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 ...

Three of the four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sunk in a peat bog have been found dead at the site, while the search for the remaining soldier is ...

In some countries, the accumulation of such vegetable matter covers large tracts of several miles in extent, and are called "peat bogs," such as in Ireland ; we call them peat meadows and peat swamps.

Most gardeners live a long way from peat bogs and may not see the appeal or the value of them but every time someone uses peat they're contributing to the destruction of this special and important ...

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved ...

They were found in a peat bog in northeastern Greece near the island ... The new research complements previous studies, such ...

Efforts were underway to recover the submerged vehicle of four U.S. Army soldiers from the depths of a peat bog in Lithuania as crews continued to search for the missing servicemembers on Thursday.

The peat bogs are a really special habitat. The moorland looks like it's empty and barren, but it’s actually full of life. The soil doesn’t let water drain away easily, so it stays wet.

Peat bogs may not be unique to Ireland, but their place in the Irish cultural imagination certainly is. Against the drama of our mountains, and of the waves shaping our rugged shores, peat bogs ...