Michael Viney: Wild grasses have loved the mood swings of our climate this year

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

Another Life: As one of many of the world’s declining seabirds, puffins are now receiving much more necessary and serious attention

Ethna Viney on rove beetles, moths and a damselfly

Over the next few decades, nine commercial forests will be converted to purely recreational areas

Another Life: A new book on the founders of the Tyler Prize shows their political influence

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

Ethna Viney on the elephant hawkmoth, giant house spider and the rare ant beetle

Avian science journal Ibis reports ‘great conservation concern’ about the species

Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

Another Life: Dairy farmer Bruce Thompson examines impact of worming drug on beetles

Conor Pope discovers why the birds seem to be singing louder during the pandemic

Michael Viney: Crumbling hilltop trig pillars’ played key role in the mapping of Ireland

Ethna Viney on rare sightings in Co Down, shrews’ company and the cockchafer beetle

Antipodean flatworms pose risk to indigenous variety which could have severe knock-on effects

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

Otters, kingfishers and dragonflies just some of the creatures to be found along our rivers

Another Life: Some floaters circle territories and sneak the odd ‘extra-pair copulation’

Ethna Viney on butterflies, spiders, a rose with many buds and a visiting pine marten

These colourful, fascinating creatures are worth keeping an eye out for

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

Michael Viney: Plant intelligence rests in the ways by which they solve their problems

A Life on Our Planet is a terrifying catalogue of our self-sabotaging transgressions

Using our online devices as windows to the broader worlds from which we find ourselves excluded during the Covid-19 restrictions

Ethna Viney on invasive flatworms, the delightful wood mouse and varied carpet beetle

Reeve’s pheasant, horsetail, a worm-like thing and false puffball slime mould

‘A moment each day with your head in the clouds helps keep your feet on the ground’

Greys carry squirrel-pox virus which is fatal to Ireland’s native reds

Another Life: The disappearance of this bird from cities has prompted much research

Ethna Viney on a tapeworm from the land down under and regurgitated owl pellets

We can’t visit Dublin Zoo but we can learn how zoos breed animals to be reintroduced into the wild

Robinson has followed Mairéad, his wife and collaborator, into the list of Covid-19 fatalities

Use this chance to get to know the species that come to almost every garden daily

Lizards, a cormorant, a butterfly, and a visiting heron

Learn how to identify flowers, butterflies and bees in #SpeciesADay campaign

Ethna Viney on sea cucumbers, porpoises and destructive badgers

Will Covid-19 begin a resurgence of the 1970s withdrawal from growth-driven capitalism?

The clocks go forward during this pause between late winter and early spring

Greater industry involvement required if bovine TB to be eliminated by 2030 target

Ethna Viney on frog mating and whether grey squirrels are gaining the upper paw