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"We recently carried out a LIDAR scan over the valleys area in order to pinpoint if and where maintenance work would be needed on the peat bogs of the area."

The Oldham Mountain Rescue team began digging the man out of the peat bog and filling the void with heather as they progressed.

Marjorie Davy, lead adviser from Natural England, Northumbria, said: "This is a remarkable collection of peat bogs, which is partly a product of the remote setting and also the very high rainfall that characterises this part of the country.

You could get swallowed up in a peat bog but also, given the absence of oxygen, preserved for a very long time.

How about buried near each other 16 feet below ground level in a southern Michigan peat bog?

Why do ice and peat bogs both preserve mummies so well?

marsh land, peat bogs, bogs, spring water, and water soaking into the ground high up in the hills?

As well as directly damaging nature indirect damage is done by the release of the carbon stored in undisturbed peat bogs.

Dozens of forest and peat bog fires around Moscow have ignited amid the country's most intense heat wave in 130 years of record-keeping.

Peat bogs cover only three per cent of the world's land, but are estimated to hold about twice as much carbon as the planet's forests.

As such, the world's peat bogs represent an important "carbon sink"--a place where CO2 is stored below ground and can't escape into the atmosphere and exacerbate global warming.

Washington, Dec 6 (ANI): A new research has suggested that burning peat bogs in a controlled way may be a good way to capture carbon from the atmosphere.

It would have been nice if Jeremy Clarkson had taken the same interest in our environment in 2005, when he drove a brand new Land Rover Discovery 4x4 to the summit of Ben Tongue, ruining heather and peat bogs for years in the process.