Ireland's peat bogs have heated Irish homes for centuries. But could cycling through them help fuel a slow travel revolution and save this landscape? Cycling The Bog Road through Roundstone Bog in ...

Turf, Smyth says, is for people who cannot afford what he labels "extravagant fuels," such as gas or electricity. The average Irish household energy bill is almost double, according to Ireland's ...

LULLYMORE, Ireland — For centuries, the Irish have used peat from bogs to fuel the home fires. Stories of families coming together to bring home “the turf,” as peat is called in Ireland ...

The word 'bog' is derived from the Irish word bogarch, which means 'soft'.Peat bog covers 17% of Ireland's surface, which gives us the third-highest proportion of peatland in the world, after ...

Growing up amid the rural peat bogs of Ireland’s Midlands, Luke Casserly says, he found the landscape “boring — a sort of nothingness I wanted to move away from, a sense that there was ...

Ireland has two months to stop cutting turf from protected bogs following orders from the European Commission. And if we don't, the issue will go to the European Court of Justice.

Bog destruction major contributor to Irish carbon emissions as EU says 'insufficient action' is happening to protect unique habitats. But locals defend traditional fuel harvesting. Rural dwellers ...

On Ireland’s peat bogs, climate action clashes with tradition ... The Irish government says turf-cutting has ended on almost 80% of the raised bog special areas of conservation since 2011.