The sun casts long shadows up the beach as Hayleigh Graham sits in a hole and digs. For more than three hours she works, flinging scoop after scoop of black goopy mud onto the powder-like sand above.

The area was badly damaged in the Victoria era through peat cutting and then the installation of drains and tree planting. Reserve manager Suzanne McIntyre said the recovery of the bog had been ...

Plans to cut down trees on an ancient peat mossland have prompted angry opposition from residents and local politicians. Natural England wants to fell trees around the upper Duddon Estuary in west ...

The ancient peat bog contains organic material from thousands of years ago and they say it could provide vital lessons for today’s changing climate.

"It was pretty mind-blowing." The black sand around it was an ancient peat bog, and the dunes at its base even older — about 12,600 years old. But, perhaps, the most exciting factor was it had ...