{"id":32375,"date":"2025-09-24T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=32375"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:25:50","slug":"32375","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2025\/32375\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Stop a Peatland from Burning?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n How Do You Stop a Peatland from Burning?\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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As Canada\u2019s 2025 wildfire season draws to a close, the work to prevent future fires is far from over. Peatlands, carbon-rich ecosystems that store more carbon than any other on Earth \u2014 are essential to climate regulation. So how do we protect them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Koreen Millard<\/a> (Department of Geography and Environmental Studies<\/a>) uses remote sensing to monitor these vast, difficult-to-access boreal landscapes. Her research helps predict and prevent future wildfire risks, safeguarding both our ecosystems and our climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch the Video on Instagram ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Canada\u2019s 2025 wildfire season draws to a close, the work to prevent future fires is far from over. Peatlands, carbon-rich ecosystems that store more carbon than any other on Earth \u2014 are essential to climate regulation. So how do we protect them? Dr. Koreen Millard (Department of Geography and Environmental Studies) uses remote sensing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":32376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32383,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32375\/revisions\/32383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}