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UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton has been wading through thick, smelly muck in the ...

In the newly designated Arran UNESCO Global Geopark, local farmer Stewart Lambie is restoring peatland to protect ...

But in peatlands, the decomposition process grinds to a halt, so over time, a large amount of carbon accumulates and remains trapped in peat soils in the form of partially decomposed organic matter.