Biodiversity

Group calls for Department of Agriculture to tighten regulations

I’m far from alone: 84% of Irish people say access to nature is important for their mental health

‘People talk about destruction of the Amazon forest, but we have done exactly the same in Ireland,’ says UCD expert

Final episode revisits issue of declining water quality in rivers, lakes and estuaries

Dr Rafael de Andrade Moral, assistant professor of statistics, Maynooth University

Another Life: On the eve of its writer’s 90th birthday, the long-running natural world column draws to a close

Give Me a Crash Course: Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas start-up, wants to mine the dodo genome for key traits to reassemble in the body of a living relative

World Wetlands Day highlights urgent need to restore vital ecoystems that store carbon

Veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski surprised many by receiving an Oscar nomination for his film about a placid equid

Ireland should not use other countries’ poor climate record as cover for our own

New Innovator: Femtofire uses climatic and other significant factors to actively locate and identify fire risks

Ensuring ‘stakeholder consultation’ critical to effective MPAs in Ireland, marine ecologist says

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a field mouse, a spider’s elaborate trap and a ‘nasty’ invasive species

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the climate crisis, and biological threats such as Covid-19 have brought human extinction closer than ever before

Department of Heritage says new Act addresses European concerns over legal shortcomings

Too many natural ecosystems are releasing greenhouse gases

The tide is turning against this supposed ‘new blue revolution’ elsewhere - and not without reason

Final report to be submitted to the Oireachtas in coming weeks

Bees can become exposed to EU’s most common herbicide via wildflower nectar

One of Ireland’s best-known academics reflects on closing the door on a painful period of her life, and her role as chair of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity as it prepares to report to Government

Boat building and computer coding also among the skills showcased by children at The Primary Science Fair at the RDS, Dublin

‘Science has extended the length and quality of life itself but is never neutral,’ says Michael D Higgins at opening of BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition

Birds animate our physical world but so many species in Ireland are rapidly winging it towards extinction

Species like the Comma butterfly, previously largely confined to the east coast, now showing up in Merlin Woods

Continent experiencing ‘most extreme weather event ever seen in European climatology’ as eight countries record warmest January days on record

While increasingly hitting the developed world, it is poorer countries suffering most

‘Success will be measured by our rapid and consistent progress in implementing what we have agreed to’

Breakthrough is significant, but there are unresolved issues

If implemented, the agreement, which was not signed by US, will signal major changes to farming and the role of indigenous communities in conservation

‘By including 30% target in draft text it makes largest commitment to ocean and land conservation in history’

Hopes that increased financial contribution from wealthy countries will yield high-ambition target

Virtual Earth modelling envisages devastating changes driven by the climate crisis. Meanwhile, Ireland announces €15 million blanket bog recovery initiative to boost nature restoration.

Co-hosts Canada accepts critical need for more financial support for developing countries

Protecting public lands for nature would show required leadership, says Pádraic Fogarty

Fighting to save nature is vital, but a meaningful agreement still hangs in the balance

Entrenched views and absence of clear targets in global biodiversity framework indicates difficult days ahead

‘Nature is in peril and we do not have another decade,’ Minister for Heritage tells biodiversity conference in Montreal

‘We global citizens are deeply concerned ecosystems critical to sustaining life on Earth could collapse in our lifetimes’

Impasse over biodiversity funds prompts concerns negotiations are on brink of collapse

Move to curb subsidies that are harmful to nature receives backing