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Niels Batjes

@niels-batjes.bsky.social
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Soil scientist. #Soilscience, #Climatechange, #SoilCarbon, #Sustainability, #FAIRdata. Enjoys nature walks, gardening, and reading. Opinion's are my own. 🧪 🌍 🗺️ 🏞️ ⛰️🟫 🌾🌿 Google scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=J…

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Alice Milner @alicemmilner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Peatland landscape with scattered trees
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Great paper by Ainhoa Ihasusta et al. published in Carbon Management. It analyses current SOC monitoring methodologies for croplands and proposes a decision tree to help MRV stakeholders select the monitoring strategy considered most appropriate for their context. 🌍👉 lnkd.in/e8run9U7 # soilscience
Figure 2. Schematic representation of the soil-centered modeling approach. The input data sources are classified according to their accuracy, with red being the lowest and green the highest. In addition, the cost arrows represent the cost of collecting these data, with red being the highest cost and green being the lowest cost.
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Great paper by Ainhoa Ihasusta et al. published in Carbon Management. It analyses current SOC monitoring methodologies for croplands and proposes a decision tree to help MRV stakeholders select the monitoring strategy considered most appropriate for their context. 🌍👉 lnkd.in/e8run9U7 # soilscience
Figure 2. Schematic representation of the soil-centered modeling approach. The input data sources are classified according to their accuracy, with red being the lowest and green the highest. In addition, the cost arrows represent the cost of collecting these data, with red being the highest cost and green being the lowest cost.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"Trump’s FATAL DECISION Sends WORLD Towards DISASTER" | My conversation earlier today with @katiephang.bsky.social for the @katiephangshow.bsky.social about the climate implications of the Trump administration's reversal of the EPA Endangerment Finding: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vx1...
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Trump’s FATAL DECISION Sends WORLD Towards DISASTER
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
See new paper published by #EU-ORCaSa team members (Emily Vrot et al.) describing the science-based www.impact4soil.com platform, and prospects for future developments. 🧪🌍 Access open-access paper here 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.so... #soilscience #soilcarbon #soilhealth
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Impact4Soil - Horizon Europe Initiative
Powered by the Soil Carbon International Research Consortium, Impact4soil offers data and meta-analysis on soil carbon, practices, and land management solutions.
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Very pleased to be named a ‘Highly Cited Researcher’, in Agricultural Sciences, by @clarivate.com (🌎 top 0.1%). Thanks to #ISRIC-WorldSoilInformation for providing the setting that allowed for fruitful collaboration with many international partners and colleagues! 🧪 clarivate.com/highly-cited...
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Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025
The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and ...
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used carbon offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their probable climate impact", see article in the Guardian. #carbon #offsets 🧪🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
ISRIC, the 🌍 World Data Centre for Soils 🌏, has a new website, explore at isric.org
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ISRIC - World Soil Information
ISRIC–World Soil Information is an independent science-based foundation with a mission to serve the international community as a custodian of global soil information. We support the development and us...
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Whether you're a scientist, student, policymaker, or simply curious about the ground beneath your feet, the ISRIC Annual Report 2024 offers an inspiring snapshot of how data, collaboration, and innovation are shaping a me resilient planet. Read 👇 www.isric.org/sites/defaul... 🧪🌍 #Soilscience
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Enjoying nice summer walks around Wageningen 😀
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Read the latest ISRIC newsletter with a.o. updates about the #EU-FUNDED #Soils4Africa 🌍 and #Holisoils 🌲projects #soilscience #Fairdata 🧪🌍👇 bitl.to/4nEA
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🌐 ISRIC's latest: Africa SIS, high-resolution soil property maps for Europe, and more!
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Have a look at these very nice videos on peat soils #soilscience #peatsoils 🧪🌍👇
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.linkedin.com/posts/isric-...
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#earthday2025 #earthday #soil | ISRIC - World Soil Information
Happy Earth Day! 🌍 Soil is the foundation of life. Let's celebrate and safeguard this precious resource that sustains all life. 💚 #EarthDay2025 #EarthDay #soil
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Great opportunity! 🌏🧪🌍 ISRIC WDC-Soils is looking for a Senior Soil Scientist who will actively contribute to the further development of ISRIC’s flagship soil information product ‘WoSIS’ and its links with ‘SoilGrids’. For details see👇 🌏🧪🌍 www.isric.org/vacancy-seni... #soilscience
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Soil property maps for Europe at 100 m resolution released by ISRIC - World Soil Information in the framework of the EU HoliSoils project to inform forest management and policies. holisoils.eu/soil-propert... 🧪🌍👇🌲🌳 #soilscience #soilhealth #soilmapping #forestsoil
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Soil property maps for Europe at 100 m resolution will inform forest management and policies - HoliSoils
Forest soils provide important ecosystem services, such as biodiversity support, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, water regulation and erosion control.
