Spanish PM and Catalan president rehearse political agendas at time of crisis

Only fragments of Barcelona’s Llobregat Delta remain. Can it be saved?

Local groups that cherish our wetlands get a presidential welcome for their projects

Hikers and nature-lovers are unhappy about hard-track plans for Irish waterways

Don’t dismiss that patch of nettles as ‘weeds’: it is prime butterfly habitat

Global Witness co-founder Patrick Alley exposes links between ecocide and genocide

Wytham Woods tells many stories, not least of the worryingly slow recovery of some species

This week’s episode also looks at disarming of Basque separatist group Eta

Surrender of weapons expected to end group’s four decades of armed struggle

Managing flooding, and managing water generally, are major challenges that need widespread citizen engagement. Fethard in Tipperary offers a way forward.

The bird was injured. Should I kill it? Let it die? Or get help?

Anyone visiting Florida should read Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s book, which helped the Everglades to flourish again

When it comes to preserving biodiversity, governments are all talk and no action. It will take more than the UN’s Cancún Declaration to reverse habitat loss and extinction

Unless we attend to health of our environment, our economies cannot survive

World powers face major challenges honouring commitments to land restoration

Conservationists are concerned about how the badger cull is being implemented in Ireland – and many fear it’s a poor method of preventing bovine tuberculosis

The Basque Country is best known for its distinctive culture and language, but it is also a treasure house of biodiversity

Can ordinary people do anything practical to slow down climate change? On Girley Bog, near Kells in Co Meath, you can get very wet finding out

Technology is transforming profession of ecology and enhancing scope for precisely targeted work, but some practitioners fear traditional field skills are being lost to computer screens and ever-fancier gadgets

New government should review Arnaldo Otegi case and end prisoner ‘dispersion’