These soggy spots have been dismissed as inhospitable smudges on the map — even serving as a metaphor for corruption that needs to be drained. Call them swamps, bogs, fens — whatever you want. They go ...

Using satellite data and field measurements, researchers mapped emissions across Southeast Asian peatlands and found they ...

A peatland complex in the Congo Basin which is known to be a globally important carbon store is twice as old as previously thought, according to a new scientific study. An international team of ...

New research shows that even healthy tropical peat forests can release more warming gases due to water level changes and drought.

Multiple sensors on ESA’s Envisat environmental satellite have been used to peer beneath a vast pall of smoke above tropical Borneo and detect fire hotspots – known to add millions of tons of harmful ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) – An Indonesian court has thrown out a lawsuit concerning the development of peat swamp forests that was brought by conservationists who fear for the fate of orangutans.

The Okefenokee Swamp is an enormous peat bog 38 miles long by 25 miles wide, created 7,000 years ago. Kenneth Fletcher When I first read about the Okefenokee Swamp as a 10-year-old boy, I immediately ...

Betta iaspis was found in only one small forest peat swamp next to a “huge” oil palm plantation, researchers said. Photo by Siborey Sean via Unsplash In 2022, after passing through the hands of local ...

Using a new method to track groundwater levels and greenhouse gas emissions, researchers uncover the climate impact of ...