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

For countless centuries Irish peat ... a wet bog, blocks of around 5-6 inches in length known as 'sods' are left to dry before use as fuel in an open fire. We used to use one just like this ...

Over the holidays, like many ... downstream flooding; Peat soils also play an important part in carbon cycling. Irish peatlands, including our blanket bogs, store just over half of all soil ...

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 ...

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

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs ... with artifacts that look like they were deposited yesterday ...

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.

By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat. That’s the stark ...

A wet pristine bog locks up CO2 in the ground and, unlike trees, has no time limit to the amount of carbon it captures. The importance of blanket bog It looks like there’s so much ... tonnes of carbon ...