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Tuesday December 29th, 2020
Rise in packaging waste as Irish shoppers buy online during Covid-19 crisis
Irish Times
29 Dec 2020‘We cannot make it without science’: Greta Thunberg says climate experts are being ignored
Guardian
29 Dec 2020‘I’ll be fierce for all of us’: Deb Haaland on climate, Native rights and Biden
Guardian
29 Dec 2020Wetlands, beavers and Cinderella causes; the growth of environmental funding
Guardian
29 Dec 2020Massachusetts city to post climate change warning stickers at gas stations
Guardian
29 Dec 2020‘We’re flushing quality drinking water down our toilets’ – Green TD in call for water...
Irish Independent
29 Dec 2020Trinity scientists work to balance ecological books by turning world to 100pc renewables
Irish Independent
29 Dec 2020How the baron of Dunsany carried out an ambitious rewilding project in Meath
Irish Times
29 Dec 2020Monday December 21st, 2020
Homes and public buildings to be warmed with excess heat from Amazon data centre
Irish Independent
21 Dec 2020AI project on 14 Irish test sites aims to inform carbon reduction policy
Irish Times
21 Dec 2020Activists hail ‘historic win’ as NSW environment court rejects Bylong Valley coalmine
Guardian
21 Dec 2020Willow tit becomes Britain’s fastest declining resident bird, survey finds
Guardian
21 Dec 2020Ella Kissi-Debrah’s mother calls for Clean Air Act in wake of landmark ruling
Guardian
21 Dec 2020Monday December 7th, 2020
Ireland on course to record 10th consecutive year of above-normal temperatures
Irish Independent
7 Dec 2020Objectors feel ‘betrayed’ by plan to license cement firm to burn waste near village school...
Irish Independent
7 Dec 2020World is ‘doubling down’ on fossil fuels despite climate crisis – UN report on “zombie...
Guardian
7 Dec 2020Ryan says Dublin pollution highlights need to tackle particulates from fossil fuels
Irish Times
7 Dec 2020Pollution from car tires is killing off salmon on US west coast, study finds
Guardian
7 Dec 2020Cities can lead a green revolution after Covid. In Barcelona, they’re showing how
Guardian
7 Dec 2020Tuesday December 1st, 2020
Watchdog urges ‘relentless action’ in bleak assessment of our environment
Irish Independent
1 Dec 2020Air pollution where girl died in London ‘should have been treated as emergency’
Guardian
1 Dec 2020European governments failing to protect citizens from air pollution, data reveals
Guardian
1 Dec 2020We must not miss this glorious chance to address the climate and biodiversity crises
Guardian
1 Dec 2020Monday November 23rd, 2020
Drop in greenhouse gas emissions but Ireland still off target to meet climate change obligations
