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In the aftermath of the hottest day in Ireland in more than 130 years last week, small family groups picked their way across the Bog of Allen in the country’s midlands collecting sun-dried turf. The briquettes of peat, which are liquorice black when hewn wet from the ground, had turned a toasted brown in the soaring temperatures and were ready to be stored and burnt as winter fuel. Yet the bog, like others across Ireland, has become a front line in a struggle to cut carbon emissions and conserve peat lands, pitting rural communities against urban policymakers. “There’s very deep anger an...

Welcome to the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report! A huge push of salmon swam up the Wood River on Sunday, putting Nushagak District fishermen on short notice. Egegik fishermen hauled in around 44,000 fish. While we wait on numbers from the counting towers, some seafood processing companies aren’t waiting to dole out their base prices.

A ban on selling smoky fuels was meant to cut carbon emissions, tackle air pollution and conserve ancient bogs. Instead, it has fuelled a tense narrative of urban elites versus rural poor

Ian Buxton looks at the life of a man who transformed whisky, Aeneas Coffey, inventor of the first practical and efficient continuous still.

A full lineup of rums from Barbados, Jamaica, Fiji and beyond, but rum geeks are conflicted in their opinions.