A blanket bog in west Clare is finding new life after a local farmer agreed to rewet part of his land, in an effort to improve conditions for biodiversity. The Knocknahila Bog Peatland Rewetting ...

Representing just 3% of the Earth's land surface, peatlands contain over 30% of the carbon retained in soils in the form of fossilized organic matter at depth. It is estimated that this stock ...

“Our peatlands are this country’s Amazon rainforest – home to our most precious wildlife, storing carbon and reducing flooding risk. “The UK has 13% of the world’s blanket bog. A rare ...

Mining in peatlands currently makes up about 9% of all mining activity in the region, but it's growing fast. If the trend continues, peatland mining could account for 25% of total mining by 2027.

The bodies of three of four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing last week in Lithuania were found Monday after their armored vehicle sank into a peat bog during ... a lake or pond and slowly ...

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 ...

The magnificent skeletal elk is backdropped by black bog on one side ... that gave butter made Ireland an attractive place for outsiders who thought nothing of the peatlands.

0Three palm oil companies in Indonesian Borneo, including subsidiaries of the country’s top deforesting firm in 2023, continue to clear protected peatlands and forests despite having their ...

Such peatlands are most commonly selected for restoration, and their timber production is generally poor when they are drained. Another important observation was an increase in the water-table ...

“The Bog Body” is of course accompanied by a ridiculous music video to go with the tune’s mayhem. About it, director Eoin Glaister explains, “I love bog bodies. I’m obsessed.