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

Sir, –Ella McSweeney’s article on the recreation of our disappearing bogs I found informative and awe inspiring (“Ireland’s remaining bogs can have a second tale – of creation rather ...

Childhood holiday memories, climbing stiles and hitching lifts — all part of a glorious three-day hike on the Kerry way for ...

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. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne ...

In it he wrote about Ireland’s 10,000-year-old bogs, many with a carpet of peat 30ft deep. Over 100 sq miles, the bog was all he could see; a vast, “horizon-to-horizon emptiness” that held a ...

By Clodagh Kilcoyne and Conor Humphries CLONBULLOGUE, Ireland (Reuters) -As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack damp peat - the cheap, smoky fuel he has ...

Ireland's transport sector, by comparison, emitted 21.4 million tons in 2023, government statistics show. The Irish government says turf-cutting has ended on almost 80% of the raised bog special ...

A drone view shows the early stages of the rewetting process at Ballaghurt Bog, near Clongawny, Ireland, April 16, 2024. Bord na Mona has been charged with trying to "rewet" the bogs to curb the ...

CLONBULLOGUE, Ireland (Reuters) -As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack damp peat - the cheap, smoky fuel he has harvested for half a century. The ...

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.