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 ...

A bog and forest fire in North Dundas, Ont., shrank to about one-tenth of its previous size overnight, and by Tuesday morning was mostly smouldering above and below ground, according to the township.

Government has repeatedly been told by experts that its policies to promote biodiversity could ‘do more harm than good’ ...

Months before the long-awaited, brand new Rainier Beach High School opened to students last April, engineers on the $297-million project reported problems with the building’s foundation to the city, ...

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 ...

This repository contains the data and code for our manuscript: Teickner, H., Agethen, S., Berger, S., Boelsen, R. I., Borken, W., Bragazza, L., Broder, T., De La Cruz ...

President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission called President Vladimir Putin of Russia “a predator.” President Emmanuel Macron of France called him “an ogre at our gates.” Chancellor ...

About this time of the year, Jarrod Rhodes should be checking on the vines of cranberries that have grown on his bog for decades in southeastern Massachusetts. Instead, he is watching a backhoe tear ...

With conventional waste management systems falling short, many scientists are turning to nature for innovative solutions to the issue of plastic waste. One promising avenue is microbial degradation: ...

The climate crisis upends life in countless ways large and small, including potentially ending one beloved 1,000-year-old tradition. Peated whiskies, flavored with decaying organic matter from bogs, ...