For our first hike of the year, we love the Zumbro Bottoms Loop, a little know hiking path in Minnesota's Bluff Country ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European ... Drawing on the work of Dutch bog-body scholar Wijnand van der Sanden, the following map charts more than ...

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has revealed several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis in humans. The results indicate that focusing ...

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 ...

The story of the discovery of Lindow Man and Lindow Woman, unearthed 40 years ago from a Cheshire peat bog. Voices from the bog bodies themselves offer a surprising perspective. Show more For 2000 ...

60% of the UK’s bogs or peatland is in Scotland, a lot of which is in the very north, or the Highlands, of Scotland. The Red Moss of Balerno is one of only twenty raised peat bogs still ...

Sax-Zim Bog Welcome Center Open: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. daily Dec. 1 through March 9 (except Christmas Day). Talk to a naturalist, warm up by the stoves, shop the Sax-Zimporium (store), pick up a brochure ...

Peat bog fungi produce substances that disrupt bacterial thiol levels, pointing to new tuberculosis treatments. Fungi from peat bogs produce substances toxic to tuberculosis bacteria, potentially ...