Peat bogs have huge potential to store planet-warming carbon. The ones in North Carolina just need some help to get healthy ...

When bogs dry out, the cap of living sphagnum dies, and bacteria start rapidly digesting the organics below. That turns the bog from a CO2 sink into a copious source.

3. Raised bogs in the southern-continental floristic region (I) contain fewer than 20 species and have the most impoverished vascular floras in eastern North America. In the transitional-continental ...

The peat bogs of northern Europe have a few other characteristics that make them ideal for body preservation. They’re generally in cold climates, where bodies decay more slowly — this allows them to ...

Wainio is working with developer NextSun Energy on a project calling for roughly 27,000 solar panels over about 60 acres (24 hectares) of active bogs across three farms in Carver, near Cape Cod.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Now that the long-burning wildfire in Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp has been extinguished, managers of the refuge are going to try to get more water into the peat bogs to ...

Human remains yield secrets. Researchers are now probing the secrets of 'bog mummies' some dating back 2000 years, preserved from the Iron Age with amazing detail in peat bogs of Europe. Bog ...

Edgewood Bogs, LLC of Carver has received a $47,421 grant for environmentally sustainable bog renovation with high yielding, virus indexed Haines cranberry vines.

Massive Siberian peat bogs, widely known as the permanently frozen home of untold kilometers of moss and uncountable hordes of mosquitoes, also are huge repositories for gases that are thought to ...