Irish Independent
23 Nov 2020Environmental group raises concerns over removal of more than 1.6 million wild fish to eat...
Irish Independent
23 Nov 2020European governments failing to protect citizens from air pollution, data reveals
Guardian
23 Nov 2020UK ban on new fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 ‘not enough’ to hit climate targets
Guardian
23 Nov 2020The ‘market’ won’t save us from climate disaster. We must rethink our system
Guardian
23 Nov 2020Half of child psychiatrists surveyed say patients have environment anxiety
Guardian
23 Nov 2020‘Suffocating closeness’: US judge condemns ‘appalling conditions’ on industrial farms
Guardian
23 Nov 2020A destructive legacy: Trump bids for final hack at environmental protections
Guardian
23 Nov 2020‘Wet wipes ban needed’ to combat storm water overflows, raw sewage discharges
Irish Times
23 Nov 2020Monday November 16th, 2020
Dramatic footage of a peat slippage near Ballybofey in Co. Donegal
Irish Independent
16 Nov 2020‘Wet wipes ban needed’ to combat storm water overflows, raw sewage discharges
Irish Times
16 Nov 2020Technologies to suck carbon from air not sufficient to allow continued fossil-fuel use
Irish Independent
16 Nov 2020Climate and land-use changes ‘have caused nearly a fifth of habitat loss worldwide’
Irish Independent
16 Nov 2020World heritage status for Scottish peat bogs could help UK hit net zero goals
Guardian
16 Nov 2020Suing for climate action: can the courts save us from the black hole of political...
Guardian
16 Nov 2020AGL long-duration battery planned for Adelaide marks another leap for renewables
Guardian
16 Nov 2020Monday November 9th, 2020
Rent-free flagship HQ offered to lure EU climate agency here from England
Irish Independent
9 Nov 2020Ireland just seven years from exceeding limit for greenhouse gas emissions, expert warns
Irish Independent
9 Nov 2020Climate and land-use changes ‘have caused nearly a fifth of habitat loss worldwide’
Irish Independent
9 Nov 2020People of color more likely to live without piped water in richest US cities
Guardian
9 Nov 2020Monday November 2nd, 2020
Dozens of complaints raised with planning regulator but no investigations launched
Irish Independent
2 Nov 2020‘Sleeping giant’ Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find
Guardian
2 Nov 2020Private investigator hired by Adani secretly photographed activist’s daughter on way to school
Guardian
2 Nov 2020Australian super fund agrees to factor climate crisis into decisions in ‘groundbreaking’ case
Guardian
2 Nov 2020‘Regeneration’ is too often an unfair fight between local people and global finance
Guardian
2 Nov 2020Monday October 26th, 2020
Flawed Climate Bill allows ministers ‘amnesia clause’ to forget failures on emissions
Irish Independent
26 Oct 2020‘€386bn ploughed into largely destructive practices’ – environmental groups share dismay over divisive farm subsidies...
Irish Independent
26 Oct 2020State must pay €50m to EU nations after missing green energy targets costs €50m in...
Irish Independent
26 Oct 2020‘It’s about saving ourselves’: senator pushes plan to conserve 30% of US by 2030
Guardian
26 Oct 2020Aggressive push to 100% renewable energy could save Americans billions – study
Guardian
26 Oct 2020Small increases in air pollution linked to rise in depression, finds study
Guardian
26 Oct 2020Despite a loud opposing minority, low-traffic neighbourhoods are increasingly popular
Guardian
26 Oct 2020Monday October 19th, 2020
Expert says climate bill full of ‘weasel words, get-out clauses and loopholes’
