Ancient human remains discovered in an Irish bog in October 2023 don't belong to a teenage boy as originally assumed but rather a young woman, making them an exceptionally rare find. Over the past ...

President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission called President Vladimir Putin of Russia “a predator.” President Emmanuel Macron of France called him “an ogre at our gates.” Chancellor ...

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 ...

Textile designers and tartan experts have banded together to recreate the oldest piece of Scottish tartan for modern production, allowing fans of the famed plaid to wear a piece of history. Using ...

Jonathan Ritson has received funding from charities delivering peatland restoration. By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the ...

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, ...