Ditches on peatland oil palm plantations are an overlooked source of methane: Study

Mongabay
Dec 30, 2025, 2:18 pm130 ptsTrending
The water-filled ditches that laced through the oil palm plantation in Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, nagged at Kuno Kasak when he saw them in 2022. He knew that these canals, used to draw water out of spongy peatlands to make them suitable for agriculture, had been shown to be sources of…

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