Ireland's peat bogs have heated Irish homes for centuries. But could cycling through them help fuel a slow travel revolution and save this landscape? Cycling The Bog Road through Roundstone Bog in ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

It is no coincidence that the Irish word for soft — “bog” — also lends itself to ... the gas into solid mass through photosynthesis. Peat soils cover more than 23 per cent of the country ...

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 ...