A common use of sphagnum moss is for seed starting or as a growing medium for succulents and orchids—any plants where a light ...

Sphagnum moss prefers growing in moist tundra-type areas, and most of what gets used for gardening in the United States comes from peat bogs in northern Canada. As the sphagnum moss dies in these ...

Peat moss is a totally organic product in the early spring garden. It improves the texture of the cool spring soil and helps ...

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 bogs may not be unique to Ireland ... Here, a series of networked chambers sit on the gallery floor. Sphagnum moss and peat are monitored, their carbon and oxygen emissions tracked, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...