BogSkin, an exhibition by the Royal Hibernian Academy, prods us by showing that Ireland’s bogs aren’t simply repositories for ...

The unique environment of peat bogs — low oxygen ... Archaeologists Uncover Iron Age Remains In A Northern Irish Bog In ...

I was at the Royal Horticultural Society’s spring press conference this week to hear about the latest gardening trends.

A blanket bog in west Clare is finding new life after a local farmer agreed to rewet part of his land, in an effort to ...

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 ...

In the project, a blanket bog - home to two rare and protected birds, the merlin and hen harrier - is being rewetted to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of Ireland’s peatlands emit carbon because of land drainage and peat extraction over many decades ... emissions”, Dr Daly said. [ Turning bogs from wastelands to nature-scapesOpens ...