Cotton grass, larches, red maples, and black spruce grow in the Tannersville Cranberry Bog. The Tannersville Cranberry Bog began forming thousands of years ago. “If we're standing here 13,000 years ...

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, ...

Thousands of people have been laid to rest in Europe's peat bogs over the millennia, whether through human sacrifices, slayings or more or less dignified burials. Studies of bog bodies usually focus ...

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 ...

TANNERSVILLE — Cranberry Bog is described as 'a piece of Canada in the Poconos' by Brian Hardiman, a naturalist at the Monroe County Environmental Education Center. Known as a northern bog, Cranberry ...