Peatlands

Morning mist settles over Lake Drummond in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: Rebecca Wynn/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Articles, Climate Change, Nature & Environment February 19, 2025

Virginia Once Drained and Dried Peatlands, but Now Eyes Them as Carbon Sinks

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Policy & Strategy March 25, 2024

The Carbon Brief Profile: Democratic Republic of the Congo

The DRC is home to around 60% of the second-largest rainforest on the planet, as well as much of the world’s largest tropical peatland, the…

The Lost Bayou: Grand Bayou

Grand Bayou, LA. At one time, it was a lively community of close-knit families, until they were forced to leave. ©2020. Garde Voir Ci magazine. Nicholls State University Department of Mass Communication.

World Rainforest Day

Rainforests cover only 2 percent of the planet’s surface area but are responsible for more than 25% of all Western medicine and house more than 50% of the world’s plant and animal species.