Scientists and investors are restoring a 23-square-mile tract of peatland in North Carolina to help curb climate-warming emissions and restore native habitat. Ditches have drained water from thousands of years of accumulated peat, leaving the site vulnerable to drought and wildfire and unleashing huge volumes of carbon dioxide. One-third of global carbon is stored in saturated peatlands, more than all forests combined. But that reverses when peatlands are damaged. Pantheon Regeneration plans to restore the water table to curb emissions, then sell carbon credits to help fund its goal of preserving a million acres of peatland from Virginia to Florida.
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FILE - Cypress trees grow in Heron Pond in the Shawnee National Forest near Belknap, Ill., April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The very disease that has decimated millions of American elms in the U.S. is now being used to bring the iconic trees back.
Alex Stephenson, conservation information manager at The Nature Conservancy Vermont, injects a young elm tree with Dutch elm disease spores on May 19, 2026, in Benson, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
Emily Powell, with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, inoculates an ash tree with triennial booster shots, June 12, 2026, in Hot Springs, N.C. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco)
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A shadow of a palm tree is cast on a playscape at DC Alexander Park, a former parking lot that was transformed into a public space that doubles as flood infrastructure, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Alexis Griess is with Ginny Rosenkranz learning what we can do to protect our plants and our garden during a drought.