Dom Spracklen
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A new map shows how tropical deforestation causes local climate warming. Highlights the important local benefits of preserving tropical forest @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social
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Local warming from tropical deforestation
Local warming from tropical deforestation web visualisation
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November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A new map shows how tropical deforestation causes local climate warming. Highlights the important local benefits of preserving tropical forest @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social
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🌍 New Toolkit Alert!
Tropical #deforestation is heating up local climates - with serious risks for #health, agriculture, and climate resilience 🌳🌡️
🔗 cemac.github.io/deforest-web/map.html
@envleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @domspracklen.bsky.social
🔗 cemac.github.io/deforest-web/map.html
@envleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @domspracklen.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🌍 New Toolkit Alert!
Tropical #deforestation is heating up local climates - with serious risks for #health, agriculture, and climate resilience 🌳🌡️
🔗 cemac.github.io/deforest-web/map.html
@envleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @domspracklen.bsky.social
🔗 cemac.github.io/deforest-web/map.html
@envleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @domspracklen.bsky.social
Lovely autumn colours for our visitors from @envleeds.bsky.social seeing our nature recovery work at @hardknottforest.bsky.social and Nature Rich Miterdale delivered with our partners @forestryengland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk and funded by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Lovely autumn colours for our visitors from @envleeds.bsky.social seeing our nature recovery work at @hardknottforest.bsky.social and Nature Rich Miterdale delivered with our partners @forestryengland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk and funded by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social
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Another nice output from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social: a video on integrating natural processes into woodland creation has just been released www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0N2...
Integrating natural processes into woodland creation
YouTube video by TreE PlaNat
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October 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Another nice output from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social: a video on integrating natural processes into woodland creation has just been released www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0N2...
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Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.
Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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September 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.
Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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The tour continues...what a busy & chatty morning we had at West Cumbria Volunteering Fair. Jack's addition of a microscope to examine lichens was a winner. We nearly ran out of leaflets! @reachvolunteering.org.uk @cumbriacvs.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The tour continues...what a busy & chatty morning we had at West Cumbria Volunteering Fair. Jack's addition of a microscope to examine lichens was a winner. We nearly ran out of leaflets! @reachvolunteering.org.uk @cumbriacvs.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social
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Last week we celebrated 10 Years of #TheGreatTrossachsForest National Nature Reserve with partners at #GlenFinglas. It's 20 years since the partnership began. We've achieved ✅Over 3,000 hectares of new woodland created ✅432 hectares of peatland restored ✅70% increase in black grouse lekking 1/4...
September 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Last week we celebrated 10 Years of #TheGreatTrossachsForest National Nature Reserve with partners at #GlenFinglas. It's 20 years since the partnership began. We've achieved ✅Over 3,000 hectares of new woodland created ✅432 hectares of peatland restored ✅70% increase in black grouse lekking 1/4...
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It was an honour to be at the launch of the Ingleborough NNR into the King's Series of NNRs earlier this month - check out the blog below for more on what the #WildIngleborough partnership has achieved since forming in 2021 🌳🦋🐦
September 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
It was an honour to be at the launch of the Ingleborough NNR into the King's Series of NNRs earlier this month - check out the blog below for more on what the #WildIngleborough partnership has achieved since forming in 2021 🌳🦋🐦
The Amazon forest plays a critical role in the water cycle. A new study shows recent deforestation has caused reduced dry season rainfall across the southern Amazon. New story from @mongabay.com
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/more...
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/more...
More deforestation leads to a drier dry season, Amazon study finds
In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest loss is reshaping the region’s atmospheric water cycle. As the Amazon Rainf...
news.mongabay.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Amazon forest plays a critical role in the water cycle. A new study shows recent deforestation has caused reduced dry season rainfall across the southern Amazon. New story from @mongabay.com
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/more...
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/more...
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As usual all our volunteer days filled up quickly, but a space has just opened up for this one. We can make another space available if anyone wants to bring a friend along. Please share.
@envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @cumbriacvs.bsky.social
www.trybooking.com/uk/FDWV
@envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @cumbriacvs.bsky.social
www.trybooking.com/uk/FDWV
Restoring Hardknott Forest Volunteer Day: 21st October, 2025
Join us on a volunteer day to help maintain & remove tree tubes, remove non-native conifers, plant trees and wildflowers and allow the natural...
www.trybooking.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
As usual all our volunteer days filled up quickly, but a space has just opened up for this one. We can make another space available if anyone wants to bring a friend along. Please share.
@envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @cumbriacvs.bsky.social
www.trybooking.com/uk/FDWV
@envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @cumbriacvs.bsky.social
www.trybooking.com/uk/FDWV
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Find us, and loads of other groups advertising volunteering opportunities in Whitehaven on Thursday. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social #whitehaven @cumbriacvs.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Find us, and loads of other groups advertising volunteering opportunities in Whitehaven on Thursday. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social #whitehaven @cumbriacvs.bsky.social
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Our volunteering restarts on Sunday. As well as the essential job of removing non-native trees, we've loads of wildflowers & native trees to plant. Top vol Ade has been growing aspen, birch & oak for us & we have 1000's of wildflowers from
@wildhaweswater.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
@wildhaweswater.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Our volunteering restarts on Sunday. As well as the essential job of removing non-native trees, we've loads of wildflowers & native trees to plant. Top vol Ade has been growing aspen, birch & oak for us & we have 1000's of wildflowers from
@wildhaweswater.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
@wildhaweswater.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
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GOOD NEWS: the peat burning ban is being extended in the English uplands. 👏
Peatlands lock up carbon, protect water & support rare wildlife.
We hope today's announcement signals a move to end this damaging practice for good, and thank our supporters for helping make it happen.
