Rachel Carson
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William Basinski: Lamentations review – Ambient maestro makes grief sound beautiful
- Music
- November 13, 2020, 05:15
American avant-garde composer William Basinski has already authored a 21st- century masterpiece, The Disintegration Loops, which he released as a seri(...)

Climate science is evolving and showcasing human cost more – Wallace-Wells
- Science
- September 22, 2020, 14:58
What most disturbs best-selling science author David Wallace-Wells about climate change isn’t so much that the worst-case scenarios may come to pass. (...)

For a sustainable recovery, green is the only way forward
- Life & Style
- August 23, 2020, 06:00
Humans have an exceptionally narrow attitude towards nature, the environmentalist Rachel Carson wrote in 1962. “If we see any immediate utility in a p(...)

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(...)

How to nurture a sense of wonder in the natural world
- Life & Style
- November 4, 2019, 06:00
On a stormy autumn night, sometime in the early 1950s, the conservationist Rachel Carson took her 20-month-old grandnephew to the seafront. She wrappe(...)

New rules on hedge-cutting and burning of gorse condemned
- Environment
- July 8, 2018, 12:26
The passing of a controversial Heritage Bill in the Dáil that will ease restrictions on the burning of heather and gorse and cutting back hedge-rows h(...)

‘Small bodies swaying with the vigour of their chewing’
- Environment
- August 26, 2017, 06:00
Between the mowings of summer winds and wrenching storms of winter, a huge mass of seaweed, rich in sugars and minerals, is cast ashore. Nature doesn’(...)

Far Away review: Spike Island becomes a dystopia once again
- Stage
- June 21, 2017, 14:05
★★★★★ Spike Island, Cork These days dystopia is a cliche, and finding new interpretations for its horrors might challenge any production company. Ex(...)

Citizen Jane review: A timely warning against big-block buildings with ground-floor shop units
- Film
- May 3, 2017, 15:42
In 1961, the legendary city planner Robert Moses returned a manuscript to the publisher Random House with a short, sharp note: “I am returning the boo(...)

The £2 chicken isn’t good for you. It’s actually very costly
- Books
- April 22, 2017, 06:00
“Which is the most ugliest?” a boy of around seven says to his friend as they breathe on the glass cabinet of a bird display in Dublin’s Natural Histo(...)