boggy

"The hills look burnt," he said, adding that peatland, usually wet and boggy, "is now crunchy" underfoot.

"Thirty-thousand years ago, you could have walked from the Wolds to the Continent, across a wet, boggy landscape of trees, open water, rivers, springs, bogs," he says.

Trenches hastily scratched out in the boggy soil of Flanders had become part of a continuous line of fortified trenches that stretched 475 miles from the English Channel to the Swiss Alps.

The outfield is decidedly boggy out there as the Pears openers knock the ball around.

What is more, this new boggy landscape can store more carbon over time.