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
• 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
• Other major El Niño episodes brought crop failures, devastating peatland fires, and prolonged droughts.
  — Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano, Fortune, 2 Aug. 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
• 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
• Degraded peatlands also release greenhouse gases, contributing to climate change.
  — Matthew L. Druckenmiller, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The Sámi and their partners are working to replant turf and rewild 125,000 acres (52,000 hectares) of peatlands for reindeer grazing.
  — Matthew L. Druckenmiller, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2023
• The conservation organization works to restore peatlands, replant native Caledonian pine forests, and reintroduce endangered species such as ptarmigans.
  — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2026
• More than 50 hectares (124 acres) of peatland have burned in Jambi province on Sumatra island, causing choking haze in some areas and raising concerns about worsening air quality.
  — ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
• The National Disaster Management Agency, or BNPB, said nearly 48,900 hectares (121,000 acres) of peatland had burned across six fire-prone provinces as of Monday, with the largest affected area in West Kalimantan on Borneo island.
  — ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026