peat
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Sphagnum moss can hold 20 times its weight in water and helps create peat bogs, where dead vegetation accumulates rather than decays, capturing carbon in the ground.
From BBC
Sitting on the deck, I put my nose to the glass and breathed in aromas of light peat, ripe plums, shortbread and, floating in on the breeze, sea air.
To uncover this history, researchers extracted peat cores reaching about half a meter deep from nine tundra locations north of the Brooks Range.
From Science Daily
He grew up a farmer, and when he founded a golf course here 30 years ago, his favorite part was moving dirt around what had once been a peat bog.
To investigate how and when these environments developed, the researchers examined peat samples collected from South America, Australasia, southern Africa and the sub-Antarctic islands.
From Science Daily
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