Environmental stories tagged with: peatland

Greenpeace activists block palm oil shipment in Indonesia

Monday, 10th November 2008, 7:29 pm

Dumai, Indonesia - In the latest stage of the Esperanza's Forests for Climate tour around south-east Asia, activists have arrived in Dumai, Indonesia to block a palm oil shipment from departing for Europe.

Preserving Indonesia's Peatland

Monday, 29th October 2007, 5:52 pm

Greenpeace volunteers and a local community are working to stop the destruction of an area of swamp forest in Sumatra, Indonesia, which is to be converted into a palm oil plantation.

For Peat's Sake

Tuesday, 4th September 2007, 2:45 pm

Bogs and peatlands in northern Britain store over 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon but severe erosion and climate change are in danger of releasing this stored carbon into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming, according to research presented at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Friday.