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 ...

For nearly a month the French territory of Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean has been engulfed in flames. Located ...

The site, a mosaic of grassland, farmland, moorland, woodland, wooded ravines and bog habitats ... “During the fire all the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Video / Fire and Emergency NZ Signs of recovery are growing from the ashes of Whangamarino Wetlands after a scrub fire burned through more than 1000ha of vegetation in October. The fire was first ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is charged with protecting the nation’s aquatic resources. Earlier this month, it granted permission for Minnesota Pipe Line to cross 51 miles of wetlands ...

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 ...

Drone footage shows the size of a large vegetation fire in the Whangamarino Wetlands in North Waikato. Video / Fire and Emergency NZ Signs of recovery are growing from the ashes of Whangamarino ...