Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.

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There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

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Data on precipitation and evapotranspiration — the transfer of water from soil and plants to the atmosphere ... multiyear droughts in the East Congo basin, southwestern North America ...

The longest multi-year drought occurred in the eastern Congo basin. It lasted for almost a decade ... the lack of rainfall is not strong enough to diminish vegetation. This suggests that plants in ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, the nation’s only government agency dedicated to conserving plants and animals, has frozen ...

The Hadza get almost 70 percent of their calories from plants. The Kung traditionally rely on tubers and mongongo nuts, the Aka and Baka Pygmies of the Congo River Basin on yams, the Tsimane and ...

The Congo Basin—Earth’s second-largest rainforest and one of its most vital ecosystems—has lost 23 million hectares of forest since Abong’o’s so-called dinosaur encounter, an area ...