Researchers Identify 400-Yr-Old Scottish Tartan in a Peat Bog, Oldest Known Surviving Specimen of the Fabric A groundbreaking ...

A Scottish highland peat bog has been officially recognised as one of the world’s most important natural wonders, joining Victoria Falls and the Grand Canyon. The area known as the Flow Country ...

Peatlands form over thousands of years – 1 metre of peat takes 1,000 years to form ... The Flows alone holds 5% of the global blanket bog resources. But 80% of Scotland’s peatlands are degraded in ...

These soggy spots have been dismissed as inhospitable smudges on the map — even serving as a metaphor for corruption that ...

The peat bogs are a really special habitat ... There are around 800 islands in Scotland and they are home to some unique landscape features.

60% of the UK’s bogs or peatland is in Scotland, a lot of which is in the very north, or the Highlands, of Scotland. The Red Moss of Balerno is one of only twenty raised peat bogs still ...

with barely any areas continuing to be suitable for peat formation due to increasing temperatures and lower summer rainfall. In the “Flow Country” of northern Scotland, a bog so big it has ...

Healthy peat absorbs and stores carbon ... What evidence there is suggests that in Scotland, bogs are still absorbing carbon from the atmosphere, while those close to England's traditional ...

Peat comes from wetlands (bogs) filled with partly decayed vegetation. The waterlogged conditions and acidity in these bogs prevent vegetation from decaying fully after death. Over thousands of ...

Plans have been lodged for a wind farm with 200m-high turbines to be established on the edge of one of Scotland’s Unesco ...

Peat is employed for fuel in the greater part of Ireland, in several districts of France, Germany, and Holland, and in the Highlands of Scotland. The substance is soft when found in the bog ...