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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For five generations, Michael Guinan’s family has farmed the soft peatlands of Offaly. As dairy and beef farmers, they have seen many changes, including the mass drainage of land by Bord na Móna ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amid the fields of northern Germany a vast expanse of bulrushes has been planted to form one of Europe’s largest reclaimed marshes. Just four years ago, the 10-hectare plot close to the town of ...