When you can’t see the peat for the trees!
One of the perks of being a Bogologist is the chance to travel around and see cool bogs in interesting places (I’m writing this just home from Russia). Over the […]
Category Archives: Carbon
Bogs and people: a Ugandan perspective
‘Ecosystem services’ might be a relatively recent term, but people have been exploiting bogs in many ways for centuries. Most obvious, and unfortunate given our present day knowledge of the […]
Peatlands under fire!
Can pristine, undrained bogs burn? Looking at the soggy surface conditions of most northern peatlands, it may be hard to believe that, even in a natural state, they can actually […]
Tales from the tropics: peat and carbon in Indonesia
When people talk about the carbon stored in forests, they tend to think mostly of the trees. Usually, most of the carbon is in the trees. But in tropical peat […]
Into the wild – peat in Alaska’s far north
Being a Bogologist is a great job. Not only do I get to do something for a living that interests me a great deal, I get to travel the world […]
