Peat is employed for fuel in the greater part of Ireland, in several districts of France, Germany, and Holland, and in the Highlands of Scotland. The substance is soft when found in the bog ...

from how the Dutch dug deep for their fuel supply to how the bogs preserved our ancestors, as evidenced by Old Croghan Man. He meets those advocating for the peat industry to continue in Finland ...

or when people burn peat as fuel or to make room for agriculture, that carbon gets released. Until now, however, scientists and policymakers haven’t had the full picture of how much of the world ...