It highlighted the risk of direct transmission of emerging infectious diseases to humans who come in contact with bodily fluids of an infected animal.

'UP THE airy mountain/Down the rushy glen/We daren’t go a-hunting/For fear of little men;’ are the opening lines from William Allingham’s well-known children’s poem The Fairies.

THE house sparrow has made it to top spot of a record-breaking bird watch survey in Northern Ireland.

The Government’s Climate Ready initiative will help businesses to reduce energy waste, deliver cost savings and protect the environment.

INSIGHTS into alterations to the environments of other planets in our solar system and beyond have helped drive a tree-planting initiative in Armagh.

Groups of demonstrators, carrying placards with slogans such as ‘Stop animal torture’, gathered at the scene in Alt Tellin.

Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland opened near Navan last month.

A charity has launched a careers festival for young people interested in environmental jobs.

TENS of thousands of saplings have been planted by the National Trust across Northern Ireland and Britain as part of efforts to establish 20 million trees by 2030 for wildlife and the climate.

WE PASSED the spring or ‘vernal’ equinox on Saturday last, March 20, which occurred at precisely 9.37am, when daylight and night hours were equal.

First lady Jill Biden postponed a trip to Alabama planned for Friday.

Brexit and the protocol has put the north at the centre of a row over the importation of bees that it's claimed threaten the health and genetic integrity of our native species.

TWO pairs of coots are nesting in among rushes on a soggy island in a small stretch of water.

AN Arctic Walrus spotted in Co Kerry may have been asleep on an iceberg which melted off the Greenland Shelf.

MOST of us, I suspect, have, at some stage through the different lockdown periods, binged on some television favourites.

"THE more food we have in Northern Ireland, the better for everyone.

MY USUAL time for a walk into the mountains is early morning.

PEOPLE from deprived areas of Northern Ireland visit the outdoors less often than those from affluent parts, a new survey has found.

THE signs are all around us.

For more than a week, Etna has been belching lava, ash and volcanic rocks on a regular basis.