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Thursday September 28th, 2017
Call for all-Ireland environmental protection to feature in Brexit talks
Irish Times
28 Sep 2017Do more to help poor nations cope with climate change, IMF tells rich countries
Guardian
28 Sep 2017European countries spend billions a year on fossil fuel subsidies, survey shows
Guardian
28 Sep 2017Monday September 25th, 2017
Devastated Puerto Rico Tests Fairness of Response to Climate Disasters
Inside Climate News
25 Sep 2017Seeing albatross feed chick plastic was heartbreaking – Sir David Attenborough
Belfast Telegraph
25 Sep 2017Environmentalists warn of plant and animal extinctions on both sides of border
Irish Independent
25 Sep 2017How did that get there? Plastic chunks on Arctic ice show how far pollution has...
Guardian
25 Sep 2017Quitting coal: a health benefit equivalent to quitting tobacco, alcohol and fast-food
Guardian
25 Sep 2017Friday September 22nd, 2017
Activists force ship carrying Volkswagen cars to turn around, Greenpeace says
Belfast Telegraph
22 Sep 2017€2bn per year – the potential cost of climate change for Irish farming
Irish Independent
22 Sep 2017Climate optimism has been a disaster. We need a new language – desperately
Guardian
22 Sep 2017Poorest London children face health risks from toxic air, poverty and obesity
Guardian
22 Sep 2017A new cycling law won’t make roads safer and could postpone laws that could
Guardian
22 Sep 2017Red squirrels make comeback on estate after near-extinction through deadly virus
Belfast Telegraph
22 Sep 2017Monday September 18th, 2017
Councillors divided over proposal for underground gold mine in the Sperrins
Belfast Telegraph
18 Sep 2017Plea for anchored rafts to help walrus population amid shortage of sea ice
Irish Independent
18 Sep 2017Electric cars take centre stage but SUVs still winning with consumers
Irish Independent
18 Sep 2017US people of color still more likely to be exposed to pollution than white people
Guardian
18 Sep 2017Scientific models saved lives from Harvey and Irma. They can from climate change too
Guardian
18 Sep 2017Thursday September 14th, 2017
Apple warns Ireland that delays could put €1 billion Athenry project ‘at risk’
Irish Independent
14 Sep 2017Huge incinerator power plant to be built despite thousands of objections and rejection by minister
Irish Independent
14 Sep 2017Small firms, big ideas: the contenders for glory at European green business awards
Irish Independent
14 Sep 2017Asia’s glaciers to shrink by a third by 2100, threatening water supply of millions
Guardian
14 Sep 2017Tuesday September 12th, 2017
‘Brutal intrusion’ into landscape condemned as Stonehenge tunnel gets go-ahead
Belfast Telegraph
12 Sep 2017People fear ‘crippling illnesses’ as water for 700,000 people at risk from contamination
Irish Independent
12 Sep 2017Brazil investigates reports of massacre among Amazonian tribe by gold miners
Guardian
12 Sep 2017Trump promised to hire the best people. He keeps hiring the worst. Nasa is next
Guardian
12 Sep 2017Thursday September 7th, 2017
New Innovator: FarmEye – digital system to trace food from soil to table
Irish Times
7 Sep 2017The EPA is looking for 26 people to become climate ambassadors… Could it be you?
Irish Independent
7 Sep 2017Parents face fines for driving children to school in push to curb pollution
Guardian
7 Sep 2017Origami-inspired clothing range that grows with your child wins Dyson award
Guardian
7 Sep 2017Climate change could wipe out a third of parasite species, study finds Climate change could...
Guardian
7 Sep 2017Tesco criticised for deducting £3.4m from plastic bag tax charity donations
Guardian
7 Sep 2017Monday September 4th, 2017
Pope and Orthodox leader blame ‘moral decay’ for ‘ecological crisis’
Belfast Telegraph
4 Sep 2017Britain’s largest landowner warned plan to build huge wind farm ‘will poison waterways with lead’
Irish Independent
4 Sep 2017How will Ireland fund essential services as dirty petrol guzzlers are replaced by electric cars?
Irish Independent
4 Sep 2017The Trump administration wants to bail out failed contrarian climate scientists
Guardian
4 Sep 2017Global warming doubles growth rates of Antarctic seabed’s marine fauna – study
Guardian
4 Sep 2017