WASKISH, Minn. — Take a trip about an hour north of Bemidji, Minn., and you’ll encounter a world both rugged and serene, a contradictory fusion of nature called the Big Bog. It’s a spongy moss-covered ...

It might be favorable in the short-term, but the drawbacks outweigh the benefits. Peat moss is popular in gardens because it holds water, adds air to soil, and keeps nutrients from washing away.

An old moss plant asked a new moss plant how he likes living in the bog. “I’m lichen it so far,” was the response. As a young gardener, I remember my mom buying large bales of peat moss, sold as ...

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 ...

Efforts to enhance peat accumulation in European peatlands, which contain around half of Europe's soil carbon, will require a combination of warm temperatures and a specific depth of the water table, ...

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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, ...

Peat bogs — dense and mucky wetlands that are thick with partially decayed vegetation — once blanketed about one-fifth of Ireland’s surface. They also permeate the island’s traditions and culture by ...