“There is a lot of that area that is peat,” Wilkinson, who had then moved to the natural resources portfolio, said in 2022. “It’s very interesting from a mineral deposit perspective, but it has to be ...

It’s often mixed into peat-free composts, making up about 5-20% of the total, but you can also buy it on its own as a compressed block or as loose fibres. The blocks expand into a fluffy compost when ...

“Peat soils have a unique ability to block this type of naturally occurring radiation, drastically reducing the number of gamma rays detected by the sensor mounted on the Tellus aircraft when ...