We’ve had a pretty good crop,” said Steve Ward, a second-generation cranberry grower, on the edge of his bog. The harvest runs from September through early November, and Ward is expected to ...

During the growing season, the bog remains dry; it is only during harvest time that farmers flood the bog. This controlled flooding raises the water level just above the cranberry vines ...

men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a thousand bog bodies and skeletons have come to light ...

Harvesting happens between September and October, when the bogs are filled with a couple inches of water. A berry-picking machine drives into the bog, and churns up the vines to knock the berries off.

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 ...

men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a thousand bog bodies and skeletons have come to light ...