Healthy peat is the country's biggest carbon store but when damaged it releases planet-warming greenhouse gases back into the ...

Outside the Midlands, most peatlands in Ireland, especially in the West, are described as blanket bog. They form in areas ...

Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...

The exhibit, which combines prehistoric bison bones with original art, was the brainchild of local artist Hans Gilsdorf, who ...

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 ...

Moreover, the processes of blanket bog formation provide a significant example of carbon sequestration on a large scale. The property holds between 29 and 34 peat forming species of Sphagnum moss, ...

Two bison skeletons preserved in a peat bog near Frazee are now part of a new exhibit at the Becker County Museum. Hans Gilsdorf, artist and sculptor, points to one of the bison skeletons found in ...

It is harvested from marshes, wetlands and peat bogs in cold, damp climates ... Sustainability: Faster formation (0.75-4.75 inches per year), and only new growth is harvested.

New research shows instead of being part of the answer to climate change, peat bogs could become a victim ... % to 100% of its suitable area for peat formation by 2061 to 2080.