Most of Britain’s peat bogs could stop forming new peat as the climate changes – new study: Joe Dunckley / shutterstock By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the stark warning from a new academic study my colleagues and I just published in …
Congo peat swamps store three years of global carbon emissions – imminent oil drilling could release it: Professor Corneille Ewango of the University of Kisangani in a peat swamp along the Ikelemba River, Democratic Republic of Congo. Bart Crezee/University of Leeds, Author provided Democratic Republic of the Congo’s government is preparing to auction off a …
Peat compost to be banned – luckily, green alternatives are just as good for your garden: IgorAleks/Shutterstock Peat has been a staple ingredient of composts sold in British garden centres since the 1960s, even though it’s not actually that nutritious for plants. The reason why this spongy turf is coveted by gardeners is that it …
Peat bogs: restoring them could slow climate change – and revive a forgotten world: Helen Hotson/Shutterstock Bogs, mires, fens and marshes – just their names seem to conjure myth and mystery. Though today, our interest in these waterlogged landscapes tends to be more prosaic. Because of a lack of oxygen, they can build up vast …
South Africa in the news: WBBL preview: New-look Heat not thinking of three peat: It will be a different Brisbane Heat side that takes the field in WBBL|06 with lots of exciting young talent Brisbane Heat have vowed not to get wrapped up in the hype as they attempt a three-peat of …: “South Africa” …
Wind farms built on carbon-rich peat bogs lose their ability to fight climate change: Chico & Clough, Author provided Wind power in the UK now accounts for nearly 30% of all electricity production. Land-based wind turbines now produce the cheapest type of energy – and there is no doubt wind farms can help to reduce …
War and peat: how bog moss helped save thousands of lives in World War I: Wellcome Collection, CC BY-SA At 07:30 on July 1, 1916, a private in the British army – let’s call him Tommy Atkins – scrambled out of a trench in front lines and advanced across no man’s land towards the German …