As countries transition away from fossil fuels such as coal and peat, communities rightly worry about where the next jobs ...

Protecting and restoring Ireland's peatlands is not only a legal or technical challenge but a delicate balancing act ...

Running from Inverness to Britain's most northerly junction, the Far North Line passes through sheep meadows, traditional ...

Gardeners are being urged to check the bags of compost they buy from garden centres and supermarkets, as they must be clearly ...

In waters as acidic as vinegar—at a pH of 4—a small, resilient fish known as the Malay combtail (Belontia hasselti), meanders ...

This lack of reactive oxygen results in carbon being locked up in the peat, and ancient finds in bogs – such as bodies, wooden Viking ships, and books written on animal skins – can be ...

“From a natural sense, peat bogs are super important for our environment as a whole, because they are a carbon sink,” Klier said. “Therefore, they absorb 30 percent of the world’s natural ...

Plans for the largest onshore wind farm in England have been scaled back by a developer. Calderdale Energy Park said it would ...

Peat bogs, however, shouldn’t be dry or dominated by a single shrub. They are England’s largest carbon store, covering about 11 per cent of the country and holding an estimated 584m tonnes of carbon.

Gardeners have been urged to stop using a certain type of soil in their gardens as it is "damaging" - and there's a safer ...