to disasters.
400 scientists respond: www.thetimes.com/article/406e...
🌱 Is soil quality the same in all conservation agriculture fields?
Not always. Different practices can lead to very different soil outcomes.
👉 Read more in our latest blog article:
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ss...
#SoilScience #EGU #EGUSSS #SoilHealth
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
🇺🇦🇫🇮 Russia’s war in Ukraine could have ended by now if Kyiv had received the level of air defense deployed in the Persian Gulf countries during the week of the war, — Finnish President Stubb
there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
On Women’s Day, I want to tell you about Magdė Bankaitė. During the Lithuanian press ban 1864-1904, she smuggled Lithuanian books across the Prussian-Russian border. Lost all her teeth in an interrogation, deported to Siberia and carried on once back. Heroine died in a shelter for homeless.
Happy International Women's Day! Today we celebrate all the women at Rothamsted who drive innovation and sustainability in agriculture. Their work continues to inspire and shape the future #IWD2026 #WomenInSTEM
Telegraph: Blair rebukes Starmer of failure to back Trump's war
Mail: Blair delivers a stinging blow to PM over war
Man who dragged Britain into an illegal war in the Middle East scolds other man for not dragging Britain into an illegal war in the Middle East.
The UK could at least evaluate strategic food and fertiliser reserves alongside wider resilience measures.
The question, as always, is who shoulders the short‑term cost of paying for it because when the shock comes the extra buffer can be priceless.
New analysis confirms global warming is accelerating. "all data sources agree: the warming rate has been far higher during the last decade than any previous." agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Weather Rescue at Sea: Recovering Historical Weather Observations From 19th Century British Naval Ships
Adding hundreds of thousands more marine weather observations from the 1860s to global datasets
Teleti et al. (2026): rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Importantly they are planning to hire these people on 2 year contracts so what actually happened is they fired everyone so they could rehire them with worse working conditions and an easy revolving door with industry 🔭
While climate collapse or war seem to be the greatest problems of our time, the loss of darkness is a subtle yet consequential issue. By losing our access to the starry skies, we are losing a piece of Us that has been with us since forever.
1 week to go until the annual Wheat Genetic Improvement Network (WGIN) meeting on March 11th, open to anyone working with wheat- join us at John Innes Centre or online👇
https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/event/23rd-wheat-genetic-improvement-network-wgin-stakeholders-meeting
#wheat #farming #agriculture
Agree. I'm a Christian believer in Jesus but am equally outraged and embarrassed by people pushing this stuff.
Donald Trump is a global chaos generator. He couldn't give a damn about the Iranians and will walk away the moment things get difficult, leaving a trail of pointless death and destruction.
It's all about spectacle for him. Once that's achieved, job done.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Great piece by @naomioreskes.bsky.social. I've personally had more success with philanthropic funding than gov grants, but I work in an (unnecessarily) controversial area of researching food and climate. When public funding dwindles, we all lose. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
