Some of these may have been caused by the compressing weight of the bog moss above him — or the blades of that milling device ...
The ancient peat bog of Lindow Moss in Cheshire hid a dark and gruesome secret for almost 2,000 years. But on 1 August 1984, a peat cutter spotted the astonishingly well-preserved remains of an ...
My husband bounced around on the moss trampoline, trying it out. We parked and hiked through ferns and thin woods to the Katie Lake Bog. The open water is as large as a football field and ...
Around 11,000 years ago, melting ice formed the bog now known as Lindow Moss in northwest England. It stretches across 1,500 ...
Peat bogs are defined by Sphagnum moss - a lush, bouncy and brightly-coloured carpet which provides a home to other bog species and which partially decays over thousands of years to form the ...
Sphagnum moss is a key building block of peat and healthy blanket bog keeps the underlying peat banks safe. Sphagnum traps carbon dioxide and due to its water retention properties it also helps reduce ...
When they dry out they release carbon back into the atmosphere and bog-loving plants and animals disappear. Nor can they absorb further carbon. Pestfurlong Moss and the wider Gorse Covert Mounds ...
The sphagnum moss will help to create healthier blanket bog, protect the area’s precious peat and slow the flow of rainwater across the landscape. Once the newly planted sphagnum moss plugs have ...
An ancient peat bog has been bought by an environmental trust ... Manchester and North Merseyside has purchased Chat Moss with funding from Veolia Environmental Trust. It said the land, near ...
Scéal: preserved in peat for thousands of years, bog butter remains one of the most enigmatic of all archaeological finds When we consider the central role that butter plays in the modern Irish ...
Sphagnum moss is a key building block of peat and healthy blanket bog keeps the underlying peat banks safe. Sphagnum traps carbon dioxide and due to its water retention properties it also helps reduce ...