Climate change

If you think hospital waiting lists and access to GP care are challenging now, climate change will bring more difficulties

Rosie O’Reilly, Dublin’s first biodiversity artist-in-residence, is on a mission to preserve the capital’s hydro-story

Given a chance, dormant seeds will sprout, and with them, butterflies, bees, bats, birds and small mammals

Éanna Ní Lamhna on how to report dead birds, a bone of contention, and an imported lizard

Sales spike in 2024 after two years of declines

Staff told it is not ‘commercially viable’ to keep unit dedicated to low-emissions vehicles

The greatest cost of new fossil fuel projects may be the missed opportunity to build clean energy

From GM foods to nuclear power, there is no shortage of incorrect and harmful messaging on the left side of the spectrum

Economists argue that investments in scientific research are among the most efficient uses of taxpayer dollars, returning about $5 for every dollar invested

Providing IT infrastructure for the likes of Amazon and Meta is key for our economy, but environmental costs worry opponents

Either we spend a lot more on public transport, especially in regional cities and on rail lines serving new commuter belts, or the framework will be meaningless

Studies show that birds, bats and insects are among animals in the natural world affected by light pollution

Homeowners say they are ‘living in terror’ because nothing has been done to protect them from a recurrence of Storm Babet’s devastating floods

We’ve been lucky so far but ‘only a matter of time before a 3m storm surge’ hits Ireland

‘The year before last it went to €1,700, then we were told they were pulling out of the market’

Even people who haven’t been affected by flooding can now struggle to get insured, depending on where they live

BogSkin, an exhibition by the Royal Hibernian Academy, prods us by showing that Ireland’s bogs aren’t simply repositories for our collective unconsciousness, they are precious sustainers of life and, in a hugely destructive inflection of past habits, we are sacrificing them

Three ambitious new books - by Tim Jackson, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and Diane Coyle - examine the failures of liberal democracy, and how we can chart a course to a better future

A new study finds that people watching nature videos reported electric shocks as less intense, a pattern also observed in their brain scans

It feels as if the book has been reverse-engineered as a container for an academic field trip