{"id":4907,"date":"2025-09-07T03:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/4907\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T03:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:27:13","slug":"irish-scientists-say-early-blackberries-and-conkers-are-bad-news-for-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/4907\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish scientists say early blackberries and conkers are bad news for the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018Climate chaos\u2019 is disrupting Ireland\u2019s plants, which will have a knock-on affect on the animals that rely on them to survive\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blackberries are fruiting two weeks earlier than they did in 1852. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f6d415ac-4758-424c-91cf-678d17775642.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Blackberries are fruiting two weeks earlier than they did in 1852. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the hedgerows and woodlands of Ireland, autumn has been marked out by the first flush of blackberries, the fall of conkers and the golden turn of leaves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But, in recent years, and again this autumn, reassuring natural milestones have begun to change and shift, and \u2013 in some cases \u2013 have been severely disrupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Climate chaos\u2019 is disrupting Ireland\u2019s plants, which will have a knock-on affect on the animals that rely on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2885,615,246,61,60,82,5762,5761,767],"class_list":["post-4907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-dublin","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-ucd","tag-university-of-galway","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}