Photographer Shane Hynan explores the tension between the central role peat bogs play in Irish life and their wider environmental impact ...

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 are found on wet, acidic soil and have low biodiversity, which differs little from one region to the next – only around 60 species live in these ecosystems. What's more, these species are ...

As delegates from more than 100 nations haggle over solutions to the climate crisis at the high-stakes COP26 U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, carbon dioxide, a main culprit in global warming, is ...

Peatlands are not easy to love. They don't create stunning vistas like mountains or oceans, and they aren't home to magnificent wild animals like the plains and rainforests. But just as you can't call ...

Bogs, mires, fens and marshes—just their names seem to conjure myth and mystery. Though today, our interest in these waterlogged landscapes tends to be more prosaic. Because of a lack of oxygen, they ...

You might not think of trees as being a fire hazard, but new research from a peatland in Alberta, Canada shows otherwise – at least for peat bogs. The research, published in Environmental Research ...

In 1991, a mining company deeded the state of Minnesota an abandoned peat mine in Rice County. Peat bogs exist around the world, ranging from tropical to chilly places. However, they are a relatively ...

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 ...

As delegates from more than 100 nations haggle over solutions to the climate crisis at the high-stakes COP26 U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, carbon dioxide, a main culprit in global warming, is ...