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The Tollund Man was c. 30-40 years old when he died by hanging c. 405-380 BCE. He wasfound in 1950 in a bog c. 10 km west of ...
Far from being ‘unspoiled’, the landscape has been seriously degraded over many decades by a combination of sheep grazing, ...
But landscapes can be restored in ways that reduce both flood risk and the effects of drought. At Smithills Estate near Bolton, the Mersey Forest (Cheshire and Merseyside’s community forest), ...
Have you ever wondered what those white pellets were in your potting soil? Well, it's more important than you may know.
When it comes to climate change and biodiversity, we ignore scientists and academics at our peril, writes Ciaran Brennan ...
There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...
King County's 80-acre peat bog is officially named Kari's Bog to honor the late environmental scientist Karin Osterhaug.
The UK government should conserve peat bogs as a way of curbing climate change, the National Trust is urging. British bogs store carbon equivalent to about 20 years' worth of national industrial ...