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Thursday 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