Home › Return of bogs in Britain?
 

Keywords :   


Return of bogs in Britain?

2013-09-10 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: Experts are calling for a third of the country's peatlands, covering a million hectares or almost 2.5 million acres, to be in good condition or under restoration schemes by 2020. A failure to preserve the UK's peat areas, which occur both in uplands and in low-lying wetlands, could see billions of tonnes of carbon they store being lost to the atmosphere, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) UK peatland programme's experts warned. Peatlands store twice as much carbon as...

Tags: return britain bogs

Category:Electronics and Electrical

Latest from this category

All news
»
02.11Subtropical Storm Patty Graphics
02.11Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
02.11Eastern North Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook
02.11Tropical Storm Lane Graphics
02.11Subtropical Storm Patty Graphics
02.11Tropical Storm Lane Forecast Discussion Number 4
02.11Subtropical Storm Patty Wind Speed Probabilities Number 2
02.11Summary for Tropical Storm Lane (EP3/EP132024)
More »