Nature

The speed of decline in the ocean current system known as Amoc will determine whether Ireland can adapt or face catastrophic impacts

To the committed fungus hunter, mushrooms bought with money will always be worthless or, at least, worth less than those captured in the wild

The Burren is home to 27 species of moths and butterflies found nowhere else in the country, along with all of our rarest butterflies and half our rarest moths

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a dead 6ft leatherback turtle, a red garden spider, and the flowering lives of dandelions

Elon Musk should know that human social structures are more fluid than even the most complex of animal hierarchies

2024 was ‘masterclass in climate destruction’, António Guterres tells global leaders

Carbon credits predicted to enable big increase in climate spending but critics says backdoor deal was rushed and undermines UN climate process

World’s performance on emissions and temperature summarised in three words: ‘over the limit’

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a garden thief, the darter dragonfly, and – cough, cough – rook pellets

The confirmation revives the question of whether nightjars could have a more hopeful future in Ireland than previously believed

The author’s sensitive writing quietly captures nature’s exquisiteness and captivates the human heart

I awoke early one morning in Canberra to a bizarre sound. What the actual f**k is that, I thought, a pterodactyl? It was a magpie, but not like the ones I’d known

Certification to help farmers and landowners prove benefits of bog restoration projects and attract investment

‘This is a delay we can’t afford as we see alarming evidence on a weekly basis the Earth is moving towards dangerous environmental tipping points’, said Grace Carr of Irish Wildlife Trust

Eanna Ní Lamhna addresses your notes and queries, and explains how badgers could help save potatoes

Farmers praised for sympathetic agricultural practices that protect waders

Governments still need to protect an area of land equivalent to combined size of Brazil and Australia

‘Our parks must have nature at the forefront of their concerns’

Finance to protect some of the world’s most important ecosystems remains main block to progress at global gathering

The wildlife expert on her new book of Irish biodiversity, staying hopeful, and why dandelions are better than daffodils

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the limitations of Google, the kestrel’s talent for spotting mouse pee, and a very large caterpillar

Deciduous trees and shrubs are paragons of good planning and preparedness

Eanna Ní Lamhna debunks a squirrel myth, confirms there are no toads in Malahide and identifies an old Donegal coral

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a worse-for-wear black slug, a case of mistaken ID, and the sparrowhawk’s hunting regimen

Greater focus needed on biodiversity conservation and restoration in the fight against climate change

Éanna Ní Lamhna on white-tailed bumblebees, red latticed stinkhorns and – more stink – green shield bugs

Éanna Ní Lamhna on mating white-tailed bumblebees, going bananas, and an unusually beautiful insect

Deirdre Irwin won the ‘wildlife and its habitats’ category for her photograph of a Dalmatian pelican, taken in Greece

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a rare glossy long-legged spider, the declining yellowhammer and the common earwig

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the oleander moth, a fine feather and a fish that could bite a finger off

About three million starlings breed in Ireland yearly, joined in winter by visitors from all over Europe

The oncoming darkness and brightness of the season represents our freedom, always returning, like every autumn

Far from being ‘the worst thing to happen to humanity’, this EU law is a very small step towards combating a huge problem

Eanna Ní Lamhna on field mice, voles, caterpillars, sparrowhawks and more

Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on red leaves on oak trees and a moth that is flourishing in Dublin

Éanna Ní Lamhna on cuttlefish, New Zealand flax and the by-the-wind sailor

‘You could over-complicate it,’ Joe Devine says. ‘This is about reversing the drainage of a bog, and seeing what benefits are going to emerge’

Éanna Ní Lamhna on an escaped diamond dove pigeon, sea slaters and red ants

Ella McSweeney: Digging a pond, however small, is worth it for the cascade of positive effects it brings

The goal is to create a situation where ‘thousands to millions of oysters are creating this really complex structure with so much biodiversity’