A wetland is a stew of botanical life and can absorb and release heat from the sun. Try taking a whirl through these four ...

About a year ago, opponents determined to stop an Alabama company from mining next to the Okefenokee Swamp were running out of options. Here's how a deal came together.

Agricultural use of peatlands significantly alters their greenhouse gas emission profiles, especially by turning them into potent sources of nitrous ...

Northern peatlands could seriously complicate efforts to cool the planet, especially after a temporary overshoot of the 1.5°C ...

Young forests regrowing from land where mature woodlands have been cut down have a key role to play in removing billions of ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

How a new monitoring system improves fire detections and captures the air pollution effects of planned peatland burns.

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

A dead bird is fished out of Waipā’s Lake Ngāroto. The peat lake has experienced a botulism outbreak.SUPPLIED / Stuff The future of Waikato’s peat lakes can be glimpsed in the toxic waters ...

Thousands of birds flying south for the winter stop off in Nigeria’s Hadejia Wetlands National Park. Researchers mapped the ...

Spanning over 1.6 million acres - half of which is water - this forest has rare wetlands that are totally unaffected by human ...

Thanks to their impressive building skills, beavers are a keystone species—an animal whose activities support its entire ...