The bodies of three of four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing last week in Lithuania were found Monday after their armored vehicle sank into a peat bog during training. The Army said the soldiers' ...

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, ...

Food, machinery and raw materials—Marshall Plan aid from the U.S.—is unloading on the docks of western Europe. What difference does it make? One close-up answer can be found in the town of Nijverdal ...

The first comprehensive survey of a 7,000-year-old burial tradition reveals an often violent final ritual. The skull of Porsmose Man, who was 35 to 40 years old when he was killed with bone arrows ...

Streamers of police tape decorated the deserted Offaly bog in central Ireland. Heavy rain poured down on Cathy Moore and Conor McDermott as they trudged through the thick mud. Their boots squelched ...

The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. A new paper in PLOS Biology (DOI: ...

Another way to reduce peat use without sacrificing smoke is to age in ex-peated whisky casks. This is what the farm-to-bottle ...

A wildlife trust needs to raise an additional £25,000 if it is to realise a plan to bring in beavers to revive a bog of ...