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Beauty spots are under threat warns report  -  22 Oct 2007
ic Wales,For a site to be classed as an “unfavourable feature�, the CCW says it must be declining or is impoverished in some way, such as having a shrinking peat bog

Poland prepares for new government under pro-EU Civic Platform  -  22 Oct 2007
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),Union on a number of issues, including Polish voting strength, a proposal to build a highway through a protected peat bog and the death penalty.

Protection of bog thrills farmer  -  Oct 15, 2007
The Southland Times,The Western Southland farmers who sold 318ha of peat bog to the Government said they were thrilled the rich habitat would be protected in perpetuity.

Rare peat bog ecosystem protected in Southland  -  Oct 7, 2007
Scoop.co.nz,The purchase of an area of peat bog in western Southland is an important ecological investment, protecting threatened flora and fauna that are becoming rare

Trial by fire  -  Oct 19, 2007
South Delta Leader,Much of that success—the peat bog blaze was snuffed out in just two days—is owed to the extensive wild land, fire fighter training all of Delta firefighters

Sue's nature news: The carnivorous pitcher plant  -  Oct 17, 2007
Portsmouth Herald News,This is the carnivorous pitcher plant, thriving in the nutrient-poor soil of an acidic peat bog, able to supplement its diet with a steady supply of

Class Fact: Digging up dirt on Chan HS  -  Oct 1, 2007
Chaska Herald,...“There was three feet of clay on top of the peat bog from the construction of Lyman Boulevard,� said Eickman. “That’s fine for farming, but not for building

Showcase for early Scottish music  -  Sep 29, 2007
BBC News,Sheena Wellington, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers and the Peat Bog Faeries are among the artists performing at Fest 'n' Furious 2007.

My Weekend: Wendy Brown  -  Sep 28, 2007
Times Online,The latter was first held in a dense peat bog just outside our dinkiest town in 1985 and has since gone from strength to strength.

Lakefront might have better uses than upgraded Husky Stadium  -  Sep 26, 2007
Seattle Post IntelligencerThe secondary problem is that what is not an old dump is an old peat bog. The annual die-off of grasses adds another layer of decomposing vegetation that

Newcastle Marsh River Bog Boardwalk Under Construction  -  Oct 3, 2007
Lincoln County News,...value in these wetlands,� continued Hufnagel, “and for school groups, this is another environmental experience, getting up close to a floating peat bog.

Area students part of People to People  -  Oct 19, 2007
Altoona Mirror,...wading in a peat bog, kissing the Blarney Stone, exploring ancient castles, and spending three nights in a home-stay in Andover, England.

Flying in the open air  -  Oct 18, 2007
Nova News Now,...“They had a bombing range on the peat bog, and I’d lay out under the maple and watch the Mosquitoes - they’d come screaming in over the meadows below the

Storm of protest over turbines gathers force  -  Oct 13, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,...as the 130 turbines, each 450ft high and requiring 30 miles of new roads, that threaten to destroy many square miles of ancient peat bog at Strathspey.

Old graveyard a first in Fla.  -  Sep 23, 2007
Florida Today,Instead, they belonged to a people from more than 7000 years ago who were laid to rest in a peat bog. The lack of oxygen reaching the bones kept them from

Where there’sa Will ... there’sa theory  -  Oct 15, 2007
Liverpool Daily Post,William Shakespeare has been demoted to “the Stratford Man�, as if he had been discovered in a peat bog during an archaeological dig.

Crypt opens on world's biggest mummy show in Germany  -  Oct 4, 2007
AFPHighlights include a unique Peruvian mummy of a dead child, the so-called Windeby Girl found in a peat bog in northern Germany in the 1950s and a

Welcome noise in short-story debut by a local author  -  Sep 27, 2007
Prague Post,On some unnamed Gaelic isle off Britain, a young woman, a gutter of fish, finds an abandoned baby near a peat bog. Such a discovery, in a culture shaped as

A few more thoughts on evolution and humanism  -  Oct 1, 2007
Palestine Herald Press,I had read of ancient skeletons remarkably preserved, that had been retrieved from some peat bog or cave somewhere in Europe or Asia, and in no instance was

Green Accounting Firms  -  Sep 30, 2007
CPA Technology Advisor,Not quite like the old thatched or peat bog roofs from Europe in the middle ages, but you get the idea. You may be familiar with the push to require

Friday's bounce gives opportunity to sell off shares  -  18 Aug 2007
Scotland on Sunday,...early to think about buying: "You would need to be a brave investor indeed to go into the market right now. It would be like tap-dancing on a peat bog."

