The G7 have offered aid to Brazil to combat fires in the ‘lungs of the earth’ and this has been a year of increased consciousness of the climate crisis, writes Andrew Hammond.

The Preston forward started in the scoreless draw with Nottingham Forest at the weekend, with Forest now under the leadership of Martin ONeill and Roy Keane.

It was no surprise to learn that the club hierarchy were said to have been “blown away” by Martin O’Neill’s pitch for the Nottingham Forest job, writes Liam Mackey.

IFA says up to 100 landowners are unhappy with their contracts with Ireland’s national forestry agency

Mobile devices and video games may soon be powered by residue from forests, science researchers at the University of Limerick have discovered.

New taxes, more forests, “smarter” homes and more public transport are just some of the proposals to battle climate change which have been mooted.

Latest: Current weather conditions have created ’a perfect storm’ for forest fires, according to Coillte.

Hidden away on the Beara peninsula is one of our last remaining rainforests, discovers Carl Dixon.

Coillte has decided to halt the felling of trees in Ticknock Forest in Dublin after a number of groups raised concerns.

So many different tree species grow in the Amazon rainforest that it will take another 300 years to discover them all, say scientists.

An international research team has pinpointed the location of a legendary tunnel that Jewish prisoners secretly dug out with spoons to try to escape their Nazi captors during the Second World War

A programme to regenerate thousands of acres of forest and link up habitats in wildlife-rich parts of the world has been launched.

The ESB, Cork County Council, Inland Fisheries Ireland, and the National Parks and Wildlife Service, have been meeting to devise a plan to possibly save an ancient river forest that was flooded 60 years ago.

Two dirt bikers got more danger than they bargained for recently while out at Lake Ingozero in Russia.

A man has been arrested for the killing of a woman, whose skeletal remains were found in an Australian forest 750 miles from where her daughter’s body was discovered dumped in a suitcase.

Environmentalists are ramping up pressure on Coillte to end the use of a hazardous pesticide in State forests.

The drama began when Amber Pangborn decided to take a backroad through a huge forest - while in labour.

TO SEE green shoots rise from blackened branches in the vast swathes of forest destroyed by wildfires in La Gomera in the Canary Islands in August 2012 was at once a joy and a reassurance.