Using peat moss as a top-dressing will require some in-ground research — sample your lawn soil to see what it needs. If the ...

The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who passed away on Feb. 23, 2015. Some text has been updated to reflect changes since the original ...

The Okefenokee Swamp, the largest and most sacred blackwater swamp in the world, is at risk from a proposed titanium dioxide ...

The peat that makes up this moorland burns really well, so for a long time people have cut it, dried it ... Plants like sphagnum moss and others have adapted so that they can grow in these ...