Peatlands News

Warming temperatures are causing peatlands, which store significant global soil carbon, to transition from carbon sinks to carbon emitters. This rapid shift, ev

El Niño's dry conditions are intensifying wildfires in Indonesia, with dried peatlands contributing to what could be one of the country's worst fire seasons.

Professor Gustaf Hugelius warns that heatwaves and wildfires are accelerating the thawing of permafrost regions, which could release vast amounts of methane and

North Carolina's efforts to re-wet coastal peatlands, including 37,000 acres at Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, are trapping 200,000 tons of carbon annu