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    • Thursday April 28th, 2016

    UK support for fracking hits new low

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    28 Apr 2016

    Plans to suspend Irish water charges ‘political, economic and environmental sabotage’

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    28 Apr 2016

    MPs urge UK parliament to approve 2030 carbon target

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    28 Apr 2016

    Workers face ‘epidemic of heat-related injuries’ due to climate change

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    28 Apr 2016

    Dentist wins ‘green oscar’ for using healthcare incentives to halt logging

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    28 Apr 2016

    British windfarms prove a boom for Danish firm

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    28 Apr 2016

    The global land rights struggle is intensifying

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    28 Apr 2016

    Greenhouse in the sky: inside Europe’s biggest urban farm

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    28 Apr 2016

    MPs: UK air pollution is a ‘public health emergency’

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    28 Apr 2016

    Residents speak out in support of peacocks accused of ruining village life

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    28 Apr 2016

    Can the Republican Party solve its science denial problem?

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    28 Apr 2016
    Monday April 25th, 2016

    A global coalition mapping and motivating decarbonization

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    25 Apr 2016

    Why the Paris climate change goals may already be slipping beyond reach

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    25 Apr 2016

    Carbon Pricing Becomes a Cause for the World Bank and I.M.F.

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    25 Apr 2016

    Revealed: nearly all new diesel cars exceed official pollution limits

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    25 Apr 2016

    World heading for catastrophe over natural disasters, risk expert warns

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    25 Apr 2016

    European commission plans to relicense ‘carcinogenic’ weedkiller

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    25 Apr 2016

    World governments vow to end fossil fuel era at UN climate signing ceremony

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    25 Apr 2016

    Will real-world emissions tests clean up diesel cars?

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    25 Apr 2016

    Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant decision delayed again by EDF

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    25 Apr 2016

    20,000 gather in Hannover for protest against US-Europe trade deal

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    25 Apr 2016

    Kenny to suspend water charges in deal to be returned as leader

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    25 Apr 2016
    Thursday April 21st, 2016

    Clean air protesters put masks on Nelson’s Column and 17 other London statues

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    21 Apr 2016

    Trump’s Doonbeg wall outcome will ‘determine community’s future’

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    21 Apr 2016

    UK Ministers back down on rule ‘gagging’ scientists

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    21 Apr 2016

    EU dropped climate policies after BP threat of oil industry ‘exodus’

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    21 Apr 2016

    As the planet warms, how do we decide when a plant is native?

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    21 Apr 2016

    Belgium rejects German call for nuclear plants closure

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    21 Apr 2016

    San Francisco adopts law requiring solar panels on all new buildings

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    21 Apr 2016

    Times’s climate change coverage ‘distorted’ and ‘poor quality’

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    21 Apr 2016

    Study reveals greater climate impacts of 2C temperature rise

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    21 Apr 2016

    2016 Already Shows Record Global Temperatures

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    21 Apr 2016

    RBS pulls back fossil fuel investments as green deals grow

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    21 Apr 2016

    Koch brothers said to be funding plan to block Grand Canyon conservation

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    21 Apr 2016

    Faulty drinking Irish water plants put 800,000 at risk

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    21 Apr 2016
    Thursday April 7th, 2016

    NASA Is Facing a Climate Change Countdown

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    7 Apr 2016

    Six popular Irish swimming spots failed clean water tests last year

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    7 Apr 2016

    Ireland missing EU targets for electric cars by a mile

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    7 Apr 2016

    Climate change threat to public health worse than polio, White House warns

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    7 Apr 2016

    Scrapping Hinkley for renewable alternatives would save ‘tens of billions’

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    7 Apr 2016

    Dublin in despair over proliferation of seagulls

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    7 Apr 2016

    Half of world heritage sites threatened by development, says WWF

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    7 Apr 2016

    US and Canada continue climate alliance with move to curb methane emissions

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    7 Apr 2016

    David Cameron decides to do without a climate change envoy

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    7 Apr 2016

    European diplomats criticise UN plan to curb airline emissions

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    7 Apr 2016

    We are making the wrong energy choices for future generations

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    7 Apr 2016

    Six things we know about the plastic bag charge in England

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    7 Apr 2016
    Monday April 4th, 2016

    Divers express concern over Dublin Port plans to dump spoil in protected habitat

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    4 Apr 2016

    Falling out with local community is par for the course with Trump

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    4 Apr 2016

    The Dublin Honey Project: Generating a buzz about the sweetness of urban beekeeping

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    4 Apr 2016

    US and China to sign Paris climate deal in April

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    4 Apr 2016

    Saudi Arabia plans to sell state oil assets to create $2tn wealth fund

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    4 Apr 2016

    Planned gas pipeline alongside Indian Point nuclear plant stirs meltdown fears

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    4 Apr 2016

    Brexit could put Britain’s environment at risk, says Stanley Johnson, father of Boris

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    4 Apr 2016

    Sahara dust only ‘partly responsible’ for UK’s worst pollution event in 10 years

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    4 Apr 2016

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