A fire burning at a peat bog operation in Foxley River, in western P.E.I., continues to smoulder. The fire started June 17 at Gulf Island Peat Moss, north of Tyne Valley. Two days later ...

The lower strata of deep peat bogs make the best peat ... In the heat of summer, although we never need any fire in our rooms, we often want hot water for tea, coffee, and similar purposes ...

A press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR): Peat fires can be a common occurrence during a dry Minnesota summer. They are normally rare in the middle of the winter, ...

Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...

Peat bogs are found in areas where there is lots of rain but poor drainage. These vital ecosystems are relied upon to deliver drinking water, host rare plant and bird life and to mitigate the risk ...

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved ...