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Thursday December 24th, 2015
Monday December 21st, 2015
Alex White: How we use our energy has changed forever – but fracking is not...
Irish Independent
21 Dec 2015Dutch appeals court says Shell may be held liable for oil spills in Nigeria
Guardian
21 Dec 2015Government U-turn on renewables shows gas, oil and nuclear are still favourites
Guardian
21 Dec 2015Daffodils in bloom, the warmest ever December: how worrying is the world’s strange weather?
Guardian
21 Dec 2015Thursday December 17th, 2015
UK Government could face new legal action over city clean air zones
Belfast Telegraph
17 Dec 2015Analysis: The future of Irish farming won’t be dictated by the Paris conference
Irish Independent
17 Dec 2015EU says 1.5C global warming target depends on ‘negative emissions’ technology
Guardian
17 Dec 2015Record high Arctic temperatures in 2015 having ‘profound effects’ on region
Guardian
17 Dec 2015The 19th-century whaling logbooks that could help scientists understand climate change
Guardian
17 Dec 2015UK cuts to renewable energy make a mockery of its pledge at Paris climate talks
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17 Dec 2015Decline in over three-quarters of UK butterfly species is ‘final warning’, says Chris Packham
Guardian
17 Dec 2015Monday December 14th, 2015
James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks ‘a fraud’
Guardian
14 Dec 2015Critical mass of states will reach emissions peak by 2030 under climate deal
Guardian
14 Dec 2015Cameron’s ‘greenest-ever’ government should be red-faced on diesel subsidies
Guardian
14 Dec 2015How US negotiators ensured landmark Paris climate deal was Republican-proof
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14 Dec 2015Thursday December 10th, 2015
Paris climate talks: delegates warn of flaws in ambitious proposals for deal
Guardian
10 Dec 2015Despite Push for Cleaner Cars, Sheer Numbers Could Work Against Climate Benefits
New York Times
10 Dec 2015Paris Diary: ‘Earth’s a garden, let’s not pass it on as a wilderness’
Irish Independent
10 Dec 2015COP21 is too male dominated and has male priorities, says UN special envoy Mary Robinson
Guardian
10 Dec 2015Australia wins ‘fossil of the day’ for Julie Bishop’s coal speech at Paris climate talks
Guardian
10 Dec 2015UK has ‘lost world climate leadership role’ by axing domestic green policies
Guardian
10 Dec 2015Climate change could leave Chesapeake Bay island uninhabitable in 50 years
Guardian
10 Dec 2015One quarter of Alaska permafrost could melt by 2100 – US Geological Survey
Guardian
10 Dec 2015Monday December 7th, 2015
Finger-pointing European Union countries are far ahead of Ireland in energy consumption
Irish Independent
7 Dec 2015Coalition of business leaders challenges 2C climate change target – need carbon neutral by 2050
Guardian
7 Dec 2015Giant’s Park: New Belfast technology park for ‘clean tech’ industries to be unveiled
Belfast Telegraph
7 Dec 2015Monday November 30th, 2015
Bill McKibben: The Paris summit is missing one of the great world leaders on climate
Guardian
30 Nov 2015Obama calls Paris climate talks an ‘act of defiance’ in wake of recent attacks
Guardian
30 Nov 2015Protest over plans for toxic waste at Blackmountain quarry landfill site
Belfast Telegraph
30 Nov 2015Thursday November 26th, 2015
Curb global meat consumption to avoid ‘dangerous’ climate change, says report
Belfast Telegraph
26 Nov 2015Global emissions nearly stall after a decade of rapid growth, report shows
Guardian
26 Nov 2015TTIP talks: EU alleged to have given ExxonMobil access to confidential papers
Guardian
26 Nov 2015Monday November 23rd, 2015
What’s really at stake at the Paris climate conference now marches are banned
Guardian
23 Nov 2015Conservationists claim ‘legal victory’ in dispute over government protection of rivers
Guardian
23 Nov 2015First EPA chief accuses Republicans of ignoring science for political gain
Guardian
23 Nov 2015Thursday November 19th, 2015
Conservationists take court action over government failure to protect UK rivers
Guardian
19 Nov 2015No ‘free pass’ for agriculture sector on emissions, warns Coveney
Irish Independent
19 Nov 2015Renewables are changing the climate narrative from sacrifice to opportunity
Guardian
19 Nov 2015Government moves to make UK first major country to end use of coal
Belfast Telegraph
19 Nov 2015Monday November 16th, 2015
Collapsing Greenland glacier could raise sea levels by half a metre, say scientists
