Yvonne Buckley
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Nature is our most critical infrastructure but it is being positioned as a hindrance (opens the original)
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The Government has legislated for fast-tracking large public infrastructure projects as “critical infrastructure”. This means that the public sector is required to speed up and prioritise their delivery. Meanwhile, nature provides critical infrastructure, often for free and at scale, but we do not make the right investments to ensure that the natural infrastructure that provides us with clean water, climate regulation and healthy food is adequately supported. The nine nominated projects have bee
What changes in butterfly populations tell us about climate change in Ireland (opens the original)
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Butterflies are important sentinels of climate change. Both caterpillars and adult butterflies are very sensitive to weather conditions â they can move long distances to track their preferred climate and they can reproduce rapidly to set up new populations in more favourable conditions. They can also rapidly decline from an area with unfavourable conditions. These characteristics mean that they are one of the groups of species with the quickest responses to our changing climate. The 35 species
Yvonne Buckley: 400,000 years of practice does not mean that we have learned how to manage fire (opens the original)
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2026 is shaping up to be an exceptional year for unplanned wildfires, with hundreds of thousands of hectares burned. According to the European Forest Fires Information Service, 2025 was the worst year on record for burned land area, but France has already had six times more land burned in 2026 as the average for this time of year. A fire needs three things: heat, fuel and oxygen. While unplanned and uncontrolled wildfires occur naturally in forests, grasslands and shrub lands, human actions are
Natureâs climate controllers help city-dwellers cope with rising heat (opens the original)
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Cities can be a lot hotter than surrounding countryside. Anyone who has visited a big city in a heatwave will be familiar with the amplification of heat by concrete, asphalt and stone surfaces. This is termed the urban heat island effect, best seen in an infrared heat image, as cities glow red hot like islands in a sea of cooler landscapes. Buildings, roads and walls act like huge storage heaters that absorb heat from the air during the day and release it as air temperatures cool at night. The d
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