By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the stark ...

Peat is a nonrenewable resource because it is being consumed much faster than it can be produced; a bog regrows at a rate of ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

Ancient Greece, renowned for its contributions to democracy and philosophy, also holds the unfortunate distinction of ...

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an ...

The central lake and peat bog support rare plants including bogbean, round leaved sundew and the royal fern. Birdlife ...

Alexander McKellar struck charity cyclist Tony Parsons, 63, with a car in September 2017, before hiding his body in a remote ...

Video / Fire and Emergency NZ Signs of recovery are growing from the ashes of Whangamarino Wetlands after a scrub fire burned through more than 1000ha of vegetation in October. The fire was first ...

Peatlands are unique habitats capable of storing twice as much carbon as forests, writes Erin McDaid of the Nottinghamshire ...