Jane Goodall
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Post-Covid education: What can Ireland learn?
- Education
- October 27, 2020, 00:00
Teachers have never been more respected: responding to Covid-19, helping children and young people through lockdown and reopening schools have shown t(...)

Web Summit cancels in-person Lisbon event amid surge in Covid cases
- Technology
- October 8, 2020, 10:09
Tech conference Web Summit has cancelled its annual physical event in Lisbon, opting for an online-only event in December as the coronavirus pandemic (...)

Gardening women: meet Fionnuala Fallon’s horticultural heroes
- Gardens
- March 7, 2020, 00:00
We all have our heroes and it’s not surprising so many of mine belong in one way or another to the world of plants. They include gardeners, de(...)

Sarah Silverman: You can't swear in front of a child but there are school shootings
- Film
- November 28, 2018, 05:00
“Donald? That’s my dad’s name,” Sarah Silverman nearly yells. “Of course it’s also the name of . . .” We’re here already. You just can’t escape the c(...)

The woman who redefined man: Jane Goodall’s life of activism continues
- People
- July 7, 2018, 06:00
As soon as Dr Jane Goodall steps out of the Jeep by the chimpanzee enclosure at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre, there’s a sudden outcry. The chi(...)

A riveting journey into the wild with Jane Goodall
- Film
- November 23, 2017, 11:00
When conservationist and primatologist Dr Jane Goodall ventured into Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park in 1960, she wasn’t Dr Jane Goodall. Indeed(...)

Each week some story emerges that invites us to pretend we are the greatest living authority on stuff about which we know next to nothing. This week t(...)

Scientists find evidence of new species related to humans
- Science
- September 10, 2015
Excavations in a cave in South Africa have unearthed a new species of early human. The find is extraordinary because it suggests that this species int(...)

How walking in nature influenced my war novel
- Books
- June 30, 2015, 10:29
Every day I walk for one or two hours in the woods that surround the town where I live in Canada. These walks have informed the writing of my novel as(...)

Picture perfect
- Gardens
- July 20, 2013, 01:00
Flick through the pages of any glossy British or American gardening magazine and you’ll almost certainly come across the work of award-winning photogr(...)