Scientist dubbed The Bogfather is restoring peatland to fight climate change
A childhood fascination with bogs led one Welsh scientist to try and help save the planet.
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"I certainly wouldn't have come up with that myself."
— Dr Peter Jones , Academic
"They're quite wild... with a lot of the characteristics of genuinely natural habitat."
— Dr Peter Jones , Academic
"A peat soil is basically composed of the partially decomposed remains of plants."
— Dr Peter Jones , Academic
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A childhood fascination with bogs led one Welsh scientist to try and help save the planet.
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