As part of the ReWet project, researchers monitored six Irish peatland sites, four fens and two raised bogs, between September 2023 and August 2024. Wed, 30 Jul, 2025 - 09:39 A new study led by ...

The new method by the SMART-NTU team uses satellite data and reduces the need for on-site sampling to derive the three-dimensional shapes of raised peatlands, also known as bogs, and hence the amount ...

The European Commission is to refer Ireland to the European Court of Justice for failure to apply the habitats directive in protecting designated raised bog and blanket bogs from turf cutting.

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 painstaking work of “footing turf”, as the ...

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 painstaking work of “footing turf,” as the ...

Dublin today (14 March) said it was ready to defend its position on peat bogs in reaction to a referral from the European Commission to the EU Court of Justice on Wednesday (March 13). The EU ...

Irish raised bogs have the capacity to store 13 times the amount of carbon as the same area of Amazon rainforest, according to researchers on the FarmPEAT Project. Bernie Duffy told the Teagasc Carbon ...

Ireland is being taken to court by the European Commission for failing to stop turf-cutting on protected bogs. The decision to refer the issue to the EU Court of Justice comes after 13 years of ...

On Ireland’s Peat Bogs, Climate Action Clashes With Tradition By Clodagh Kilcoyne and Conor Humphries CLONBULLOGUE, Ireland (Reuters) -As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John ...