The unique properties of bog peat, including its high organic content and excellent water retention capabilities, create an ...

If you have ever bought a plant from a big box store ... crumbly material in which the roots are growing. Peat comes from wetlands (bogs) filled with partly decayed vegetation.

Peat bogs are one of the biggest carbon sinks on ... The compost provides a better nutritional structure for the growing ...

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

Most gardeners live a long way from peat bogs and may not see the appeal or ... Head of Research at Gardening Which? "Our trials of garden composts show that some manufacturers have made decent ...

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 ...

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

In low situations, where the water has no free outlet, and yet where it cannot collect to form ponds or lakes, certain small plants ... and are called "peat bogs," such as in Ireland ; we call ...

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 ...

But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the ... offered up more than 30 species of edible and/or medicinal plants. Berries and other soft fruits appear to have made ...

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 ...