By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the stark warning from a new academic study my colleagues and I just published in the ...

Given that she was interred in a peat bog, in what was likely an unconsecrated grave, she may have been a murder victim or a suicide. Oldcroghan Man fits the classic profile of an Iron Age bog body.

Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the earth's carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs' ...

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.

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 ...

Although sales of peat ... bog in the UK remain in pristine or near-natural condition. The latest government figures show that 62 per cent of the peat we use in growing media and soil conditioners ...

“Earthy is an often-evoked note, but rarely is it so visceral; sodden soil and the ferns that thrive there. In a comically linear way, the peat harvested from a bog carries that character to the ...

When peat dries out it emits rather than stores greenhouse gases, contributing to climate change. Peat is a layer of carbon-rich soil that forms ... In the UK alone, peat bogs, moors and fens ...

Peat bogs are found in areas where there is lots of rain but poor drainage. These vital ecosystems are relied upon to deliver drinking water, host rare plant and bird life and to mitigate the risk ...