"As a result, accurate identification, mapping and management of peat soils is essential for programs that aim to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and to improve biodiversity in the Irish ...

By Clodagh Kilcoyne and Conor HumphriesCLONBULLOGUE, 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 ...

The research - "An adaptive mapping framework for the management of peat soils: A new Irish peat soils map" - has been published in the journal Geoderma. Dr. Terry Morley, University of Galway ...

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

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 ...

The Irish Peat Inquiry Committee, of which the present writer was a member, was appointed to suggest what means should be taken to ascertain the conditions under which the peat could be profitably ...

Gavin started cutting turf — the Irish term for the carbon-rich earth taken from bogs — with his parents when he was 12 years old. Stacked, piled, and dried outside when the weather is warm ...

Once assembled there, you’re led to a community room where you take your seat around a table covered in clumps of black earth that we’ll soon come to learn is peat. Irish peat, from the bogs.