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Wide view of open peatland with a bright yellow-green mossy patch surrounded by red and brown autumn shrubs and grasses, a few bare trees, and dark clouds beside a patch of blue sky. — Peatland in Stordalen catchment Laurent Orgogozo

Close-up of a thick carpet of pale whitish-grey lichen covering the ground, mixed with low green shrubs and a small young pine tree. — Thick lichen layer on a mound of a peatland at Khanymey Research Station, Western Siberia Laurent Orgogozo

Open peatland with low green and reddish shrubs, mosses and pale lichens in front, a flat wet grassy hollow in the middle and a line of conifers under a blue sky behind. — Northern taïga landscape at Khanymey Research Station, Western Siberia. Laurent Orgogozo

Aerial view looking straight down on a red and white lattice tower with instruments at its top, rising out of a dense green conifer forest crossed by a dirt track. — Flux tower in Finland Jonathan D. Müller

Wooden boardwalk with a small instrument tower leading across a flat orange-brown mire towards a line of conifer forest, under a blue sky with clouds; the long shadow of a person falls across the grass. — Sunset over Degerö Stormyr Audrey Campeau

Close-up of a person's hand in a red jacket touching a carpet of fluffy yellow-green peat moss mixed with dry grass stems. — Fluffy shapers of Earth Vytas Huth

Video of a wet grassy field with fenced experimental plots, boardwalks and coloured stakes behind a rope line, in front of bare trees under a grey sky. — Do the chamber Reggae Vytas Huth

Person in waders and a blue top pulling a battered red and white plastic boat loaded with backpacks and white pipes into tall green reeds, seen from low on a sandy shore under a blue sky. — Environmental researchers in their natural habitat. Vytas Huth

Aerial view of a river winding in tight loops through green forest and fields, with a plume of white smoke rising from the left and haze veiling the distance. — After the Filter of Haze Wuquan Cui

Rainbow arcing over a flat golden grassland under a dark grey sky, with a fainter second rainbow beside it, a white instrument mast and low hills on the horizon. — Colourful peatland in winter 2018 Sara Trojahn

Straight cleared corridor of low shrubs and moss running between tall narrow spruce trees in a boreal peatland under a blue sky with white clouds, a small spruce and a yellow instrument in front. — Seismic lines. N. Alberta, Canada Scott Davidson

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

Dry high mountain grassland dotted with clumps of tall pale tussock grass and grey rocks, with a jagged range of snow-capped dark peaks under a blue sky with a few white clouds. — Tussock vs cushion plants Manon Bounous

Rocky valley floor with rust-brown cushion plants and grey boulders in front, leading up to a bare grey slope and a snow-covered glacier below rocky peaks, under a cloudy sky with a patch of blue. — Charquini glacier removal provides water to high andean peatlands Manon Bounous

Wide green wetland plain laced with streams and dotted with grazing llamas, below a lone snow-capped volcanic cone and brown hills, seen from a dry slope with tufts of grass. — Century-old living oasis Manon Bounous

Close-up of a carpet of Sphagnum moss in mixed yellow-green and deep red, with a small pool of water and dry grass stems behind. — Colorful biodiversity Katarzyna Kajukało

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