Fen soil can help reduce the iron and sulphate content of acid mine drainage by 80%, new research shows. According to scientists at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU-Berlin) and the Leibniz ...

In Germany, current and former wetlands cover some five percent of the country's land area. Photo by Myriam Zilles on Unsplash Amid the fields of northern Germany a vast expanse of bulrushes has been ...

Scientists are proposing a new way to boost the climate benefits of biochar by pairing it with peatland restoration. A new study suggests that applying biochar to rewetted peatlands could dramatically ...

Rewetting of tropical peatland that was drained for agriculture can lead to the recovery of the native ecosystem, a long-term study of a former pulpwood plantation in Indonesia shows. Researchers ...

The first step to rewetting more drained peatlands in the midlands has been taken by Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett. She has launched a ...

CO 2 release increase under repeated drying-rewetting cycles (DWCs). Dr. Nagano pointed out that extreme weather phenomena are becoming more evident due to global warming. Furthermore, he says that ...

Thinktank suggests projects could deliver one-fifth of savings needed from farming, but agriculture experts cast doubt on idea Rewetting about half of England’s lowland peat would be enough to deliver ...

The increased focus on the role of ponds in biodiversity comes against a background of growing controversy over a proposed European Union nature restoration law that includes the rewetting of ...

Amid the fields of northern Germany a vast expanse of bulrushes has been planted to form one of Europe’s largest reclaimed marshes. Just four years ago, the 10-hectare plot close to the town of ...

Malchin (Germany) (AFP) – Amid the fields of northern Germany a vast expanse of bulrushes has been planted to form one of Europe's largest reclaimed marshes. Just four years ago, the 10-hectare ...