Up to now, Ireland’s plans to tackle the fallout from climate change have been largely on paper. But things are about to get real as the European Union pushes towards a final agreement on a huge piece ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s perhaps the biggest reverse-engineering project ever undertaken by the State. Bord na Móna, set up in 1946, spent the first 80 years of its existence draining the bogs to extract peat. It will ...

On day four of their Hidden Heartlands series, Irish Stew cohosts John Lee and Martin Nutty visit Donie Regan’s farm in Shinrone to report on the Peatlands for Prosperity programme. Under Douglas ...

“We hope that this project can be used as an example for other farmers.” Barry O’Loughlin, Biodiversity Officer at Clare County Council with landowners Kathleen Connelly and Seán Tubridy. A blanket ...

There is growing concern among farmers over new EU laws designed to protect nature and biodiversity. The Nature Restoration Law, which will set legally binding targets to return 20% of land and sea ...

Bogs, fens and peatlands store more CO2 worldwide than forests and are under massive threat. Franziska Tanneberger fights for their protection and rewetting. Peatlands like bogs and fens are vital ...

Following talks, Minister of Energy and the Environment Andres Sutt (Reform) announced that the Ministry of Climate will move forward with forest rewetting plans and convene a cooperation body ...

The ancient blanket bog of northern Scotland is reaching a turning point in its long history – degrade or flourish. Which way it goes will have significant consequences for climate change. As I watch ...

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 ...

Researchers at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), have developed a ...