Irish Independent
19 Oct 2020Great Barrier Reef corals have more than halved in past 25 years, study shows
Guardian
19 Oct 2020Australia must prepare now for climate-related disasters or pay more later, insurance regulator says
Guardian
19 Oct 2020Japan to release 1m tonnes of contaminated Fukushima water into the sea – reports
Guardian
19 Oct 2020Groundbreaking study finds 13.3 quadrillion plastic fibers in California’s environment
Guardian
19 Oct 2020ExxonMobil misled the public about the climate crisis. Now they’re trying to silence critics
Guardian
19 Oct 2020Reason for falloff in sea turtle sightings around UK and Irish coasts unclear, say scientists
Guardian
19 Oct 2020Big Oil’s answer to melting Arctic: cooling the ground so it can keep drilling
Guardian
19 Oct 2020Monday October 12th, 2020
Fermanagh council investigating ‘significant error’ in fracking consultation
Belfast Telegraph
12 Oct 2020‘We’ve had so many wins’: why the green movement can overcome climate crisis
Guardian
12 Oct 2020Climate Bill a ‘significant milestone’ but firmer requirements needed, environment groups warn
Irish Times
12 Oct 2020We will reach point of no recovery unless we act on climate – Taoiseach
Irish Independent
12 Oct 2020‘Unacceptable’ bacteria levels found on US meat may fuel fears over UK trade deal
Guardian
12 Oct 2020Trump’s public lands chief refuses to leave his post despite judge’s order
Guardian
12 Oct 2020‘Poisoning the Pacific’: New book details US military contamination of islands and ocean
Guardian
12 Oct 2020HS2 may be guilty of ‘wildlife crime’ by felling trees illegally, say lawyers
Guardian
12 Oct 2020Thinning forests doesn’t reduce bushfire risk and could make some blazes worse, study finds
Guardian
12 Oct 2020Monday October 5th, 2020
‘Serious deterioration’ in Ireland’s protected marine habitats, report finds
Irish Times
5 Oct 2020Climate Council urges €9 increase in carbon tax as part of ‘radical shift in gear’...
Irish Independent
5 Oct 2020‘Green hydrogen’ from renewables could become cheapest ‘transformative fuel’ within a decade
Guardian
5 Oct 2020America’s year of fire and tempests means climate crisis just got very real
Guardian
5 Oct 2020Fukushima nuclear disaster preventable, court rules, with more damages claims likely
Guardian
5 Oct 2020Friday September 25th, 2020
Government failing to get message across on wind farms and solar parks
Irish Independent
25 Sep 2020Our air quality breaches world health guidelines at a third of test locations tested here
Irish Independent
25 Sep 2020Melting Antarctic ice will raise sea level by 2.5 metres – even if Paris climate...
Guardian
25 Sep 2020‘Sliding towards extinction’: koala may be given endangered listing as numbers plummet
Guardian
25 Sep 2020How clean are England’s rivers? The latest report makes for uncomfortable reading
Guardian
25 Sep 2020Tuesday September 15th, 2020
Households may face electricity tax if climate policies cause drop in fuel excise revenues
Irish Independent
15 Sep 2020Ireland must make ‘considerable effort’ on wildlife as new report shows countries who signed pledge...
Irish Independent
15 Sep 2020Investors that manage US$47tn demand world’s biggest polluters back plan for net-zero emissions
Guardian
15 Sep 2020World fails to meet a single target to stop destruction of nature – UN report
Guardian
15 Sep 2020Tuesday September 1st, 2020
Invader fish thought to be eradicated is back in Irish river again
Irish Independent
1 Sep 2020Only one in 10 utility firms prioritise renewable electricity – global study
Guardian
1 Sep 2020Monday August 24th, 2020
Climate ‘tipping points’ concept could have dangerous consequences – scientists
Irish Times
24 Aug 2020Amazon to build new wind farm in Galway and pledges free heating to some South...
Irish Independent
24 Aug 2020We may have just seen the world’s highest recorded temperature ever. Has that sunk in?
Guardian
24 Aug 2020Insurance giant Suncorp to end coverage and finance for oil and gas industry
Guardian
24 Aug 2020‘All universities must commit to net-zero by 2030’: tackling the campus climate crisis
Guardian
24 Aug 2020Sunday August 16th, 2020
‘Overwhelming’ support for closing areas around Grafton Street to traffic
Irish Times
16 Aug 2020‘Get on with it’: EPA chief warns the Government it can’t stall on climate
Irish Independent
16 Aug 2020Marine food webs could be radically altered by heating of oceans, scientists warn
Guardian
16 Aug 2020Bald eagle attacks government drone and sends it to bottom of Lake Michigan
Guardian
16 Aug 2020The plastic we use unthinkingly every day is killing our planet – and slowly but...
Guardian
16 Aug 2020Sunday August 9th, 2020
Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study
Guardian
9 Aug 2020Activists urge Bord na Móna to scrap plans for windfarm on restored bog
Irish Independent
9 Aug 2020BP enjoys share bounce after unveiling plans to shift away from fossil fuels
Guardian
9 Aug 2020Flooding could occur daily in Sydney by the end of this century because of climate...
Guardian
9 Aug 2020New Guinea has greatest plant diversity of any island in the world, study reveals
Guardian
9 Aug 2020Canadian ice shelf area bigger than Manhattan collapses due to rising temperatures
Guardian
9 Aug 2020False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg; Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger – review
Guardian
9 Aug 2020Monday August 3rd, 2020
Supreme Court ruling a lift for climate activists worldwide – Decision a reminder that failure...
Irish Times
3 Aug 2020Ireland in one of regions most threatened by future coastal flooding – study
Irish Times
3 Aug 2020New Luas line to take 10,000 cars off roads but won’t be done for 10...
Irish Independent
3 Aug 2020Climate Case Ireland explained: What does it mean, why does it matter and what happens...
Irish Independent
3 Aug 2020New gas-fired power not needed as renewable energy expands, grid operator says
Guardian
3 Aug 2020Extra 23 million people could face coastal flooding within 30 years, even with emission cuts,...
Guardian
3 Aug 2020With big rallies cancelled, young climate activists are adapting election tactics
Guardian
3 Aug 2020More coal power generation closed than opened around the world this year, research finds
Guardian
3 Aug 2020Monday July 20th, 2020
Turf cutting contributing to ‘shocking degradation’ of peatlands – report
Irish Times
20 Jul 2020Monday July 6th, 2020
From dusted-off bikes to electric dreams: UK green economy booms on back of Covid-19
Guardian
6 Jul 2020Revealed: legislators’ pro-pipeline letters ghostwritten by fossil fuel company
Guardian
6 Jul 2020The environmentalist’s apology: how Michael Shellenberger unsettled some of his prominent supporters
Guardian
6 Jul 2020Monday June 22nd, 2020
Supply of available Liffey drinking water will sink by 50 million litres a day as...
