For centuries, peatlands—also known as swamps, bogs, and fens—have been dismissed as wastelands. Too wet for farming, too ...

Due to these unique properties of polyphenols, we expect that their effect on carbon turnover should be similar to the “enzyme latch” described in bogs. We hypothesize that highly degraded peat of ...

Methods A cohort study of all males and females who entered an SSM (n=28 649) or OSM (n=3 918 617) in Denmark and Sweden during 1989–2016 was conducted. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) for suicide were ...

A £1.8m peat restoration project began in Wicken Fen in October and within a few months cranes had appeared at the new habitat Cranes have appeared for the first time at a wetland nature reserve ...

The National Trust began a £1.8m peat restoration project in the autumn at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, to restore 531 acres (215 hectares) of peat. Ajay Tegala, from its countryside team ...

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 ...

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 ...

They play a role in the creation of peat bogs and, by storing water in their spongy forms, they prevent the decay of dead plant material and eventually form peat. Peatlands are vital ecosystems ...

Excavators restoring peat bog after peat extraction, Westhay Moor SWT reserve, Somerset. Put simply – you need to let your MP know that two years ago, the last Government promised to ban the sale of ...

I can vividly recall being transfixed by a grainy BBC programme about the Tollund Man, whose fifth-century corpse was discovered in a bog on Denmark ... in 1984, a peat cutter at Lindow Moss ...