Senior Scientist for Soil and Climate Change with The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).
Woking, South East
Joined April 2012
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Today I joined the editorial team at Frontiers in Soil Science @FrontSoilSci
Welcoming investigations into soil microbial communities, interactions with plants, roles in nutrient cycling, ecosystem services and horticultural productivity #SoilHealth
frontiersin.org/journals/soi…
Root exudates are so important in soil health formation
#PlantsForPurpose #SoilHealth
If you wonder why I might be declining those review requests. 👇👇 @theanujsaraswat and I (with students) will soon be collecting root exudates from our barley diversity panel.
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⚡️ NEWS! ⚡️
1,000+ scientists and medical professionals call on MPs to listen to the science—back the #CANBill—and secure a liveable future.
The time for stronger, science-led legislation to tackle the climate-nature crisis is now.
This term, this session, this Parliament. 🧵
I’m proud to be one of 1,176 letter co-signatories calling on MPs to back the #CANBill in this week’s private members’ bill ballot. The time for science-led legislation to tackle the climate and nature crises is now
@Ed_Miliband @SteveReedMP zerohour.uk/scientist_letter
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Beware plastic netting in lawn and wildflower turf - advice for anyone starting a new lawn area, shop around and insist on rolls that don't use plastic mesh in them, it is a total nightmare longterm! Also pollutes soil. Pls spread the word... jackwallington.com/beware-pl…
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If you’re doing #nomowmay my recommendation is to do it in areas you can leave long all summer, not just leave for one month and then cut it because this leads to problems with the density of the lawn and also will just kill lots of wildlife using the longer grass come June.
Know someone looking for a new role? Last-minute job advertisement for anyone with an interest in plant effects on human #wellbeing (and a PhD) to join our team in Environmental Horticulture @TheRHS
linkedin.com/jobs/view/wellb…
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The first of our social science research articles from @TheBiocharDemo is now out and open access! Biochar in the British print news media: an analysis of promissory discourse and the creation of expectations about carbon removal. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @BNerlich @UoNGeography
True for trees established from seed, and maybe for trees produced with negligible fossil-inputs (then grown to maturity).
For real progress on climate and sustainability, we must acknowledge fossil-C is millions of times more stable #GreenHort #ClimateAction #TRUEzero
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The fossil fuel industry’s involvement in carbon capture has raised the specter that the technology could be used to prolong oil and gas extraction, endangering the climate rather than helping protect it trib.al/zmlJgUT
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A group of MPs has condemned the government's plan to maximise #oil & #gas production in the North Sea as "political theatre", warning it contradicts agreements made on the international stage news.sky.com/story/maximisin…
#CarbonSequestration
#SoilForClimateAction
It's a shame these things get "over-egged" - when the cake fails, we lose all.
Better gardeners and farmers minimise expensive inputs. Use the #powerofplants to increase soil C and health via plant roots.
#FossilFuelPhaseOut
📢Potential of soils to sequester carbon being "seriously overestimated" say researchers.
@COP28_UAE #worldsoilday2023 @WUR
Full story 👇
rothamsted.ac.uk/news/abilit…
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2. 'Beyond any doubt, the human-driven sixth mass extinction is more severe than previously assessed and is rapidly accelerating. The current generic extinction rates are 35 times higher than expected background rates prevailing in the last million years'🧵xitter.cf/ClimateBen/status/1706…
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Thinking about planting willow for use as a biomass fuel? Download our free handy guide to the various varieties on offer 👇@BiomassConnect @energygovuk
rothamsted.ac.uk/sites/defau…
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New valuable datasets for changes in 75 years of soil fertility in response to contrasting farming systems; long-term grass, long-term arable, switching one to the other and arable-leys @Rothamsted #soilcarbon #fairdata #soilscience - see the next two tweets for the vital links..
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Soil is likely home for more than half of Earth’s incredible diversity of species.
Enumerating soil biodiversity | PNAS
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
The message from Ecuador is clear: people will vote to keep oil in the ground | Jonathan Watts theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Just to be clear, in a time when the UK is granting international access to British oil reserves, and pro-oil media brand objection as “extremism”.
“Just Stop Oil is not calling for an immediate end to all UK oil and gas, but for a halt to granting new licences and consents”.
We've been asked to comment by press on Kier Starmer's piece in the Times this morning. Here is our comment, shared publicly:
We can only hope that if Keir Starmer becomes our next Prime Minister that he will have a better grasp of the detail he has at present. Just Stop Oil is not calling for an immediate end to all UK oil and gas, but for a halt to granting new licences and consents. This is the same policy that Labour has signed up to. However, Labour's failure to commit to revoking Rishi Sunak's planned 100 new oil and gas licences should they come to power, means that their pledge to end new oil and gas is meaningless. They are indistinguishable from the criminal Conservatives.
It is obvious that our politicians and corporations have no intention of acting in accordance with the fundamental interests of either our young people or the country as a whole. This means that civil resistance is no longer an option, it is a necessity. In late October, thousands of people will join Just Stop Oil in London to march on the roads, and we will not stop until we win.
Just Stop Oil