Protecting and restoring Southeast Asia's peat swamp forests and mangroves could reduce the region's land use carbon emissions by approximately 54%, despite these ecosystems covering only 5.4% of the ...

According to recent research, the Great Dismal Swamp has released ... found that Atlantic white cedar forests, which grow in peat-based soils, contain more carbon than drier maple gum forests ...

Peatlands are characterised by a thick layer of peat, often several meters deep that can take thousands of years to form. Peat swamp forests act as massive carbon sinks, and when they are drained, ...

Over half of all orangutans in Indonesian Borneo live in peat-swamp forest, with thick peat soils, laid down over thousands of years under extreme waterlogged conditions. But loggers and land ...

Penang government has identified a total of 449.12ha of peat swamp forests in the island’s southwest district to be gazetted as permanent nature reserves under the National Forestry Act 1984.

Take an even closer look, this time at the soil, and you’ll see the partially decomposed remains of the leaves and woody material of a forest – peat – this was once a boggy swamp. And yet the ground ...