Scottish Water is restoring 400 hectares of degraded peat around Loch Katrine which feeds the city's drinking water.

DW’s Richard Baynes has been delving into the strange and wonderful world of Europe’s biggest peat bogs. To listen to the full story, click the audio player above. The post This Scottish peat ...

Port Ellen, a historic distillery on Islay, is renowned for its return after years of closure, while The Flow Country, the ...

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Peatlands form over thousands of years – 1 metre of peat takes 1,000 years to form ... The Flows alone holds 5% of the global blanket bog resources. But 80% of Scotland’s peatlands are degraded in ...

The body was first discovered in 1964, with forensic analysis at the time revealing he was around 20 to 25 years old.

Peat landslides—slides, flows and bog bursts—are a significant natural ... Although peat landslides are rare in Scotland, it's important to consider the risks when planning any peatland ...

The personal belongings of an 18th-century murder victim, hastily buried in a peat bog, have gone on display on the Isle of Lewis, forming part of a rare exhibition shedding light on one of Scotland’s ...

According to a predictive model, the microalgae present in peat bogs could offset up to 14% of future CO2 emissions, thanks to their photosynthetic activity. This conclusion was reached by basing the ...

Loch Katrine, in the heart of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, supplies water to 1.3 million homes in and around Scotland's largest city. But the peat in ... like a wet bog with ...