The Indonesian company responsible for the largest amount of deforestation, PT Mayawana Persada, has largely ceased clearing ...

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 ...

Tim Searchinger from Princeton calls it "the first serious plan anyone has agreed to with real money and real teeth to reduce ...

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 ...

Both that committee and the CPRE are urging more ambitious action to protect and enhance peatlands. A peat bog is a Jekyll and Hyde thing. A wet, pristine peat bog soaks up CO2 and, unlike trees ...

Now sadly in the past, and in some places today, peatlands are destroyed and burned to make room for housing and trees. But when this happens a greenhouse gas called carbon dioxide is released ...