New research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that artisan gold mining in the southern ...

Just 17% of peatlands worldwide are protected, according to a new study, despite the fact that they hold more carbon than all the world’s forests. Peatlands are waterlogged accumulations of dead ...

Peatlands bind more carbon than forests. But in Germany, almost all the country’s natural peatlands have been drained. Now, ...

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

A study entitled 'The Submergence of Wetlands' by Pantau Gambut presents the threat of flooding in peatlands area in ...

An academic study published this week has found that gold mining in the southern Peruvian Amazon has compromised not only forests, but peatlands – releasing an additional 2.6 million tonnes CO2 into ...

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

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

The focus for years has been on protecting farmers who own drained peatland from rewetting proscribed by Brussels. The bigger ...

In association with Research Ireland Peatland covers a significant amount of Ireland’s land surface area, around 23%, ...