Ireland’s coastal wind farms: An ill wind for seabirds?Gannets and other coastal birds face the cumulative loss of foraging habitatSat Mar 20 2021 - 06:00
Another Life: Plants capable of adapting behaviour to surviveMichael Viney: ‘Within hours it had grown another 8cm or so, curving to tighten its grip’Sat Mar 13 2021 - 06:00
Another Life: The hardy alder relishes getting its feet wet on river banksMichael Viney: Sometimes, and surprisingly, Irish farmland can produce its own native trees, regenerating dreams of a lost forestSat Mar 06 2021 - 06:00
Another Life: UK report urges global policies to meet hidden costs of ecological damageMichael Viney: Education in nature from an early age recommended by authorSat Feb 27 2021 - 06:00
Michael Viney: The secret life in my handful of garden soilAnother life: The mysterious and fascinating mycorrhizal fungi forms an intricate underground networkSat Feb 20 2021 - 06:00
Another Life: Lockdown and seed supply for Irish gardensMichael Viney: ‘Look in ye drawer before money ye spend’ – good advice when it comes to seedsSat Feb 13 2021 - 06:00
Another Life: Kayaking and caving as routes of imaginative escapeMichael Viney: Steam issuing from caves must have seemed signs from spirit worldSat Feb 06 2021 - 06:00
Michael Viney: My 1964 No Birthright series on unmarried mothers left half the story untold‘I was perhaps totally misled by the appearance of the convent,’ journalist saysSat Jan 30 2021 - 06:00
Another Life: Ireland’s saltmarshes could vanish as sea level risesMichael Viney: Government and its agencies finally taking threats of storms seriouslySat Jan 23 2021 - 06:00
Another Life: Rays and sharks in danger of extinction in Irish watersMichael Viney: Rays were once the standard diet of Dublin’s Ringsend, dubbed ‘Raytown’Sat Jan 16 2021 - 06:00
Adrift at sea: The exotic nuts that reach Ireland’s shoresThe arrival of sea beans and other Caribbean fruits has been discussed for centuriesSat Jan 09 2021 - 06:00
Another Life: Emotional human bond with natural world increased in lockdownMichael Viney: People sought out trees, gardens and landscapes, the chance of wildlife large or smallSat Jan 02 2021 - 06:00
Another Life: None flies straighter or with more urgency than the wrenMichael Viney: This little bird’s adaptability and pioneering spirit has created about 50 distinct races in different habitats worldwideSat Dec 19 2020 - 06:00
Another Life: Moss growth this year has been exceptionalMichael Viney: Ireland has 228 myxomycete species, 142 of them are in Co WicklowSat Dec 12 2020 - 06:00
EU drive to clean up polluted waters has special importance for IrelandMichael Viney: State’s star conservation invertebrate is the freshwater pearl musselSat Dec 05 2020 - 06:00
Another Life: Badgers once again top list of roadkillMichael Viney: Toll of human traffic casualties is dismaying enough, but annual toll on wildlife is also extraordinarySat Nov 28 2020 - 06:00
Distinctive Blackface ram has new and potent valueAnother Life: Plans to ‘enhance’ breed for a sustainable role on western farmlandsSat Nov 21 2020 - 06:00
Irish tree folklore continues to emerge from the shadowsRecalling ‘a loved one’ has found a place in the urge to plant for sound ecological goodSat Nov 14 2020 - 06:00
Europe’s eels at risk from lucrative illegal traffickingMichael Viney: Brexit and power stations are threats to Irish population hit by major declineSat Nov 07 2020 - 06:00
Another Life: Poets bring me to places I cannot now goMichael Viney visits Nephin with Sean Lysaght, Connemara with Eamon GrennanSat Oct 31 2020 - 06:00
Another Life: Discovering the Kerry Mousetail FernCo Kerry is notable for exotic species escaped into the wild from ‘big house gardens’Sat Oct 24 2020 - 06:00
Dutch botanists drawn to Ireland’s landscapes of special beautyThe Hidden Lakes of Connemara offers ‘a tribute to a fascinating landscape’Sat Oct 17 2020 - 06:00
How can a blackbird be white? It’s actually not that uncommonBlackbirds topped the list of a British ‘abnormal plumage’ survey, at over 40%Sat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00
The remarkable Dara McAnulty and his connection with natureAnother Life: Young author and his family live as ‘close as otters’ at the foot of the Mourne MountainsSat Oct 03 2020 - 06:00
