Another Life: Seals make their presence felt in Irish waterIt is great to see grey seals return in numbers, but it is best to enjoy them from a distanceSat Aug 08 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesYoung hares, a fledgling cuckoo and a rare rosy footmanSat Aug 08 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Wildlife is as much a part of Ireland’s heritage as its castles areHistoric buildings and prehistoric sites are still what people think of when you mention National Heritage Week. Landscapes and wildlife habitats are taking more time to register as part of what we areSat Aug 01 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Why limpets could be key to your car’s heads-up displayOptical structures within the limpet’s shell shine brilliantly when catching the light. That means they could work in your car’s windscreen or even, one day, display information in your glassesSat Jul 25 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesAn escaped wallaby, a strawberry-stealing squirrel and a haunting owlSat Jul 25 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: the damage man-made sound can do in the oceansWhales and dolphins have been killed by powerful naval sonars, the explosions of military exercises and the air-gun detonations of seismic surveysSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesCrab spiders, gall midges and hummingbird hawkmothsSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesMating moths, mistle thrushes and a hungry robinSat Jul 11 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Land and sea locked into a timeless exchangeWhere do the oceans get their new calcium from if not rivers rushing out dissolved limestone from the land?Sat Jul 11 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Our ash tree is now firewood to warm us. Let’s hope the new sunlight warms our butterfliesThe unusual weather – will there now be any other kind? – is making conditions even more unfavourable for the tortoiseshells, marsh fritillaries and speckled woodsSat Jul 04 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesNesting gulls, raucous magpies, squawking crows and dwindling swallowsSat Jun 27 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: The noxious plant that costs Europe €4.5 billion a yearRagweed, the bane of hay-fever victims, causes half the summer attacks of asthma. It also invades ploughed fields, waysides and wastelands. It’s still rare in Ireland – so root it up before it flowers more widelySat Jun 27 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesDiving beetles, a dead swift, and bug eggsSat Jun 20 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: When birds go into hiding and butterflies disappearSummer is a time of coming and going, of great change, of moulting and preparationSat Jun 20 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Belches, farts and slurry – milk’s carbon footprint problemMethane from cows makes up more than half of the greenhouse gases arising from milk production. With Ireland’s dairy herd set to grow rapidly , manipulating their diet is the most promising controlSat Jun 13 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesSecretive otters, curious pine martens and disappearing goldfinchesSat Jun 13 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesTurkey oaks, capercaillies and a motherly wrenSat Jun 06 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: A prickly ocean bonanzaA dramatic explosion in the numbers of boarfish in Irish waters has turned a minor nuisance into a staple catchSat Jun 06 2015 - 01:00
Why we still need Europe to stand guard over Irish natureThe European Commission is running a ‘fitness check’ on the EU birds and habitats directives. Scaling back these conservation rules would undermine years of progressSat May 30 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesA cuckoo’s calls, a blackbird’s bravery and a caterpillar that smells like a goatSat May 23 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: How to make an island raven feel as sick as a parrotJays in California are being left eggs dosed with an emetic to discourage them from eating those of a threatened seabird. Could it work with their Irish cousins?Sat May 23 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: The lost treasures of the dead zooStephen Jay Gould loved the natural history museum in Dublin, with its gleaming glass cabinets. But a financial crisis has forced it to close two floors. How marvellous it would be to see its full trove againSat May 16 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Lynx on the loose? That’ll add a frisson to a forest rambleA project to reintroduce the wild cat to Britain has won support from a public largely out of touch with farming realities. What might happen in Ireland?Sat May 09 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesFalse widows, burrowing bees and a clutch of ducklingsSat May 09 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Barnacles of a different featherGooseneck barnacles, clustered on drift logs, are a beauty to beholdSat May 02 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Leave those dandelions alone – they’re bumblebees’ breakfastWithout bees we’d lose much of the choice on our supermarket food shelves: 4,000 of Europe’s vegetable varieties exist thanks to pollinationSat Apr 25 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: When pellucid green turns a murky shade of jadeIf mayflies are key signals of the health of our lakes, Ireland’s inland waters are looking increasingly sickSat Apr 18 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Sea-level debate heats up as Greenland’s ice meltsA big patch of the Atlantic between Ireland and Newfoundland is perversely cooling down while the rest of the world is warming upSat Apr 11 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Grow it yourself – with a hoist from the moonBiodynamic growers study the lunar cycle before deciding when to sow their seedsSat Apr 04 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Our pike are noble predators, not alien villainsThey were blamed for declines in trout stocks when pollution, overfishing and drainage were also taking their tollSat Mar 28 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Our latest little furry mammal invadersHazel dormice are the most recent in a long line of wildlife species to come to IrelandSat Mar 21 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: The Wild Atlantic Way? It’s just one view of our landscapeThere is a broader, deeper concern for the settings we live in than their money-making potential. Just look at Catalonia’s example to see what’s possibleSat Mar 14 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Behind the jet stream’s weird and wavy weatherThis atmospheric wind powers so much of our cloudscape – and is bringing extreme weather to both sides of the Atlantic OceanSat Mar 07 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Beetle beauty and the beastsBeetles are farmers’ friends, a sign of insect diversity and great recyclers of nutrientsSat Feb 28 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: The Arctic’s icy foundations begin to shiftMeltwater lakes are forming beneath ice as global warming acceleratesSat Feb 21 2015 - 01:00
