New research shows instead of being part of the answer to climate change, peat bogs could become a victim of it. Peat is formed over thousands of years from partially decayed plants in waterlogged ...

He wouldn’t have it any other way. As a wetland ecologist and biogeochemist, he’s been hard at work investigating an important and mysterious topic: peatlands. Peatlands are a special type of wetland ...

Nearly half of Indonesia’s peatlands are vulnerable to flooding due to degradation from exploitation, with 6 million hectares (15 million acres) — twice the size of Belgium — highly at risk.

Their study, titled “Flora of High-Mountain Tropical Peatlands: Threats and Management Measures, Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica,” identified 67 plant species thriving in the region’s ...

SABINE JORDAN: Yeah, it's a carbon sink. ADE: Peatlands only cover a tiny fraction of the planet, but they store more than twice as much carbon as all the forests in the world and if they’re ...

He wouldn't have it any other way. As a wetland ecologist and biogeochemist, he's been hard at work investigating an important and mysterious topic: peatlands. Peatlands are a special type of ...

Researchers conducted three years of extensive fieldwork to develop the first data-driven map of both newly documented and predicted peatlands across Colombia's eastern lowlands. UC Santa Cruz ...