Guardian
16 Nov 2015Tories push for climate change action abroad but back fossil fuels at home
Guardian
16 Nov 2015From driverless cars to jetpacks: meet the tech innovators reshaping transit
Guardian
16 Nov 2015Climate change could bring tropical disease epidemics to Britain, health expert warns
Guardian
16 Nov 2015El Niño: food shortages, floods, disease and droughts set to put millions at risk
Guardian
16 Nov 2015Thursday November 12th, 2015
Defra hit by largest budget cuts of any UK government department, analysis shows
Guardian
12 Nov 2015Toothless UK Environment Agency is allowing the living world to be wrecked with impunity
Guardian
12 Nov 2015Peabody strikes deal with New York attorney general over climate risk filings
Guardian
12 Nov 2015Construction of £107m waste energy plant at Bombardier Belfast base will create 20 jobs
Belfast Telegraph
12 Nov 2015UK doesn’t have right policies to meet renewable energy target, admits Amber Rudd
Guardian
12 Nov 2015Meet Northern Ireland’s Batwoman… how caring Karen helps to rescue creatures of the night
Belfast Telegraph
12 Nov 2015Environmental groups demand inquiry after Exxon ‘misled public’ on climate
Guardian
12 Nov 2015Farmers and miners should share revenue in new land rights deal in Australia, Liberal elder...
Guardian
12 Nov 2015Australian insurers keep customers in the dark about climate risks, report finds
Guardian
12 Nov 2015Thursday October 29th, 2015
€1bn needed over next five years to upgrade water plants and avoid EU fines
Irish Independent
29 Oct 2015Paris climate deal will not include global carbon price, says UN climate chief
Guardian
29 Oct 2015Monday October 26th, 2015
Thursday October 22nd, 2015
Wind and solar power likely to match gas on cost by 2020, say UK climate...
Guardian
22 Oct 2015Fight climate change for global stability, say US defence and diplomacy elite
Guardian
22 Oct 2015UK Government finally admits it is subsidising nuclear – while cutting help for renewables
Guardian
22 Oct 2015Former foes Greenpeace and energy giant Enel stand together in low-carbon push
Guardian
22 Oct 2015Diesel cars emit up to four times more toxic pollution than a bus, data reveals
Guardian
22 Oct 2015MIT unveils plan to fight climate change but will not divest from fossil fuels
Guardian
22 Oct 2015Monday October 19th, 2015
Australian Minister’s ‘moral case’ for coal at odds with World Bank, UN and agencies
Guardian
19 Oct 2015Thursday October 15th, 2015
Methane release from melting permafrost could trigger dangerous global warming
Guardian
15 Oct 2015Antarctic ice sheets face catastrophic collapse without deep emissions cuts
Guardian
15 Oct 2015Exxon’s climate lie: ‘No corporation has ever done anything this big or bad’ Bill McKibben
Guardian
15 Oct 2015Aviation industry claims it can meet pollution limits in pitch for new runway
Guardian
15 Oct 2015Electricity margins ‘manageable’ says National Grid amid blackout fears
Belfast Telegraph
15 Oct 2015Monday October 12th, 2015
Radioactive wreckage: inside Fukushima’s nuclear exclusion zone – in pictures
Guardian
12 Oct 2015Shell and Exxon’s €5bn problem: gas drilling that sets off earthquakes and wrecks homes
Guardian
12 Oct 2015Oklahoma earthquake likely caused by wastewater injection, seismologist says
Guardian
12 Oct 2015Thursday October 8th, 2015
First the Netherlands, now Pakistan’s high court comes to defence of climate
Guardian
8 Oct 2015Paris climate talks should not put figure on finance, says World Bank vice-president
Guardian
8 Oct 2015Jeremy Leggett: Business should be backing renewables – fossil fuels don’t make economic sense
Guardian
8 Oct 2015The need to reconcile an expanding agricultural sector and tackling climate change
Irish Times
8 Oct 2015Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal agreed by US and 11 Pacific Rim countries
Irish Independent
8 Oct 2015Head of VW in US will tell Congress he knew of emissions rigging in early...
Guardian
8 Oct 2015Thursday October 1st, 2015
Is the fossil fuel industry, like the tobacco industry, guilty of racketeering?
