Holocene palaeoclimates from peat stratig- raphy: macrofossil proxy climate records from three oceanic raised bogs in England and Ireland. Quat. Sci. Rev. 22, 521-539.Barber KE, Chambers FM and Maddy D (2003) Holocene palaeoclimates from peat stratigraphy: Macrofossil proxy climate records ...
Following government proposals back in 2011 to address the degradation of peat bogs, Nicholsons – a landscape company in Oxfordshire which has its own 22-acre nursery – started incrementally trialling peat-free alternatives on all its crops. Last year, it accomplished growing all its production p...
A raised bog being harvested for peat near Douglas water in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Raised bogs re rare threatened habitats and important carbon sinks that should not be exploited. 00:17 Large Peat Works - Aerial View - Connaught, County Mayo, Ireland ...
pez"piece"). The earliest sense is not of the turf but of the cut piece of it, and the Celtic root may be from the same PIE source aspiece.Peat-bogis by 1775;peat-moss(mid-13c.) originally was "a peat bog;" the meaning "sphagnum moss" (the type that grows in peat bogs) is...
pPeat, mires, Bogs, fensMany of our names for wetlands may be used in ordinary conversation for all sorts of waterlogged ground. But sometimes we want more precise meanings.We might begin with peat, a frequent but not constant ingredient of wetlands. This is an interesting word, ...
Peat degradation in lowland bogs in England alone releases 11 million tonnes of greenhouse gases per year – as much as three coal-fired power stations. And according to the RSPB, UK gardeners are responsible for 630,000 tonnes of carbon emissions by buying peat compost or plants grown in pea...
in gardens and potted plants, to help the soil stay moist. Peat is like a naturally occurring compost — it forms in bogs from plants that have broken down. In many parts of the world, peat is burned as a fuel, and in others it's a popular mulch in gardens and on farms. If it'...
The gas storage site is situated beneath the Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve, which at 2,887 hectares is the largest area of raised bog wilderness in lowland Britain22. The land cover within Hatfield Moors is predominantly comprised of peat bogs (55%), non-irrigated arable land (...
Peat fires may seem like a wintertime topic, but in fact summer is the time for cutting turves of peat, drying them, and stacking them. There used to be many areas of northern Europe better supplied with peat bogs than with trees. Peat, also called turf, was a convenient household fuel...
It appears that this glacial deposit has one or more beds of peat, or fragments of peat, intercalated along with it at various depths, leading to the inference that the day had been stirred up and the fragments of peat had in some manner been mixed with it. That peat bogs, or surface...