Bog breathing data is important for tracking and ensuring peatland health.

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Tresky: "Bogs are like my favorite ecosystem. Ise to study botany" Lesley says she doesn't think the rodents of unusual size exist. The dead people in the bogs, like tha lore, the rings at dead, feels like a reference to the bog people that we we near touch on in the main body of the episode," adds Tresky.

A few years back, 99pi producer Emmett FitzGerald brought us a beautiful story about peat bogs. Peat is essential for biodiversity and for the climate – it is really, really good at storing carbon. But like a lot of things we cover on the show, peat often goes unnoticed, in part because it is literally out of sight underground. We’ve noticed peat and carbon sequestration more and more in the news lately. Journalists have been brilliantly covering stories about the tree planting movement, private ownership of Scotland’s bogs, and the threat to peat in the Congo Basin. Couple that with more extreme weather happening in more places, we thought it would be a good idea to repeat this story.

For the Love of Peat