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Climate change: How can nature play its role?
We need to be rigorous in measuring benefits of nature-based solutions, studies say
Understanding how humans have shaped landscapes can guide us in the future
‘We need to embrace the fact that humans are entangled with the material and non-human environment’
Bord na Móna’s big shift: how the peat giant pivoted to bog restoration
The semi-State company is investing millions to ‘rehabilitate’ huge swathes of degraded bogs
Bog rehabilitation scheme: ‘This is only a beginning’
Restoration project is significant but Minister accepts much more needed
How Abbeyleix raised its bog standards to the highest level
In 2000, the local community of Abbeyleix took control of the conservation of their boglands. Twenty years later, they are celebrating a remarkable environmental success
Seek and ye shall (mostly) find the detail of nature’s treasure trove
New free app helps identify flowers and trees and many species from animal and fungi kingdoms
What if preserving ecosystems could prevent future pandemics?
The way we live now helps infectious diseases spill over from wild animals to humans
Nothing learned in zero-sum Catalan blame game
Mistakes on both sides have brought the situation to the current impasse
Explore Irish biodiversity– all week long
Broad range of events nationwide with a particular focus this year on pollinators and gardening
Why peatlands matter in the battle against climate change
Living peatlands sequester carbon-dioxide, drawing it down from the atmosphere through plants and trapping it underground as carbon
Can we restore our ecosystems to their earlier versions?
Time is running out to wind back the climate clock, says restoration scientist Donald Falk
The swallow has landed: 10 birds to spot in Ireland in spring
Sharpen your sense of seasonal change by watching out for some long-haul arrivals
Birdwatching for beginners: change your life a feather at a time
You don’t need to spend lots of money or grow a beard to appreciate birds
Paddy Woodworth: Barcelona attack exposes Spain’s fault line
Spanish PM and Catalan president rehearse political agendas at time of crisis
A wildlife playground on life support
Only fragments of Barcelona’s Llobregat Delta remain. Can it be saved?
Communities raise bog standards in Abbeyleix
Local groups that cherish our wetlands get a presidential welcome for their projects
Grass or tarmac? The towpath debate
Hikers and nature-lovers are unhappy about hard-track plans for Irish waterways
A butterfly’s view of the Royal Canal
Don’t dismiss that patch of nettles as ‘weeds’: it is prime butterfly habitat
The true cost of that tropical hardwood table
Global Witness co-founder Patrick Alley exposes links between ecocide and genocide
The lessons of nature an Oxford woodlands is teaching us
Wytham Woods tells many stories, not least of the worryingly slow recovery of some species
World View Podcast: What is Trump’s plan for Syria?
This week’s episode also looks at disarming of Basque separatist group Eta
Basque separatist group Eta begins arms handover
Surrender of weapons expected to end group’s four decades of armed struggle
A small town, a small river, big ideas
Managing flooding, and managing water generally, are major challenges that need widespread citizen engagement. Fethard in Tipperary offers a way forward.
The Everglades: River of grass, water of life
Anyone visiting Florida should read Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s book, which helped the Everglades to flourish again
It’s our world. So why don’t we protect it?
When it comes to preserving biodiversity, governments are all talk and no action. It will take more than the UN’s Cancún Declaration to reverse habitat loss and extinction
Future of the environment desperately needs a new storyline
Unless we attend to health of our environment, our economies cannot survive
Monumental task of replanting forests on ‘landscape-scale’
World powers face major challenges honouring commitments to land restoration
Are we culling badgers needlessly?
Conservationists are concerned about how the badger cull is being implemented in Ireland – and many fear it’s a poor method of preventing bovine tuberculosis
Where birders dare
The Basque Country is best known for its distinctive culture and language, but it is also a treasure house of biodiversity
Blocking drains to capture carbon
Can ordinary people do anything practical to slow down climate change? On Girley Bog, near Kells in Co Meath, you can get very wet finding out
Rise of techno-ecology a double-edged sword
Technology is transforming profession of ecology and enhancing scope for precisely targeted work, but some practitioners fear traditional field skills are being lost to computer screens and ever-fancier gadgets
Paddy Woodworth: Spanish judiciary on trial over ETA prisoners
New government should review Arnaldo Otegi case and end prisoner ‘dispersion’
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