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Published: 4:59 PM March 8, 2021    Updated: 8:16 AM March 9, 2021 These blue stones have been created by Rosie's Plaque to honour local women in Norwich for International Women's Day 2021 - Credit: Rosie's Plaques Painted blue stones have been placed across Norwich to celebrate the achievements of local women on International Women's Day.  The Rosie’s Plaques project are behind the scheme and they have said it was a convenient way to highlight those women "who built our city". International Women's Day was celebrated on March 8 on a global scale to celebrate the contributions women h...

By Ian D. Rotherham, Professor of Environmental Geography and Reader in Tourism and Environmental Change, Sheffield Hallam University. Originally published at The Conversation. Bogs, mires, fens and marshes – just their names seem to conjure myth and mystery. Though today, our interest in these waterlogged landscapes tends to be more prosaic. Because of a lack of oxygen, they can build up vast quantities of organic matter that doesn’t decompose properly. This is known as peat. Peatlands could contain as much as 644 gigatons of carbon – one-fifth of all the carbon stored in soil on Earth...