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Have you ever wondered what those white pellets were in your potting soil? Well, it's more important than you may know.
The Tollund Man was c. 30-40 years old when he died by hanging c. 405-380 BCE. He wasfound in 1950 in a bog c. 10 km west of ...
Scientists and students gather each summer at the remote Shingle Shanty Preserve and Research Station to study birds, bogs ...
King County's 80-acre peat bog is officially named Kari's Bog to honor the late environmental scientist Karin Osterhaug.
BMC volunteers have planted a grand total of 55,845 sphagnum plugs in the Goyt Valley, Peak District, since our Get Stuck In volunteer events started planting this peatland restoring moss, in February ...
Peat is harvesting using a suction apparatus. The bog must be skimmed of living moss and drained before the underlying peat can be collected. (MUST CREDIT: Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association) ...
Peatlands provide important ecosystem services including carbon storage and biodiversity conservation. Remote sensing shows potential for monitoring peatlands, but most off-the-shelf data products are ...
One pile contained moss gathered from a nearby Vermont bog in August, 1961; the second pile was made up of 2 separate shipments from a commercial supplier in Wisconsin.
Cranberry Bog in Licking County is the only known cranberry bog in existence, according to ODNR. Unlike Ohio’s other bogs, which contain sphagnum moss surrounding a lake, it is actually a ...
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 ...
Unlocking sphagnum moss’s secrets Scientists think sphagnum moss may hold important lessons about carbon dioxide sequestration, but there’s much they don’t know. Sona Pandey is the principal ...