Over the past few centuries, and likely before then, men harvesting peat in European bogs have struck upon remarkable and, to the peat cutters, no doubt frightening discoveries. More than a ...

For countless centuries Irish peat land (bog land) has covered much of rural Ireland and every farmer and almost every family had their own turf bank. Irish Turf was and still is, dug from the ...

The discovery that new peatlands are forming in high-altitude, montane landscapes offers a rare glimmer of hope in an otherwise bleak environmental ... levels. Peat formation was identified ...