British bogs store carbon equivalent to about 20 ... and allow carbon credits for good peat conservation. "The way we manage our peat moorlands has a massive bearing on our ability to tackle ...

BogSkin, an exhibition by the Royal Hibernian Academy, prods us by showing that Ireland’s bogs aren’t simply repositories for ...

The UK government has revealed new plans to improve the protection of peatlands, focusing on banning heather burning on ...

Heather burning ban on peatland to be expanded under Government plans - Healthy peatlands can help tackle climate change, ...

What has happened to UK peat bogs? Peat moorlands cover roughly 12% of the UK, but many have been dug up, drained or destroyed by 150 years of industrial pollution and over 400 wildfires. The ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), “peatlands store more ... nearly intact glimpses into the past thanks to the preservative qualities of blanket bogs. This ...

Butterfly Conservation has been awarded £249,995 for a new project to help Large Heath, one of the UK's most vulnerable ...

A group of researchers from Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences and Kokkola University in Finland were recently welcomed ...

The Red Moss of Balerno is one of only twenty raised peat bogs still surviving in this ... page offers students profiles of other jobs in conservation. 3. Go on a moss hunt Moss doesn’t just ...

Most gardeners live a long way from peat bogs and may not see the appeal or the value of them but every time someone uses peat they're contributing to the destruction of this special and important ...

In some countries, the accumulation of such vegetable matter covers large tracts of several miles in extent, and are called "peat bogs," such as in Ireland ; we call them peat meadows and peat swamps.

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 ...