CLONBULLOGUE, Ireland (Reuters) -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 ...

Photographer Shane Hynan explores the tension between the central role peat bogs play in Irish life and their wider environmental impact ...

A childhood fascination with bogs led one Welsh scientist to try and help save the planet.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Dunckley / shutterstock By the 2080s, climate change will mean most of Britain’s peatlands could be too dry to form new peat.

A legal adviser for Europe’s top court found Ireland failed to protect some of its most valuable peat bogs, moving the ...

Max Wegner, left, a Michigan Tech researcher, and Collin Tucker, a U.S. Forest Service scientist, take measurements of gasses coming off an area of the Sax-Zim Bog northwest of Duluth. Keeping pet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Officials say that by monitoring the fire, they are able to keep it from flaring up and spreading. (Alex MacIsaac/CBC - image ...

A team of 30 soldiers will use their engineering expertise to re-wet a Lake District peat bog in a bid to boost wildlife. The soldiers will move several boulders and earth at the bog in the Riggindale ...

A wildfire that has erupted in Burns Bog could smoulder underground for months, says an expert who warns that the world's peat lands – once so waterlogged they were almost impossible to ignite – are ...