NPR's Scott Simon talks with Anna North about her novel "Bog Queen," in which a modern investigator is called to examine a body found in a British bog.

Some 2,000 remarkably well-preserved bodies have stirred up creative theories about their lives. Now technology is revealing the truth about their deaths. A violent endTollund Man’s peaceful face ...

Today, the Humberhead Peatlands nature reserve, which also includes Goole, Thorne and Hatfield Moors, is described by ...

When Roy van Beek was a teenager in the Netherlands in the early 1990s, he made a field trip to a local museum to see an exhibit of bog bodies: ancient human remains, both skeletal and naturally ...

Food, machinery and raw materials—Marshall Plan aid from the U.S.—is unloading on the docks of western Europe. What difference does it make? One close-up answer can be found in the town of Nijverdal ...

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis in humans. The ...

1. We report results from a long-term experiment in which additional nitrogen has been deposited on a peat bog in central Scotland for over 14 years, in three different forms: as ammonia (NH₃) gas, as ...

Tuberculosis Research Section scientists collapse in the bog after a long day collecting sphagnum core samples at Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Maine. Front: Clif Barry (Left), Jessica ...

In more recent times, peat bogs are seen as valuable natural resources, yet they’ve retained their mystical qualities thanks to the thousands of human bodies that have emerged from their depths.

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 one ...