Irish Mirror reporter Eamon Doggett visited the heart of the country and found many reasons to change his mind about the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient human remains discovered in an Irish bog in October 2023 don't belong to a teenage boy as originally assumed but rather a young woman, making them an exceptionally rare find. Over the past ...

"As is the case for so many Iron Age bog bodies, the young woman suffered a highly violent death which involved the flow of blood from her throat followed by decapitation," Eileen Murphy, an ...

A new paper in PLOS Biology (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002852) sampled 1,500 fungi species found in a peat bog in the Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Maine. All of them were exposed ...

Scéal: preserved in peat for thousands of years, bog butter remains one of the most enigmatic of all archaeological finds. By Maeve Sikora and Isabella Mulhall, National Museum of Ireland. When ...

The Lemanaghan Bog Heritage and Conservation Group, however, vehemently disagrees, saying that the entire bog, all 1,200 hectares of it, should be left untouched.

Battle of the bogs: Farmers and EU face off over Ireland’s largest carbon store Irish farmers have been burning carbon-rich peat to heat their rural homes for generations, but the practice has ...

The EU has designated Irish peat bogs as “priority” conservation regions under its Habitats Directive, meaning Ireland must protect these natural habitats from harmful activities, such as turf ...

Bog cotton is very good at establishing itself on freshly exposed peat, which is why we see so much of it at this time of year. Picture: Anja Murray In Ireland we have four different types of bog ...