Expansive areas of peat soils are referred to as peatlands. These areas are often located in what were once lakes or oceans. The clay deposits from the former lake provide an impermeable layer so that water accumulates. Plants growing in this wet...

A soil that is derived completely from the decomposing remains of plants. Plants that commonly form peat include reeds, sedges, sphagnum moss, and grasses. The plant remains do not decompose but continue to accumulate because the wet and/or cool...

Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter. Peat forms in wetlands or peatlands, variously called bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp...

Peat is a natural organic material of botanical origin and commercial significance. Peatlands are situated predominately in shallow wetland areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Commercial deposits are formed from the gradual decomposition of plant matter under anaerobic conditions over about a 5,000-year period. ...

Along with hydropower and small quantities of natural gas, peat is the only major indigenous energy resource currently used for power generation in Ireland. Historically, peat has played a major role in Ireland's energy equation, and in the early 1960s more than one-third of...

Appalachian State kicked off this crazy football season with the stunning upset of Michigan. Now the Mountaineers have the perfect bookend: History as Division I-AA's first three-peat national champions.Armanti Edwards threw for three touchdowns, and Appalachian State jumped out to a 21-0 lead and never...

They stayed in school because there were more championships to be won. Now, Florida's juniors are one victory away from a three-peat at the Southeastern Conference tournament.Corey Brewer scored 22 points, Lee Humphrey added 17 and the sixth-ranked Gators put on another dominating display to...