MEADOWLANDS, Minn. — Colin Tucker slid on rubber waders, hoisted a 50-pound pack stuffed with carbon dioxide and methane analyzers and other heavy scientific monitoring equipment, and prepared to ...

What's so great about bogs you ask? As part of our Let's Plant Moor series with Moors For The Future, Charlotte Kenyon gives an excellent explanation into the benefit of blanket bogs for carbon ...

In 1991, a mining company deeded the state of Minnesota an abandoned peat mine in Rice County. Peat bogs exist around the world, ranging from tropical to chilly places. However, they are a relatively ...

As delegates from more than 100 nations haggle over solutions to the climate crisis at the high-stakes COP26 U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, carbon dioxide, a main culprit in global warming, is ...

Dear Master Gardener: What’s a good replacement product for peat when I make or purchase potting mixes? Why shouldn’t we use peat products anymore? Are there any peat bogs in Minnesota? Answer: ...

Restored wetlands and peat bogs can create natural barriers for invading forces while contributing to climate resilience, ...

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, ...

Efforts to enhance peat accumulation in European peatlands, which contain around half of Europe's soil carbon, will require a combination of warm temperatures and a specific depth of the water table, ...

Max Wegner, left, a Michigan Tech researcher, and Collin Tucker, a U.S. Forest Service scientist, take measurements of gasses coming off an area of the Sax-Zim Bog northwest of Duluth. Keeping pet ...

An old moss plant asked a new moss plant how he likes living in the bog. “I’m lichen it so far,” was the response. As a young gardener, I remember my mom buying large bales of peat moss, sold as ...