I was at the Royal Horticultural Society’s spring press conference this week to hear about the latest gardening trends. Whether or not you care about horticultural fashions, one development is in ...

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

"Those little fabric things around the peat pots are even worse," he adds. "You can't get rid of 'em. They say 'biodegradable' but they're woven plastic." Soil blocking tools, he says, are ...

The Hula wetland and old Lake Hula drainage were completed in 1957, and the land was converted into agricultural use. However ...

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.