By Clodagh Kilcoyne and Conor Humphries CLONBULLOGUE, Ireland (Reuters) -As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean ...

Peat comes from wetlands (bogs) filled with partly decayed vegetation. The waterlogged conditions and acidity in these bogs prevent vegetation from decaying fully after death. Over thousands of ...

Time moves in mysterious ways on the peat bogs of northern Britain ... to illustrate what a poor quality bog feels like, Chris Dean urges me to jump up and down on the spot.

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 ...

Boasting less than 5,000 visitors yearly, the peat bog nestled in the north of Scotland is a beautiful spot to go to for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 day before Midsummer’s Eve in June 1936, five-year-old Gulli Johanssen tagged along with her older brother Thure as he went to harvest peat in Bocksten Bog in Varberg, Sweden. The Johansson ...

For many years, and until the original peat bog was exhausted, this plant furnished the only fuel used under the boilers of the cloth factory. In the years 1862 and 1863 several machines of the ...

In 1915, peat diggers recovered the fragmented skeletal remains of a man with a severely fractured skull in a peat bog near the village of Vittrup in Denmark. The remains were kept in a museum for ...