Globally, soils store more than twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. Therefore, carbon uptake and release by soils ...

This slow-going subsidence is measured in just a handful of millimeters per year, but rising sea levels due to climate change ...

A new study using recent satellite data finds that all cities in the United States with populations of more than 600,000 are ...

Peat is the accumulation of partially decayed organic matter in wetlands, compressed by time into dense soils that store more carbon per hectare than any other type of landscape. When left ...

A guilty mind can never rest easy—and Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif might just have proven. Without a single official accusation from India regarding ...

The back-to-back 3A state champs cruised through the regular season and now just sit a playoff run away from the school’s second-ever 3-peat. Being three-time defending champs isn’t new ...

More damage from ground subsidence caused by poor water management and drought. This image was taken in May 2024. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images). Land across Iran is subsiding ...

Peat can retain 100-1,300 per cent of its dry weight in water, while mineral soils typically absorb only 20-30 per cent ... Another major contributor to peat flooding is subsidence — the compaction of ...

“There has recently been mass drainage of peatlands for agriculture in Southeast Asia, resulting in soil compaction and subsidence and ... set out in search of peat. Starting in regions ...