Flow Country is a peat bog — "The most intact and extensive blanket bog system in the world," according to the Flow Country website, and the largest in Europe. It covers more than 1,500 square ...

Ireland's peat bogs have heated Irish homes for centuries. But could cycling through them help fuel a slow travel revolution and save this landscape? Cycling The Bog Road through Roundstone Bog in ...

Bodies were buried in bogs across northern Europe for thousands of years. Archaeologists have undertaken the first comprehensive study of more than 1,000 bog bodies found across Ireland, Scotland ...

A few centuries ago, a pair of bison in northwestern Minnesota took their last breaths in a peat bog. Their remains are now at the center of an exhibit marrying science and art in Detroit Lakes.

Given that she was interred in a peat bog, in what was likely an unconsecrated grave, she may have been a murder victim or a suicide. 3. Oldcroghan Man 350-175 B.C. Found in County Offaly ...

Scientists are still piecing together details about the life—and death—of the man mummified in a Danish bog some 2,400 years ago. HISTORY & CULTURE He’s the most famous of Europe’s bog bodies.

Peat moss is naturally slightly acidic and can be used to balance the pH. “Most plants like pH to be about 6.0, ... but also the other plants and animals that rely on the bog for nutrients.

The bodies of three of four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing last week in Lithuania were found Monday after their armored vehicle sank into a peat bog during training.. The Army said the ...

The ancient peat bog of Lindow Moss in Cheshire hid a dark and gruesome secret for almost 2,000 years. But on 1 August 1984, a peat cutter spotted the astonishingly well-preserved remains of an ...