9/17/01 A year after the fast-moving Harris Fire left a peat bog burning for several months, Vandenberg Air Force Base officials confidently, yet cautiously, have pronounced the pesky problem ...

As delegates from more than 100 nations haggle over solutions to the climate crisis at the high-stakes COP26 U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, carbon dioxide, a main culprit in global warming, is ...

Climate change and human activities threaten the natural state of peat bogs, such as this Alberta peatland that served as a research station. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

Two of the top three deadliest fires in U.S. history were in Minnesota. In response to the fires, the Minnesota forestry service was established... In northern Minnesota, not much can beat the ...

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, ...

As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack damp peat – the cheap, smoky fuel he has harvested for half a century. The painstaking work of “footing turf”, as the ...

An EPA study published online Monday in Environmental Health Perspectives finds that the 2008 peat bog wildfires in NC led to an increase in emergency room visits for respiratory and cardiovascular ...