Guardian
1 Oct 2015Britain’s power networks will rely on imports to keep the lights on
Irish Independent
1 Oct 2015Diesel vehicles from car makers other than VW ’emitting high pollution levels’
Belfast Telegraph
1 Oct 2015Mining and oil threatens one in three natural world heritage sites — report
Guardian
1 Oct 2015Green activists worry about government plans to raise cost of legal challenge
Guardian
1 Oct 2015Monday September 28th, 2015
Revealed: British ministers tried to block EU moves to clean up air quality
Guardian
28 Sep 2015UK, France and Germany lobbied for flawed car emissions tests, documents reveal
Guardian
28 Sep 2015Pope’s climate change appeal boosts hope for bipartisan action in Congress
Guardian
28 Sep 2015Pope Francis demands UN respect rights of environment over ‘thirst for power’
Guardian
28 Sep 2015Cutting greenhouse gas emissions won’t slow global economic growth — report
Guardian
28 Sep 2015Take vehicles that fail diesel test off the streets to protect public health
Guardian
28 Sep 2015Pope’s climate push is ‘raving nonsense’ without population control, says top US scientist
Guardian
28 Sep 2015Thursday September 3rd, 2015
The easiest way to respond to a natural disaster? Blame God or global warming
Guardian
3 Sep 2015Emma Thompson joins giant polar bear at Greenpeace protest outside Shell HQ
Guardian
3 Sep 2015Monday August 31st, 2015
Citi report: slowing global warming would save tens of trillions of dollars
Guardian
31 Aug 2015Fracking drill bid could contaminate Belfast water supply, claim campaigners
Belfast Telegraph
31 Aug 2015TTIP controversy: European Commission and Big Tobacco accused of cover-up after heavily redacted documents released
Belfast Telegraph
31 Aug 2015The UK government’s efforts to kill off the solar industry and lead us to fracking...
Guardian
31 Aug 2015Nature’s last refuge – the Arctic: climate change threatens our most fragile ecosystem
Guardian
31 Aug 2015Plastic bags usage down 70% in two years since 5p tax brought into Northern Ireland
Belfast Telegraph
31 Aug 2015Obama defends Arctic drilling decision on eve of Alaska climate change trip
Guardian
31 Aug 2015Climate change legislation in California approaches pivotal showdown with oil industry
Guardian
31 Aug 2015Earn your 2016 Electric Picnic ticket by cleaning up at year’s festival
Irish Independent
31 Aug 2015Heritage body hits out at extension to Waterfront Hall in Belfast
Belfast Telegraph
31 Aug 2015Thursday August 27th, 2015
Charlotte Church sings outside Shell’s London HQ in protest at Arctic drilling
Guardian
27 Aug 2015Tutu, Klein and Chomsky call for mass climate action ahead of Paris conference
Guardian
27 Aug 2015Banned pesticides pose a greater risk to bees than thought, EU experts warn
Guardian
27 Aug 2015Tropical forests totalling size of India at risk of being cleared, study warns
Guardian
27 Aug 2015Oxigen waste company fined 18,000 euro over Dublin recycling depot blaze
Irish Independent
27 Aug 2015Kyoto protocol’s carbon credit scheme ‘increased emissions by 600m tonnes’
Guardian
27 Aug 2015Monday August 24th, 2015
1,500 items of plastic, 425 drinks bottles and 180 cotton buds… the appalling tally of...