Guardian
22 Jun 2020Claims major projects are being delayed by environmental ‘lawfare’ dismissed in new research
Guardian
22 Jun 2020US demand for clean energy destroying Canada’s environment, indigenous peoples say
Guardian
22 Jun 2020‘National nature service’ needed for green recovery in England, groups say
Guardian
22 Jun 2020Monday June 15th, 2020
Prohibitive costs stalling widespread retrofitting of homes, energy firm finds
Irish Times
15 Jun 2020Congestion set to exceed pre-lockdown levels as cars crowd back on to UK roads
Guardian
15 Jun 2020Revealed: more than 1,000 metric tons of microplastics rain down on US parks and wilderness
Guardian
15 Jun 2020Monday May 25th, 2020
Midlands workers left ‘in shock’ over loss of jobs in peat industry
Irish Independent
25 May 2020Flood risk to 70,000 coastal homes and premises if climate change not tackled
Irish Independent
25 May 2020Endangered shorebirds unsustainably hunted during migrations, records show
Guardian
25 May 2020Hazelwood power station’s eight chimneys demolished in live stream viewed by thousands
Guardian
25 May 2020Monday May 18th, 2020
‘A new normal’: how coronavirus will transform transport in Britain’s cities
Guardian
18 May 2020Monday May 4th, 2020
Trouble with gas: the Coalition is betting on the fossil fuel for recovery – but...
Guardian
4 May 2020NSW and Queensland coal industry uses as much water as all Sydney households, report finds
Guardian
4 May 2020Fossil fuel firms linked to Trump get millions in coronavirus small business aid
Guardian
4 May 2020A nuclear waste site where the biggest fear isn’t radiation, but coronavirus
Guardian
4 May 2020Monday April 27th, 2020
Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world’s top scientists
Guardian
27 Apr 2020How Pepsi and Coke make millions bottling tap water, as residents face shutoffs
Guardian
27 Apr 2020Monday April 20th, 2020
Environmental groups say FF-FG ‘green deal’ proposals are too vague
Irish Independent
20 Apr 2020Scientists in mission to count carbon cost of country’s escalating wildfires
Irish Independent
20 Apr 2020The Guardian joins forces with hundreds of newsrooms to promote climate solutions
Guardian
20 Apr 2020Air pollution may be ‘key contributor’ to Covid-19 deaths – Research shows almost 80% of...
Guardian
20 Apr 2020‘Of course it could happen again’: experts say little has changed since Deepwater Horizon
Guardian
20 Apr 2020Sunday April 12th, 2020
Noise levels nationwide are up to three times lower than before coronavirus restrictions
Irish Independent
12 Apr 2020Wind energy farms are losing out on tens of millions of revenue because of constraints...
Irish Independent
12 Apr 2020Monday April 6th, 2020
Farmworkers are risking their lives to feed a nation on lockdown: “You can’t pick strawberries...
Grist
6 Apr 2020High Court rules Shannon LNG challenge must proceed despite State’s protest that it is too...
Irish Independent
6 Apr 2020Big Oil is using the coronavirus pandemic to push through the Keystone XL pipeline: Bill...
Guardian
6 Apr 2020‘Bad news’: radiation spikes 16 times above normal after forest fire near Chernobyl
Guardian
6 Apr 2020Volkswagen installed thousands of unlawful ‘defeat devices’, high court finds
Guardian
6 Apr 2020In the most polluted part of America, residents now battle the US’s biggest plastic plant
Guardian
6 Apr 2020Millions in US at risk of ‘water shutoffs’ amid layoffs triggered by pandemic
Guardian
6 Apr 2020Sunday March 29th, 2020
‘Do not drink’ warning forces thousands out of isolation in County Clare to fetch water
Irish Independent
29 Mar 2020Ranger captures moment grizzly bear emerges from hibernation in Canada – video
Guardian
29 Mar 2020Tackle climate crisis and poverty with zeal of Covid-19 fight, scientists urge
Guardian
29 Mar 2020Fruit and veg ‘will run out’ unless Britain charters planes to fly in farm workers...
Guardian
29 Mar 2020Study: global banks ‘failing miserably’ on climate crisis by funneling trillions into fossil fuels
Guardian
29 Mar 2020Dakota access pipeline: court strikes down permits in victory for Standing Rock Sioux
Guardian
29 Mar 2020Trump administration allows companies to break pollution laws during coronavirus pandemic
Guardian
29 Mar 2020Monday March 16th, 2020
Wind and solar plants will soon be cheaper than coal in all big markets around...
