What law is the EU proposing that’s caused such controversy? The Nature Restoration Law is an EU effort to try to tackle the large losses in biodiversity over the past half century. It proposes ...

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 ...

Finland and Poland are considering rewetting drained peatlands as a defense barrier in case of a Russian attack. It could also help the climate. The approach could also benefit the climate. Though ...

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 ...

Soil incubation experiments revealed a comprehensive increase in CO2 release by drying-rewetting cycles (DWCs) among Japanese forests and pastureland soils, suggesting a significant contribution of ...

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 ...

Rewetting drained land could help in the fight against climate change but the EU's agricultural subsidies scheme currently favours the use of drained land. Dutch farmer Aldert van Weeran plucked a ...

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 ...