We hear so much about climate change and the biodiversity crisis. We’ve seen the mass protests and listened to the scientists.

Adventurer Jamie Young has traversed the Atlantic twice as a solo sailor, kayaked around Cape Horn, raced around Rockall and taken a kite buggy to the Antarctic.

Two 'half mad' Limerick dads are to brave freezing temperatures in a Russian lake in the hope of earning a top place at the forthcoming ice swimming World Championships, run by the International Ice Swimming Association (IISA).

The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group is bringing its ‘Trail of the Whale’ tour to libraries, writes Amy Lewis

Kya deLongchamps celebrates 30 years of romance on ice at the world’s original ice hotel in Swedish Lapland.

The Beast from the East brought an unexpected gift; a brambling turned up in the mist net in my back-garden.

Tommy Barker says this is a one-off Macroom home and homestead that’ll be hard to bypass. Be smart, check out the smart home.

A Norwegian train smashed into a herd of reindeer in the country's Arctic region today, killing 17 animals, days after similar incidents led to the death of more than 100 reindeer.

Aston Martin’s DB11 V8 is now available as a convertible.

The Castlehaven wildflower show was displaying in glorious Technicolor last Sunday, only better than any camera lens or Photoshop could contrive, writes Damien Enright. 

What amazes friends and neighbours who comment on the bearded seal that was identified in Courtmacsherry Bay early this month is that it has been resident here for up to two years.

Heard the one about the stand-up scientist? Or the physicist who uses comedy to bring nanoscience to the masses?

A Clare man and veteran of the French Foreign Legion has set off for Western Greenland to undertake a charity 250km solo-trek along the Arctic Circle Trail.

One morning three weeks ago, in the Okanagan Valley in the Canadian Rockies, my wife and I woke in our son’s makeshift but comfortable camper van and looked out to see, between us and distant snow-capped mountains, a vast lake glittering and winking in the sun.

This is a trip tailored for kids, but naturally for the accompanying grand dads, grannies, mums and dads, uncles and aunts too.

STEF PENNEY’s atmospheric The Tenderness of Wolves won the Costa Book of the Year award in 2006 for a murder mystery set in the Canadian tundra. 

Why go to Lapland when you can have a merry old time at Winterval, asks Tommy Barker

A CREATIVE choreographer/dancer, Maria Nilssen Waller has never been content merely to interpret feeling through movement.

“Recovery is ongoing. I have a brain injury, I am a quarter blind in both eyes, I have vertigo, a damaged left knee and right ankle, reduced hearing in my left ear and also had a damaged coccyx. But I never give up.” 

The UN has warned that it could see no easing of the flow of refugees into Europe, with 8,000 arrivals daily, and that problems now facing governments may turn out to be only “the tip of the iceberg”.

According to the Old Testament, a talking serpent led Adam and Eve astray, with dire consequences for us all, writes Richard Collins

The planning application has only just been lodged but already Facebook’s plan to build a facility in Co Meath is clocking up plenty of ‘likes’.

What’s the toughest part of running 350 miles into the Arctic Circle?

Walking through bubbling, rock strewn landscapes proved to be the perfect holiday for practised rambler, Paul McCarthy, who is already planning his return to the ‘land of fire and ice’.

Norway may be expensive, but the experiences of getting up close with whales and catching the sacred Northern Lights are most definitely worth it, writes Manchán Magan.

Check out our guide to the best of tonight's TV.

ENGLAND: A polar bear appears to have turned up in London.

Des O’Driscoll highlights this spring’s TV highlights.

Lapland isn’t just about Santa’s grotto and husky sleigh rides. The area has loads to offer in the summer too.

Brrr... Wrap up warm before you watch this video because it will make you feel cold.

WALKING a bohreen above the sea last week, on a day that was dull, but warm — intermittent patches of bright sunlight, a pearl grey blanket overhead, and heavy heat beneath — I suddenly found a half dozen butterflies zipping madcap around me at a rate approaching the speed of bats.

Russian authorities are to release the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, the environmental campaign group has said.

Norway may be hugely expensive for visitors, but the astonishing Northern Lights and Western fjords are worth every penny.

From budget breaks in Bodrum to direct flights to Canada, Travel Writer of the Year Pól Ó Conghaile picks his top overseas destinations for 2014.

The last of the 26 foreign Greenpeace activists who were detained after an Arctic protest left Russia yesterday, the group announced, finally ending a saga that had caused global concern.

A Dingle swimmer is in the running to be crowned the world’s 2013 Woman Open Water Swimmer of the Year.

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