Stork sightings on the increase in Ireland
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the yellowtail caterpillar, the field grasshopper and a spider known by many names
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Ash dieback: It’s hard to ignore the lines of dead and dying trees around Ireland
I am optimistic that nature will find a way around this as it has done with many other plant pathogens
Report condemns decline of Ireland’s largest saltwater lake over 40 years
Oireachtas committee calls for full restoration of heavily polluted Lady’s Island Lake in Co Wexford
How the Dingle Peninsula is modelling a new way for rural Ireland to thrive
Kerry community is embracing innovation with mix of local energy projects, nature-positive farming and sustainable tourism
Jaws at 50: the most significant piece of negative publicity sharks have ever received
Six species found in Irish waterss considered to be critically endangered
Eye on Nature: ‘Nesting blue tits have comandeered my letterbox again’
Eanna Ní Lamhna answers queries on blue tits, navelwort, uniquely Irish butterfies, dogfish egg cases and a pipistrelle bat in a glass
Rathlin Island’s puffins: We have quite a lot of people who arrive and say, ‘So, where exactly are the penguins?’
The island, with its rare golden hare, corncrakes and large seabird colonies, sustains a tourism economy
Preventing Mam from accepting a hug from a friend at my sister’s funeral will haunt me forever
Gestures ubiquitous at Irish funerals before the pandemic ravaged the world were no longer allowed during the most surreal period in a generation
Eye on Nature: If bees can’t see red, why is one drawn to this red poppy?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the colourful bumblebee, declining linnets, and coots in UCD
How plans for new Guggenheim museum have triggered major biodiversity row in Spain
Proposed Guggenheim development in Guernica faces opposition over ecological concerns
Paul Clements: ‘I am often asked how long it takes to write a book. Now I can say with accuracy: 33 years’
Paul Clements, whose book about living in a cottage in the woods had a gestation of more than three decades, reflects on other slow-burn books that became travel and nature writing classics
Fending off coastal erosion: one Co Kerry community’s story
Having the right approach to local engagement is a key part of protecting the unique ecosystem of the Maharees
Restoring biodiversity on the Yangtze river: ‘You have to do some balancing and make some difficult choices’
Home to several rare species and the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, protecting human life and biodiversity on the Yangtze river is a difficult balancing act
Eye on Nature: ‘I have found a beautiful queen ... bee in the polytunnel in my garden’
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Ireland’s Greenest Places: From Dún Laoghaire’s active travel to Kiltimagh’s biodiversity park - some of the entries so far
Competition an invitation to groups and communities to get recognition for their environmental endeavours
Eye on Nature: ‘An alderfly is usually found resting in large numbers on waterside vegetation’
Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna
World on verge of ratifying key treaty to protect oceans
Failure to significantly scale up protection of oceans from deep sea mining and sea beds from 'bottom trawling' was widely criticised
Ireland to ratify high seas treaty and scale-up marine-protected areas, Taoiseach tells UN summit
UN secretary general António Guterres urges world leaders to move ‘from plundering to protection’
Storm surges of up to five metres are looming for some of Ireland’s cities
Cork is ‘very, very vulnerable’, but Dublin, Galway, the east coast and areas along the Shannon are also at high risk
UN Ocean Conference 3: will it lead to protecting the high seas from all extraction, forever?
Climate change is reducing productivity of the high seas through warming and depletion of nutrients and oxygen
Hare golf coursing: a mother and leverets up close in Carlow
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the red damselfly, the May bug and the barrel jellyfish
Extinction of nature’s giants tracks human expansion across the globe
Due to their size and abundance, these creatures shaped the ecosystems in which they lived – but today all are nearly gone
What is this species of bee that arrived during no-mow May?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the common carder bee, a rudely disturbed lizard, and a very fine stonechat photograph
What are Ireland’s Greenest Places in 2025? Share the places you feel are contributing to a better environment
We are asking readers to nominate the places across Ireland they believe deserve to be acknowledged
What’s the crack with this apple tree in our garden?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a golf-watching otter, a fungus called King Alfred’s cakes, and pond skaters
World lost a record amount of forests in 2024 as fires raged
World lost equivalent of 18 soccer fields of forested land every minute
What do changing rainfall patterns mean for the world’s nourishing grasslands?
Breakfast porridge, our daily bread and rice sustaining more than half of the world’s population are all bred from natural grasses
Live near a town? Got food or smelly shoes? Foxes and badgers may pay you a visit
Eanna Ní Lamhna on how to handle moths that want to make a meal of the food in your kitchen, the mice at risk from your lawnmower, and a bee-bashing bird
How can businesses change their business model to support biodiversity?
Climate crisis requires bigger efforts from business
Ireland needs multi-functional farms with biodiversity benefits. But how can they be supported?
Calls grow for farming supports to help landowners push ahead with national climate goals
How nature took the lead in the return of the crane to Ireland
Cranes were culturally significant in Ireland, kept as pets by nobility and may have been associated in folklore with death
Garden chemicals can seem like a magic wand. But this is the lesson I’ve learned
It’s liberating to accept that you’re never going to be master of your own garden, and this isn’t a failing
Ireland has a dismal amount of tree cover but ‘wild’ is partly between our ears
A Polish forest gives a glimpse of what Ireland and Britain might have looked like 10,000 years ago
Cornish hedges are works of art, with abundant nature providing the painterly flourishes
Two layers of stone filled inside with compacted earth and topped off with vegetation or turf, these are irresistible places for plants and animals to live
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