But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved remains of ancient people. One site in particular stands out as America's premier bog-body site ...

Researchers Unearth Prehistoric Mummies That Were Made of Body Parts From Several Different People Researchers were shocked to uncover prehistoric mummies from Scotland that were made to look like one ...

He was genetically closest to people from those regions and had darker ... Why did Vittrup Man end up with a smashed skull in a peat bog? The exact answer will never be known, but researchers ...

Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs ... resurrect these ancient people. Drawing on the work of Dutch bog-body scholar Wijnand van der Sanden ...

Peat is a nonrenewable resource because it is being consumed much faster than it can be produced; a bog regrows at a rate of ...

The Koochiching County Board Tuesday set a date for a decision point about further development of the Pine Island horticultural peat bog northwest of Big Falls. Yves Gauthier, of Quebec-based ...

More than 2,200 of Nijverdal’s 9,000 people are working in the town’s ... “Our men will never go back to the peat bogs.” And Part Good Fellowship. There was one point I wanted to clear ...

By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the stark ...

Most gardeners live a long way from peat bogs and may not see the appeal or ... work almost as well as peat-based products. The more people that use and ask for non-peat ones, the greater the ...

In some countries, the accumulation of such vegetable matter covers large tracts of several miles in extent, and are called "peat bogs," such as in Ireland ; we call them peat meadows and peat swamps.