Iron Age remains found in bog may have been sacrificial
Ancient human remains discovered in peatland in County Londonderry in 2023 are now thought to be those of a young woman who ...
Island distillery named in TIME's list of world’s greatest places 2025
A former 'ghost distillery' and a vast area of bog peatland in Scotland have been named in TIME's list of the World’s Greatest Places of 2025.
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2,000-year-old decapitated body found in Northern Ireland bog may have been sacrificed
police in Northern Ireland were alerted to human bones discovered on the surface of peatland, a type of saturated wetland or bog. “On initial examination, we couldn’t be sure if the remains ...
Restoration of Yorkshire’s moors has accelerated exponentially in recent years
It’s three decades since the importance of Yorkshire’s blanket bogs started to become widely appreciated alongside the extent ...
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AI2Peat: remotely monitoring Ireland’s peatlands for conservation and restoration
In association with Research Ireland Peatland covers a significant amount of Ireland’s land surface area, around 23%, ...
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We thought these places were useless. They may help save the world.
Call them swamps, bogs, fens — whatever you want ... home to the largest swath of tropical peatland — want to drain them to grow crops, as farmers in Europe and the United States have in ...
2,000-year-old decapitated body found in Northern Ireland bog may have been sacrificed
Initial excavations found bones from the arms, legs, fingers and breastbone, police said. Because the body had been well preserved in the bog environment, researchers also found partial skin, ...