Guardian
16 Mar 2020Condescending and disempowering, Australia’s media have systematically thwarted Aboriginal aspirations
Guardian
16 Mar 2020Monday March 9th, 2020
Consumers fail to warm to cost-saving climate-friendly smart meters
Irish Independent
9 Mar 2020Irish public’s views sought by EU on move to shut carbon emissions loophole
Irish Independent
9 Mar 2020The government must abandon its fossil fuel power projects. If not, we’ll sue
Guardian
9 Mar 2020Spring arrives earlier than ever recorded in southern US – adding to climate trend
Guardian
9 Mar 2020We shouldn’t have to pay for Jack Dorsey’s $40m estate when it crumbles into the...
Guardian
9 Mar 2020Monday March 2nd, 2020
ESB failed 48 times to report ‘dangerous chemical leaks’ from buried power cables
Irish Independent
2 Mar 2020A major climate victory over Heathrow was aided by apathy in Downing Street
Guardian
2 Mar 2020Northern Ireland environmental projects to benefit from £2.2m carrier bag levy funding
Belfast Telegraph
2 Mar 2020Monday February 17th, 2020
Extinction Rebellion digs up Cambridge college lawn in environmental protest
Belfast Telegraph
17 Feb 2020Experts to examine mystery ‘ghost ship’ run aground off Cork coast during Storm Dennis
Irish Independent
17 Feb 2020These three post-Brexit bills bulldoze a hole through environmental protections
Guardian
17 Feb 2020Mass melting of Antarctic ice sheet led to three metre sea level rise 120,000 years...
Guardian
17 Feb 2020Bees and flowers have had the world’s longest love affair. Now it’s in danger
Guardian
17 Feb 2020‘The only uncertainty is how long we’ll last’: a worst case scenario for the climate...
Guardian
17 Feb 2020A citizens’ assembly on climate is pointless if the government won’t listen
Guardian
17 Feb 2020‘It’s a photo orgy’: is Yosemite’s rare firefall too beautiful for its own good?
Guardian
17 Feb 2020211m gallons of sewage spilled into Fort Lauderdale waterways, officials say
Guardian
17 Feb 2020Monday February 10th, 2020
Largest maker of pesticide linked to brain damage in kids to stop producing chemical
Guardian
10 Feb 2020After the wildfires: tourist firms in California’s wine country say no one is coming
Guardian
10 Feb 2020Tuesday February 4th, 2020
Darragh McCullough: Farmers are spooked because they don’t know who or what to believe on...
Irish Independent
4 Feb 2020The Clean Water Act was a staggering bipartisan achievement. Now Trump is gutting it
Guardian
4 Feb 2020Monday January 27th, 2020
Major changes to UK land use needed to tackle climate change, advisers warn
Belfast Telegraph
27 Jan 2020‘Phantom Planter’ on a mission to cover Northern Ireland with trees
Belfast Telegraph
27 Jan 2020Kingspan only Irish firm to achieve ‘A’ rating in global climate survey
Irish Independent
27 Jan 2020Proposed changes to regulations ‘will make buildings less energy efficient’
Guardian
27 Jan 2020Court to probe Carrie Symonds’ influence on PM after cancellation of badger cull
Guardian
27 Jan 2020Terror police list that included Extinction Rebellion was shared across government
Guardian
27 Jan 2020‘Kids are taking the streets’: climate activists plan avalanche of events as 2020 election looms
Guardian
27 Jan 2020Tuesday January 21st, 2020
Reductions in Arctic sea ice cannot be rapidly reversed, scientists say
Belfast Telegraph
21 Jan 2020NI Water warns half Northern Ireland treatment plants will reach full capacity by 2027
Belfast Telegraph
21 Jan 2020Scientists create ‘living concrete’ that can glow and remove toxins
Irish Independent
21 Jan 2020Translink removes vegan adverts after Northern Ireland farmers’ outrage
Irish Independent
21 Jan 2020Bushfire-destroyed homes should not be rebuilt in riskiest areas, experts say
Guardian
21 Jan 2020More than 100 threatened species hit hard by Australian bushfires, pushing many towards extinction
Guardian
21 Jan 2020Greyhound warns staff they could be ‘in the crossfire’ over Adani contract
Guardian
21 Jan 2020Big oil is the new big tobacco. Congress must use its power to investigate
Guardian
21 Jan 2020Woodland planting ‘must more than double’ to tackle climate and nature crises
Belfast Telegraph
21 Jan 2020Tuesday January 14th, 2020
Putting Extinction Rebellion on extremist list ‘completely wrong’, says Keir Starmer
Guardian
14 Jan 2020Melbourne’s air quality ‘worst in the world’ as bushfires continue to burn across Victoria
Guardian
14 Jan 2020Revealed: US listed climate activist group as ‘extremists’ alongside mass killers
Guardian
14 Jan 2020‘Heat islands’: racist housing policies in US linked to deadly heatwave exposure
Guardian
14 Jan 2020Monday January 6th, 2020
€5m fine for Derrybrien wind farm disaster to double with €15,000 a day penalties
Irish Independent
6 Jan 2020