including our blanket bogs, store just over half of all soil carbon on the island of Ireland. But this functioning depends on how wet or dry the peat is. Dry, eroded peat, rather than storing and ...

The EU executive has sued Ireland for failure to comply with the Habitats Directive, on grounds that machine turf cutting of peat bogs fails to protect the swamps which act as ‘carbon sinks’.

Peat is a nonrenewable resource because it is being consumed much faster than it can be produced; a bog regrows at a rate of ...

AN TAOISEACH LEO Varadkar has said that Ireland will defend itself after the European Commission referred the State to the EU’s Court of Justice over a failure to protect peat bogs from turf ...

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 ...

From alternative fuels to greenways, the Emerald Isle is moving ahead with ambitious sustainability efforts. Here’s what ...

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 ...

In some countries, the accumulation of such vegetable matter covers large tracts of several miles in extent, and are called "peat bogs," such as in Ireland ; we call them peat meadows and peat swamps.

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved ...

Because of commercial extraction, only about 6,000 hectares of lowland raised bog ... peat we use in growing media and soil conditioners comes from other countries, primarily the Republic of ...

It has also partnered with a maple syrup company from Vermont to tap birch trees growing on Irish bogs. "In February and March we used the same technology as is used to tap a maple tree to extract ...