In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed
->Newsday | More on "Restoring North Carolina's peatlands" at BigEarthData.ai | #Peatland

What makes the forest #fires in #Borneo particularly worrying is that they are burning through one of the world's largest tropical #peatland ecosystems, which, under normal conditions, serve as a reservoir for ancient #carbon. Burning, they become „carbon bombs“.

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Thrilled to see findings from Peatscapes included in a new Oxford University Press 'Intersection' on Environmental Chance and Human Experience!

Led by Nye Merrill-Glover, this piece examines the hydrological dilemmas of lowland #peatland #restoration in the UK.

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How renewable energy projects can benefit Scotland's peatlands
->The Scotsman | More on "Renewable energy and Scottish peatlands" at BigEarthData.ai | #RenewableEnergy #Peatland

Back from #PowerToThePeatlands in Den Bosch and still processing the overwhelming amount of #peatland content & people!
Big thanks to the organizers and the opportunity to talk about peatland monitoring (#MoMoK), #paludiculture (PaludiZentrale, Living Lab Teufelsmoor) and modelling (EO4Nature).