Bog

The amount of things you can craft in Infinite Craft isn't technically infinite, but it sure is a lot. There are hundreds of recipes to discover, so we compiled them all.

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists have found microbes living in thin air

Approximately 80 percent of Scotch whisky is made using peat as a fuel source for drying barley during the malting process. Is that a problem?

Danish archaeologists recently announced the discovery during an excavation of a variety of weapons and armor dating to the Iron Age and ancient Rome.

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought

The boggy landscape of the Bering land bridge may have allowed some ice age animals to cross easily, while others stayed in Asia.

It's time to get out of town—and look damn good doing it.

Helen Shaw reviews Jez Butterworth's drama about sisters, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Laura Donnelly, and David Henry Hwang's postmodern comedy, with Daniel Dae Kim and Francis Jue.

What did Bronze Age people do with all that bronze? New research revives old arguments about the nature of money

Is Joe Biden the Democrats' best hope of beating Donald Trump, or would Vice President Kamala Harris be better? Two Times columnists differ on how to handle the party's troubles.

Captured on 7 May 2024, this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of New Zealand's North Island.

The collapse of key ecosystems would severely harm the global economy, researchers have warned. Researchers from UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) and the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter reviewed the likely impacts of "ecosystem tipping points" such as the dieback of the Amazon rainforest, tropical peatland collapse and widespread die-off of coral reefs.

The London-based social enterprise is turning regular people into at-home zookeepers.

Vittrup Man, who was bludgeoned to death in a Danish bog, was a Scandinavian wanderer, according to new research

Archeologists in Scandinavia have shed new light on the life of a man who died a brutal death in the area of Northwest Denmark more than 5,000 years ago.

Hillsides splashed with purple heather are a symbol of Scotland and its natural beauty. But these picturesque moorlands are actually maintained by people—a practice that is coming under intense scrutiny as the climate crisis escalates.

Large stretches of the Arctic are carbon-rich peat bogs. As the region warms and dries, lightning strikes can spark underground fires that can burn for years...

A new analysis of how peat formations develop makes it possible to evaluate their carbon content and dynamics from simple elevation measurements. The method should enable more precise and accurate assessments of the amount of carbon that would be released by any proposed draining of peatlands.

On Achill Island in Ireland, Cian hopes to spend the summer playing soccer with his friends. But his grandfather thinks it's about time to pass down a family tradition.