In waters as acidic as vinegar—at a pH of 4—a small, resilient fish known as the Malay combtail (Belontia hasselti), meanders ...

Endangered dragonfly reintroduced to Cumbrian peatland after almost vanishing in England - Dragonfly larvae transported in ...

Restored peatland in the Cambrian mountains acted as a firebreak, slowing the spread of wildfires, Natural Resources Wales ...

In the newly designated Arran UNESCO Global Geopark, local farmer Stewart Lambie is restoring peatland to protect ...

Healthy, rewetted peatlands, such as those at Llyn Gorast, support the growth of wet sphagnum moss, which absorbs up to 20 times its weight in water. This moisture retention helps prevent the spread ...

Scotland’s peatland stores over 1,500 million tonnes of carbon, which is more than is held in all of the trees and vegetation across the whole of the UK. For Scotland, losing just 1% of our peatland ...

Roxane Andersen, a peatland scientist with the Environmental Research Institute, part of UHI North, West and Hebrides, will ...