13 May 2022  A ten day celebration of nature in Ireland kicks off today! Welcome to National Biodiversity Week 2022! Biodiversity refers to the variety of species in a particular area. Whether that’s the entire planet or your garden pond, Read more

6 May 2022  There’s a Hadith in Islam where the Prophet Muhammed taught that, “even if the sun has risen on the Day of Judgement, you still have the chance to plant a tree.” Shaykh Dr Umar Al-Qadri, founder of Read more

5 May 2022  The polls are open today in Northern Ireland for Assembly elections, in case you haven’t heard.  It’s a 90-seat legislature and analysts are projecting there’s a real chance of a landmark victory for Sinn Fein if it Read more

29 April 2022  At COP26 I was handed a booklet with a bright yellow cover and the title “Future Anterior – COP(oety)26.” It was a little collection of eco-poetry, collected by the University of Warwick’s Centre for Ecopoetics.  On one Read more

28 April 2022  Just this week Ireland announced its latest climate finance figures for 2020 – and it clocked in at €5.3 million less than it gave in 2019.  Non-governmental organisations expressed their disappointment at the development, and Christian Aid Read more

22 April 2022  The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) Working Group report plugged a line that we’ve become all-too-familiar with: in order to have a habitable planet, we need emissions to decline fast and that needs to happen Read more

13 April 2022  When a lot of us think of biodiversity, we think of quiet forests or winding streams or a rainforest much further afield.  We may not think of something that’s much harder to spot but that’s just as Read more

12 April 2022  Talk to me for more than ten minutes in a pub booth or cafe, and there’s a good chance I’m going to find a way to bring up foxes.  My obsession with them only grows stronger year-on-year Read more

8 April 2022  Whether you’re working from home or an office, you’ve probably found yourself over recent weeks of spring taking a break or closing out the day with a walk. You might be in the countryside or in the Read more

5 April 2022  The third and final Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group report landed yesterday late afternoon – and we took some time last night to go through it.  The report is the third of its kind Read more