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 ...

An ancient Cheshire peat bog is to be restored to wetland after plans to build 14 homes next to the site were approved. Environmental groups claimed years of peat extraction had caused "ongoing ...

Peat-bog fungi produce substances that kill tuberculosis-causing bacteria New study points to processes involving thiol compounds as potentially promising treatment targets Date: December 3, 2024 ...

To explore potential targets for treatment-shortening strategies, Malhotra and colleagues turned to sphagnum peat bogs. These freshwater wetlands harbor abundant species of bacteria in the ...

What exactly is bog snorkelling? The clue is in the name, but basically participants swim along a water-filled trench that has been cut into a peat bog – using a snorkel and face mask to breathe ...

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 ...