Southeast Asia’s peatlands and mangroves store immense amounts of carbon, yet they’re rapidly disappearing. A new study finds ...

A new study reveals that peatlands—a vital carbon store that many people have never heard of—are dangerously under-protected, ...

Conserving and restoring Southeast Asia’s carbon-rich peatlands and mangroves could mitigate more than 50 per cent of the ...

Call them swamps, bogs, fens — whatever you want. They go by many names and are often called peatlands. Only recently have we begun to appreciate peat. Locked away in that soggy soil under ankle ...

Peatlands, one of the planet’s most crucial carbon sinks, are facing a crisis of protection and preservation, a new global ...

Conserving and restoring Southeast Asia's carbon-rich peatlands and mangroves could mitigate more than 50 per cent of the region's land-use carbon emissions, according to a new international study.

“[W]hen peatlands and mangroves are disturbed, usually due to land conversion, they will release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere,” Sigit said. Burned peat forest in Borneo. Image ...

Updated Emissions Estimates and Pathways for Change The study also provides up-to-date estimates of emissions from disturbed peatlands and mangroves across Southeast Asia from 2001 to 2022 ...