Peat is a nonrenewable resource because it is being consumed much faster than it can be produced; a bog regrows at a rate of ...

Video / Fire and Emergency NZ Signs of recovery are growing from the ashes of Whangamarino Wetlands after a scrub fire burned through more than 1000ha of vegetation in October. The fire was first ...

Wetlands such as swamps ... The Red Moss of Balerno is one of only twenty raised peat bogs still surviving in this part of Scotland called the Lothians. The ground is wet and uneven so peatland ...

WaterLANDS is an initiative to improve biodiversity, ecosystems and the climate through wetland restoration. Its UK team is supporting the Great North Bog.

The Burns Bog Ecological Conservancy Area is owned by Delta, Metro Vancouver and the province. The adjacent Delta Nature ...

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 ...

About 1mm of peat forms every year and here at Flanders ... A fen is another kind of wetland, but unlike a bog, which gets its water from rainfall, a fen's water seeps through from the rock ...

Next Thursday I hope we can all take time to appreciate wetland life by visiting a river, rockpool or bog. For if something as small as a moss can root and breathe the peat alive again ...

Communicating the vital role of freshwater ecosystems, from mountain-tops-bogs and peat uplands, rivers and lakes to deltas, floodplains, marshes and mangroves. Images can be powerful through their ...