Belfast Telegraph
24 Aug 2015Middle East conflict ‘drastically altered’ air pollution levels in region – study
Guardian
24 Aug 2015Farmers question ‘coincidental’ timing of proposed Austrlian environment law change
Guardian
24 Aug 2015Thursday August 20th, 2015
Methane Leaks in Natural-Gas Supply Chain Far Exceed Estimates, Study Says
New YorkTimes
20 Aug 2015As cities fall out of love with cars, Toyota redefines its role as ‘mobility provider’
Guardian
20 Aug 2015BP lobbied against EU support for clean energy to favour gas, documents reveal
Guardian
20 Aug 201570% of Northern Ireland firms ‘not ready for new fuel storage law’
Belfast Telegraph
20 Aug 2015Farm groups furious at Australian Coalition move to restrict environmental challenges
Guardian
20 Aug 2015Climate stance of Australian politicians ‘disturbing’ – US Geological Survey chief
Guardian
20 Aug 2015Wellcome Trust loses millions as its fossil fuel investments plunge in value
Guardian
20 Aug 2015Monday August 17th, 2015
Lough Neagh duck population down 75% as Earl of Shaftesbury keeps digging
Belfast Telegraph
17 Aug 2015Food production shocks ‘will happen more often because of extreme weather’
Guardian
17 Aug 2015More plane trees felled along Canal du Midi in fight against killer fungus
Guardian
17 Aug 2015Thursday August 13th, 2015
Government will step in if councils don’t fast-track fracking applications
Guardian
13 Aug 2015‘Tony Abbott’s hubris is staggering’: UK’s climate adviser on emissions target
Guardian
13 Aug 2015The Guardian view on the dairy crisis: too important to be left to the market
Guardian
13 Aug 2015Toxic sand and piles of litter: why we’ve stopped going to British beaches
Guardian
13 Aug 2015UK accused over food waste as study slams Britons for throwaway habits
Belfast Telegraph
13 Aug 2015Monday August 10th, 2015
Planned Hinkley Point nuclear power station under fire from energy industry
Guardian
10 Aug 2015Japan split over restart of first nuclear reactor since Fukushima disaster
Guardian
10 Aug 2015Australians fear Coalition is not taking climate change seriously, poll shows
Guardian
10 Aug 2015Royal Dutch Shell cuts ties with Alec over rightwing group’s climate denial
Guardian
10 Aug 2015The innovators: cheaper batteries could help electric cars hit the mainstream
Guardian
10 Aug 2015Thursday August 6th, 2015
John Sweeney: Time to tackle powerful vested interests on climate change
Irish Times
6 Aug 2015Dogger Bank offshore wind farm project secures UK Government backing
Belfast Telegraph
6 Aug 2015Beef, big bucks and buy-ups: are Chinese investors changing the face of Australia?
Guardian
6 Aug 2015July takes crown for biggest leap in Australia’s electricity emissions in 10 years
Guardian
6 Aug 2015Monday August 3rd, 2015
Australia’s leaders ‘wilfully blind’ about climate change, says former NAB chief
Guardian
3 Aug 2015Stop burning fossil fuels now: there is no CO2 ‘technofix’, scientists warn
Guardian
3 Aug 2015Thursday July 30th, 2015
Monday July 27th, 2015
Queensland plans 1,600km string of fast-charging stations for electric cars
Guardian
27 Jul 2015Pollution probe after hundreds of brown trout die in Comber river
Belfast Telegraph
27 Jul 2015Thursday July 23rd, 2015
Campaigner who forced Netherlands to cut emissions by 25% says Australia ‘far worse’
Guardian
23 Jul 2015President Michael D Higgins urges rejection of climate change deniers
Irish Independent
23 Jul 2015Birds and butterflies ‘suffering severe decline’ on farmland in UK
Irish Independent
23 Jul 2015Mayor Bill de Blasio pledges to cut New York carbon emissions by 40% by 2030
Guardian
23 Jul 2015Victorian farmers and green groups firm on CSG fracking ban as inquiry fires up
Guardian
23 Jul 2015Pope laments ‘meaningless lives’ in tying human trafficking to climate change
Guardian
23 Jul 2015Pollution isn’t colorblind: environmental hazards kill more black Americans
Guardian
23 Jul 2015Heathrow runway: MPs to probe climate, pollution and noise impacts
Belfast Telegraph
23 Jul 2015Monday July 20th, 2015
Jury’s out on the Irish summer, but our planet is clearly warming
Irish Independent
20 Jul 2015Villagers turn to civil disobedience in battle against third runway at Heathrow
Guardian
20 Jul 2015Friday July 17th, 2015
Government makes ‘outrageous’ U-turn over fracking in precious wildlife sites
Guardian
17 Jul 2015For Tony Abbott, it’s full steam ahead on coal, ‘the foundation of prosperity’
Guardian
17 Jul 2015Monday July 13th, 2015
Pollution closes popular Bangor beach over holiday due to budget cuts
Belfast Telegraph
13 Jul 2015Fossil fuel industry must ‘implode’ to avoid climate disaster, says top scientist
Guardian
13 Jul 2015Climate change threat must be taken as seriously as nuclear war – UK minister
Guardian
13 Jul 2015Thursday July 9th, 2015
Fossil fuel firms risk wasting billions by ignoring climate change, says IEA
Guardian
9 Jul 2015Tory ‘blue crap’ means UK is falling behind in global switch to clean energy
Guardian
9 Jul 2015What we can learn from the Danes about harvesting rewards in the food industry
Irish Independent
9 Jul 2015Monday July 6th, 2015
Episcopal church votes to divest from fossil fuels: ‘This is a moral issue’
Guardian
6 Jul 2015Anti-fracking Nanas: ‘The government is all out for shale – we’re all out to stop...
Guardian
6 Jul 2015The innovators: how smaller batteries give more power to UK solar households
Guardian
6 Jul 2015Walking and cycling isn’t just some green, hippy, sandal-wearing lifestyle
Irish Independent
6 Jul 2015Thursday July 2nd, 2015
Fracking could hurt house prices, health and environment, official report says
Guardian
2 Jul 2015Australia must cut carbon emissions by 30% by 2025, says Climate Change Authority
Guardian
2 Jul 2015Vatican ‘may’ consider divestment from fossil fuels, despite pope’s call to arms
Guardian
2 Jul 2015Fossil fuel companies ‘should be made to invest in carbon capture and storage’
Guardian
2 Jul 2015Monday June 29th, 2015
Greenhouse gas blamed for ‘climate expulsion’ driving temperature rises across Pacific nations
Guardian
29 Jun 2015Actors Martin Shaw and Jenny Seagrove voice their fury over pig mega farm plan
Belfast Telegraph
29 Jun 2015Thursday June 25th, 2015
Fracking poses ‘significant’ risk to humans and should be temporarily banned across EU, says new...
