Biodiversity

Sitka spruce, sika deer and common garden plants are all invasive species with potential to cause harm to native varieties

Slowing the runoff from heavy downpours into struggling Victorian drainage systems in urban areas protects property and water quality

Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on roving ravens, sunbathing butterflies and spotted dogfish

The Heritage in Schools scheme encourages children and teachers to investigate local heritage through place-based learning

From reducing your laundry to taking slightly shorter showers, you have the power to make a difference

President speaks about ‘tremendous challenges’ facing the world as she opens Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition

Proposals to Government for new legislation also include calls to introduce beavers and stop social media influences from ‘stressing out’ puffins

A Co Mayo community has achieved results that are both visually striking and ecologically responsible

Meath landowner says this month’s defeat of Bill on banning foxhunting was ‘diabolical’

Darren Reidy has been researching and gathering native seeds across the country since 2022

Plan is to be published in draft form for public consultation early next year

If 14 countries can come together to understand the Danube, surely Ireland can do the same for a far shorter river?

Nigel Motyer has dived all over the world, but capturing moments in our own waters has given him an opportunity to show just how vibrant and remarkable our coastline is

‘We hope to see the National Parks & Wildlife Service resourcing an ambitious native woodland restoration project,’ says Irish Wildlife Trust

It is possible to be upside down and downside up at the same time

Every year of delay locks in greater risk, higher costs and more irreversible damage

I try to nurture a sense of awe in the face of Australia’s alien (to me) natural world. But I miss the wet ferns in the Kerry rain

Letter signed by academics, NGOs and medics alleges breach of public service obligations

Public responded well to Asian hornet alert but tougher regulations and better education needed

Projects aim to show how ‘no net loss’ of biodiversity can become the norm in the built environment

Without a culling programme, it is only a matter of time before the population gets out of hand

New housing developments can provide more benefits to society than the bare minimum of having a roof over your head if done correctly

Decarbonising Ireland and restoring biodiversity is going to take decades. We must be willing to experiment and sometimes fail

The process by which trees co-ordinate their efforts across hundreds of miles on what are known as ‘mast years’ is quite an enigma

Further sightings of Asian hornets in Belfast suggests nest, environment agency says

Advisers want conditions added to planning laws to conserve and enhance biodiversity

Although native to tropical and temperate waters, they are now found occasionally in Irish waters due to temperature changes

The fishing industry is killing these big ladies before they’re able to do the thing they do best: endlessly reproduce

I wonder who the last person in Ireland was to hear a wolf howl. Did they realise the magnitude of what they were hearing?

She modelled the behaviours needed to cope with climate breakdown and ecological crisis

Success stories including the leaf-toed gecko in the Galápagos, the wood white butterfuly in Wales and the corncrake in Ireland give hope

Skerries, Inagh, Dún Laoghaire and Co Westmeath river restoration project also honoured at ceremony in Dublin

European Environment Report - news (analysis piece to follow) Embargoed to Sunday night 11pm

Environmentalist and media personality was inspired by an older girl at school to pursue science, despite it not being an option at second level

Seasonality affects how populations of plants and animals grow, reproduce and survive

Global heating is increasing the rate of new visitors to Ireland generally, and there is every chance they will become established here

Finger of blame for failures pointed at EPA, which licenses dischargers including North Cork Creameries and Munster Joinery

Volunteers to be professionally trained in trapping mink and ‘humane dispatch’

Decolonising entrenched patterns of power and thinking needed as part of response to environmental nightmare

Meanwhile, Northern Ireland’s first peatland strategy launched in ‘turning point’ for peatland conservation