The bodies of Iron Age Europeans are so well preserved in peat bogs that they’re sometimes mistaken for modern murder victims. Numerous examples of “bog butter” have emerged in Scotland and ...

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 ...

Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...

The day before Midsummer’s Eve in June 1936, five-year-old Gulli Johanssen tagged along with her older brother Thure as he went to harvest peat in Bocksten Bog in Varberg, Sweden. The Johansson ...

In 1915, peat diggers recovered the fragmented skeletal remains of a man with a severely fractured skull in a peat bog near the village of Vittrup in Denmark. The remains were kept in a museum for ...