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?

Researchers Identify 400-Yr-Old Scottish Tartan in a Peat Bog, Oldest Known Surviving Specimen of the Fabric A groundbreaking ...

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.

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

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

Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth ... Jess Savage / WNIJ While forests and forest soil often get attention for their carbon sequestration, Atwood said wetlands are even more ...

Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...

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 ...

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved ...

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 ...