Arctic peatlands are expanding with rising temperatures, storing more carbon at least for now. But future warming could reverse this benefit, releasing massive emissions.

Northern Ireland's first draft Climate Action Plan has been published for consultation. It is a roadmap to support emission ...

Prince William made a surprise visit to a remote part of southwest England on June 12, kicking off an ambitious restoration ...

The Duchy of Cornwall and Central Dartmoor Landscape Recovery Project have launched a new project to create a resilient ...

Campaigners have welcomed a council's decision to scrap its plans for close to 1,000 homes on a peatland site in Cheshire as ...

Recently, Healy-Rae gave a speech in the Seanad about forestry. In these remarks, he advocated planting on peatland. This plan would be a reversal of Government policy, counter to Government ...

Researchers found that despite accounting for only a quarter of the total UK land area that burns each year, dwarfed by moor and heathland, peatland fires have caused up to 90% of annual UK fire ...

The Welsh government has launched a new Peatland Restoration Grant, offering landowners in Wales the opportunity to secure funding of between £10,000 and £250,000 to restore vital peatland ...

Growing at an estimated 1mm a year, some of the UK’s oldest peatland is 10,000 years old and 10m deep. Peatland is thought to cover at least 3% of global land surface and store twice as much carbon as ...

Below, Loisel answers some questions about how she plans to use the CAREER award to make important contributions to data about peatlands in the tropics, knowledge about peatland initiation, and ...

But it is claimed that the most influential climate change body advising large corporations does not recognise peatland restoration as a legitimate means of offsetting greenhouse gas emissions.

Over the past two decades, Sumatra’s peatland forests have undergone a significant decline, losing approximately 3 million hectares at an annual deforestation rate averaging 150 thousand hectares.