A healthy bog can be 90 per cent water, more than the water in milk. It is not easy, but we can walk on bogs because of the astonishing water holding properties of sphagnum moss.

Once collected, tractors circle the bog, gathering the floating cranberries into a tight area for extraction. A powerful pump ...

While peat bog fires can burn for months, Foster said that isn’t an option at Vandenberg, with 19,000 people either living or working on the base and 150,000 nearby. “A peat bog is like God ...

Leaving Roundstone Bog and heading east, along local road L1205, hollows left by peat removal had refilled with bog water. I knelt down and picked up a handful of bright-green sphagnum moss from ...

Decas called the Buzzards Bay Coalition in 2009 offering the nonprofit 220 acres of land, including 55 acres of bog and 165 acres of forest and wetlands to protect the drinking water supply for ...

Bateman has a cabin in northern Minnesota, near a vast bog called Sax-Zim, where arctic birds like snowy owls stay in the winter. She became interested in using the bog water to dye fabric, and ...

It’s like a big, swampy pimple. Rocchio led me to the tree-lined edge of the bog. “The water levels over here are actually lower than they are at the top, which is counter-intuitive,” he said.

The cabinet is expected to present measures on Friday to boost ground water levels as part of a package to limit CO2 emissions and soil subsidence which will affect farmers in some places. Dried out ...