Belfast Telegraph
25 Jun 2015New report estimates enough natural gas is leaking to negate climate benefits
Guardian
25 Jun 2015Tuesday June 23rd, 2015
Northern Ireland households waste £11m a year on energy, says new research
Belfast Telegraph
23 Jun 2015Climate change threatens 50 years of progress in global health, study says
Guardian
23 Jun 2015Renewables will supply majority of Australia’s electricity by 2050 – study
Guardian
23 Jun 2015Global warming is totally a lie liberals tell to distract us from their commie agendas
Guardian
23 Jun 2015Monday June 15th, 2015
Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate
Guardian
15 Jun 2015Republicans’ leading climate denier tells the pope to butt out of climate debate
Guardian
15 Jun 2015Newtownabbey pig farm: Council overwhelmed by 2,000 protest letters at farmer’s plan for factory to...
Belfast Telegraph
15 Jun 2015Thursday June 11th, 2015
New climate council to oversee Ireland’s transition to low carbon society
Irish Times
11 Jun 2015Belfast Zoo declared an area of special scientific interest due to 75-million-year-old rocks
Belfast Telegraph
11 Jun 2015Australia should cut carbon emissions faster, says François Hollande adviser
Guardian
11 Jun 2015Climate sceptic researcher investigated over funding from fossil fuel firms
Guardian
11 Jun 2015Tuesday June 9th, 2015
Homeowners to face cost of water pipe repairs to deal with lead contamination
Irish Times
9 Jun 2015Opinions split as new £250m cross-border interconnector to be entirely above ground
Belfast Telegraph
9 Jun 2015G7 fossil fuel pledge is a diplomatic coup for Germany’s ‘climate chancellor’
Guardian
9 Jun 2015Thursday June 4th, 2015
Illegal Londonderry dump could cost £50m to clear, and taxpayer may have to pick up...
Belfast Telegraph
4 Jun 2015Life without light in rural India: why solar lanterns can’t compete with the grid
Guardian
4 Jun 2015Monday June 1st, 2015
Most glaciers in Mount Everest area will disappear with climate change – study
Guardian
1 Jun 2015Monday May 25th, 2015
Ireland should lead the way on climate smart farming, says ecology expert
Irish Times
25 May 2015Cannes concludes with call-to-arms on climate change: ‘To not tackle the issue through film would...
Guardian
25 May 2015Growth at all costs: climate change, fossil fuel subsidies and the Treasury
Guardian
25 May 2015BP would need to bring equipment from Texas to contain South Australia oil spill
Guardian
25 May 2015Thursday May 21st, 2015
Deepwater Horizon oil spill killed large numbers of dolphins, study suggests
Guardian
21 May 2015Boris Johnson’s decision not to divest goes against his climate goals for London
Guardian
21 May 2015Monday May 18th, 2015
Solar industry attacks Coalition after bipartisan deal struck on RET scheme
Guardian
18 May 2015Solar industry attacks Coalition after bipartisan deal struck on RET scheme
Guardian
18 May 2015Climate talks can’t fail as there is no alternative planet, says French minister
Guardian
18 May 2015Thursday May 14th, 2015
Over 1,100 fatalities in 2011 due to domestic fuel pollution in Ireland
Irish Times
14 May 2015Shell among eight objectors to new emissions licence for Corrib gas refinery
Irish Times
14 May 2015Letting Shell drill in Arctic could lead to catastrophic oil spill, experts warn
Guardian
14 May 2015Monday May 11th, 2015
Australia PM’s adviser: climate change is UN hoax to create new world order
Guardian
11 May 2015Activists aim to block Shell’s Arctic drilling rigs from Seattle waterfront
Guardian
11 May 2015Tesla’s low-cost renewable battery could revolutionise Africa’s energy supply
Guardian
11 May 2015Toxins leaking from embalmed bodies in graveyards pose threat to the living
Belfast Telegraph
11 May 2015Greener, quieter and more efficient – has Rolls-Royce created the train of the future?
Irish Independent
11 May 2015Thursday May 7th, 2015
Global carbon dioxide concentration hit record high in March, scientists say
Guardian
7 May 2015Canada’s political landscape undergoes seismic shift with election in Alberta
Guardian
7 May 2015Monday May 4th, 2015
Current carbon pledges won’t stop dangerous global warming, says Lord Stern
Guardian
4 May 2015Ecotricity boss writes plan to make four fifths of UK power renewable by 2030
Guardian
4 May 2015Up to 40 homes affected as final route of planned Galway bypass decided
Irish Independent
4 May 2015Thursday April 30th, 2015
Big Coal’s big scam: scar the land for profit, then let others pay to clean...
