Funding nature restoration looks like an easy line to leave blank in the budget. That would be an expensive mistake

Nature education here has been described by one expert as ‘dismal’. What could be done better?

A farmer tells of how astonishingly beautiful seemingly ordinary things can be after a hellish year coping with cancer

Kentucky farmer and author Wendell Berry spent six decades arguing that agriculture is an act of stewardship, community and care

One councillor said earier this year that erosion is happening at an ‘alarming’ rate

Water is arriving in ways our infrastructure and modified landscape can no longer cope with

Imposing bird of prey can make Ireland home if plankton thrive

Nature absorbs the impact of polluters because the political will isn’t there to make the consequences serious enough to stop them

As well as being like a supermarket for deeper-water species, fragments can also carry carbon into deeper water, where it stays out of the atmosphere

Six decades of birdwatching, drawing, writing and sharing and the author’s passion still shines through in new book

What happened on the river Glyde in June is not a local incident. It is a national emergency

It may be a beloved pet, but it’s among the most destructive invasive predators in the natural world

Ella McSweeney: In Ireland, we have about 150 species of mayflies

Ella McSweeney: Educational technology is now marketed aggressively to schools, which are treating individual laptops as an unquestioned educational good

Nature restoration isn’t a luxury. It’s one of the highest-return investments available to the State