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fromFast Company
5 days ago

The peat ban is coming. Will your favorite dram disappear with it?

"Our peatlands are this country's Amazon rainforest - home to our most precious wildlife, storing carbon and reducing flooding risk," U.K. Nature minister Mary Creagh said.
Food & drink
fromNature
2 weeks ago

How monitoring a remote Finnish peatland helps climate science

The monitoring station is part of the Station for Measuring Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations (SMEAR II) and is included in the Integrated Carbon Observation System, a European research infrastructure that provides long-term measurements of greenhouse gases to support climate science and policy.
Agriculture
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

It takes 25 years for a footprint to disappear' the secret, beguiling magic of Britain's bogs

I have learned that time behaves differently. It stretches out like the bog landscape, seeming to still the world beyond. There is something very special about that.
OMG science
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

On Ireland's peat bogs: climate action clashes with tradition in pictures

"Rewetting bogs is all about reducing the carbon emissions from the bare peatlands," says Doreen King, emphasizing the importance of restoring natural ecosystems for carbon sequestration.
Renovation
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Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

A win-win for farmers': how flooding fields in north-west England could boost crops

Using wet peatlands for agriculture can help combat climate change.
The concept of paludiculture is vital for restoring peatland ecosystems.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

A win-win for farmers': how flooding fields in north-west England could boost crops

Using wet peatlands for agriculture can help combat climate change.
The concept of paludiculture is vital for restoring peatland ecosystems.
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