Healthy peat is the country's biggest carbon store but when damaged it releases planet-warming greenhouse gases back into the ...

I was at the Royal Horticultural Society’s spring press conference this week to hear about the latest gardening trends. Whether or not you care about horticultural fashions, one development is in ...

Further work is needed—on this and other carbon assimilation processes carried out by the micro-organisms in peat bogs—to fully quantify the potential of these ecosystems as carbon sinks and ...

The Brazilian rainforest is thought of as the world’s greatest “carbon sink”, yet our wet Irish peatlands store four times as ...

Further work is needed -- on this and other carbon assimilation processes carried out by the micro-organisms in peat bogs -- to fully quantify the potential of these ecosystems as carbon sinks and ...