Both peat utilization and peatlands themselves contribute to increases in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This article examines how peatlands with naturally high GHG emission levels affect net GHG ...

Estonia primarily produces horticultural peat, but its environmental impact is still calculated as if it were fuel peat. Producers have received a study from scientists showing that peat decomposes ...

Carbon release due to permafrost thaw represents a potentially major positive climate change feedback. The magnitude of carbon loss and the proportion lost as methane (CH4) vs. carbon dioxide (CO2) ...

Peatland developers and Ireland's forestry commission to convert former peat production land, 3706.5 acres of bog into woods by planting at least 600k new trees. Bord na Móna , synonymous with peat ...

Centre Party chair Annika Saarikko on Sunday said Finland had reduced peat burning too rapidly. Saarikko said measures to phase out peat as an energy source, including raising the energy tax on peat, ...

A convoy of more than one hundred articulated lorries pulled up in front of Parliament in central Helsinki on Friday morning to press demands for a change in policy on the production and use of peat.

The continued importation of peat to Ireland does not make “environmental, economic or ethical sense”, an independent report has warned the Government. The yet-to-published report recommends that the ...

In Scotland, whisky production is facing growing criticism over its environmental impact. Many distilleries still burn peat, ...

Estonia's peat industry makes up one-tenth of the world's production and businesses are seeking advice from the government about how to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, which make up a substantial ...

Christmas time is not far away and every year millions of Christmas star plants-Poinsettia)-will be sold to customers. If you have green fingers you can keep the plants growing beautifully for maybe a ...

The scale of job losses already affecting the Midlands underlines the need for the Government to properly fund a "just transition" for the region as Bord na Móna gets out of peat production and the ...