Peat that! Hardy snorkellers swim for glory in a bog  -  Jul 30, 2007
Belfast Telegraph,The plucky competitors donned flippers on Saturday to plunge into a water-filled trench cut from a peat bog at Peatlands Park near Dungannon,

Environmentalists ask Poland to freeze work on highway through ...  -  Jul 30, 2007
Kyiv Post,Officials broke ground on a section of the road near the peat bog earlier this year and have carried out preliminary work, but all outside of the protected

What the Peat Bog People Can Tell Us About Beauty  -  Aug 2, 2007
أرابياOver the past centuries, remains of many hundreds of people-- men, women, and children--have come to light in peat bogs in northwestern Europe,

Ireland: Knock’s Airport built by a miracle  -  Aug 17, 2007
Prince George Free Press,There, in the middle of a peat bog, sits an airport: not just a tiny regional field but a full-fledged international airport capable of handling jumbo jets.

EU Trying to Halt Polish Highway  -  Jul 30, 2007
Forbes,The government approved construction of the highway, and officials broke ground on a section near the peat bog earlier this year and have carried out

£15000 nature reserve boost  -  Aug 7, 2007
Scotsman,The reserve is a raised lowland peat bog and is home to rare butterflies and thriving populations of dragonflies. The three-year project will see the

Poland's PM: work won't start on highway through protected wetlands  -  Jul 31, 2007
International Herald Tribune,AP WARSAW, Poland: Poland's prime minister said Tuesday that work on a highway through a rare peat bog protected by European Union habitat laws will not

Corner Brook Pulp and Paper to ‘re-peat’ test burn of new fuel source  -  Jul 24, 2007
Western Star,...next trial burns go well, Corner Brook Pulp and Paper will have to reach business deals with Hi Point or some other supplier to develop a fuel peat bog.

Climate Tipping Points Get Scarier  -  Aug 17, 2007
It's Getting Hot In Here,Since 2005, the frozen Siberian peat bog has been partly melting during the summer (see here). This year, in particular, a vast area that had never melted

Peat moss sparking flowerpot fires in Alberta  -  Jul 20, 2007
CBC.ca,..."It's something that people just don't think about, but bog fires in the wild are fairly common and a fire in a peat bog can smolder for years and keep

Bog snorkellers to get down and dirty  -  Jul 27, 2007
Belfast Telegraph,Competitors will plunge into a water-filled trench cut from a peat bog, vying to swim two lengths in the shortest possible time, as part of the third annual

Search for adventure  -  Aug 5, 2007
Canoe.ca,Signposts along the crescent-shaped boardwalk explain that the 8000-year-old peat bog is a relic of the Ice Age, more commonly found in the barren northern

Ticking Time Bomb Under the Ice  -  Aug 12, 2007
The Moscow Times,Much of the Siberian sub-Arctic region -- an area the size of France and Germany combined -- is a vast, frozen peat bog. Before the most recent Ice Age,

Rain stalls Pontiac Trail/Welch project  -  Aug 15, 2007
Waterford Spinal Column Newsweekly,In addition, a six-inch gas line struck by work crews during a peat bog excavation on Wednesday, Aug. 1 has been completely repaired and work is continuing

Good turn out for Motorcycle show  -  Aug 6, 2007
Cambridgeshire Times,The area was once a giant peat bog and though you will see no evidence of it in the much ploughed and eroded fields, the original geography has left its

It’s alive!  -  Aug 3, 2007
Ontario Argus Observer,It was in the peat bog of a Kemigawa farmyard 25 miles from Tokyo that a team of workmen found what they were not looking for — alive!

Council chief defends 'eco-fund'  -  Aug 14, 2007
Preston Citizen,She added: "Other projects could include carbon capture through tree planting or peat bog restoration or energy efficiency measures such as paying for

Sadness as landmark pine trees face the axe  -  Jul 23, 2007
News Letter,By Staff reporter THE felling of 26 of the famous Frosses trees will get under way on the main Ballymoney to Ballymena road today, to the dismay of many

A history of bad hairstyles  -  Jul 20, 2007
CNN...the hairstyle's history forever -- a 2300-year-old corpse, remarkably well preserved by the unique chemistry of a peat bog, sporting a bonafide 'hawk.

