Peatlands

A 12,000-year-old peat habitat is being cleared of spruce trees in the fight against climate change.

The Winter Hill moorland, which was devastated by fire in 2018, is being restored.

The proposal in the south of Scotland was rejected as being incompatible with climate change goals.

A company is told plans to extract peat from a site in the south of Scotland are incompatible with climate targets.

Huge stocks of greenhouse gases tied up in peatlands could be released as the world warms.

UK peatland emissions could cancel out all carbon reductions from new and existing forests.

The huge expanse of peatbog, lochs and bog pools in Caithness and Sutherland is twice the size of Orkney.

Banning peat cutting helps "to prevent the release of climate change gases", a minister says.

The peat bog blaze on Hatfield Moors near Doncaster is now 'under control', say the fire service.

It is estimated a 24-hour fire in the Mourne Mountains released up to 300 tonnes of carbon.

A team of scientists are to look at how to better protect the soils from climate change.

Scientists will study the trees' rings to find evidence of Scottish woodland losses thousands of years ago.

Bikers used an area "as a playground" and showed "scant regard for our environment", a minister says.

Wind farms are part of the government's plans to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The massive fire in the Flow Country in May doubled Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions while it burnt.

Scientists call for urgent action to prevent peatlands drying out and releasing vast stores of carbon.