The briquettes were not only once a convenient, inexpensive fuel for Irish people, they were also an industrial design icon ...

The Hudson Bay peatlands in northern Canada, a 90-million-acre area stretching from northern Manitoba to Quebec, are a haven ...

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

Theresa Heskins (left) and Vicki Dela Amedume MBE have been nominated for best director at the UK Theatre Awards Two directors at a Staffordshire theatre have been nominated for a national theatre ...

St. Tammany Firefighters are on scene of a structure fire at Palmetto's on the Bayou. Officials say no part of the main restaurant are affected. The popular restaurant and bar is reportedly ablaze, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Authorities have arrested a suspect in the Palisades fire after a nine-month investigation into the blaze that ...

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old man accused of setting the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles history, likely used a lighter to start a small fire on New Year’s Day that smoldered underground ...

Search for “bog” in this new edition of Seamus Heaney’s poems and you will find the word some 60 times; the 1,200 tissue-thin pages are mulchy with “the squelch and slap of soggy peat”. There is the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Federal prosecutors’ announcement on Wednesday that the Jan. 7 Palisades fire was a flare-up of a small arson fire ...

Authorities have arrested a man acccused of sparking the Palisades Fire that devastated parts of Los Angeles at the start of the year, leaving at least a dozen people dead and thousands without homes.

Step onto Ondiri Swamp, and the ground trembles beneath your feet, not from fear, but from physics. This spongy, floating mat of vegetation literally quakes when you walk on it, earning its name from ...