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 soldiers' ...

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, ...

The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. A new paper in PLOS Biology (DOI: ...

Peat moss is popular in gardens because it holds water, adds air to soil, and keeps nutrients from washing away. Harvesting peat moss harms slow-growing peat bogs, releases carbon, and damages fragile ...

Food, machinery and raw materials—Marshall Plan aid from the U.S.—is unloading on the docks of western Europe. What difference does it make? One close-up answer can be found in the town of Nijverdal ...

Ancient peat bogs are turning out to be some of the sharpest climate historians on Earth, preserving a near-continuous record of temperature, rainfall, and vegetation shifts stretching back to the end ...

Streamers of police tape decorated the deserted Offaly bog in central Ireland. Heavy rain poured down on Cathy Moore and Conor McDermott as they trudged through the thick mud. Their boots squelched ...

Two bison skeletons preserved in a peat bog near Frazee are now part of a new exhibit at the Becker County Museum. Hans Gilsdorf, artist and sculptor, points to one of the bison skeletons found in a ...

By Tracy Record West Seattle Blog editor The colorful canopies in the background of our Roxhill Park photo were the only hint from a distance that something ...