Jane Stout
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Michael D Higgins moves to protect plants and wildlife in Phoenix Park
- Environment
- November 10, 2019, 20:23
President Michael D Higgins has asked for a specialist team to develop plans to protect plants and wildlife around Áras an Uachtaráin and the Phoenix (...)

Our campaign to eliminate insects is self-destructive
- Science
- October 24, 2019, 00:00
There are some 1.5 million insect species globally, many of whom perform tasks vital to sustain humans. Despite this, we treat insects as pests; enemi(...)

Higgins says rich countries must rebalance the world
- Politics
- September 18, 2019, 17:28
Everything is connected, believes Michael D Higgins. The world currently faces three crises – ecological, economic and social. Each are linked, but no(...)

National biodiversity data centre seeks to turn tide of wildlife decline
- Science
- May 23, 2019, 06:00
Most people walking alongside the restored pond on the Castletown estate in Co Kildare would barely notice the tiny purple wildflower beneath their fe(...)

Pollinators vital to the global food chain, stresses Michael D Higgins
- Environment
- May 19, 2019, 15:45
Awareness of the environmental threat to Ireland’s bee population has increased but now it must be backed up by change in behaviour, according to cons(...)

Undervaluing of nature has lead to its destruction, conference told
- Environment
- February 20, 2019, 21:35
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(...)

Government to scale up efforts to prevent species loss
- Environment
- February 20, 2019, 08:44
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 (...)

Digging into plants of the past
- Science
- August 9, 2018, 06:00
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(...)

A third of all bee species in Ireland could be extinct by 2030
- Science
- June 28, 2018, 01:00
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, (...)

Joint effort in attempt to preserve Irish bee species
- Environment
- May 19, 2018, 20:11
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(...)