Peatlands make up just 3% of Earth's land surface but store more than 30% of the world's soil carbon, preserving organic ...

Peatlands act as a crucial climate regulator, and are increasingly at the center of conflicts over resource extraction.

Lithuania plans to restore marshes along its borders, and the marshes have proven to be an effective countermeasure.

A brown hyena standing beside the ruins of an abandoned diamond mining settlement has earned wildlife photographer Wim van ...

Just outside the town of Miory lies the breathtaking Yelnya Landscape Reserve. As Belarus’ largest lake-bog complex, this 9,000-year-old expanse spans over 25,300 hectares. It’s a land of dramatic ...

If the extra £25,000 is raised, an adult pair of beavers will be released in Craddocks Moss in May 2026 [PA Media] A wildlife trust needs to raise an additional £25,000 if it is to realise a plan to ...

Streamers of police tape decorated the deserted Offaly bog in central Ireland. Heavy rain poured down on Cathy Moore and Conor McDermott as they trudged through the thick mud. Their boots squelched ...

President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission called President Vladimir Putin of Russia “a predator.” President Emmanuel Macron of France called him “an ogre at our gates.” Chancellor ...

The climate crisis upends life in countless ways large and small, including potentially ending one beloved 1,000-year-old tradition. Peated whiskies, flavored with decaying organic matter from bogs, ...

Scholars increasingly support the hypothesis that inertinite in coal is the product of incomplete combustion of plants in coal-forming peat swamps during fire events. In this study, charcoal fragments ...