Guardian
30 Apr 2015Environmental groups sound alarm over ‘self-destructive’ fracking in Colorado
Guardian
30 Apr 2015Countries that lead the switch to clean energy will reap the financial rewards
Guardian
30 Apr 2015Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats failing on climate change, report claims
Guardian
30 Apr 2015Monday April 27th, 2015
Northern Ireland’s vanishing countryside: 907 hedgerows and walls ruined in just two years
Belfast Telegraph
27 Apr 2015Earth Day: scientists say 75% of known fossil fuel reserves must stay in ground
Guardian
27 Apr 2015Conservative thinktank seeks to change Pope Francis’s mind on climate change
Guardian
27 Apr 2015Greenpeace India crackdown: US seeks ‘clarification’ on action against groups
Guardian
27 Apr 2015Life sentence prisoners manage sanctuary within jail walls to help endangered lapwing nest
Belfast Telegraph
27 Apr 2015Australia ‘public enemy number one’ of UN climate talks, says Nobel laureate
Guardian
27 Apr 2015Fifth of Labour and Lib Dem candidates pledge to defy party line on fracking
Guardian
27 Apr 2015Thursday April 9th, 2015
Delegation heads for Brussels to seek ‘clarity’ for original Galway bypass route
Irish Independent
9 Apr 2015Climate change ignored in Australia’s energy white paper that lets market rule future policy
Guardian
9 Apr 2015Until universities divest from fossil fuels they will undermine all they stand for
Guardian
9 Apr 2015Making your home more energy efficient could add up to 10% to its value
Irish Independent
9 Apr 2015Monday April 6th, 2015
Polar bears face starvation as unlikely to adapt to a land-based diet, says report
Guardian
6 Apr 2015Big oil is pressuring scientists not to link fracking to earthquakes in Oklahoma
Guardian
6 Apr 2015Big Spring Clean: Join the anti-litter army set to sweep across the country
Belfast Telegraph
6 Apr 2015Flood risk has increased because Stormont budget cuts have led to gullies not being cleared
Belfast Telegraph
6 Apr 2015Thursday April 2nd, 2015
Air pollution may cause more UK deaths than previously thought, say scientists
Guardian
2 Apr 2015Failure to protect rare horse mussel reefs could see Northern Ireland fined millions by EU
Belfast Telegraph
2 Apr 2015Monday March 30th, 2015
NI Walking trails in peril as funds are slashed, says Everest hero Dawson Stelfox
Belfast Telegraph
30 Mar 2015California drought goes from bad to worse as state grapples with heat wave
Guardian
30 Mar 2015It’s taken seven years, but California is finally cleaning up microbead pollution
Guardian
30 Mar 2015Rockefeller Brothers Fund: it is our moral duty to divest from fossil fuels
Guardian
30 Mar 2015Health of millions at stake in US emissions curb ruling, environmentalists warn
Guardian
30 Mar 2015TTIP: trade deal with US could add 10,000 jobs, claims government
Irish Independent
30 Mar 2015Thursday March 26th, 2015
UN climate chief joins alumni calling on Swarthmore to divest from fossil fuels
Guardian
26 Mar 2015BP and Google leave Alec: are companies finally taking climate change seriously?
Guardian
26 Mar 2015GM crop farmer told to reveal if he was backed by Monsanto in legal battle
Guardian
26 Mar 2015Supreme court on Obama coal pollution rule: ‘game over’ if costs not assessed
Guardian
26 Mar 2015Monday March 23rd, 2015
Zero coal. Zero gas. Zero nuclear: Costa Rica, the country that is running entirely on...
