You can’t choose the times you live in. And sadly we live in an age of extinction
I wonder who the last person in Ireland was to hear a wolf howl. Did they realise the magnitude of what they were hearing?
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Éanna Ní Lamhna on the harvestman, nest-box etiquette, and the flower crab spider
A reader’s most excellent photograph of the noble false widow spider
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the white saddle fungus, the curlew sandpiper influx and the rose chafer
Dingle peninsula receives award for being Ireland’s ‘greenest place’
Skerries, Inagh, Dún Laoghaire and Co Westmeath river restoration project also honoured at ceremony in Dublin
Ireland’s natural environment in ‘very poor’ condition, EU analysis finds
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Curlew in flight: Draining and cutting of bogs has destroyed their breeding habitat
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Winter vegetables that thrive in Irish gardens
Parsnips, celeriac, squash, Swiss chard and purple sprouting broccoli are happy to overwinter outdoors or wait out the colder months under cover
Éanna Ní Lamhna: ‘When I went to UCD there were no points. You could study what you liked’
Environmentalist and media personality was inspired by an older girl at school to pursue science, despite it not being an option at second level
As the seasons change nature becomes unpredictable
Seasonality affects how populations of plants and animals grow, reproduce and survive
Birds in Australia are like birds in Ireland, except almost certainly on cocaine
For the majority of the year, Australian magpies are good neighbours - in September and October, things change
The couple who bought a Wicklow golf course and turned it into a native woodland
The former Glen of the Downs Golf Course greens are now covered in 80,000 native trees, planted by Anke and John Moran
As much as I love my dog, I can’t ignore the toll of pet flea treatments on aquatic life
If we follow advice to treat pets continuously, whether or not fleas are present, we inadvertently contribute to significant water pollution
Keep an eye out for the garden spider this autumn
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the forest shield bug, the autumn hawker and robin not-yet-redbreast
Why the exotic glossy ibis is ditching the Mediterranean for Louth
Global heating is increasing the rate of new visitors to Ireland generally, and there is every chance they will become established here
‘We took out 450 fish in an hour’: Blackwater pollution highlights decade of poor environmental compliance
Finger of blame for failures pointed at EPA, which licenses dischargers including North Cork Creameries and Munster Joinery
Mink eradication scheme being piloted in Midlands in first step towards eliminating invasive species
Volunteers to be professionally trained in trapping mink and ‘humane dispatch’
Colonialism still a puppet master of today’s extinction crisis
Decolonising entrenched patterns of power and thinking needed as part of response to environmental nightmare
This female only stick insect arrived in Ireland from New Zealand in the 1960s
Éanna Ní Lamhna on robin’s pincushion, an Irish mosquito, and a rare puffin snack
Surge in Irish corncrake numbers and in breeding territories, survey shows
Farming community key to success in recovery of bird threatened with local extinction
Ireland’s Greenest Places winners set to be announced
Competition found numerous examples of environmental enhancement in urban and rural locations
Marine protection delays makes ocean restoration more uncertain, warn environment groups
‘Budget 2026 is key test for Government’s commitment to Ireland’s seas’ and promise to scale-up MPAs
For the Birds – Frank McNally on an encounter with Dublin’s Pigeon Man
When I got a word in edgeways, finally, I wondered why Dublin’s rapacious seagulls never came near him
Is it a seed, a shell or a chocolate macaron?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the sea-bean, the goat moth caterpillar and the large red damselfly
The Irish Times Greenest Places shortlist revealed
These 14 nominees show concrete evidence of widespread action on climate and sustainability goals
Dark reality behind Ireland’s bumper butterfly season
Butterfly sightings are up 83% this year, but that follows a steep decline as the habitats that are vital for Ireland’s insects are deteriorating or simply unavailable
Thousands of dolphins may be dying off west coast of Ireland every year, ‘and nothing is being done’
Undersea cameraman Ken O’Sullivan has spent 20 years among the charismatic mammals
I was wrong when I said Asian hornets were not found in Ireland ...
Eanna Ní Lamhna answers readers’ question about curious wildlife spotted around the country
Changing the conversation on Ireland’s Natura 2000 sites
‘If you live in a very special place, that should be a good thing and not a bad thing’
Birdwatching in Ireland has changed remarkably in the past century and a quarter – for good and bad
Authors of seminal 1900 book The Birds of Ireland would be surprised by species’ decline, extinction and recovery
Eye on Nature: ‘We saw these translucent blobs on the beach in Rosslare. What are they?’
Éanna Ní Lamhna identifies curious wildlife spotted by readers from around the country
Asian hornet spotted in Cork a ‘significant threat to biodiversity’, says wildlife service
Public urged to be ‘vigilant’ and report any sightings of the hornet, which endangers native pollinators
Two endangered red panda cubs born at Cork’s Fota Wildlife Park
Public invited to suggest names for the newborn red panda cubs
Boyne Companions – Frank McNally on why the road from Dublin to Slane lies mainly on a plain (allegedly)
The loveliness of the setting is matched by that of the village of Slane itself
An Alaskan adventure: Someone whispers ‘bear’ – then we see him: huge, dark and ambling towards us
On a cruise from Seattle to the glaciers of Alaska, we admire coastlines too beautiful for words, encounter a bear and take a polar plunge
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