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

Across the street from the Flamingo Visitor Center at the foot of Florida's Everglades National Park, there was once a ...

The discovery that new peatlands are forming in high-altitude, montane landscapes offers a rare glimmer of hope in an ...

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You may have noticed that the mud-like grime you often find on commercially-grown mushrooms looks a lot darker than the dirt ...

Gold mining in Peru’s Amazon is now destroying carbon-storing peatlands at an alarming rate. In just two years, over half of ...

Researchers have created a new way of finding peat soil, giving insight into where carbon is stored in the ground.

He added, "Peatland reaccumulates lost carbon so slowly as it recovers after a wildfire that this process is limited for climate change mitigation. We need to focus on preventing that peat from ...

Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon has done more damage to peatlands in the last two years than in the previous three decades ...

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 ...