A recently released report offers practical ways to increase confidence that the effects of soil carbon farming represent real carbon accrual or avoided greenhouse gas emissions.

UM academic Dr Valeria Vanesio in collaboration with Dr Ilaria Scaglia (Aston University) recently published the Bloomsbury edited volume Archives and Emotions: International Dialogues Across Past, Present, and Future. UM academic Dr Charles Farrugia contributed to the volume.  This is the first study to put archivists and historians-scholars and practitioners from different settings, geographical provenance, and stages of career-in conversation with one another to examine the interplay of a broad range of emotions and archives, traditional and digital, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries across national and disciplinary borders. Drawing on methodologies from the history of emotions and critical archival studies, this book provides an original analysis of two interconnected themes through a selected number of case studies: the emotional dynamics affecting the construction and management of archives; and the emotions and their effects on the people engaging with them, such as archivists, researchers, and a broad range of communities. All is available online. 

A Lifetime with Language: the Nature and Ontogeny of Linguistic Communication (LangInLife) is the name of an interdisciplinary project that has received nearly 150 million crowns from the Jan Amos Komenský Operational Programme (OP JAK). Pavel Caha is the head of the project to be carried out mainly at the Faculty of Arts.