Learn how peat moss—a common element of container gardening—affects climate change and what you can use as a sustainable alternative.

“Sphagnum moss itself is incredible,” Colwell noted. “It’s very slow growing.” It grows so slowly, in fact, that it can take thousands and thousands of years for a peat bog to develo ...

Sphagnum moss is a key building block of peat and healthy blanket bog keeps the underlying peat banks safe. Sphagnum traps carbon dioxide and due to its water retention properties it also helps reduce ...

Can you help us? Sphagnum moss is a key building block of peat and healthy blanket bog keeps the underlying peat banks safe. Sphagnum traps carbon dioxide and due to its water retention properties it ...

And this is in the family Sphagnaceae, and this is otherwise known as peat moss. Sphagnum is very, very, very important for climate change. Northern peatlands hold the equivalent of 40% of the ...

It may not be to everybody’s taste, but I love the new fountain in the centre of Ilkley. Juliet and Jamie Gutch were behind the winning design, which features a representation of Sphagnum, found ...

Plants like sphagnum moss and others have adapted so that they can grow in these difficult wet conditions. When they die, they break down and form a layer of peat in the water. The peat holds even ...

Peatlands are vital ecosystems that store more carbon per hectare than tropical rainforests. Central to this carbon storage is Sphagnum moss, which aids in peat formation as well as supporting ...