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 ...

Two years after post-tropical storm Fiona demolished thousands of trees on Prince Edward Island, residents on the North Shore ...

Crews working to extinguish a fire at a peat bog operation in Foxley River, P.E.I., successfully directed the fire towards the ocean on Wednesday. In an emailed update from the provincial ...

PEAT is an endangered resource. Formed from decomposed vegetation around 12,000 years ago, it grows at a mere millimetre per ...

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 ...

A new paper in PLOS Biology (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002852) sampled 1,500 fungi species found in a peat bog in the Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Maine. All of them were exposed ...

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 ...

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium that causes the human disease tuberculosis. The findings suggest that ...