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Monday October 30th, 2017
Britain’s soil to become infertile within 40 years due to intensive farming, warns Minister
Irish Independent
30 Oct 2017Subsidy plan for coal and nuclear plants ‘will cost US taxpayers $10.6bn a year’
Guardian
30 Oct 2017Thursday October 26th, 2017
Local residents ask High Court for appeal on Apple’s plan to develop €850m data centre
Irish Independent
26 Oct 2017‘We will be toasted, roasted and grilled’: IMF chief sounds climate change warning
Guardian
26 Oct 2017Pollutants from fracking could pose health risk to children, warn researchers
Guardian
26 Oct 2017Fit UK fishing boats with monitoring technology after Brexit, campaigners urge
Guardian
26 Oct 2017Tuesday October 24th, 2017
10 tonnes of raw sewage pumped into rivers and seas around Ireland every minute
Irish Independent
24 Oct 2017EPA kept scientists from speaking about climate change at Rhode Island event
Guardian
24 Oct 2017Ocean acidification is deadly threat to marine life, finds eight-year study
Guardian
24 Oct 2017Thursday October 19th, 2017
Paying farmers more than non-farmers for forestry ‘not an option’ – Creed
Irish Independent
19 Oct 2017Warning of ‘ecological Armageddon’ after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
Guardian
19 Oct 2017Tuesday October 17th, 2017
Storm Ophelia live updates: Northern Ireland schools to reopen, hospitals back to normal, 3,000 without...
Belfast Telegraph
17 Oct 2017Ophelia’s trail of destruction: Number of homes without water ‘rising rapidly
Irish Independent
17 Oct 2017UK withdrawal bill ‘rips the heart out of environmental law’, say campaigners
Guardian
17 Oct 2017Indigenous rights ‘serious obstacle’ to Kinder Morgan pipeline, report says
Guardian
17 Oct 2017Regreening the planet could cut as much carbon as halting oil use – report
Guardian
17 Oct 2017Thursday October 12th, 2017
Wind power generated double Scotland’s required electricity on October 2 – WWF
Belfast Telegraph
12 Oct 2017Fightback begins over Trump’s ‘illegal and irresponsible’ clean power repeal
Guardian
12 Oct 2017Fossil fuels win billions in public money after Paris climate deal, angry campaigners claim
Guardian
12 Oct 2017Monday October 9th, 2017
Anger over decision not to list Pacific walrus as threatened species
Belfast Telegraph
9 Oct 2017Blow for ‘grass fed’ beef as new report suggests it’s part of the climate problem...
Irish Independent
9 Oct 2017Sunday October 8th, 2017
Alarm as study reveals world’s tropical forests are huge carbon emission source
Guardian
8 Oct 2017State spends €250k every 15 minutes buying ‘polluting’ power from abroad, Assembly told
Irish Independent
8 Oct 2017Citizens’ Assembly hears that Government is ‘long fingering’ climate change policy
Irish Independent
8 Oct 2017