Peatlands lock up carbon, protect water & support rare wildlife.
We hope today's announcement signals a move to end this damaging practice for good, and thank our supporters for helping make it happen.
September 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
GOOD NEWS: the peat burning ban is being extended in the English uplands. 👏
Peatlands lock up carbon, protect water & support rare wildlife.
We hope today's announcement signals a move to end this damaging practice for good, and thank our supporters for helping make it happen.
Peatlands lock up carbon, protect water & support rare wildlife.
We hope today's announcement signals a move to end this damaging practice for good, and thank our supporters for helping make it happen.
Ingleborough National Nature Reserve expanded - great news for the UK's best limestone habitats and wildlife. Research and monitoring by
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ingleborough National Nature Reserve to be extended
The extension will offer greater protection to the rare species found in the Dales upland landscape.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ingleborough National Nature Reserve expanded - great news for the UK's best limestone habitats and wildlife. Research and monitoring by
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@universityofleeds.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🌍 Our new study in @natclimate.nature.com shows tropical #deforestation may cause ~28,000 heat-related deaths/year.
🌳🌡️💻🛰️ Using satellite data & mortality models we quantified the impact of deforestation-driven local warming on human health in the tropics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🔗 rdcu.be/eEUbI
🌳🌡️💻🛰️ Using satellite data & mortality models we quantified the impact of deforestation-driven local warming on human health in the tropics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🔗 rdcu.be/eEUbI
September 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🌍 Our new study in @natclimate.nature.com shows tropical #deforestation may cause ~28,000 heat-related deaths/year.
🌳🌡️💻🛰️ Using satellite data & mortality models we quantified the impact of deforestation-driven local warming on human health in the tropics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🔗 rdcu.be/eEUbI
🌳🌡️💻🛰️ Using satellite data & mortality models we quantified the impact of deforestation-driven local warming on human health in the tropics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🔗 rdcu.be/eEUbI
New study led by @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social tracks climate heating and human health impacts of tropical deforestation @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tropical deforestation is associated with considerable heat-related mortality - Nature Climate Change
The authors assess the impacts of tropical deforestation and its subsequent local warming on human heat-related mortality. They estimate that deforestation-related warming (+0.27 °C) is associated wit...
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New study led by @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social tracks climate heating and human health impacts of tropical deforestation @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tropical deforestation is a major public health issue. New study led by @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social, story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Tropical deforestation is a major public health issue. New study led by @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social, story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
#climatecrisis
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
#climatecrisis
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure
- Suspension of soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Suspension of soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure
Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure
- Suspension of soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Suspension of soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction
Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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As seen at Gosforth Show last weekend, come & find our very educational & slightly interactive stall at the #krankenhaus festival this weekend. Difficult questions welcome! @showcasecumbria.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
August 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
As seen at Gosforth Show last weekend, come & find our very educational & slightly interactive stall at the #krankenhaus festival this weekend. Difficult questions welcome! @showcasecumbria.bsky.social @forestryengland.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
Great to host the #CSSPBrazil meeting at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social Celebrating 10 years of Brazil - UK collaboration on climate science. #WCSSP #ISPF @metoffice.gov.uk @richardabetts.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Great to host the #CSSPBrazil meeting at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social Celebrating 10 years of Brazil - UK collaboration on climate science. #WCSSP #ISPF @metoffice.gov.uk @richardabetts.bsky.social
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Research led by Dr Lawrence Jackson and Professor Cathryn Birch in collaboration with @ukceh.bsky.social reveals potential for improved humid heat early warning systems to help vulnerable people prepare for dangerous humid heatwaves.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Rainfall triggers extreme humid heat in tropics and subtropics
Scientists believe they have found a way to improve warning systems for vulnerable communities threatened by humid heatwaves, which are on the rise due to climate change and can damage human health.
environment.leeds.ac.uk
April 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Research led by Dr Lawrence Jackson and Professor Cathryn Birch in collaboration with @ukceh.bsky.social reveals potential for improved humid heat early warning systems to help vulnerable people prepare for dangerous humid heatwaves.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
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As annoying as it was to find an abandoned camp site & litter at Hardknott, it's worth contrasting it with how quickly our dedicated volunteers & staff got rid of it. We're now back to finding only vintage litter, such as this rusting beer can & stubby beer bottle. @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
As annoying as it was to find an abandoned camp site & litter at Hardknott, it's worth contrasting it with how quickly our dedicated volunteers & staff got rid of it. We're now back to finding only vintage litter, such as this rusting beer can & stubby beer bottle. @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social
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Our spring appeal is here!
We urgently need your help to save one of the world’s most threatened cloud forests.
www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2025/03... 🔗
We urgently need your help to save one of the world’s most threatened cloud forests.
www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2025/03... 🔗
March 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Our spring appeal is here!
We urgently need your help to save one of the world’s most threatened cloud forests.
www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2025/03... 🔗
We urgently need your help to save one of the world’s most threatened cloud forests.
www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2025/03... 🔗
Support @worldlandtrust.org protect cloud forests in Honduras, crucial for amazing wildlife and clean water for surrounding communities:
www.worldlandtrust.org/appeals/save...
www.worldlandtrust.org/appeals/save...
Save The Cloud Forests of Honduras
WLT need your help to raise £443,540 - Donations will help our partner AESMO save 225 acres of precious cloud forest before it is too late...
www.worldlandtrust.org
April 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Support @worldlandtrust.org protect cloud forests in Honduras, crucial for amazing wildlife and clean water for surrounding communities:
www.worldlandtrust.org/appeals/save...
www.worldlandtrust.org/appeals/save...