New research from Trinity College Dublin, University of Galway, and Queen's University Belfast has revealed that peat soils - which are vital for locking away greenhouse gases - are much more abundant ...

Mapping more accurately than ever Ireland's peatlands, which are vital as carbon sinks but whose boundaries can be hard to determine, could help fight global warming, researchers say. Ireland is ...

Maps are deeply political. They are not simple statements of location but are expressions of power, resources and culture. We do well, therefore, to understand not just what a map shows but how it is ...

We tend to regard gardening as a benign pursuit. It’s an innocuous pastime that only brings positives, both in the friendships we develop through a mutual appreciation of gardening and that sense of ...

We present an extract from Ten Thousand Years Deep – The Story of Ireland's Peatlands, the new book by Carsten Krieger. They cover more than one million hectares of Ireland's land mass. They can be ...