The burning of huge peat areas in Indonesia in recent years has covered the country in smoke and made it one of the world’s ...

The buried roots and stumps of an ancient forest in southern China are the charred remains of an ancient war and the burning ...

As countries transition away from fossil fuels such as coal and peat, communities rightly worry about where the next jobs ...

Reacting to plans unveiled by Defra, which suggest extending the 2021 restrictions on burning to an additional 146,000 hectares of deep peat in the uplands, Darren Chadwick, from the Yorkshire ...

Polish firefighters are struggling to extinguish a 450‑hectare blaze in Biebrza National Park that has penetrated peat layers ...

“We are also looking at next steps for measures to ban horticultural peat.” Meanwhile, a ban preventing the burning of heather and other vegetation across swathes of peatland will be expanded ...

The Defra consultation is the latest attempt to resolve the argument. The last such attempt came in a set of 2021 regulations, which prohibited burning on peat more than 40cm deep within Sites of ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. As wildfires continue to break out across the UK, campaigners say government plans to extend restrictions on peat burning could increase the ...

The burning of huge peat areas in Indonesia in recent years has covered the country in smoke and made it one of the world’s worst carbon emitters from land use change. A new study, published in ...