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There's a lot. jordan has just emptied about a litre of water out of his boot. and that is why you wear bog shoes. chuckles. so, yeah, what is all this made up of? because it feels like we're walking on a big sponge. yeah, it is mostly made of the moss. more specifically, sphagnum moss. so, this is the plant here. ah, 0k! and if you take some of it, yeah, so you can... oh, it's really like a sponge, isn't it? so it's like a... it is rotting down there, becoming peat. but in the top bit, it is growing, it is green, yeah, like... yes, it is living. it's sort of a... and it is full of water.

Jordan has just emptied about a litre of water out of his boot. and that is why you wear bog shoes. so, yeah, what's all this made up of? because it feels like we're walking on a big sponge. yeah, it's mostly made of moss. more specifically, sphagnum moss. so this is the plant here. ah, 0k. and if you take some of it, like, so you see... oh, it's really like a sponge, isn't it? so it is... so it's like a... ..growing up, so it is rotting down there or becoming peat. but in the bit, it's growing. it's...it's a... ..green, like a... yes! well, as you can see, it's living. it's sort of a... yeah....

Bog shoes are a bit like snow shoes, and our crew soon discovers the importance of wearing them. don't fall over! yeah, that one is ok too. there's a lot, yeah? there's a lot. jordan has just emptied about a litre of water out of his boot. and that is why you wear bog shoes. so, yeah, what's all this made up of? because it feels like we're walking on a big sponge. yeah, it's mostly made of moss. more specifically, sphagnum moss. so this is the plant here. ah, 0k. and if you take some of it, like, so you see... oh, it's really like a sponge, isn't it? so it is... so it's like a... ..growing up,...

Scientists from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have been working for two years on SeaChange — an ambitious project that could one day boost the amount of CO2, a major greenhouse gas, that can be absorbed by our seas

Between the use of electricity and the use of water. so we look at that for every build of data centre that we are about to undertake. and if water is a scarce resource, then we look to implement dry cooling. so we don't actually waste water in the cooling in that particular data centre. but if water is in plentiful supply and we get our water from all sorts of sources, so for example, actuallyjust here in dublin, i heard that we've got kind of a ground water collection where we've effectively buried what they describe to me as a big sponge into the ground underneath our data centre, and what ...