Plant ecologist and lecturer Dr Teemu Tahvanainen at the University of Eastern Finland compiled available data and earlier results from drained and restored peatlands to inform a modelling study on climate mitigation potential of restoration. The results indicate that peatland restoration can contribute to between 2 and 6 CO₂-equivalent tons per hectare of annual climate mitigation, in a one-hundred-year assessment perspective. The implication is that restoration of weakly productive forestry-drained peatlands could make a pivotal contribution to the land-use sector emission scenarios in Finland.

Shifting ocean conditions mean that animals have to adjust to the loss of some food sources and changes in their habitats. Now, researchers have used almost 30 years of data to document how the trophic niches and diets of fin, minke, and humpback whales have shifted in the context of environmental changes in the North Atlantic Ocean. They found that these whales are eating more fish and less krill than they used to. Whales also divvied up resources more clearly and kept more to their own niches, which could indicate reduced prey availability in recent years.