How to Use peatland in a Sentence

peatland

noun

• Forests, peatlands, glaciers and coastline can be found across the land.
  — Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 17 Jan. 2026
• To understand peatlands requires thinking on a much longer timescale than the life of a human.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
• Tropical peatland blazes are among the most dangerous on Earth.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
• Peat becomes a kind of time capsule; core samples taken from deep peats reveal the story of the peatland’s past lives.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
• But over time, peatlands have been misunderstood and mistreated.
  — Erin Hassanzadeh, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
• Most of the world’s peatlands are concentrated at higher latitudes closer to the poles or in the tropics.
  — Drew Kann, AJC.com, 20 July 2026
• One company made cardboard boxes with 10% peatland biomass.
  — Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2025
• For many decades, commercial logging was allowed to tear up hundreds to thousands of square miles of reindeer peatland habitat.
  — Matthew L. Druckenmiller, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2023
• The lonely views of distillery stacks—undercut by peatlands, circled by barley fields burning gold—are ever-present.
  — Mike MacEacheran, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 June 2025
• Like many peatlands in the northern latitudes, the Glades developed as the last glacial period waned and the earth became warmer and wetter.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
• Other major El Niño episodes brought crop failures, devastating peatland fires, and prolonged droughts.
  — Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
• In Southeast Asia, wildfires are torching forests and peatlands in Indonesia, sending up plumes of toxic haze.
  — Edna Tarigan, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
• The prayer gathering in one of the regions hardest hit by this year’s wildfire season comes as the province faces prolonged dry weather that has heightened the risk of forest and peatland fires.
  — Muhammad Hatta, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
• At the same time, only 17% of global peatlands are officially protected, according to the study.
  — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
• And the type of peatlands found in North Carolina, and for hundreds of miles along the Eastern Seaboard, are among the most threatened in the world.
  — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
• Most natural carbon storage is driven by plants, so forests, peatlands and wetlands all store carbon because of plant growth and the build-up of organic material.
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 22 Mar. 2026
• Governments can restore water levels in vulnerable peatlands before fires spread.
  — Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
• Indonesian police have arrested 72 people suspected of starting some of the forest and peatland fires.
  — Muhammad Hatta, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
• There the expedition team found a crystal clear, acidic source lake sustained by vast, previously undocumented peatlands.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
• Predators disappeared, resulting in an explosion in deer, further degrading the woodlands and peatlands.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026
• Today, Europe leads a movement to restore peatlands and support farmers in paludiculture – growing crops in wetlands.
  — Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2025
• Wildfires are ripping across parts of Indonesia, destroying precious peatland and smothering the country in a toxic smoke so thick, people are struggling to breathe.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
• Degraded peatlands also release greenhouse gases, contributing to climate change.
  — Matthew L. Druckenmiller, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2023
• Scientists examining these core samples can identify the kinds of plants that filled the peatland and reveal changes in environmental conditions that occurred over time.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
• But El Niño amplifies the flames by prolonging dry conditions, lowering water levels in the peatland and turning plants into tinder.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
• Governments can then make decisions based on the resulting risk maps, such as prioritising patrols and fire bans in high-risk areas, and blocking drainage canals to rewet peatlands and raise groundwater levels before a fire starts.
  — Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
• But peatlands that are damaged—by drainage, fire, or a warming climate—can release that stored carbon back into the atmosphere, contributing to the concentration of greenhouse gases that is driving climate change.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
• Huge stretches of peatland in Indonesia have been cleared and drained for commercial plantations, including those that produce palm oil, an ingredient used in a slew of products from noodles to toothpaste.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
• President Prabowo Subianto earlier said the ship would help fight forest and peatland fires that regularly blanket parts of Southeast Asia with hazardous haze.
  — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
• Scientists proposed maintaining high water levels in peatland in northern Europe and placing dead boreal trees in the deep Arctic Ocean as carbon sinks.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026