These soggy spots have been dismissed as inhospitable smudges on the map — even serving as a metaphor for corruption that ...

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

Penang government has identified a total of 449.12ha of peat swamp forests in the island’s southwest district to be gazetted as permanent nature reserves under the National Forestry Act 1984.

SINGAPORE – Conserving the remaining, nearly intact peatlands and mangroves of South-east Asia – the region’s green lungs – ...

Chimtong has roughly a thousand oil palm trees, and many of them are grown in a mangrove forest conservation area – the Pru Kaching peat swamp – in Paklong area of Batiew district. Chimtong is one of ...

“But in parts of the swamp, we can only get it so wet because we didn’t get rid of roads and ditches entirely.” Restoring wetter peat-loving forests also comes at a cost, stressing out the ...

and are called "peat bogs," such as in Ireland ; we call them peat meadows and peat swamps. These bogs vary in depth from a few feet to several yards, and are, in general too soft for the foot of ...

Peat deposits are an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter and are extremely valuable for their function as carbon sinks, or reservoirs for carbon dioxide (CO 2). During the ...

Take an even closer look, this time at the soil, and you’ll see the partially decomposed remains of the leaves and woody material of a forest – peat – this was once a boggy swamp. And yet the ground ...