The area was badly damaged in the Victoria era through peat cutting and then the installation of drains and tree planting. Reserve manager Suzanne McIntyre said the recovery of the bog had been ...
To explore potential targets for treatment-shortening strategies, Malhotra and colleagues turned to sphagnum peat bogs. These freshwater wetlands harbor abundant species of bacteria in the ...
The bog covers an area the size of England and is thought to contain billions of tonnes of peat. It's believed the ... the plant matter going into the soil is not fully decomposed," Dr Lewis ...
The trust said the land, like many lowland peat bogs, has been drained to be used for agriculture and the degraded, exposed peat soil is now emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases into the ...
Tuberculosis Research Section scientists collapse in the bog after a long day collecting sphagnum core samples at Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Maine. Front: Clif Barry (Left ...
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 ...
Soil improvers are mostly made from green compost or biodigestate – see our description ... It accumulates at a rate of 1-2mm per year as the moss slowly decays in the permanently wet conditions, ...