Cotton grass, larches, red maples, and black spruce grow in the Tannersville Cranberry Bog. The Tannersville Cranberry Bog began forming thousands of years ago. “If we're standing here 13,000 years ...

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, ...

Paul Nieman of Ligonier and his yellow Lab, Lily, hike all around Forbes State Forest, but one spot they visit repeatedly is Spruce Flats Bog. On a late summer trek around Laurel Summit State Park, ...

Massive peat bogs in Siberia and elsewhere may have helped spur global warming at the end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago, scientists report. The ice was already melting when the bogs formed ...

In Ireland, the abundance of peatlands means that many people have not only seen them but may also have touched them, jumped on them, and even smelt them. Generations of childhood memories are tied to ...