Thank peat for that scotchy flavor of Scotch whisky: The muck forms in Scotland’s bogs, when layer after layer of dead vegetation resists decay and compresses into fuel, which is burned during scotch ...

Not only seas and oceans sequester carbon from the atmosphere, but also peatlands. They are considered to contain the largest terrestrial carbon stores. Plant remains, and thus carbon, that break down ...

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 ...

Precise carbon measurements indicate that peat is already being formed at the Volgermeerpolder near Amsterdam (NL), a toxic waste landfill site that was capped with foil with an artificial wetland on ...

Rising temperatures were a key driver of peatland formation after the last glacial maximum, according to new research. Rising temperatures were a key driver of peatland formation after the last ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Journal of Ecology publishes original research papers on all aspects of the ecology of plants (including algae), in both aquatic ...