A former 'ghost distillery' and a vast area of bog peatland in Scotland have been named in TIME's list of the World’s Greatest Places of 2025.

Scottish Wildlife Trust has acquired the 7,618-hectare Inverbroom Estate, larger than the city of Dundee, near Ullapool in ...

But they may also be sitting atop a pool of oil that both nations have expressed interest in extracting — despite an overlap between peatland-containing protected areas and oil blocks offered ...

A key part of the project titled, “Reducing Uncertainty in Carbon Pools and Free Phase Gas Fluxes in Peatland Ecosystems from Spatially Rich Geophysical Datasets,” is collecting rich ...

Most of the island — 40 square miles of mountains, peatland and heath — is a national ... On Rum, human life is lived in the small pools of light that spill from windows or glow from headlamps.

Peatlands represent one of the world’s most carbon-dense ecosystem types, and pools are hotspots for peatland-atmosphere carbon gas fluxes, biogeochemical processing, and aquatic biodiversity.

However, what makes the Foresight investment different is that the money raised will enable the venture to explore other natural capital opportunities, such as Biodiversity Net Gain projects, peatland ...

The goal of our Scotty Creek campaign was to sample the effects of fires on peatland ecosystems ... We assess post-fire ecosystem effects to calculate carbon pools below and above ground. In other ...