Moss spray could restore moors and tackle global warming

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6082743.ece

From The Times
April 13, 2009

Moss spray could restore moors and tackle global warming

Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter

The arduous process of restoring fragile moorland by hand could be revolutionised with a new spray-on technique.

Regeneration is essential to cut greenhouse gas emissions because moorlands trap large quantities of carbon that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.

The new technique means that instead of putting every new plant in the ground individually, conservationists will spray deteriorating moors with fragmented moss from a helicopter.

A trial will take place in the Peak District, where several square miles of moors have lost the bog plants that protect the peat underneath from eroding. Tests conducted already this year on a smaller scale, using fragmented sphagnum moss, have proved so encouraging that they are to be expanded to a landscape scale.

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1. How could a moss spray return parts of Spain to Muslims?

:hi:

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2. Wait a sec...

Don't I remember seeing something like that in a movie? :+