According to a new study conducted at the University of Helsinki, the area of northern peatlands has grown in recent centuries. Previously, it was thought that the lateral expansion of peatlands in ...

Rapid peatland expansion across the Arctic could change the global carbon balance, depending on how long new carbon remains stored.

Forests are great and all, but in one way, they don’t come close to the raw power of peatlands. Sprawling in the Arctic and elsewhere, like tropical regions, these soils are loaded with plant matter ...

Vast areas of the UK’s peatlands are likely to be unsuitable for peat accumulation by 2061–80 due to climate change. The UK’s peatlands face an uncertain future amid the escalating impacts of climate ...

Jonathan Ritson has received funding from charities delivering peatland restoration. By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

In Ireland, the abundance of peatlands means that many people have not only seen them but may also have touched them, jumped on them, and even smelt them. Generations of childhood memories are tied to ...