On Ireland’s wet and windy Achill Island, local sheep farmer Stephen Gavin, 64, has been harvesting peat from the wetlands near his home since April. The unmistakable smell of the bog’s sweet ...

Turning wetlands into fuel brings cheap energy to the countryside, but at a cost to ecosystems that trap carbon in the ground ...

Contractor Derek McEvoy drives a tractor with a turf installation machine attached, as bog cotton plants line a turf field, in Clonbullogue, Ireland, May 24, 2023. A turf installation machine lays ...

In the summer months of 1846, at the time of the Great Irish Famine (1845 – 1850), many Irish people were too hungry and weak to work in the bog. Cutting turf and saving it was exhausting work.

Bog lands in Ireland continue to be degraded through drainage and turf cutting activities, and insufficient action is being taken to restore the sites, it concluded. READ MORE How a hotter world ...

There has been a complete cessation of turf-cutting on almost 80% of the raised bog SACs since 2011 and a reduction of almost 40% on 2022 turf cutting levels in 2023 on raised bogs.

In the aftermath of the hottest day in Ireland in more than 130 years last week, small family groups picked their way across the Bog of Allen in the country’s midlands collecting sun-dried turf. The ...

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 cutter Patsy Power poses for photograph with a trailer loaded with dried Irish turf cut from the Bog of Allen, in Carragh, west of Dublin, on July 19, 2022. Photo: AFP.

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.

Small family groups work to collect dried Irish turf, cut from the Bog of Allen in Carragh, west of Dublin, on July 19, 2022. Paul Faith / AFP via Getty Images.

Heath plait-moss grows between cut turf from a raised bog that has been drying for a few weeks, in Clonbullogue, Ireland, May 24, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne ...