“In a way, a peatland is less a land than a memory of what has existed on it—where life is not lost but preserved in muddy murk.”
– Science and health journalist
Sabrina Imbler, ruminating on
peatlands, a long misunderstood ecosystem. Beyond sharing anecdotes about peat’s ability to preserve ancient cheese and corpses, they outline the increasing recognition that peatlands—occupying only 3% of the earth’s landmass—are nature’s (near) perfect carbon sink.