Among these varied soils lies one particularly intriguing type: peat soil. Also known as peat moss, bog peat, or simply peat, ...

Learn how peat moss—a common element of container gardening—affects climate change and what you can use as a sustainable alternative.

According to a predictive model developed by a CNRS researcher and his European colleagues, the microalgae present in peat ...

According to a predictive model, the microalgae present in peat bogs could offset up to 14% of future CO2 emissions, thanks to their photosynthetic activity. This conclusion was reached by basing the ...

“Peat soils have a unique ability to block this type of naturally occurring radiation, drastically reducing the number of ...

The peat bogs are a really special habitat. The moorland looks like it's empty and barren, but it’s actually full of life. The soil doesn’t let water drain away easily, so it stays wet.

Most gardeners live a long way from peat bogs and may not see the appeal or ... Find out what's in the bag of compost or soil conditioner and if it is peat based, ask for peat-reduced, or better ...

Research in the Philben Group uses the tools of analytical chemistry to predict how the climate-carbon cycle feedback will respond to global warming in peatlands and permafrost soils. Peat bogs are ...

Scotland’s Flow Country looks from a distance like a vast expanse of dull, wet brown vegetation — not the kind of view that ...

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 ...

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved ...