Lithuanian officials hope restored peat bogs can reinforce the border in addition to locking away planet-warming carbon.

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 ...

From fashion to art, an explainer on our love of wetlands.

As delegates from more than 100 nations haggle over solutions to the climate crisis at the high-stakes COP26 U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, carbon dioxide, a main culprit in global warming, is ...

In 1991, a mining company deeded the state of Minnesota an abandoned peat mine in Rice County. Peat bogs exist around the world, ranging from tropical to chilly places. However, they are a relatively ...

A peat bog is the only type of wetland that doesn’t require a watercourse permit prior to development. The head of the New ...

The peat bogs of Ireland are an iconic part of its rural landscape. But a fierce donnybrook has erupted over the harvesting of peat, known locally as turf cutting. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Peatlands are not easy to love. They don't create stunning vistas like mountains or oceans, and they aren't home to magnificent wild animals like the plains and rainforests. But just as you can't call ...

RED EARTH CREEK, Alberta — Kristyn Housman grabbed the end of a sampling auger, a steel tube that two colleagues had just drilled into a moss-covered hummock in a peat bog, and poked through a damp, ...

Temperature increases could destabilize carbon-rich northern peat bogs, resulting in a massive release of carbon and the acceleration of global warming trends, according to a recent Harvard study. The ...