In June and July, the Technical Surveillance Authority (TSA) conducted a safety inspection campaign in the Estonian peat deposits, aimed also at improving cooperation with peat harvesting companies.

From Siberia to Brazil, wildfires are moving underground and burning up massive carbon deposits. The resulting emissions threaten to worsen global warming. The Arctic tundra. The vast floodplains of ...

Workers in Sumatra process an oil palm harvest from the plantation on the left even as the remnants of the natural peat swamp forest in the distance are burned to make way for new plantations. Photo ...

RECENT work on the Yorkshire peat has raised some very interesting problems as to the ages of various types of peat deposit in the British Isles. One of the striking features of the Pennine peat is ...