Upscaling the natural sponge functions of freshwater ecosystems to deliver multi-benefit Green Deal solutions. Project funded by @HorizonEU (GA:101112906). 🇪🇺

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Only 6️⃣ days left! ⌛ Join us for the virtual launch of “Wetlands in a Changing Climate: Restoring Coasts and Floodplains”, a new Special Issue in @Pensoft Publishers’ open-access journal Nature Conservation. ✍️ Register here: events.hifis.net/event/3409
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💚 CIREF attended the launch event for the LIFE Humedales Integrated Project. They were represented at the expert roundtable by Aniela Stachnik, who offered insights on governance, public participation, and ecological restoration. 🤗
📽️Sigue la transmisión en directo de la presentación del #LifeHumedales. Organizado por la @FBiodiversidad y en donde participa nuestra técnica responsable del proyecto @spongeboost_eu, Aniela Stachnik 👇 ¡Feliz Día Mundial de los #Humedales! 💦🦦🌱 youtube.com/live/yzgxL1UWaFM…
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💚 This week in our #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters campaign, we focus on a study that explores how natural water retention measures can influence catchment-scale hydrology and water quality. 📚 Read the full paper here: mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/5/733
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💚 This week in our #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters campaign, we explore how reactivating floodplains in river restorations can influence the long-term mobility of fine sediment deposits. 📚 Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1029/2019WR024983
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Join the GENESIS Clustering Workshop on 10 October 📅 👉 Register here: genesisnbs.eu/genesis-cluste…

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🌍Join us in Madeira on Oct 10 for the GENESIS Clustering Workshop! 📍Colégio dos Jesuítas, @U_Madeira Climate adaptation, water resilience & innovation in action. 📰👉Register here: genesisnbs.eu/genesis-cluste… #GENESISProject #ClimateAdaptation #EUProjects #Madeira
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💚 This week in our #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters campaign, we explore how multi-benefit floodplain projects in California and Germany successfully combine flood risk reduction with ecosystem restoration. 📚 Read the full paper here: frontiersin.org/journals/env…
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💚 This week in our #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters campaign, we present research on the socio-economic benefits of Natura 2000 in the Azores Islands. 📚 Read the full paper here: shorturl.at/WGFHy
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Want to learn more about climate adaptation in a fun way? @spongeboost_eu recently released a comic (in 9 languages!) that explains nature-based solutions through engaging visuals. Check it out 👇 #ClimateAdaptation #HorizonEU zenodo.org/records/14810054
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💚 This week in #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters: 🔎 Restoring #wetlands, #floodplains & #peatlands as “natural sponges” can cut flood & drought risks, boost biodiversity, improve water & store carbon. 📚 Full study 👉 europe.wetlands.org/publicat…
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This week in our #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters campaign: A paper on shifts in plant, carabid beetle, and mollusc communities in Germany's Elbe floodplain after floods and heatwaves, and the challenge of linking these changes to climate change. 📚 doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-7…
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💚 This week in #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters: a 10,000-year climate record from an Iberian bog! 🌿 🔎 Carbon accumulation in Chao de Veiga Mol tracked Holocene climate changes, revealing its unique paleoenvironmental value. 📚 Read here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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💚 This week in #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters: 🔎 A bog restoration study in Estonia tested a model predicting groundwater changes after ditch closure forest thinning. 📚 Full paper: doi.org/10.3390/w13162217
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💚 This week in our #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters campaign we share research on the 2019 European heatwave 📃 🔎 Storms that followed increased algae (chlorophyll-a) more than the heatwave itself, reshaping lake water quality. 📚 Full paper: mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/5/670
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Introducing SpongeBoost's new social media campaign #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters. 💚 📃 This series highlights all relevant papers prior to SpongeBoost, focusing on topics such as restoration and climatic risks.🌿 Stay tuned! 🔔
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SpongeBoost’s comic book is now available in nine languages! 📚 💭 With the creative illustrations, created by parzelle34, and its inspiring story, the comic book makes complex scientific concepts easily accessible to both experts and non-experts. 🔎zenodo.org/records/15774437
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💚 Yesterday, Lea Hallik from the University of Tartu presented the SpongeBoost project at the 12th INTECOL Wetlands Conference, taking place from 29 June to 4 July in Tartu, Estonia. 🌱 📆 Check the full programme here: intecolwetlands2025.ee/progr…
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📫 The third SpongeBoost Newsletter is out now! 😊 Explore key achievements from the first six months of 2025 👉 preview.mailerlite.io/previe…
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🌍From 23–31 July, 172 governments will meet at #RamsarCOP15 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, to protect wetlands. Let's turn promises into policies and ambitions into action. 💚Wetlands are not just victims of climate change, they’re key to solving it. #WetlandsForOurCommonFuture
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SpongeBoost's next newsletter is coming soon. 😊 ✍🏻Make sure to subscribe to join our community and stay on track with the latest updates and insights: dashboard.mailerlite.com/for…
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