Large mix of biodiversity discovered on 130-acre site around home of President

New free app helps identify flowers and trees and many species from animal and fungi kingdoms

Trinity College Dublin wants to manage its very formal front lawns as wildflower meadows

Specialist team to carry out year-long ‘bio-diversity’ audit of 52-hectare site

‘People may never see orangutans but don’t want them to go extinct.That empathy isn’t there for insects’

‘You go to the UN to offer some very much necessary but perhaps for many unpalatable truths ’

Biodiversity is more than a concept – it’s a revelation of what the world could look like

Farming practices and urbanisation have placed insect world in acute danger, says president ahead of World Bee Day

Prof Jane Stout says in Ireland, this had resulted in loss of habitats and loss of species

Creation of ‘biodiversity duty’ on public and local authorities among new measures

Access Science: Dublin conference to explore findings from fossilised flora

Rapid changes in farming have sounded the death knell for many of our 21 species of bumblebees and 75 species of ‘solitary’ bees

Bee populations in Ireland and globally have declined significantly, making them endangered

Robo-bees could give us incredible insight into how real bees navigate, forage, communicate and avoid predators – but they are not a solution to crop pollination

Pollinators, especially bees, are in decline due to habitat loss; disease and pesticide use

Nature-based solutions are the hip new trend here to soothe our urban environmental woes – but are they actually solutions for nature?

Sometimes, evidence-based decision-making isn’t based on much evidence. There are lots of reasons why, but when things go wrong, we shouldn’t be afraid to say so and make a change

In our busy, always-on lives, punctuated with takeaway coffees, conveniently-wrapped groceries, budget flights, endless activities and fast fashion, less might actually be more

75 per cent of food crop species need pollination to maximise output

Some of the same species are becoming prevalent worldwide, causing concern among scientists of what’s known as ‘global ecological homogenisation’