The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s government is preparing to auction off a series of licenses to drill for oil in the Congo basin. This threatens to damage around 11 million hectares of the world ...

Bart Crezee receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. Simon Lewis has received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, the Royal Society, the European Union, the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

As delegates from more than 100 nations haggle over solutions to the climate crisis at the high-stakes COP26 U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, carbon dioxide, a main culprit in global warming, is ...

Urgent protection is needed to prevent carbon gas emissions from decomposing peat swamps in lowland Peruvian Amazonia (LPA) – which are bigger than previously thought. Scientists discovered small but ...

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