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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Have a look to this fresh #HoliSoils' policy brief published by the project coordinator @luke.fi! Learn more about how we can address critical #ForestSoil challenges in Europe through enhanced #ForestManagement and monitoring 🔎🌱🌲 ➡️ jukuri.luke.fi/handle/10024...
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Policy Brief: Forest soil challenges in Europe : solutions through sustainable forest management and monitoring - Jukuri
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
See #ORCaSA policy brief on www.linkedin.com/posts/irc-on... 🧪🌍👇 #soilscience
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Soil Carbon IRC on LinkedIn: #soil #carbonfarmingsummit #crcf #soil
[POLICY BRIEF] If you are a policymaker working on environmental issues related to #soil, carbon sequestration practices, or agriculture, our policy brief will…
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Are you interested in stimulating soil literacy in education by leveraging augmented and mixed reality (AR-MR) technologies for data exploration in a mobile app? Then consider joining this hackathon organised by #ISRIC / #CURIOSOIL ⬇️ #soilscience #education #hackathon 🌍 www.isric.org/news/hackath...
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Hackathon: Exploring augmented reality in a mobile application for soil education
The hackathon "Digging deep: Innovating soil education through augmented and mixed reality (AR-MR) in a mobile app" invites educators, soil specialists, developers, designers, and technologists to rev...
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
See nice blog below about the establishment of a vibrant Soil Data and Information Community of Practice in Africa. Read more here 🧪🌍👇 www.isric.org/news/communi... #soilscience
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A Community of Practice approach to strengthening Soil Information Systems in Africa
In 2022, we began collaborating with our African partners to establish a Soil Information Community of Practice (CoP). In an article on Frankwatching, we discuss the process of building the CoP, highl...
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
ISRIC WDC-Soils becomes a DataONE member repository. #DataONE is a community driven programme providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data. #soilscience #FAIRdata www.isric.org/news/isric-w...
ISRIC joins DataOne repository network.
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Land Soil Crop Hubs on LinkedIn: 📷 Giulio Genova, digital soil mapping expert from ISRIC - World Soil…
📷 Giulio Genova, digital soil mapping expert from ISRIC - World Soil Information and a member of the LSC-IS team, presented the Digital Soil Mapping (DSM)…
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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · 29/11/2022
#HoliSoils offers many tools to enhance the knowledge on #forest soils & many more are under development! Find some already online👇 Others will come soon so watch this space 👀 Data 📈Models 📑Maps 🗺️ holisoils.eu/maps/ holisoils.eu/models/ holisoils.eu/data/
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This recent paper presents the 'Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS)', a global movement to improve human nutrition in the face of a changing climate and degraded lands. VACS emphasizes an integrated approach to investments in crops and soils. 🧪🌍👇 #soilscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The vision for adapted crops and soils: how to prioritize investments to achieve sustainable nutrition for all - Nature Plants
The Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) is a global movement, launched in 2023, to improve human nutrition in the face of a changing climate and degraded lands. VACS emphasizes an integrated app...
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Direct measurement of soil carbon can enhance the accuracy of carbon credit markets by providing reliable data on carbon storage, supporting climate-smart agricultural practices and policy decisions. doi.org/g82bfj
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Direct measurements can reduce uncertainty in soil carbon credit markets
Directly measuring soil carbon rather than relying on predictive models can provide hard evidence of how much carbon is being stored, allowing for better assessments of confidence in carbon markets for croplands, according to a study co-authored by Yale School of the Environment scientists and recently published in Environmental Research Letters.
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UVYo... Nice podcast (in French) by Marc-Andre Selosse about soils. #soilscience
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MARC-ANDRÉ SELOSSE - Sauver les sols, c’est sauver l’humanité !
