But while bog ecosystems provide habitat, filter water, and store carbon, they have been disappearing for decades. In Illinois alone, more than 90 percent of wetlands have been lost. There are about ...

Peat is a broader term for decomposed plant matter that's found in bogs, while peat moss is just the top layer of moss that is harvested for its horticultural purposes. Understanding their ...

Peat bogs sequester a huge amount of carbon dioxide. But as scientists work to better understand bogs' sequestration, they're under threat.

Peat comes from wetlands (bogs) filled with partly decayed vegetation. The waterlogged conditions and acidity in these bogs prevent vegetation from decaying fully after death. Over thousands of ...

60% of the UK’s bogs or peatland is in Scotland, a lot of which is in the very north, or the Highlands, of Scotland. The Red Moss of Balerno is one of only twenty raised peat bogs still ...

On a summer's day in 1958, a walker in Salford found a human skull. Discovered in a peat bog, the man noticed a piece of bone ...

Peat bogs are found in areas where there is lots of rain but poor drainage. These vital ecosystems are relied upon to deliver drinking water, host rare plant and bird life and to mitigate the risk ...

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

By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the stark warning from a new academic study my colleagues and I just published in the ...

In the UK alone, peat bogs, moors and fens store about 3.2 billion tons of carbon - more than in woodlands and forests - but most are in a poor state after decades of being drained for farming or ...