Scottish Water is restoring 400 hectares of degraded peat around Loch Katrine which feeds the city's drinking water.

What a hat and comb found in a peat bank tell us about a 300-year-old murder - Newly unveiled artefacts paint a picture of a life ‘cut tragically short’ ...

FIREFIGHTERS are urging the public to be aware of the risk of wildfires – as scientists warn the danger is increasing in ...

Peatlands form over thousands of years – 1 metre of peat takes 1,000 years to form ... The Flows alone holds 5% of the global blanket bog resources. But 80% of Scotland’s peatlands are degraded in ...

Port Ellen, a historic distillery on Islay, is renowned for its return after years of closure, while The Flow Country, the ...

60% of the UK’s bogs or peatland is in Scotland, a lot of which is in the very north, or the Highlands, of Scotland. The Red Moss of Balerno is one of only twenty raised peat bogs still ...

The personal belongings of an 18th-century murder victim, hastily buried in a peat bog, have gone on display on the Isle of Lewis, forming part of a rare exhibition shedding light on one of Scotland’s ...

The body was first discovered in 1964, with forensic analysis at the time revealing he was around 20 to 25 years old.

Peat is employed for fuel in the greater part of Ireland, in several districts of France, Germany, and Holland, and in the Highlands of Scotland. The substance is soft when found in the bog ...