If we want to protect the world's peatlands and do something for the climate, then we need to stop using peaty soil when gardening. Here's what you need to look out for on a bag of soil. Karl-Josef ...

Today, the Humberhead Peatlands nature reserve, which also includes Goole, Thorne and Hatfield Moors, is described by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust as one of the richest areas of lowland peat vegetation ...

B&Q is urging the UK government to ban sales of bagged peat-based compost by 2024 to enable peatlands to optimise carbon sequestering. The home improvement and garden living retailer set a goal last ...

MINSK, 30 November (BelTA) – A program on upgrading Belarusian peat extraction enterprises till 2025 has been drafted, BelTA learned from Mikhail Khamitsevich, Head of the Peat Industry Office of the ...

Streamers of police tape decorated the deserted Offaly bog in central Ireland. Heavy rain poured down on Cathy Moore and Conor McDermott as they trudged through the thick mud. Their boots squelched ...

Peatlands act as a crucial climate regulator, and are increasingly at the center of conflicts over resource extraction.

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Individual and simultaneous production of amylase and protease by Bacillus polymyxa in an acid catalysed extract of peat containing starch, peptone and calcium chloride was examined in shake-flask ...

LYAKHOVICHI DISTRICT, 4 September (BelTA) – Belarusian peat is in high demand on the international market and is now supplied to nine countries worldwide, BelTA learned from Belarusian Energy Minister ...

For 20 years, Crowle Moor in north Lincolnshire has been part of a national nature reserve. But echoes of its industrial and cultural past remain – from abandoned railway engines to tales of boggarts ...