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Film poster: a small boat crossing an orange river in thick yellow haze beside trees, with the title Haze, it's complicated, and three festival award laurels. — HAZE, it’s complicated… Isaac Kerlow

Small pond fringed with reeds, grass and shrubs, with an information board in front reading Turbera de las Madres, Bienvenido a la mayor turbera de la Península Ibérica. — Las Madres peatbog (Doñana N.P., SW Spain) Antonio Jordán

Metal gouge auger standing upright in green and dry grass in front of the legs of a person in jeans and boots, its groove smeared with grey soil. — Eutric Histosol (Doñana N.P., SW Spain) Antonio Jordán

Person in a white T-shirt holding out a long metal gouge auger coated with dark soil horizontally over tall green and dry grass. — Eutric Histosol (Doñana N.P., SW Spain) Antonio Jordán

Wide, gently sloping peatland covered in green grass, sedges and dark heather tufts, with low rounded mountains on the horizon under a pale sky. — Peatland in the Wicklow Mountains (Ireland) Antonio Jordán

Person crouching among ferns and grass, using a knife to work on a soil core laid out in a long metal half-tube on the ground, while another person stands beside holding a plastic bag. — Soil scientists in action: José Antonio González-Pérez Antonio Jordán

Wide flat peatland of yellow-green and reddish low vegetation with scattered shrubs and dead branches, stretching towards jagged blue mountains under a cloudy sky. — Oceanic ombrotrophic peatland at the Seno Skyring Fjord, Patagonia, Chile Klaus-Holger Knorr

Cut bank of dark brown, almost black peat with fine roots and dry grass hanging over its edge, topped by green grass and small yellow flowers. — Peatland Antonio Jordán

Wide view of a flat, grassy moorland under a vast sky of white and grey clouds with patches of blue, low rounded hills on the horizon. — Irish peatland Antonio Jordán

Soil auger with a T-shaped handle lying on pine needles and dry leaves, its long open half-tube filled with a core of black peat about a metre long. — Thousands of years below the soil surface Antonio Jordán

Four people talking at a wooden railing at the edge of a wide flat green peatland with scattered small trees, under a blue sky with white clouds. — Talking about soil in the peatland Antonio Jordán

Wide view of a flat grassy peatland in the foreground with a band of sparse, thin pine trees behind and denser forest on the horizon. — Small changes in soil properties cause large changes in vegetation Antonio Jordán

Hand held out from a red sleeve holding a large dark brown lump of peat soil, fibrous and full of fine pale roots, against a blurred green meadow. — Aggregate from an Irish peat soil Antonio Jordán

Peat bog with tussocks of brown and green grass rising from dark water and black mud, bright green grass and floating leaves in the foreground. — Peatbog (Doñana National Park, Spain) Antonio Jordán

Three chestnut horses grazing among grass tussocks and rushes in a wet bog with patches of water. — Peatbog (Doñana National Park, Spain) Antonio Jordán

Dead tree shown rotated on its side, with a charred trunk and rust-brown scorched foliage, standing on blackened ground with its roots exposed in the burnt soil. — Smouldering Earth Guillermo Rein

Close-up of two hands pulling apart a fibrous block of dark brown peat, in front of a green valley and a mountain under a blue sky. — Geologist showing peat in hands, Iceland Ragnar Sigurdsson (arctic-images.com)

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