ERL paper featured.

Almost three weeks have passed since our paper on historical mangrove change in Myanmar was published in Environmental Research Letters. And to be honest, I still feel over the moon knowing that it is my first paper as lead author to be published in a prestigious journal, which got picked up by various news outlets–thanks to the support of our media office at the university–such as EurekAlert! and PHYS.org.

Moreover, there were several tweets that shared our paper or the press release over Twitterverse, of which the most noteworthy ones were:

From the National University of Singapore:

Over 60 per cent of Myanmar’s mangroves deforested in the last 20 years https://t.co/9AP3ipiDO6 @NUSingapore #NUSResearch

— NUS Spokesperson (@NUSspokesperson) March 3, 2020

A new study from @NUSingapore has found that more than 60 per cent of Myanmar’s #mangroves have been deforested in the last 20 years. #NUSResearch @IOPenvironment https://t.co/EtG1xo5ZTN

— NUS Research (@NUSResearch) March 3, 2020

From international and regional news outlets:

Over 60% of #Myanmar's mangroves deforested in the last 20 years @NUSingapore @IOPenvironment https://t.co/cAIZrqSc2H

— Phys.org Space News (@physorg_space) March 3, 2020

Over 60 per cent of #Myanmar’s mangroves deforested in the last 20 years#LULUC #deforestation #coastalerosion #environmentalnews https://t.co/nsIXH023sH

— Southeast Asia News (@southeastasia4u) March 3, 2020

And from international and Myanmar journalists and writers, and science communicators:

What happened to Myanmar's mangroves? In the last 20 years alone, most of them were cut down. For rice, oil palm, rubber.https://t.co/kvBjm68tGw via @NUSingapore

— Somini Sengupta🥭 (@SominiSengupta) March 4, 2020

Mangroves account for only 0.7% of the Earth's tropical forest area and over 60% of #Myanmar's #mangroves deforested in the last 20 years. | https://t.co/mueiwTONkR

— MT (@mtygn) March 4, 2020

So, mangroves are disappearing around the world (link below to study in Myanmar), yet are an essential part of coastal ecosystems.https://t.co/xgOXrodlwX

— Dr. Kiki Sanford (@drkiki) March 4, 2020

The statistics of the paper rose quickly too: the Altmetrics score is at 75 with 1129 paper downloads as of writing this post. Just let me savour this post-publication feeling for now, which is just over the moon.