Running from Inverness to Britain's most northerly junction, the Far North Line passes through sheep meadows, traditional villages and the world's only Unesco-listed blanket peat bog.

Alamy The peat bogs of Flow Country are full of unusual plants specialised to the region's cool, wet conditions (Credit: Alamy) Historically, Scotland's bogs have had a bad name. For centuries ...

Using carbon dating, scientists discovered that the “Glen Affric” fabric, uncovered in a peat bog in the Highlands during forestry work and donated to the Scottish Tartans Authority in the ...

Ms Gerrard said: “The landscape of the peatlands is important for mitigating climate change and Scotland is home to the largest blanket peat bog in Europe – it is vital it’s protected.

The tartan was found in a peat bog in Glen Affric — an area in the Scottish Highlands carpeted with woods, lakes and moorland — in the 1980s, but this is the first time that scientists have ...

Otherwise, Scotland's bogs – which hold the equivalent ... tracts were auctioned for oil exploitation. Globally, degraded peat bogs release the equivalent of 2.6-3.8% of greenhouse gases from ...

London (CNN) — Textile designers and tartan experts have banded together to recreate the oldest piece of Scottish tartan for modern production, allowing fans of the famed plaid to wear a piece ...

The world's oldest surviving Scottish tartan is over 400 years old and, though now faded, once sported green, brown, red and yellow, a new analysis of the centuries-old fabric reveals. The tartan ...