Anja Murray

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March for Climate Change: students on their way to Leinster House on March 15th. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Climate change: Plotting an action plan for Ireland

Political discourse in the State is mostly predictable but it can spring big surprises, sometimes from unexpected quarters. On March 15th, children a(...)

Abbeyleix Bog. ‘My main hope for the future is in community and volunteer-led initiatives like the Abbeyleix Bog project.’ File photograph: Bord na Móna
Biodiversity week: ‘Natural world should be protected for all our benefit’

National Biodiversity Week which continues until Saturday, is a celebration of Ireland’s native flowers, trees, insects, animals and birds. Environme(...)

Hot topic: Al Gore in a scene from his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”. The film presents the former US vice-president’s case about the dangers of global warming. Photograph: Paramount Classics/Eric Lee/AP
‘An Inconvenient Truth’: Did the Earth move for us?
  • Film
  • August 19, 2017

The release in 2006 of the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth was a surprise box office and critical hit, as well as a landmark moment in raising (...)

Anja Murray: “When you go out with friends and children, leave your phones at home and go with the intention of noticing what’s going on around you.”
How to love the natural world

As National Heritage Week focuses on nature, Sylvia Thompson asks environmentalists how – in spite of the gloomy statistics on species loss and habita(...)

Cap deal needs to support farming that helps nature

‘Support Farming to Support Nature” has been the mantra of environmental NGO BirdWatch Ireland and its global partnership, BirdLife International. Our(...)