Wisconsin teamed up to push a giant floating island through Lake Chippewa on June 4. This island is known as the 'Forty Acre Bog' and is actually a peat bog risen from the bottom of the lake.

Residents in Wisconsin, USA, band together on Lake Chippewa for the annual task of using their boats to move a huge floating bog blocking an important bridge. The Forty Acre Bog Island, formed by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bodies of Iron Age Europeans are so well preserved in peat bogs that they’re sometimes mistaken for modern murder victims. Numerous examples of “bog butter” have emerged in Scotland and ...

whereas peat is from Sphagnum moss that has been digested in peat bogs for thousands of years,” Satch adds. “Technically speaking, because peat takes so long to replace, even though it’s a ...