Peatlands in a sentence

In the U.K., where about 80 per cent of peatlands have been damaged, England has vowed to ban the sale of peat for use in gardens by 2024.

Map showing boundaries of three large wildfires on the Pamlico-Albemarle Peninsula in eastern North Carolina, including the 1985 Allen Road Fire, and the 2008 Evans Road Fire, both of which burned significant portions of the Pocosin peatlands.

Much maligned and undervalued over the centuries, temperate peatlands have seen a lot damage in that time — drained for agriculture, planted with trees, mined for horticulture and fuel.

Peatlands, meanwhile, store massive amounts of carbon – twice as much as the world’s forests.

Peatlands throughout the United Kingdom, which are waterlogged ecosystems that have little oxygen, naturally preserve different types of organic materials.

This is harming the fragile peatlands.

Whittington's current research is for drain peat fens, or peatlands fed by groundwater, bogs, and streams, which are more complicated.

A project in North Somerset has been selected as one of 13 grant winners for a national scheme to conserve and restore peatlands across the UK.

The trails lead walkers through a variety of habitat, from coastal raised heath peatlands to blueberry barrens to cobble beaches.

A Nordic study sheds new light on the role of northern peatlands in regulating the regional climate.

Freeland and the Liberal government also committed more than $600 million to the conservation of native grasslands, wetlands, and peatlands, and nearly $100 million for a new Natural Climate Solutions for Agriculture fund.

Kate holds an MSc in world heritage management and her research interests include the cultural ecosystems of peatlands in Ireland, community engagement in conservation and effective conservation communication strategies.

Although peatlands make up only 3% of the Earth’s surface, they store one third of the soil carbon trapped in soils globally.

But many of the blazes smoulder deep underground in once-swampy areas known as peatlands, where they can last for months and release eye-watering amounts of thick, acrid smoke.

The Indonesian government has mandated the Peatland Restoration Agency, or the BRG, to rehabilitate 2.6 million hectares of peatlands, ensuring these are wet all year round.

To become officially "sustainable", a company pledges not to clear any primary forest, to have transparent supply chains, to check how much carbon they are emitting, to limit planting on peatlands, to treat workers fairly, and create wildlife zones.

Under this regulation, pulp and paper companies can see their crops through to the end of the current harvest cycle, at which point they must restore the peatlands by blocking drainage canals, maintaining the water level and planting native vegetation.

During the early Middle Ages this began to change as rising sea levels and storms started to eat away at the coastal areas which consisted mainly of peatlands.