Max Wegner, left, a Michigan Tech researcher, and Collin Tucker, a U.S. Forest Service scientist, take measurements of gasses coming off an area of the Sax-Zim Bog northwest of Duluth. Keeping pet ...

RED EARTH CREEK, Alberta — Kristyn Housman grabbed the end of a sampling auger, a steel tube that two colleagues had just drilled into a moss-covered hummock in a peat bog, and poked through a damp, ...

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, ...

On Ireland’s Peat Bogs, Climate Action Clashes With Tradition By Clodagh Kilcoyne and Conor Humphries CLONBULLOGUE, Ireland (Reuters) -As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John ...

Efforts to enhance peat accumulation in European peatlands, which contain around half of Europe's soil carbon, will require a combination of warm temperatures and a specific depth of the water table, ...

Shadow Lake Nature Preserve in Renton protects one of Washington's few peat bogs. Here's how to tour the bog and learn more.

This study concerns the mass balance in hummocks and hollows on three ombrotrophic boreonemoral bogs in both a short (ca 10 yr) and long (1000 yr) time scale. Nitrogen, 14 C and 210 Pb are used to ...

SEATTLE – Matt Hofmann walks along a small brown pond, the earth of its bank springing underfoot like a muddy mattress. The ground is, in fact, floating. It’s a peat bog on Washington’s Olympic ...

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 soldiers' ...