Another Life: Here comes the sunfishMichael Viney: Mola mola, with its appetite for jellyfish, are in warmer Irish watersSat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
Another Life: Ireland’s growing deer population poses many challengesClimate change has ‘greatly enabled’ a national surge in the range of deerSat Sept 19 2020 - 06:00
Another Life: How are Ireland’s elms faring in 2020?Michael Viney: Despite the threat of disease, Ireland’s living elms can still surpriseSat Sept 12 2020 - 06:00
Another Life: Our waders are growing fewer year by yearMichael Viney: A new survey brings arresting confirmations of declineSat Aug 29 2020 - 06:00
Two sea species whose enmity is carried by wind and waterThe by-the-wind sailor’s sworn foe, the violet sea snail, floats upside-down alongside itSat Aug 22 2020 - 06:00
Another Life: Arrival of great skuas may alter seabird balance on Clare IslandMichael Viney: North Atlantic’s top predator now shares island with 13 other speciesSat Aug 15 2020 - 06:00
Another Life: Our second ash comes into conflict with technologyMichael Viney: The wayside ashes of the west stand as defiantly healthy emblems of their kindSat Aug 08 2020 - 06:00
Anti-chaos theory: How do ant colonies organise so efficiently?Individual ants are certainly not smart, but their group wisdom may exceed our ownSat Aug 01 2020 - 06:00
Gannet population continues to thrive despite human threat to its numbersMichael Viney: Irish numbers have more than doubled since the counts of Operation Seafarer in 1970Sat Jul 25 2020 - 06:00
Another Life: The fox as he dwells among usMichael Viney: A predator denning in parks, gardens and wasteland gets mixed responsesSat Jul 18 2020 - 06:00
The declining choughs of Dursey island need decision makers’ helpA beefed-up, independent National Parks and Wildlife Service would be just the ticketSat Jul 11 2020 - 06:00
Super grass: the arching, architectural forms of wild meadowsMichael Viney: Wild grasses have loved the mood swings of our climate this yearSat Jul 04 2020 - 06:00
Between cliff and sea: The curious trail of a puffinAnother Life: As one of many of the world’s declining seabirds, puffins are now receiving much more necessary and serious attentionSat Jun 27 2020 - 06:00
Alice and Jack Tyler: America’s first environmental power coupleAnother Life: A new book on the founders of the Tyler Prize shows their political influenceSat Jun 20 2020 - 06:00
Spotted flycatcher is less likely to be spotted with each passing yearAvian science journal Ibis reports ‘great conservation concern’ about the speciesSat Jun 13 2020 - 06:00
The Irish farmers peering into cow pats for precious dung beetlesAnother Life: Dairy farmer Bruce Thompson examines impact of worming drug on beetlesSat Jun 06 2020 - 06:00
Conquering Everest on a Mayo ridge for a good causeMichael Viney: Crumbling hilltop trig pillars’ played key role in the mapping of IrelandSat May 30 2020 - 06:00
The foreign invaders decimating North’s worm populationAntipodean flatworms pose risk to indigenous variety which could have severe knock-on effectsSat May 23 2020 - 06:00
Lonely lapwings and the secret world of non-breedersAnother Life: Some floaters circle territories and sneak the odd ‘extra-pair copulation’Sat May 16 2020 - 06:00
Does it matter whether my plants listen to Mozart or Bach?Michael Viney: Plant intelligence rests in the ways by which they solve their problemsSat May 09 2020 - 06:00
David Attenborough gives humankind one last chanceA Life on Our Planet is a terrifying catalogue of our self-sabotaging transgressionsSat May 02 2020 - 06:00
Have Howth’s red squirrels succumbed to invasive greys?Greys carry squirrel-pox virus which is fatal to Ireland’s native redsSat Apr 25 2020 - 06:00
The rapid decline of the restless, chirruping house sparrowAnother Life: The disappearance of this bird from cities has prompted much researchSat Apr 18 2020 - 06:00
Tim Robinson created a unique ecological chronicle of IrelandRobinson has followed Mairéad, his wife and collaborator, into the list of Covid-19 fatalitiesSat Apr 11 2020 - 06:00
We’ve gone from housing hens to online supermarket dependencyWill Covid-19 begin a resurgence of the 1970s withdrawal from growth-driven capitalism?Sat Apr 04 2020 - 06:00
Both badgers and humans waiting on security from plagueGreater industry involvement required if bovine TB to be eliminated by 2030 targetSat Mar 28 2020 - 06:00
