A skylark shimmers towards the heavens, its song spiralling out over the bog. Tadpoles wiggle in peaty water underneath the shadows of skittering pond skaters. The wind rushes over sphagnum moss ...

Sphagnum moss is a key building block of peat and healthy blanket bog keeps the underlying peat banks safe. Sphagnum traps carbon dioxide and due to its water retention properties it also helps reduce ...

Around 130,000 of the 800,000 sphagnum moss plug plants needed for the restoration have been planted in the first phase of the project. The sphagnum moss will help to create healthier blanket bog, ...

It is called a blanket bog because the peat ... Instead species like sphagnum moss fall below the water line forming the peat in layers which grow at a rate of about 1mm per year.

The BMC are supporting the Partnership’s work to plant sphagnum moss back to where it should be. The Partnership’s expertise lies predominantly with blanket bog restoration and that is why the BMC is ...

Around 130,000 sphagnum moss plugs have been planted in the first phase of the project which will see 800,000 put into the ...

“The characteristics of the ‘gray-layer’ of a sphagnum peat bog has many similarities to the microenvironment within the caseous lesion of an Mtb-infected human lung in that it is nutrient ...

If I told you I was visiting a bog, you might be wondering why I look ... like this stuff which is called sphagnum moss. When the moss dies, it begins to rot and sinks into the water to form ...