YouTube video by Deep Seed
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
ISRIC - World Soil Information has recently launched an online open-access resource library with educational and technical soil information resources and tools for global users. 🧪🌍👇 Please explore at: resources.isric.org #soilscience #openaccess #soilinformation
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
"A landscape-scale view of soil organic matter dynamics" by Doetterl et al. (2025) outlines how understanding soil formation processes and complexity at the landscape scale can inform predictions of SOM cycling and SOC sequestration 🧪🌍👇 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #soilscience #soilmapping
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A landscape-scale view of soil organic matter dynamics - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Soil carbon cycling is closely linked with landscape complexities in soil properties, climate and land use. This Perspective outlines how soil formation theory could provide insight on landscape-scale...
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
“A European soil organic carbon monitoring system leveraging Sentinel 2 imagery and the LUCAS soil database” was recently published in Geoderma. It is the direct scientific outcome of the European Space Agency - ESA-funded WorldSoils project. Learn more ⬇️ www.isric.org/news/new-pap... #soilscience
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
New study shows plastic pollution worsens the impacts of all planetary boundaries #pollution #environment #climatechange #soilscience 🧪🌍👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.on...
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Nice, finally some sunshine
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A great soil scientist, Domique Arrouays, has passed away.
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
ISRIC's latest Annual report released🌾 👇🌍 www.isric.org/sites/defaul... #Soilscience #climatechange worlddatasystem.org
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Accurate soil data and information are key to informed decisions. #soilhealth #soilscience #soilinformation #climatechange #worlddatasystem www.isric.org/about/world-... x.com/i/status/186...
https://data.isric.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🌍 New #FAO report on Global Status of Salt-affected Soils released, an important resource for understanding our environment and guiding sustainable practices.🌎 🔍 Discover the report 👉: doi.org/10.4060/cd30... #soilscience #saltaffectedsoils #soilhealth
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
According to new original research by Koptikke et al (2024) 'soil is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change'. 🌎👇 #soilscience #climatechange #sustainability #soilmanagement doi.org/10.5194/soil...
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Soil is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change
Abstract. It is unequivocal that human activities have increased emissions of greenhouse gases, that this is causing warming, and that these changes will be irreversible for centuries to millennia. Wh...
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Happy World Soil Day! This year's theme fits www.isric.org vision and activities like a glove: 'Caring for soils: Measure, monitor, manage.' To manage soil resources sustainably, quality-assessed soil data, information, and knowledge are essential, 🌎👉🌍 tinyurl.com/86hmtn22 #WorldSoilDay #FAIRdata
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A new study led by the Nature Conservancy shows how protecting, better managing, and restoring nature for climate change enhance human wellbeing, biodiversity, and ecosystems.🌍 ⬇️ #ecosystems #soilhealth www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...
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Mapping the Benefits and Trade-offs from Natural Climate Solutions
A new study shows how protecting, better managing, and restoring nature for climate change enhance human wellbeing, biodiversity, and ecosystems.
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
See this nice blog on land cover map accuracy and applications 🌍👇 landcarbonlab.org/insights/glo... #landcover #mapaccuracy
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Global Land Cover Maps’ Accuracy and Applications Explained
This article examines the accuracies for four global land cover data sets and explains their strengths and weaknesses and how best to apply them.
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Nice piece (in French) about the importance of dead leaves for ecosystem functioning. Published in The Conservation. #soilscience #soilhealth 👇 theconversation.com/eloge-des-fe...
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Éloge des feuilles mortes, carburant indispensable des écosystèmes
Indispensables à la bonne santé des sols comme à la séquestration du carbone, hôtes d’une biodiversité aussi diverses que cryptiques, les feuilles mortes sont un véritable carburant des écosystèmes.
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
See the framework for sustainable national soil information systems developed by CABI and ISRIC, with contributions from the soil data community. resources.isric.org/sis-framework/ #soilscience #soilinformationsystems
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Our paper "Towards a modular, multi-ecosystem Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) framework for soil organic carbon stock change assessment", in Carbon Management, is available open access at:👇 doi.org/10.1080/1758.... IRC_ORCaSa with ISRIC, INRAE, CIRAD #carbon #soilhealth #EUSoilMission
Proposition for a multi-ecosystem methodological framework depicting a modular flowchart for building an operational MRV tool for assessing net SOC stock changes
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Rémi Cardinael @remicardinael.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky www.science.org/content/arti...
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Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
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Niels Batjes @niels-batjes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thrilled to see that "Providing quality-assessed and standardised soil data to support global mapping and modelling" now features amongst the most downloaded ESSD articles during the last 12 months. essd.copernicus.org/most_downloa... doi.org/10.5194/essd... www.isric.org ; holisoils.eu
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