Fen soil can help reduce the iron and sulphate content of acid mine drainage by 80%, new research shows. According to scientists at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU-Berlin) and the Leibniz ...

A new study shows that combining water management with biochar application could transform drained agricultural peatlands ...

Scientists are proposing a new way to boost the climate benefits of biochar by pairing it with peatland restoration. A new study suggests that applying biochar to rewetted peatlands could dramatically ...

In Germany, current and former wetlands cover some five percent of the country's land area. Photo by Myriam Zilles on Unsplash Amid the fields of northern Germany a vast expanse of bulrushes has been ...

In the fall of 2015 an incredible 100,000smoldering peatland fires turned Indonesia into a hazy hellscape, air thick with smoke and chemicals. More than 500,000 people were hospitalized with ...

Thinktank suggests projects could deliver one-fifth of savings needed from farming, but agriculture experts cast doubt on idea Rewetting about half of England’s lowland peat would be enough to deliver ...

The first step to rewetting more drained peatlands in the midlands has been taken by Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett. She has launched a ...

Malchin (Germany) (AFP) – Amid the fields of northern Germany a vast expanse of bulrushes has been planted to form one of Europe's largest reclaimed marshes. Just four years ago, the 10-hectare ...

Amid the fields of northern Germany a vast expanse of bulrushes has been planted to form one of Europe’s largest reclaimed marshes. Just four years ago, the 10-hectare plot close to the town of ...