Day 2️⃣ of #SpongeBoostmeets2025 is officially kicking off with a warm welcome by our organisers and the hosts of our annual meeting in Santiago de Compostela - @Cirefluvial and @CISPAC_gal.👏 Keep posted with today's updates.👉🔔

💚 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: https://t.co/gtqtEZZEEo

💚 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: https://t.co/H7fV9RKi5P

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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: https://t.co/30WPdRFEPC

💚 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: https://t.co/mEaY4qE2ZA

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 https://t.co/GleugkNooN

💚 This week in #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters: 🔎 Restoring #wetlands, #floodplains & #peatlands as “natural sponges” can cut flood & drought risks, boost biodiversity, improve water & store carbon. 📚 Full study 👉 https://t.co/KGLiAx0aie

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. 📚 https://t.co/V4jPvOAV4D

💚 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: https://t.co/1BDbDPTJ7l

💚 This week in #PreviousResearchofSpongeBoosters: 🔎 A bog restoration study in Estonia tested a model predicting groundwater changes after ditch closure + forest thinning. 📚 Full paper: https://t.co/DdPtxabAXl

💚 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: https://t.co/Kg6UY7r2ru

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! 🔔

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. 🔎 https://t.co/Nmv608DOSz

💚 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: https://t.co/QCvJyxYx0C

📫 The third SpongeBoost Newsletter is out now! 😊 Explore key achievements from the first six months of 2025 👉 https://t.co/8AnMGjkv7f

🌍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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🎉 The first #SpongeBoosterOfTheYear award ceremony took place on 20 June and celebrated Planar e.V. for their wetland restoration on the Diemel River, reconnecting 20 hectares of floodplain and creating habitats for over 65 species! 📖 Learn more: https://t.co/h5b4jnBNok

🎉1 day to go!🏆Planar e.V. raised the waterbody, rehydrated floodplains, restored wetland habitats, and refilled old meanders. These changes have supported the return of species and formed new habitats. 📷 Johann Taillebois – https://t.co/ZKbyCBc1r3 #SpongeBoosterOfTheYear2025

Thanks to the #restoration efforts of our SpongeBooster of the Year 🏆 – Planar e.V. – habitats along the river Diemel are thriving once again.🌱 🔎 Learn more about the species that have returned and are now thriving thanks to improved conditions👇