Dr Sarah Miller is the CEO of Dublin’s Rediscovery Centre, the national centre for the Circular Economy in Ireland. She has a degree in Biotechnology and a PHD in Environmental Science in Waste Conversion Technologies.

I grew up the youngest of eight kids. I was adopted at four days old. My biological mother was 15 or 16 years of age.

Our beautiful blue planet is being destroyed by our species. As we start the year of 2020, I feel despair. And this feeling has become much more acute now that I have a grandchi

I apologise in advance. I try not to start these columns with a rant. It’s a great privilege to be given space like this to express a point of view, and I’ve tried to accept that other people have a point of view, too. And that (mostly) they’re entitled to it.

Christy Collard and Robin O’Donovan are parents to six children, but sustainability is still a cornerstone of their busy lives in west Cork.

The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year, writes James A Green.

Governments must act together to fight gangs undermining climate policies, write Robert Muggah, Adriana Abdenur, and Ilona Szabó.

Everyone wants to save the planet from global warming, and the focus has been on reducing fossil fuels for energy creation. This trend is likely to continue, but it’s not the only way to combat climate change.

There is no more fundamental question than “what is life?” but that is the very topic up for discussion in Dublin over the next two days as some of the world’s leading scientists take part in an event marking the 75th anniversary of a seminal series of lectures given here in 1943 by Erwin Schrödinger, an Austrian Nobel prize-winning physicist.

The Paris climate agreement seeks to limit the average global temperature rise, but national governments cannot achieve this on their own, writes Patricia Espinosa and Anne Hidalgo.

Science may have enabled us to travel in space and trace the history of the entire universe, but it has not yet been able to answer exactly how and when life first arose on our planet, writes Holly Betts.

The search for evidence of life beyond the Earth came a small step closer — perhaps — when NASA’s Curiosity Rover recently discovered organic molecules in a crater on Mars called Gale Crater.

Scientists at the European Southern Observatory think 'Ross 128 B' may be capable of sustaining life.

Donald Trump plans to slash the budget of agencies behind the satellite programmes which underpin climate science. Jon Gertner looks at what the US may lose as a result.

Dinosaurs met a hellish end as fiery brimstone rained down from the sky and broiled the Earth’s surface after a massive asteroid struck the planet.

This is day four of life on borrowed time. Or life on credit, if you will. You might have missed it, but last Wednesday was Earth Overshoot Day — the day when we used up all the natural resources that the planet can replenish in a single year, writes Clodagh Finn.

The first half of 2017 was the second warmest on record for Earth, behind only last year.

Humans will have used up the Earth’s budget of natural resources for the year in less than eight months, environmental campaigners warn.

Stargazers should have spectacular views of Planet Mars over Ireland tonight.

A Halloween asteroid the size of four football pitches is due to miss the Earth by just 300,000 miles on Saturday. By astronomical standards, that is frightfully close.

The number of trees on Earth has almost halved since the beginning of human civilisation, a new assessment has found.

When humankind reaches Mars, what flag will we plant proudly in the surface?

Russia’s Mission Control has failed to stabilise a cargo ship spinning out of control in orbit and it is plunging back to Earth.

Nasa has launched four identical spacecraft on a billion-dollar mission to study the explosive give-and-take of the Earth and sun’s magnetic fields.