peat bogs, calcareous bogs and kettle bogs. All started as shallow ponds which filled with decaying vegetation, resulting in spongy layers of peat. According to ODNR, bogs are threatened by a ...

“The highly acidic conditions in the bog preserve organic matter.” Peat moss, which is in the genus Sphagnum, is formed of three general layers of peat that can reach down several meters in dept ...

“It comes from these peat bogs, which are essentially layers, and layers, and layers of organic matter that’s been decaying over really long periods of time,” Horst says. “Once it’s been ...

Peat comes from peat bogs, which are a special kind of wetlands ... Bacterial decomposition is slowed by the acidity, so as ...

But unbeknownst to them, a peat bog's natural chemistry prevents the decay of some human and animal tissues. Peat is a muddy wetlands layer made of decaying plants and mosses. (Peat has been used ...

Peat bogs became mired in capitalism ... Perhaps to be allowed to live and layer and gather water and not be pushed into this use or that Monopoly-board status. Or they’d demand that humans ...

Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...