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Monday 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 2015