Ferns often die in summer as most people do not realise they cannot cope with the heat, but there is a simple way to keep ...

June, a friend and I strolled on the Lower Loop trail at Eaglecrest. Out in the meadows, we found the white flowers of ...

Ralph Sheppard is an ecologist living in Donegal, where he has been monitoring the birds since the 1950s. This is an extract ...

Jar of crude Sphagnum as used by florists and nurseymen in packing plants. One of a series of specimens showing the use of sphagnum moss for surgical dressings as developed during World War I. This ...

Type of sphagnum surgical dressing used by the American Red Cross during World War I. Dressing consists of sphagnum moss enveloped in absorbant paper, laid on a layer of absorbent cotton linters ...

Sixteen Welsh farm businesses are set to trial new ideas, with funding from Farming Connect’s “Try Out Fund”, aiming to ...

Make parallel ring incisions around the stem that are about 1 or 2 inches apart. Take care not to cut into the woody part of ...

Support the BMC's Access & Conservation The Climate Project campaign to plant sphagnum and seagrass to sequester carbon and protect biodiversity. £5 buys a pair of work gloves £25 funds a square metre ...

Main stage performers will include Divina de Campo, Lucky Roy Singh, Solstice, Amrick Channa, and Rain McMey, whilst there ...

In her monthly diary from Ballyconnelly Farm, Ruby Free ponders the legacy of ecology policy, pays tribute to the late Irish ...

Sixteen Welsh farm businesses are set to trial new ideas thanks to funding from Farming Connect. From harnessing drone ...

The large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within ...