The restoration of the Flow Country peatlands has created a vital carbon sink and a thriving habitat for a range of species The bog at Forsinard stretches to the horizon, a vast mosaic of greens and ...

In the 1980s, Scotland planted commercial trees across parts of a 9,000-year-old peatland; decades later, conservationists ...

The ancient blanket bog of northern Scotland is reaching a turning point in its long history – degrade or flourish. Which way it goes will have significant consequences for climate change. As I watch ...

Researchers are using satellite technology to monitor the health of these vital carbon sinks and help restore them Flanders Moss bog is slumped on the flat, farmed landscape of the Carse of Stirling ...

They are the places where objects can get locked in time for thousands of years, with Scotland's peat bogs holding deep some strange secrets from our past. Here we look at five unusual discoveries ...

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Scotland has more than two dozen official long-distance trails through moors, peat bogs and forests. We chose one of the most popular, the West Highland Way. As first-time ...

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IT is an ancient landscape which began life as the ice sheets retreated at the end of the last Ice Age. Waterlogged peatlands cover vast swathes of Scotland – more than 20% of the country by some ...

Ancient denizens of what is now Ireland and Scotland buried stashes of so-called “bog butter” in peat bogs, presumably to stave off spoilage. Thanks to the unique chemistry of those bogs, the stashes ...