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New €59m reservoir will enhance security and resilience of water supply across Greater Dublin Area

Irish Times

Thursday April 28th, 2016

UK support for fracking hits new low

Guardian

28 Apr 2016

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

Irish Independent

28 Apr 2016

MPs urge UK parliament to approve 2030 carbon target

Guardian

28 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

28 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

28 Apr 2016

British windfarms prove a boom for Danish firm

Guardian

28 Apr 2016

The global land rights struggle is intensifying

Guardian

28 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

28 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

28 Apr 2016

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

Belfast Telegraph

28 Apr 2016

Can the Republican Party solve its science denial problem?

Guardian

28 Apr 2016

Monday April 25th, 2016

A global coalition mapping and motivating decarbonization

Guardian

25 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

25 Apr 2016

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

New York Times

25 Apr 2016

Revealed: nearly all new diesel cars exceed official pollution limits

Guardian

25 Apr 2016

World heading for catastrophe over natural disasters, risk expert warns

Guardian

25 Apr 2016

European commission plans to relicense ‘carcinogenic’ weedkiller

Guardian

25 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

25 Apr 2016

Will real-world emissions tests clean up diesel cars?

Guardian

25 Apr 2016

Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant decision delayed again by EDF

Guardian

25 Apr 2016

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

Irish Independent

25 Apr 2016

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

Irish Independent

25 Apr 2016

Thursday April 21st, 2016

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

Belfast Telegraph

21 Apr 2016

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

Irish Times

21 Apr 2016

UK Ministers back down on rule ‘gagging’ scientists

Guardian

21 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

21 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

21 Apr 2016

Belgium rejects German call for nuclear plants closure

Guardian

21 Apr 2016

San Francisco adopts law requiring solar panels on all new buildings

Guardian

21 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

21 Apr 2016

Study reveals greater climate impacts of 2C temperature rise

Guardian

21 Apr 2016

2016 Already Shows Record Global Temperatures

New York Times

21 Apr 2016

RBS pulls back fossil fuel investments as green deals grow

Guardian

21 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

21 Apr 2016

Faulty drinking Irish water plants put 800,000 at risk

Irish Independent

21 Apr 2016

Thursday April 7th, 2016

NASA Is Facing a Climate Change Countdown

New York Times

7 Apr 2016

Six popular Irish swimming spots failed clean water tests last year

Belfast Telegraph

7 Apr 2016

Ireland missing EU targets for electric cars by a mile

Irish Independent

7 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

7 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

7 Apr 2016

Dublin in despair over proliferation of seagulls

Guardian

7 Apr 2016

Half of world heritage sites threatened by development, says WWF

Guardian

7 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

7 Apr 2016

David Cameron decides to do without a climate change envoy

Guardian

7 Apr 2016

European diplomats criticise UN plan to curb airline emissions

Guardian

7 Apr 2016

We are making the wrong energy choices for future generations

Guardian

7 Apr 2016

Six things we know about the plastic bag charge in England

Guardian

7 Apr 2016

Monday April 4th, 2016

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

Irish Times

4 Apr 2016

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

Irish Independent

4 Apr 2016

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

Irish Independent

4 Apr 2016

US and China to sign Paris climate deal in April

Guardian

4 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

4 Apr 2016

Planned gas pipeline alongside Indian Point nuclear plant stirs meltdown fears

Guardian

4 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

4 Apr 2016

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

Guardian

4 Apr 2016

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