Jane Stout

Instead of thinking of nature as a problem or “an infinite resource to be exploited”, it should be viewed as “the fundamental stock underpinning every(...)

The Government is to scale up efforts to address widespread species loss in Ireland and to protect habitats details of which will be announced by the (...)

What can we learn from fossil plants and pollen? Plenty, it turns out, including how the Earth “greened” and how plants survived past periods of clima(...)

In 2004, two scientists took on a mammoth task: to systematically survey every county in Ireland for bees. They figured it would take them two years, (...)

Researchers in universities across Ireland are to embark on a networking with communities in a joint effort to help Irish bees survive and thrive. It(...)

We humans are pretty smart cookies. We can solve pretty much most problems thrown at us by the world around us. We have innovated, invented and engine(...)

Ireland has joined a group of 20 countries trying to halt a decline in bee populations that threatens food production and biodiversity. Pollinators, (...)

There’s nothing natural about cities, is there? Built by people, for people, using man-made materials, with manicured green spaces full of specimen tr(...)

One of the biggest motivations for me as a scientific researcher is to provide the evidence for other people to make decisions. It’s even on my webpag(...)

So come on, who out there has made new year resolutions for self-improvement? Going to the gym, eating more veg, drinking less, less stress at work? S(...)