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Restoring peatlands is an effective way of reversing the carbon loss within damaged bogs
(24/03/2010)

Peatlands are wetlands which are naturally heavily waterlogged and therefore contain reduced oxygen levels to prevent dead plants from fully decaying. Over thousands of years, layers of plant material accumulate and create the material known as peat. As huge areas of bog have already been drained in the past, the carbon which was locked in the peat for thousands of years is now rapidly being released to the atmosphere. A programme to prevent millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide leaking into... [more]

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