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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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: ...

In 1915, peat diggers recovered the fragmented skeletal remains of a man with a severely fractured skull in a peat bog near the village of Vittrup in Denmark. The remains were kept in a museum for the ...

Peat bogs have huge potential to store planet-warming carbon. The ones in North Carolina just need some help to get healthy again. 50 States, 50 Fixes Peat bogs have huge potential to store ...

It might be favorable in the short-term, but the drawbacks outweigh the benefits. Peat moss is popular in gardens because it holds water, adds air to soil, and keeps nutrients from washing away.

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium that causes the human disease tuberculosis. The findings suggest that one ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Lithuania said on Monday rescuers have recovered the armoured vehicle of four missing U.S. soldiers that last week sunk in a peat bog in a military training area in the Baltic ...