Irish Independent
23 Mar 2015Could Oslo’s decision to divest from coal inspire bigger cities to do the same?
Guardian
23 Mar 2015Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller can ‘probably’ cause cancer, warns World Health Organisation
Belfast Telegraph
23 Mar 2015Environmental group Protect Our North Coast challenges Ballinlea shale drilling plans
Belfast Telegraph
23 Mar 2015Anti-fracking campaigners’ fury after NI DoE admits drilling web error
Belfast Telegraph
23 Mar 2015Senior scientists call on health charities to shift money out of fossil fuels
Guardian
23 Mar 2015Eden Project scheme will preserve coast redwood trees for future generations
Guardian
23 Mar 2015California’s drought is not getting better but experts look to startups for ideas
Guardian
23 Mar 2015Thursday March 19th, 2015
Why I pledged to give my degree back if Oxford voted against fossil fuel divestment...
Guardian
19 Mar 2015Drought-stricken California only has one year of water left, Nasa scientist warns
Guardian
19 Mar 2015Boil-water notices for 6,000 homes to be lifted as new plant finished
Irish Independent
19 Mar 2015Losing paradise: the people displaced by atomic bombs, and now climate change
Guardian
19 Mar 2015Monday March 16th, 2015
By 2050 some US cities will be hotter every year than their current record
Guardian
16 Mar 2015Almost a kilometre of Corrib Shell pipeline loose and floating under sea
Irish Independent
16 Mar 2015Russian scientists say climate change to blame for mysterious Siberia craters
Guardian
16 Mar 2015Dublin City Council seeks views of public on dealing with litter problems
Irish Times
16 Mar 2015Thursday March 12th, 2015
E.ON reports record group losses as prepares to hive off fossil fuel business
Guardian
12 Mar 2015Strap yourselves in, the global milk market promises to be a rough ride
Irish Times
12 Mar 2015Shale gas should be at centre of next government’s energy policy – Tim Yeo
Guardian
12 Mar 2015Lynx to be reintroduced into wild in Britain after a 1,300-year absence
Belfast Telegraph
12 Mar 2015Monday March 9th, 2015
Health costs of hormone disrupting chemicals over €150bn a year in Europe, says study
Guardian
9 Mar 2015The Guardian view on climate change and social disruption: how one form of chaos breeds...
Guardian
9 Mar 2015Thursday March 5th, 2015
First community-owned solar energy project launches in Northern Ireland
Belfast Telegraph
5 Mar 2015Europe shouldn’t be afraid of leading the world on environmental regulation
Guardian
5 Mar 2015PNC Bank reduces financing for coal mining projects involving mountaintop removal
Guardian
5 Mar 2015Monday March 2nd, 2015
Alarming 2,112 water pollution incidents in one year in Northern Ireland
Belfast Telegraph
2 Mar 2015€115m bogland wind farm is switched on to generate electricity for 45,000 homes
Irish Indpendent
2 Mar 2015Antarctica today: conditions perfect for penguins, unlike last ice age, study finds
Guardian
2 Mar 2015Investors ask oil companies to disclose refineries’ risks from climate change
Guardian
2 Mar 2015What happened to the lobbyists who tried to reshape the US view of climate change?
Guardian
2 Mar 2015Tony Abbott’s ‘captain’s call’ over Tasmanian forest humiliated Australia, Greens say
Guardian
2 Mar 2015Thursday February 26th, 2015
Worst drought on record dries up São Paulo’s main water reserves – in pictures
Guardian
26 Feb 2015World leaders urged to tackle food waste to save billions and cut emissions
Guardian
26 Feb 2015Monday February 23rd, 2015
Harvard’s high-profile alumni join fossil fuel divestment campaign in open letter
Guardian
23 Feb 2015New safety rules for offshore Arctic drilling proposed to avoid repeat of Shell disaster
Guardian
23 Feb 2015Thursday February 19th, 2015
Fossil fuel industry protests over ‘risky’ assets warning from UK energy secretary
Guardian
19 Feb 2015Noise pollution is making us oblivious to the sound of nature, says researcher
Guardian
19 Feb 2015Monday February 16th, 2015
World leaders should take advantage of low oil prices to ditch fossil fuel subsidies
Guardian
16 Feb 2015Nobel laureate asks Australia to follow UK example on bipartisan climate deal
Guardian
16 Feb 2015California calls on pension funds to divest from coal in climate change push
Guardian
16 Feb 2015Thursday February 12th, 2015
Challenge to controversial €65m Kerry road widening scheme to be fast-tracked by the Commercial Court
Irish Independent
12 Feb 2015Boris Johnson advised his London air pollution plans are too little, too late
Guardian
12 Feb 2015Monday February 9th, 2015
Europe’s biggest wind battery to slash cost of Northern Ireland electricity bills
Belfast Telegraph
9 Feb 2015Northern Irish residents heat homes less than balmy South East England
Belfast Telegraph
9 Feb 2015Town marches to show outrage against An Taisce’s plans to halt road development
Irish Independent
9 Feb 2015Thursday February 5th, 2015
Fossil fuel pollution kills 553 people in Northern Ireland every year, claims expert
Belfast Telegraph
5 Feb 2015Keystone pipeline: Obama given boost from EPA report revising climate impact
Guardian
5 Feb 2015European Commission rails on government for lowering of Irish Water charges
Irish Independent
5 Feb 2015Monday February 2nd, 2015
US Federal Construction Projects Must Plan for Flood Risks From Climate Change
NY Times
2 Feb 2015Climate change is lifting Iceland – and it could mean more volcanic eruptions
Guardian
2 Feb 2015Grassroots sports in Australia at risk from heatwaves due to climate change, report warns
Guardian
2 Feb 2015Are there any penalties if you fail to register with Irish Water? Here’s the lowdown
Irish Independent
2 Feb 2015Thursday January 29th, 2015
Wind power hits new high as it met 42% of Northern Ireland’s energy needs on...
