Business professionals at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership are seeking research participants to undertake a short interview before the end of January 2025.
The IUCN UK Peatland Programme and the Environment Agency are delighted to announce a series of workshops for 2025 aimed at highlighting the importance of the water environment within the peatland…
Can you complete a short survey on the extent to which palaeoecological research is utilised in UK peatland restoration projects? It should take just 10 minutes to complete and will help inform…
Take part in the PeatQuest global survey to guide future research topics with the aim of gaining a greater understanding of managing and using peatlands more wisely all over the world.
Dr Scott J. Davidson (University of Plymouth) has developed a community-science driven project to look at how peatlands change colour across the growing season (also known as green leaf phenology…
Peatlands can come in a range of sizes from small pockets in the landscape to vast expanses of blanket bog, it’s not always easy to monitor their condition. Researchers from The James Hutton…
![Figure 1. The ten European mire regions (simplified from [27]). (I) Arctic seepage and polygon mire region, (II) palsa mire region, (III) northern fen region, (IV) typical raised bog region, (V) Atlantic bog region, (VI) continental fen and bog region, (VII) nemoral-sub-meridional fen region, (VIII) Colchis compound region. Figure 1. The ten European mire regions (simplified from [27]). (I) Arctic seepage and polygon mire region, (II) palsa mire region, (III) northern fen region, (IV) typical raised bo](/sites/default/files/styles/grid_teaser_desk/public/2024-06/Mires%20in%20Europe%20-%20Regional%20Diversity%2C%20Condition%20and%20Protection%20-%20Figure%202%20-%20Franziska%20Tanneberger%20et%20al%202021.jpg.webp?h=408ec317&itok=EGTCs3O8)
New research finds that 25% of Europe’s peatlands are degraded, increasing to 50% -120,000km2 - when looking at the European Union alone.
Today sees launch of PeatDataHub. A research hub for communicating peatland science and managing peatland monitoring data.
A new set of monitoring equipment has been installed at the Water Works project site in East Anglia, by our Eyes on the Bog Champion, Jack Clough of the University of East London.
