The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s government is preparing to auction off a series of licenses to drill for oil in the Congo basin. This threatens to damage around 11 million hectares of the world ...

Multiple sensors on ESA’s Envisat environmental satellite have been used to peer beneath a vast pall of smoke above tropical Borneo and detect fire hotspots – known to add millions of tons of harmful ...

Bart Crezee receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. Simon Lewis has received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, the Royal Society, the European Union, the ...

A new study in Indonesia’s palm oil capital of Riau has found that proximity to roads and processing mills are key factors determining whether small farmers expand their cultivation into peat swamp ...

The vast region may stay wet—or dry up and burn—depending on whether indigenous people want to continue to work the land This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Last ...

The largest peatlands in the Amazon rainforest, which hold a vast, concentrated amount of carbon, are under increasing threat from changing land use, research suggests. The largest peatlands in the ...

Underneath modern-day Broad Ripple, southeast of where the White River considers flowing north before meandering south again, is an ancient peat bog carved out by a retreating glacier. Bacon’s Swamp ...

In 2022, after passing through the hands of local collectors, a new fish from Sumatra Island was added to the commercial aquarium trade. The unique fighting fish, or betta fish, turned out to be a new ...

UGA researchers have found the Okefenokee is more closely tied to the vast aquifer beneath it, suggesting changes in or around the swamp could affect groundwater supplies.