753). During 1914-18, when the War Office officially sanctioned the use of bog-moss and itself ordered considerable supplies from Dublin and Edinburgh War Dressings Supply Centres, Colonel C.

More than a thousand bog bodies and skeletons have come to light, and scientists now have the means to study the remains in such detail that they can, in a sense, resurrect these ancient people.

Among these varied soils lies one particularly intriguing type: peat soil. Also known as peat moss, bog peat, or simply peat, ...

“We can save the southern bog turtle, but we need to act now.” Photo of bog turtle in its sphagnum moss wetlands habitat is available for media use with appropriate credit. Credit: Nathanael ...

Photo of bog turtle in its sphagnum moss wetlands habitat is available for media use with appropriate credit. Please credit: Nathanael Stanek/Turtle Conservancy. Image is available for media use.

An ancient Cheshire peat bog is to be restored to wetland after ... extraction had caused "ongoing biodiversity loss" at Lindow Moss. But Croghan Peat said it would only restore the site, near ...

The Red Moss of Balerno is a wetland or bog - an area where the ground is saturated and the water doesn’t drain away. Most of the UK's bogs (60%) are in Scotland and the moss that grows in bogs ...