Learn how peat moss—a common element of container gardening—affects climate change and what you can use as a sustainable alternative.

Sona Pandey is the principal researcher at the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis and is part of a team researching sequestration and bogs. “The first time I saw a peat moss under the ...

Peat is a broader term for decomposed plant matter that's found in bogs, while peat moss is just the top layer of moss that is harvested for its horticultural purposes. Understanding their ...

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 ...

Scotland’s Flow Country looks from a distance like a vast expanse of dull, wet brown vegetation — not the kind of view that ...

Researchers measured post-restoration Sphagnum moss layer growth on 18 peatland sites in Finland 10 years after restoration. According to the study, a thick Sphagnum moss layer forms rapidly during ...

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved ...

Archaeologists have often been treated to nearly intact glimpses into the past thanks to the preservative qualities of blanket bogs. This particular skillset is the reason behind the formation of peat ...

Research in the Philben Group uses the tools of analytical chemistry to predict how the climate-carbon cycle feedback will respond to global warming in peatlands and permafrost soils. Peat bogs are ...

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 ...

Sona Pandey is the principal researcher at the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis and is part of a team researching sequestration and bogs. “The first time I saw a peat moss under the ...