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Monday April 5th, 2021
10,000 tonnes of material put out by public for recycling is burned in Northern Ireland
Belfast Telegraph
5 Apr 2021Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?
Guardian
5 Apr 2021Rewilding our cities: beauty, biodiversity and the biophilic cities movement
Guardian
5 Apr 2021Tuesday March 30th, 2021
Climate Action Bill more about seeing the light than lightning-fast changes
Irish Independent
30 Mar 2021Renewables plus batteries offer Australia the same energy security as coal, research finds
Guardian
30 Mar 2021Environment minister pledges laws to cut dumping of sewage in English rivers
Guardian
30 Mar 2021UK criticised for ignoring Paris climate goals in infrastructure decisions
Guardian
30 Mar 2021Monday March 22nd, 2021
UK slashes grants for electric car buyers while retaining petrol vehicle support
Guardian
22 Mar 2021Pesticide levels in public drinking water supplies breached regulations 81 times last year
Irish Independent
22 Mar 2021UK’s Cop26 president calls for world to get on track to hit net zero by...
Guardian
22 Mar 2021Swapping Irish beef meatballs for plant alternatives cuts emissions by up to 90pc, study finds
Irish Independent
22 Mar 2021Tuesday March 16th, 2021
Climate committee warned of €10 billion cost tied into EV strategy for 2030
Irish Times
16 Mar 2021Stronger action needed as our water quality continues to decline – EPA
Irish Independent
16 Mar 2021Green health: a tree-filled street can positively influence depression, study finds
Guardian
16 Mar 2021Philadelphia calls for ‘lights out’ after skyscrapers cause hundreds of bird deaths
Guardian
16 Mar 2021Don’t believe hydrogen and nuclear hype – they can’t get us to net zero carbon...
Guardian
16 Mar 2021Beijing skies turn orange as sandstorm and pollution send readings off the scale
Guardian
16 Mar 2021Monday March 8th, 2021
Eirgrid €2bn infrastructure plan ‘the most radical transformation since electricity was invented’
Irish Independent
8 Mar 2021California’s wildfire smoke could be more harmful than vehicle emissions, study says
Guardian
8 Mar 2021Monday March 1st, 2021
Traffic drives greenhouse gas emissions seven times faster in Ireland than in the rest of...
Irish Independent
1 Mar 2021‘Strange pale penguin’: rare yellow and white bird discovered among king penguins in Atlantic
Guardian
1 Mar 2021‘A duty of care’: Australian teenagers take their climate crisis plea to court
Guardian
1 Mar 2021A third of top UK firms’ CO2 emissions not in line with global climate goals
Guardian
1 Mar 2021Monday February 22nd, 2021
Central Bank to seek proof of climate action from financial firms
Irish Independent
22 Feb 2021Texas freeze shows a chilling truth – how the rich use climate change to divide...
Guardian
22 Feb 2021Call to tax international flights to raise climate funds for poor countries
Guardian
22 Feb 2021‘It’s cultural genocide’: inside the fight to stop a pipeline on tribal lands
Guardian
22 Feb 2021Monday February 15th, 2021
European Parliament seeks binding recycling and raw materials targets
Irish Independent
15 Feb 2021America’s dirty divide: how environmental racism leaves the vulnerable behind
Guardian
15 Feb 2021Digging in: a million trees planted as villages and schools join climate battle
Guardian
15 Feb 2021Bill Gates: ‘Carbon neutrality in a decade is a fairytale. Why peddle fantasies?’
Guardian
15 Feb 2021Monday February 8th, 2021
Dizzying pace of Biden’s climate action sounds death knell for era of denialism
Guardian
8 Feb 2021Irish renewable energy firm Amarenco will have its first Irish solar farms built by summer,...
Irish Independent
8 Feb 2021Climate council concerned after minister fails to produce carbon progress report
Irish Independent
8 Feb 2021Monday January 25th, 2021
Galway turf cutters turn environmental protectors in bid to preserve bogs
Irish Times
25 Jan 2021Saxon church prays for deliverance from nuclear plant Community says boom in renewable energy means...
Guardian
25 Jan 2021Small but mighty, Pacific states have led the charge for banning nuclear weapons Emily Defina
Guardian
25 Jan 2021Wildfires having devastating effect on air quality in western US, study finds
Guardian
25 Jan 2021Rubbish ideas wanted as Dublin City Council seeks to sack plastic bin bags
Irish Independent
25 Jan 2021Monday January 18th, 2021
Review finds Climate Council ‘reactive’ and too sensitive to government views
Irish Independent
18 Jan 2021Harm done by environmental inequality set to be key legal battleground
Irish Independent
18 Jan 2021New scheme to let homes sell solar power to national grid by summer
Irish Independent
18 Jan 2021NGOs demand action not promises as EU accused of ‘failing to protect seas’
Guardian
18 Jan 2021Air pollution will lead to mass migration, say experts after landmark ruling
Guardian
18 Jan 2021Carbon capture is vital to meeting climate goals, scientists tell green critics
Guardian
18 Jan 2021Monday January 11th, 2021
Ireland’s climate: A year of extremes, from wettest February to driest spring
Irish Times
11 Jan 202122 disasters, 262 dead, $95bn in damages: US saw record year for climate-driven catastrophes
Guardian
11 Jan 2021Last decade hottest on record for Australia with temperature almost 1C above average
Guardian
11 Jan 2021Global heating could stabilize if net zero emissions achieved, scientists say
Guardian
11 Jan 2021Families live in constant cold as energy poverty forces heat rationing
Irish Independent
11 Jan 2021Prince Charles urges businesses to sign Terra Carta pledge to put planet first
Guardian
11 Jan 2021Monday January 4th, 2021
Ireland’s climate: A year of extremes, from wettest February to driest spring
Irish Times
4 Jan 2021EPA considers legal action over damage from Donegal wind farm landslide
Irish Independent
4 Jan 2021A moo-ving target: fenceless grazing widens possibilities for cows and wildlife
Guardian
4 Jan 2021‘It’s awakened me’: UK climate assembly participants hail a life-changing event
Guardian
4 Jan 2021