Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth's carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs' sequestration, the wetlands are under threat. On a cold winter afternoon, ...

Learn how peat moss—a common element of container gardening—affects climate change and what you can use as a sustainable ...

“Peat soils have a unique ability to block this type of naturally occurring radiation, drastically reducing the number of ...

Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth’s carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs’ sequestration, the wetlands are under threat. On a cold winter ...

Kant BFU, allowed us to estimate the ratio of carbon loss components during the destruction of peat deposits in abandoned peat mining. The authors drew conclusions about the removal of carbon from the ...

According to Defra, 1 hectare of restored blanket bog avoids 19 tonnes of carbon loss per year. Peat is the single biggest store of carbon in the UK, storing the equivalent of 20 years of all UK CO2 ...

It will enable the Falkland Islands to understand how much of the large peat land ... now emitting carbon dioxide, and what might be needed to turn these areas back into carbon sinks.

SABINE JORDAN: Yeah, it's a carbon sink. ADE: Peatlands only cover a tiny ... Sabine had brought me to a peat bog that had been drained and was being dug up. At the back there’s even more ...

Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth's carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs' sequestration, the wetlands are under threat. On a cold winter afternoon ...