Its ability to absorb and store carbon dioxide means peatlands are key to the UK's ambition of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. However, our peatlands are under a two-pronged attack - from the ...

Peatlands are critical ecosystems for carbon storage and biodiversity, containing more carbon than all the world's forests despite covering just 3% of the global land surface – but new research has ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester, The University of Aberdeen and Newcastle University have found that the restoration of upland peatlands ... England during the Industrial Revolution and ...