Another way to reduce peat use without sacrificing smoke is to age in ex-peated whisky casks. This is what the farm-to-bottle ...

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 ...

Today, the Humberhead Peatlands nature reserve, which also includes Goole, Thorne and Hatfield Moors, is described by ...

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, ...

They cover more than one million hectares of Ireland's land mass. They can be found at the coast and in the mountains. They have helped to shape the country’s history and heritage, and they are the ...

A wildlife trust needs to raise an additional £25,000 if it is to realise a plan to bring in beavers to revive a bog of ...

A scrap of weathered fabric, discovered four decades ago in a peat bog, is the world’s oldest piece of tartan, with new analysis determining it dates to the 16th century. The textile was found in the ...

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis in humans. The ...