Breakfast porridge, our daily bread and rice sustaining more than half of the world’s population are all bred from natural grasses

Action is needed now to protect and preserve Ireland’s heritage in the face of climate change, but heritage itself can be part of the solution

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Empowering children and young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature’s future..

Xavier Morin, CEFE, CNRS, University of Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France, discusses his article: More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity The e…

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As CAP payments are oriented towards sustainability, nature-friendly farming can secure reliable funding for farms in an increasingly unreliable global marketplace

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The Researcher of the Year (IRC legacy) Awards were announced at an event on Wednesday, January 15th 2025.The awards celebrated the very best of IRC-funded researchers deemed to have made highly signi...

Dairy farmer Thomas Duffy; Maura Walsh CEO of IRD Duhallow; Professor Yvonne Buckley, who manages the co-centre for Climate and Biodiversity; Jack Kennedy, editor of the Irish Farmers Journal

Ella McSweeney: Without radical and urgent changes in how we use the land, the future of our most distinctive lakes is bleak

This study addresses a key knowledge gap by demonstrating the influence of fuel architecture on shoot flammability and improves understanding of why species with certain architecture (e.g. highly bra...

Senior Editor, Yvonne Buckley, introduces a new Special Feature in Journal of Ecology on The plant ecology of nature-based solutions: November has been a big month for biodiversity and climate with…

In our race to cool the planet, we must not compromise the ecosystems on which we depend.