By Tracy Record West Seattle Blog editor The colorful canopies in the background of our Roxhill Park photo were the only hint from a distance that something ...
By Tracy Record West Seattle Blog editor Far beneath the bark chips, the reason for Thursday's Roxhill Bog celebration is ...
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Bogs hold a key to climate solutions through carbon sequestration, but many have been drained
Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth’s carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs’ sequestration, the wetlands are under threat. On a cold winter afternoon, ...
Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth's carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs' sequestration, the wetlands are under threat. On a cold winter afternoon, ...
An extinct moss is reintroduced across Yorkshire's moors in the battle against climate change.
The bodies of three of four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing last week in Lithuania were found Monday after their armored vehicle sank into a peat bog during training. The Army said the soldiers' ...
Ancient peat bogs are turning out to be some of the sharpest climate historians on Earth, preserving a near-continuous record of temperature, rainfall, and vegetation shifts stretching back to the end ...
Peat moss is popular in gardens because it holds water, adds air to soil, and keeps nutrients from washing away. Harvesting peat moss harms slow-growing peat bogs, releases carbon, and damages fragile ...
A scrap of weathered fabric, discovered four decades ago in a peat bog, is the world’s oldest piece of tartan, with new analysis determining it dates to the 16th century. The textile was found in the ...
The convergence of geology, climate, vegetation and human history allowed peat to accumulate on an extraordinary scale over ...
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