It’s an innocuous pastime that only brings positives, both in the friendships we develop through a mutual appreciation of ...

The Tollund Man was c. 30-40 years old when he died by hanging c. 405-380 BCE. He wasfound in 1950 in a bog c. 10 km west of ...

"Drains are dug, water is pumped away, the water table is lowered, the top layer of peat is then milled and harrowed and ...

One solution is to root investing in unglamorous but tangible resource husbandry like restoring particular peat lands to preserve water.

A sign with the signature of a man who says he will not comply with orders to stop extracting peat from a Co Laois bog has been erected saying that anyone who "trespasses" on the land will be ...

A sign with the signature of a man who says he will not comply with orders to stop extracting peat from a Co Laois bog has been erected saying that anyone who "trespasses" on the land will be charged ...

Liam Gorman, Silverwood, Mountmellick, Co Laois, has been repeatedly ordered by the court not to trespass on the 400 acre Garryowen Bog, Tinnahinch, ...

Sign on bog at centre of peat extraction dispute warns ‘trespassers will be charged €100,000 per minute’, High Court told There were signs of peat extraction from one plot in particular.

Secondary-school students stack freshly cut turf to dry in Clonbullogue, Ireland, whose bogs supply fuel for homes around the region. Irish laws bar commercial-scale harvesting of peat for burning ...

On many bogs, scientists monitoring emissions have replaced the peat harvesters, while operators of mechanical diggers carve out the most damaged areas to be filled with water.