Call them swamps, bogs, fens — whatever you want. They go by many names and are often called peatlands. Only recently have we begun to appreciate peat. Locked away in that soggy soil under ankle ...

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

According to the study, restoring currently degraded peat swamp forests and mangroves in Southeast Asia could reduce 94 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e) annually. Combined with ...

A simplified map of the Congo Basin peatland: Peat swamp forest (pink); open water (blue); savanna (yellow); other tropical forest (green). Credit: university of leeds WCS works with the Republic ...

and are called "peat bogs," such as in Ireland ; we call them peat meadows and peat swamps. These bogs vary in depth from a few feet to several yards, and are, in general too soft for the foot of ...

SINGAPORE – Conserving the remaining, nearly intact peatlands and mangroves of South-east Asia – the region’s green lungs – can absorb far more carbon dioxide (CO2) than restoring degraded tracts of ...

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 ...

It found that rewetting 5.34 million hectares (13.4 million acres) of drained peatlands, along with restoring degraded peat swamp forests and mangroves, could significantly enhance carbon ...