Ella McSweeney: In Ireland, we have about 150 species of mayflies

Ella McSweeney: Educational technology is now marketed aggressively to schools, which are treating individual laptops as an unquestioned educational good

Nature restoration isn’t a luxury. It’s one of the highest-return investments available to the State

In the 1980s about 500 Irish rivers were classed as the very best of the best but, today, there are about 20

Bees might conjure flying through the air and feeding on flowers, but most wild bees spend part of their lives in the soil

For that flare of yellow to appear, the plant must spread its seeds, and it is that seed head which is a design marvel

Siting wind infrastructure on the Shannon bogs is too high a price to pay for renewable energy

Ella McSweeney is not a natural-born killer but she will shoot deer next month for the first time. It’s for the woodlands

A new project will involve skylark plots on farms along the south coast from Kinsale to Wexford

Our burial grounds could be repositories of life; exquisite, nature-filled spaces in the middle of our cities and towns

Ella McSweeney: A recent verdict showed climate law can’t fix what politics won’t

Losing routine contact with the living world results in less concern, less protection and less access. The antidote is evidence that conservation works

Technology is revolutionising how we gather and assess data on nature, presenting huge benefits and no little irony

With this native tree threatened by overgrazing, experts have set up a clone bank in Co Wexford

Lichens can survive nearly everything - even long periods in outer space - but pollution will kill them