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.

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

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 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 ...

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 ...