If you’re looking for soil amendments, you may see peat moss and sphagnum moss used almost synonymously. However, these are two distinct substances. Sphagnum moss is a living plant. There are 120 ...

One go-to option is a type of moss called sphagnum moss, an entire genus encompassing up to 300 species to date. It's found in temperate regions worldwide and is typically wild-harvested from bogs.

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 ...

Sphagnum moss "speed bumps" are being planted across ... will also help create conditions for peat to form, allowing the site to better lock up carbon. It will provide sufficiently wet conditions ...

Ten runners went to post for the listed Paddy Power Cork Grand National at a busy Cork Racecourse, Mallow, but it provided a ...

the drainage channels cut for mining peat planted with reed beds. At Westhay Nature Reserve, sphagnum moss and sundews form a carpet on the boggy ground and the wetlands attract rare birds such as ...

Restoration works on Ilkley Moor have entered their final phase, with helicopters positioning large stones to form 'leaky ...

The plants that grow here have changed and adapted over millions of years to cope with living in so much water, like this stuff which is called sphagnum ... at Flanders Moss, the peat is 7m ...

WORK has started on the final phase of moorland restoration work high on Ilkley Moor. Helicopters have been lifting large stones into position to create leaky dams, to slow down the flow of water from ...