Lichenologists rolling up to gather our mossAnother Life: A lost boy scout might have trouble finding north if he relied on the moss growth on our oak trees: in Mayo's …Sat Jan 12 2008 - 00:00
Bottom-feeder that keeps caviar prices risingAnother Life The natural history of Christmas, to be serialised annually in this column until every conceivable ingredient has…Sat Dec 15 2007 - 00:00
Neither fully fungus nor animal, but bothAnother Life: Season of mellow fruitfulness, indeed - so many apples the last are still ripening on the tree - but also of …Sat Nov 17 2007 - 00:00
Tackling the spread of infernal fernsAnother Life: The decline and fall of bracken seduces my eye every autumn: the dry fronds curling through delicate ochres and…Sat Nov 10 2007 - 00:00
Ocean patterns resistant to global warmingAnother Life: A still October morning; an overnight raindrop pendant from every berrySat Oct 27 2007 - 01:00
Protecting the wildlife in the deep blue seaAnother Life: Until a few years ago, my mind-pictures of Ireland were all landbound, even though a good many looked out to the…Sat Oct 20 2007 - 01:00
The purpose of fussing over the porpoiseAnother Life: Dubliners can regularly spot them from the Dart, between Killiney and Dalkey, which must be a great way to start…Sat Sept 15 2007 - 01:00
Are jellyfish plotting a maritime coup d'etat?Another Life There's still plenty of time for jellyfishSat Sept 01 2007 - 01:00
Gone from the greenwoodNature It took 300 oak trees - a small wood - to build the moated Suffolk farmhouse that Roger Deakin bought as a ruin in 1968…Sat Aug 11 2007 - 01:00
Red admirals swerving in scarlet spiralsAnother Life: A gleam of light over the mountain pierced a lowering sky and outside the window a small, dark flicker of response…Sat Jul 14 2007 - 01:00
How does killing badgers save cows?Another Life: It is more than 35 years since, as this paper's Environment Correspondent, I first sounded the alarm for the future…Sat Jun 30 2007 - 01:00
Breathing life back into BréifneAnother Life: Even if Earth is changing, this is still the peak of summer, zenith of a so-far reasonably temperate sunSat Jun 16 2007 - 01:00
Pollination under threat as bees vanishAnother life 'If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life leftSat Jun 02 2007 - 01:00
Posh diners help revive inshore fishingAnother Life It's in the calms of early summer that the sea between Thallabawn and the distant islands begins to seem very …Sat May 26 2007 - 01:00
The mixed fortunes of our winged wondersAnother Life: Wry as I feel about amateur naturalists "tracking the progress" of global warming (akin to encouraging Noah to …Sat Apr 21 2007 - 01:00
Former rejects seen as very good catchesAnother Life: As plant plankton doubles and redoubles across a sunlit sea, setting in train a hectic replenishment of ocean …Sat Apr 14 2007 - 01:00
Which bird has deflowered my primroses?Another life : Right through the winter the odd primrose shone beneath the hawthorn, making me wonder what sort of show they…Sat Apr 07 2007 - 01:00
The joy of such harmonious madnessAnother Life: A day or two before Old Nature struck back with a properly stormy start to March, a snatch of spring song from…Sat Mar 17 2007 - 00:00
How will elephant grass affect biodiversity?Another Life: I like "miscanthus". The word sits happily on the tongue, like "hyacinth" or "alfalfa"Sat Feb 24 2007 - 00:00
Nature changing to the human touchAnother Life: The climate report's final notice to the world arrived on the winter's best day: sun aglow in the orange willow…Sat Feb 17 2007 - 00:00
Don't let barn owl become a late, late speciesAnother Life: On an unspeakable evening in November 2002, a night when the drains of Dublin failed, rush-hour commuters were…Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00
Don't let barn owl become a late, late speciesAnother Life: On an unspeakable evening in November 2002, a night when the drains of Dublin failed, rush-hour commuters were…Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00
How birds of prey could soar in populationAnother Life: As the heavens open and the winds howl and we know it's all our own fault, there's a wry note to the prospect …Sat Jan 20 2007 - 00:00
