Uniquely, an Australian subtropical peatland ecosystem exists that is not only resilient to the frequent bushfires, but actually needs fire to survive.
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Hidden Peat, a new campaign from The Wildlife Trusts, encourages people to look out for peat-free alternatives and support their wider use.
Peatlands safely store hundreds to thousands of years’ worth of humanity’s toxic legacy but climate change and physical disturbances are putting these pollution vaults, and us, at risk.
Drained peatlands contribute five per cent of global carbon emissions. Paludiculture, or agriculture on wet peatlands, protects peatlands and allows farmers to maintain their livelihoods.
Increasing rainfall and degrading peatland are threatening archaeological artefacts buried in UK land.
Peatlands play an outsized role in filtering water and mitigating floods, drought and wildfire — and they store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests.
In South Sumatra, the 2015-2018 moratorium reduced the rate of peatland conversion by about 24% compared to the 2000s period.
Peatlands worldwide are running short of water, and the amount of greenhouse gases this could set loose would be devastating for our efforts to curb climate change.
Peatlands store more soil carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem, including tropical forests. But they have been heavily exploited and damaged. Now, scientists are working to restore them.
Indonesia’s Peatland Restoration Agency is likely to have its tenure extended by four years. What has been achieved and what should the agency focus on for the next term?
Peatlands will become a major source of greenhouse gases as the permafrost thaws.
Villagers of Sumatra and Kalimantan relunctant to participate in peatland restoration, contributing to the recent forest fires in Indonesia.
We have developed an online tool to help authorities identify which areas they should focus on for reducing forest fires and haze in order to maximize overall health benefits.
A forest professor tells his experience on the hardships of putting out peat fires in Indonesia
The boreal forest is being reshaped by wildfire. As climate change intensifies wildfire activity, the boreal forest will likely become a carbon source.
As unlikely as it may sound, a new approach for fighting the destruction of wildfires in Canada’s boreal region may lie in wetlands packed with soaking layers of peat and topped with living moss.
Petroleum exploration in Alberta has disturbed more than 1,900 sq. km of wetlands in Alberta, boosting emissions of methane: a potent greenhouse gas.
It’s time for farmers to embrace the wetland instead of draining it.
The dry arid conditions that come with a high CO2 atmospheres are the perfect tinderbox for wildfires.
Zero-burning policy could hurt small-holder farmers. The ban on the use of fire for land clearing has raised the costs to prepare their land for planting and to keep it pest-free.
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Professor, School of Earth, Environment & Society, McMaster University
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Associate professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Researcher, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
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Professor of Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Lecturer, Environmental Science, University College Cork
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Senior Lecturer, Physical Geography, Stockholm University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Senior Research Scientist, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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PhD Candidate in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
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Research Associate, Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
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Assistant professor, Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
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Professor, Department of Managment, HEC Montréal
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Researcher, Centre for International Forestry Research
