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Warming temperatures are causing Arctic peatlands to expand, temporarily boosting carbon storage—but long-term stability remains uncertain.

In Britain, for example, using peat has become taboo. The government's environmental agency has said it wanted to phase out peat moss for hobby gardeners by 2020 and commercially by 2030.

This process has been successful in establishing the Sphagnum mosses typical of bogs, which have acidic soil that is low in nutrients. It’s been less successful in reintroducing the Bryopsida mosses ...

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Three-quarters are covered by plants and land use types associated with dryer conditions such as heather, while only 1% is covered by important peat-forming plants such as sphagnum moss, the map ...

Northern Irish wool is to be trialed for peatland management as a renewable, locally sourced alternative to coir.

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“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 develop.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is backing a pioneering Manchester project involving a "super species" of moss that researchers say could be the answer in the fight against climate change.