Astronomy Week 2025 to highlight rare planetary alignment
Goal is to inspire next generation of astronomers with theme ‘Our place amongst the stars’
National Parks & Wildlife Service
Glen of the Downs protests: ‘Young people are too busy or too distracted to protest now’
The eco-protesters lost their final Supreme Court appeal 25 years ago at end of January 2000. Where are they now?
Once feared extinct in Ireland, the secretive nightjar calls again
The confirmation revives the question of whether nightjars could have a more hopeful future in Ireland than previously believed
New standard backed by Amazon’s climate fund may help restore peatlands
Certification to help farmers and landowners prove benefits of bog restoration projects and attract investment
State to buy Clawinch Island on Lough Ree to protect breeding waterbirds
Farmers praised for sympathetic agricultural practices that protect waders
Killarney National Park’s 60th birthday: A time for deep reflection and radical reform
‘Our parks must have nature at the forefront of their concerns’
Ireland’s 2030 wind farm targets may not be hit ‘until 2044’ due to ‘broken’ planning system
Only one wind farm secured planning approval in recent months from An Bord Pleanála
Doubts remain on passing of legislation on marine protected areas but €25m LIFE project to go ahead
Ministers Malcolm Noonan and Eamon Ryan say they want Bill passed before election as was agreed in programme for government
Two of State’s largest landowners sign co-operation deal on restoring nature
Coillte and National Parks and Wildlife Service agree framework to co-operate on conservation
The businessman restoring a blanket bog in one of the most remote parts of Ireland
‘You could over-complicate it,’ Joe Devine says. ‘This is about reversing the drainage of a bog, and seeing what benefits are going to emerge’
White-tailed sea eagles win over farmers thanks to successful Irish return
In a happy turnaround, people who initially opposed the reintroduction of the species to Ireland now actively support it
Butterflies in free fall: ‘It’s really alarming because it shows that something significant is happening in the wider countryside’
Even the most common butterfly in Ireland ‘has declined in numbers by 83% since 2008’, says a leading expert
Puffins on the Saltee Islands are thriving again. There’s now an obvious next step
Ella McSweeney: With the rat menace addressed, the question now is how to protest puffins’ nests from another threat - tourists
Capitalism is killing the planet – but curtailing it is the discussion nobody wants to have
If life on our one and only planet is to be pulled back from the brink, the time for voluntary ecological measures from businesses has surely passed
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