A water company is reusing conifer trees from wastewater sites in Devon. South West Water (SWW) said staff had been working at two treatment works in recent months to remove large conifer trees as ...

Peatlands cover around 3% of Earth’s land ... Boreal ecosystems absorb CO2 from the atmosphere through trees and vegetation. Over thousands of years, this carbon accumulates underground in ...

Freddie Ingleby from Caledonian Climate Partners, a consultancy firm which helps estates restores peatlands, said the current system focuses too much on tree-planting and future carbon removal ...

The upland peatlands of the UK have been severely eroded because of industrial pollution, overgrazing, drainage and other human actions. Research from The University of Manchester is helping to ...

The headline goal of the UK's peatland strategy—a framework published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) that sets out how to improve UK peatlands—is simple ...

New legislation and guidance to give National Parks and National Landscapes clear mandate to widen public access to nature ...