What gorgeous creatures our moths can beAnother Life: On a calm night between storms, five little moths came to rest upon the glass of our uncurtained living-room window…Sat Jan 13 2007 - 00:00
Fish supply problems lead to novel importsAnother Life: No birds enjoy the air more than intelligent crows, and choughs have by far the most fun.Sat Jan 06 2007 - 00:00
Portraits of the artist shooting wildlifeAnother Life: Victorian naturalists shot birds and animals and pinned butterflies, moths and beetles in rows under glass.Sat Dec 09 2006 - 00:00
Old goats in these islands 'very much alike'Another Life: Once, high on the flank of Mweelrea, I caught up unexpectedly with one of Connacht's unofficial wild animalsSat Nov 25 2006 - 00:00
Where have all the birds gone?Another Life: There are big questions in life to which I cannot always find an answer, and "Where have all the birds gone?" …Sat Nov 11 2006 - 00:00
Leaving Venice, come hell or high waterAnother Life: There is probably no good day for leaving Venice, but the first rain-clouds in a week and first lappings of …Sat Nov 04 2006 - 00:00
Understanding the culture of the hunterAnother Life: 'Before the sky is fully bright the crackle of gunfire will announce that cock pheasants are once again fair game…Sat Oct 28 2006 - 01:00
Let's get to the bottom of our otter declineAnother Life: There's an eye-catching hummock of grass on the bank above the pool where the mountain river runs into the strand…Sat Oct 21 2006 - 01:00
Small victories distract from the apocalypseAnother Life: It's a little late to be patching up earth's environment, but trusting for the best is one of the happier parts…Sat Oct 14 2006 - 01:00
The hills are alive in Robinson's writingsAnother Life: Seen across the mouth of Killary Harbour, Connemara still offers a profile as wild you could wishSat Oct 07 2006 - 01:00
Rains of summer a catastrophe for waspsOn any morning with sun and a bit of a breeze the garden dances with rainbows as a chorus of redundant CDs spin, flash and jiggle…Sat Sept 30 2006 - 01:00
Green argument used against replanting treesAnother Life: When millions of Sitka spruce and lodgepole pine were planted on western bogs and hills in Ireland's "social forestry…Sat Sept 23 2006 - 01:00
Time reveals the mysteries of the tidesAnother Life: You'd think that, with a 50km view of the ocean and more than my share of stars, I'd have the whole story of …Sat Sept 09 2006 - 01:00
Autumn tolls for the glorious red grouseAnother Life: Ethna's dad used to come down from Cuilcagh Mountain with a sooty shotgun and bulging gamebag.Sat Sept 02 2006 - 01:00
Wood engravers who carved out a nicheAnother Life: My solitary box bush stands just about two feet high after almost two decades of growth from a slipSat Aug 19 2006 - 01:00
Future of insects is in the hands of childrenOne of the lesser crises of this overheated summer has involved a vegetable wholly iconic to the serious food gardeners of these…Sat Aug 12 2006 - 01:00
The case of the killer hedgehogAnother Life: One reason we stopped keeping ducks was their reckless disregard for security, refusing to return to the duckhouse…Sat Aug 05 2006 - 01:00
Chub invader stakes its claim on our lakesAnother Life: One rainy day in 1889, a pike angler from Britain was fishing Cork's Blackwater River and using as live bait two…Sat Jul 15 2006 - 01:00
Bonxies are new bird bullies on the blockAnother Life: At low water, in a calm sea, reefs surface off the shore like wallowing sea-dragonsSat Jul 08 2006 - 01:00
Larksong an abiding sign of lifeAnother life: The bank holiday people ignored the county council's rather raw-looking new car park behind the strand (space…Sat Jun 17 2006 - 01:00
Flower smellers have sex on the brainAnother Life: The whins that gild the west, never more spectacularly brazen than this spring, delivered billows of a fragrance…Sat Jun 10 2006 - 01:00
A nature guide illustrated by insightsAnother Life : May's memorable rains fell in fat, juicy, slightly sinister drops that spoke of water sucked up from a warming…Sat Jun 03 2006 - 01:00
