CausesCIFOR/Flickr As dry season looms, Sumatra villagers hope their peat restoration pays off Intensive efforts in recent years to prevent fires in Indonesia’s Riau province, the country’s perennial epicenter of forest and land fires, will be put to the test this year as the dry season makes a full return.
Politics ‘Yehewin Aski’: The Breathing Lands protecting Canada from climate breakdown New research echoes long-standing Indigenous knowledge about the importance of carbon-storing peatlands.
Politics www.irishtimes.com Why peatlands matter in the battle against climate change Living peatlands sequester carbon-dioxide, drawing it down from the atmosphere through plants and trapping it underground as carbon.
