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, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Peat has become a dirty word in England. If you have ever bought a plant from a big box store, a grocery store, or an independent nursery, then you have become acquainted with peat: ...

Ancient peat bogs are turning out to be some of the sharpest climate historians on Earth, preserving a near-continuous record of temperature, rainfall, and vegetation shifts stretching back to the end ...

As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack damp peat - the cheap, smoky fuel he has harvested for half a century. The painstaking work of “footing turf,” as the ...

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 ...

To calculate the amount of carbon stored inside peatlands, researchers developed a unified theory of “bog physics” applicable around the world. A visit to a peat bog will make you rethink everything ...