Max Wegner, left, a Michigan Tech researcher, and Collin Tucker, a U.S. Forest Service scientist, take measurements of gasses coming off an area of the Sax-Zim Bog northwest of Duluth. Keeping pet ...

The Tollund Man and Grauballe Man are two of Denmark's most famous 'bog bodies,' preserved for over 2,000 years in peat bogs.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Thanks to the glaciers that have shaped Ohio’s topography, we were once home to over 155,000 acres of peatland. According to Dr. Matt Davies, the Associate Professor of Soil and Plant ...

Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth's carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs' sequestration, the wetlands are under threat. On a cold winter afternoon, ...

The bodies of three of four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing last week in Lithuania were found Monday after their armored vehicle sank into a peat bog during training. The Army said the soldiers' ...

Peter Patterer once put his barnstorming plane down in a Michigan peat bog, was intrigued by its softness, became Peter Patterer the Peatman. Richard Whitney the Broker, intrigued by peat’s ...

Streamers of police tape decorated the deserted Offaly bog in central Ireland. Heavy rain poured down on Cathy Moore and Conor McDermott as they trudged through the thick mud. Their boots squelched ...

Now we have yet another reason to stop the PolyMet/NorthMet copper-nickel mine in its tracks and save thousands of acres of biologically diverse wetlands. The comprehensive Feb. 13 article "State's ...

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis in humans. The ...

An old moss plant asked a new moss plant how he likes living in the bog. “I’m lichen it so far,” was the response. As a young gardener, I remember my mom buying large bales of peat moss, sold as ...