Environment

A monster of a giant redwood in Castlewellan, Co Down has been crowned Northern Ireland’s Tree of the Year in a search for the nation’s best-loved tree.

Northern Ireland’s “first community farm” will be established in Larne on a 13.5 acre site in Glynn at a cost of £300,000.

Hillsborough, Co Down has received the top honour at the Best Kept Awards 2018.

Folk singer Colum Sands has lost his legal challenge to approval being given for a new nursing home on the shores of Carlingford Lough.

The waters at Northern Irish bathing sites are among the cleanest in Europe, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has said.

Commuters travelling on trains may have disruptions due to falling leaves, say Translink.

Diesel cars have not been tested for illegal emmissions during Northern Ireland MOT tests for 12 years, despite it being a legal requirement, it has been revealed.

County Down is one of the worst regions in the United Kingdom for the number of incidents of illegal bird of prey persecutions, according to a charity.

Approval was given for a new nursing home on the shores of Carlingford Lough without properly considering potential harm to surrounding conservation areas, the High Court has heard.

NI Water has been handed fines totalling £80,000 after they admitted polluting two rivers in Co Down.

A fallen tree, downed this morning during Storm Ali, has blocked a busy junction in Portadown.

Approval given for a new fishing tourism facility near Londonderry was unlawful, an environmental campaigner claimed in the High Court yesterday.

The former head of the USPCA, Stephen Philpott, has pleaded guilty to using his position as chief executive of the animal charity to defraud the organisation over a seven-year period between January 2007 and November 2014.

A Larne “ambassador” for gardening is Northern Ireland’s runner-up in a national competition founded by celebrity gardener David Domoney.

Officials tasked with stopping a disease that could wipe out a significant proportion of Northern Ireland’s trees are looking at giving up efforts at eradication.

Concerns have been raised that the population of a Chinese deer which causes enormous environmental damage may have secretly grown out of control across Northern Ireland.

A picturesque bank of the pretty Cusher River has been blighted by a huge pile of rubbish dumped illegally and seeping into the brook.

A Belfast woman who admitted letting her Staffordshire Bull Terrier starve to death in a rear yard was has been banned from keep animals for life.

Almost one hundred million carrier bags were issued by retailers under the carrier bag levy in Northern Ireland in 2017/18, according to the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).