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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Blanket bog is a rare ecosystem made up of large areas of deep peat soil. It said the new rules in England were intended to protect these rare and delicate habitats and to help the UK hit its ...

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 ...

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 ...