Among these varied soils lies one particularly intriguing type: peat soil. Also known as peat moss, bog peat, or simply peat, ...

What’s a good replacement product for peat when I make or purchase potting mixes? Why shouldn’t we use peat products anymore?

Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth’s carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs’ ...

Peat comes from wetlands (bogs) filled with partly decayed vegetation ... They hold more than one-quarter of all soil carbon even though they occupy a mere 3% of Earth’s land surface.

147,430 €; Establishing procedures for growing hummock peat moss species on harvested and rewetted peat bogs. German Environmental Foundation (DBU) 2015-2017, with co-PIs Kleinebecker, Hölzel, Knorr.

Peat is a layer of carbon-rich soil that forms very slowly in wet ... In the UK alone, peat bogs, moors and fens store about 3.2 billion tons of carbon - more than in woodlands and forests ...

These soggy spots have been dismissed as inhospitable smudges on the map — even serving as a metaphor for corruption that ...

Peat bogs are found in areas where there is lots ... yet still hosts many metres of peat soils). But conservation and restoration work is going to be ever more necessary if we are to preserve ...