The convergence of geology, climate, vegetation and human history allowed peat to accumulate on an extraordinary scale over ...

Massive peat bogs in Siberia and elsewhere may have helped spur global warming at the end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago, scientists report. The ice was already melting when the bogs formed ...

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, ...