Belfast Telegraph
29 Jan 2015Endangered rare species discovered on Irish beach is world’s smallest sea turtle
Irish Independent
29 Jan 2015Activists call on Stormont to revoke fracking licence for Co Antrim forest
Belfast Telegraph
29 Jan 2015Monday January 26th, 2015
Waste fuel and chemicals pumped into public water system by IRA fuel launderers ‘extremely toxic’
Irish Independent
26 Jan 2015Hearing hears rejection of claim no viable alternative to Galway port expansion
Irish Times
26 Jan 2015Forget Davos-Let’s face it: we have to choose between our economy and our future
Guardian
26 Jan 2015George Osborne urges ministers to fast-track fracking measures in leaked letter
Guardian
26 Jan 2015A New Zealand company has developed a way to recycle worn-out carpets into children’s bicycles
Guardian
26 Jan 2015Climate change inaction pushes ‘doomsday clock’ closest to midnight since 1984
Guardian
26 Jan 2015‘Fifty miles out we could smell the pollution’: sailing amid the ocean litter
Guardian
26 Jan 2015Readers respond to Davos: ‘act in the interest of the next seven generations’
Guardian
26 Jan 2015Recycling rates stall, but landfill falls to its lowest level ever in NI
Belfast Telegraph
26 Jan 2015Thursday January 22nd, 2015
National Trust buys £4m land around Mount Stewart to keep it open to public
Belfast Telegraph
22 Jan 2015UK nuclear ambitions dealt fatal blow by Austrian legal challenge, say Greens
Guardian
22 Jan 2015Craigavon Borough Council’s anti-litter drive shortlisted for award
Belfast Telegraph
22 Jan 2015Monday January 19th, 2015
Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists
Guardian
19 Jan 2015UK’s shale gas revolution falls flat with just 11 new wells planned for 2015
Guardian
19 Jan 2015Australian coalition climate policy under fire after 2014 shown to be hottest year on record
Guardian
19 Jan 2015Global warming made 2014 a record hot year without El Nino– in animated graphics
Guardian
19 Jan 2015World Economic Forum identifies world’s biggest threats, including environmental
Irish Independent
19 Jan 2015Thursday January 15th, 2015
The TTIP trade deal will throw equality before the law on the corporate bonfire
Guardian
15 Jan 2015Testing cattle better than culling badgers to control bovine TB, study suggests
Guardian
15 Jan 2015Celebrities push to make 2015 year of action on poverty and climate change
Guardian
15 Jan 2015Harvard defies divestment campaigners and invests tens of millions of dollars in fossil fuels
Guardian
15 Jan 2015Monday January 12th, 2015
New Research Links Scores of Earthquakes to Fracking Wells Near a Fault in Ohio
NY Times
12 Jan 2015At least one major oil company will turn its back on fossil fuels, says scientist
Guardian
12 Jan 2015Thursday January 8th, 2015
James Orr: ‘Environment is the forgotten victim of Northern Ireland peace process’
Belfast Telegraph
8 Jan 2015Some optimism for 2015 is justified given emerging consensus on climate change
Irish Times
8 Jan 2015Eleven earthquakes recorded in less than 24 hours near birthplace of fracking in Texas
Guardian
8 Jan 2015Australia accelerates coal mine projects in the face of study that finds it should stay...
Guardian
8 Jan 2015Monday January 5th, 2015
The Guardian view on Paris 2015: the world’s last best chance to reach an agreement...
Guardian
5 Jan 2015Another Life: Control of bird habitats in hedges and on hills remains a burning issue
Irish Times
5 Jan 2015Thursday January 1st, 2015