Last week’s budget raised worrying questions about policy

"We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will," a thought from French mystic Simone Weil, inspires Meghan O'Gieblyn's new book, Will and Attention, a probing philosophical examinatio...

Investment in areas like flood relief remains far too slow

Uplift members from across Ireland have drawn a line in the sand and made it clear to everybody around the world that Trump is not welcome here in Ireland.

Despite the warnings, the Government’s response is unconvincing

A less visible but vital impact of climate change

Without a liveable environment, competitiveness will be an empty aspiration

Once hailed as the saviour of Spanish democracy, scandal precipitated the former monarch’s abdication and exile

Lighting camp fires and using disposable barbecues under current conditions is a gross irresponsibility

Writer and Senior Lecturer in Making Things Up. THE GHOST WHO BLED (2017), THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY (2018), THE REPUBLIC OF BREATH and SWEENEY'S PROGRESS (forthcoming). Here to share stories/work-in-progre...

The conditions created by our rapidly heating planet make such disasters ever more likely

The beloved Silk Road Café at the Chester Beatty, Dublin Castle, is being forced to close for six months to facilitate the EU Presidency, with no compensation. Instead of celebrating the café's 25th a...

A super-hot El Niño climate phenomenon in the Pacific suggests worse climate news this year

Encouraging work by advisory committee but it needs to be built on

Are you coming for an echtra, or ancient Irish outing to the otherworld, with artist Louis Haugh? Paddy Woodworth is waiting within, the greatest ever photobook of Costa Rican caterpillars in his hand...

Legendary jazz vocalist Norma Winstone on learning to understand the voice as an instrument, the genius of bandmate, Kenny Wheeler, and how Drake became her most famous fan. Also, Paddy Woodwth awards...

Extremes dominated every aspect of climate in 2025 and Ireland is not prepared

David George Haskell has a new book on the flowers that put the rain in rainforests and that challenge the teachings of Darwin

Grim but credible forecasts need to spur the State to act

Rion Hanora O'Donovan on the place of 'bad' graffiti in her clothes designs; Dermot Rogers puts some sunlight on the legacy of jazz guitarist, Louis Stewart; Paddy Woodworth slips Esther Woolfson on t...

Her family, authors of this petitition, and those who admired her tremendous body of work and passion for life would like to see her celebrated  as a woman writer, all  too neglected, and as...

It is one more instance of our failure to value the diversity with which nature has endowed this island

Some species increased numbers but others have declined by more than 50%

The increasing frequency and ferocity of extreme weather is clearly linked to climate change

Plans are being made, but they are manifestly inadequate to meeting the State’s targets

Plans are being made, but they are manifestly inadequate to meeting the State’s targets

While the sap has indeed sunk in many trees, by no means all of nature is hibernating now

The core importance of natural infrastructure is still not being recognised

An ancient Irish farming tradition that sees the wisdom of leaving some farm land free from the imperatives of production --  ‘The Hare’s Corner’ -- is celebrated in poetry, story, discussion and musi...

To understand what nature does in our absence, there can be few better opportunities than Białowieźa

For many years the country lived under the shadow of a past it did not confront

Luke Clancy and panel make the case for loving some teeming critters of the invertebrate kingdom. Advocating for their favourites are: Rachel McKenna (shieldbugs); Liam Lysaght (wasps); Cassia Gaden G...

A plan from the Brazilian president may be well-intentioned, but it shows how markets fail where climate is concerned

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

The artists are digging about in the colonial history of the garden at an exhibition at Bray's Mermaid, at Ars Electronica, there's a calming tech that harness the power of human humming, Paddy Woodwo...

At both EU and national level, commitments on environmental spending are being scaled back

The spiritual calling that is running a rave; the sylvan sci fi of Cecilia Danell; unfinished art; and Paddy Woodworth's The Naturalist's Bookshelf.

Proposed Guggenheim development in Guernica faces opposition over ecological concerns

Rachel Ní Bhraonáin reginites her award-winning dance-theatre take on the mosh and the moshers at Dublin Dance Festival; conductor Gabriel Crouch dives the fathomless depths of Jóhann Jóhannsson's eni...

«El terro­ris­mo es un tér­mino muy res­ba­la­di­zo, el cual desa­fía una defi­ni­ción cla­ra y fir­me, debi­do a que es uti­li­za­do habi­tual­men­te para deni­grar actos de vio­len­cia de aque­llos ...

Whoever is elected from the forthcoming conclave should take up the baton on climate change

The frightening shift in US policy and its worldwide consequences are not getting enough attention

Percussionist, James Larter reboots of the Four Season; the allure of ancient craft in New York; and Paddy Woodworth suggests a new old volume about New England as essential reading for today.

I've signed this petition calling out this government & Michael Lowry for their attempted insulting power grab. Can you sign too?

Despite its status as a protected area for birds and wildlife, Lady’s Island Lake in Co Wexford is now suffering from a dangerous, if not fatal, level of pollution