A win-win chance for Yorkshire Dales willows?  -  Jul 20, 2007
Daelnet,...intensive farming with pesticides and chemical fertilisers, and the draining hundreds of square miles of peat bog for intensive conifer plantations.

Poland PM: Highway Work Delayed  -  Jul 31, 2007
Forbes,...town of Augustow by cutting through 500 yards of peat bog surrounded by a virgin pine forest that is home to eagles, wolves, lynx and wild orchids.

Brussels aims to halt Polish road  -  Jul 30, 2007
BBC News,The road - which carries traffic from Warsaw to Helsinki - goes through the Rospuda Valley - a peat-bog area that is to home rare plants and animals.

Famous Frosses trees are felled  -  Jul 23, 2007
Belfast Telegraph,Up to 1500 trees were put in so that their roots would grow under the road and stop it sinking into peat bog. They have formed a guard of honour since 1839

Expanding business seeks tax abatements in Salem Township  -  Aug 9, 2007
Clarion News,Gardenscape has five company owned production facilities on the eastern side of the country, including a Canadian sphagnum peat bog and production

How to puff and pant your way into world piping elite  -  Aug 6, 2007
The Herald,He said: "The shindig after the World Pipe Band Championships on Saturday at the Fruitmarket is going to be good, with the band Peat Bog Faeries from Skye

EU asks top court to halt Polish motorway project  -  Aug 5, 2007
New Europe,The Rospuda river valley in north-east Poland includes a marshland and peat bog ecosystem regarded as the last of its kind in Europe.

West Don Lands project starts with a wall of dirt  -  Aug 1, 2007
Daily Commercial News,...“The peat-bog type of soil is very compressible, imagine a sponge and we are building on top of that,� says Chukseev. The berm will be constructed by

Israeli air strike wounds seven  -  Jul 31, 2007
Turkish Daily News (subscription),...to the Polish government in a letter published yesterday to freeze plans for a stretch of highway through a rare peat bog protected by EU habitat laws.

Protesters Object To Poland's Plan To Pave Part Of EU Protected ...  -  Jul 30, 2007
AHNEU officials say that building an 11-mile stretch of road through the peat bog of the preserve would destroy critical habitat and doom many of the animals

EUROPE AT 1100GMT  -  Jul 30, 2007
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),...environmental groups appeal to the Polish government to freeze plans for a stretch of highway through a rare peat bog protected by EU habitat laws.

Peat bog emissions ended last Ice Age  -  14 Oct 2006
Times Online,By Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter. METHANE released by peat bogs caused global warming that ended the last Ice Age, a study suggests. ...

Omsk Region  -  Oct 7, 2006
Kommersant,Gray forest, peat bog, and valley soils predominate in the northern part, but change to chernozems and meadow chernozems to the south. ...

Opportunity -- and responsibility -- to represent country  -  Oct 10, 2006
Yakima Herald-Republic,I could tell you of the Irish farm, where we played Hurley, and plunged into a peat bog, or of the party some of us held in London, the night before our ...

Irish police protect gas workers  -  Oct 4, 2006
BBC News,Ireland. Shell wants to pipe natural gas from the Atlantic Ocean across a stretch of peat bog to an onshore terminal. Campaigners ...

Danger: Hazards lurking  -  Oct 1, 2006
Gainesville Sun,The lake sits on a peat bog that accounts for the muddy look, he said. Simpson said he doesn't believe pollutants pose a major problem for the fishery. ...

Study finds no genetic divide between Celts and English  -  Sep 30, 2006
Unison.ie,...on the western coast. He also suggested that Irish land was much drier then and not peat bog as it is today. The research took ten ...

A unique atmosphere  -  Sep 23, 2006
Charleston Gazette (subscription),...grass, more often associated with Arctic terrain, sway on long stems atop lumpy tussocks of vegetation rising from the open expanse of tundra-like peat bog. ...

Top Gear's chequered past  -  Sep 21, 2006
BBC News,Environmental campaigners also complained that the presenter had damaged a sensitive peat bog whilst driving a 4x4 to the top of Ben Tongue mountain in Scotland ...

Lakeshore in line for $1.2M fix  -  Sep 23, 2006
Gary Post Tribune,Traynham said. Traynham said he believes the road may have sunk into the ground over time because it is built on a peat bog. Traynham ...

How Warm Is the Earth Nowadays?  -  Sep 27, 2006
CO2 Science Magazine,Science 310: 1009-1012. Overpeck, JT 1985. A pollen study of a late Quaternary peat bog, south-central Adirondack Mountains, New York. ...

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