On Ireland’s peat bogs: climate action clashes with tradition – in pictures
by Photographs by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters from on (#6Y07R)
Bord na Mona, which was once a peat extraction company, has now committed to one of the largest peatland restoration projects ever undertaken, targeting 33,000 hectares in over 80 bogs with the hope of reducing carbon emissions and increasing biodiversity. But many households still continue to cut turf, relying on it for heating as have previous generations
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