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Sunday June 26th, 2022
Ireland beat EU recycling targets during 2021 despite Covid-19, report shows
Irish Times
26 Jun 2022New law to restore nature plans wilder places, greener cities, chemical-free lands
Irish Independent
26 Jun 2022Chinese premier calls for more coal production as electricity demand soars
Guardian
26 Jun 2022Tuesday June 21st, 2022
€1.5 billion climate package for agriculture aims to soften blow of emissions reduction targets
Irish Times
21 Jun 2022More than 1,800 a day dying of hunger as agencies warn famine looms in drought-stricken...
Irish independent
21 Jun 2022What is ‘solastalgia’? First time planning application in Ireland has been told to address the...
Irish independent
21 Jun 2022Fears for wildlife as Boris Johnson accused of failing to keep policy pledges
Guardian
21 Jun 2022Young people go to European court to stop treaty that aids fossil fuel investors
Guardian
21 Jun 2022Rewinding 100 years: the Devon neighbours who united to rewild on a grand scale
Guardian
21 Jun 2022Truthful climate reporting shifts viewpoints, but only briefly, study finds
Guardian
21 Jun 2022First WTO deal on fishing subsidies hailed as historic despite ‘big holes’
Guardian
21 Jun 2022Rewilding: ‘We make nature here’: pioneering Dutch project repairs image after outcry over starving animals
Guardian
21 Jun 2022Monday June 13th, 2022
Many major State climate action measures not delivered on time, progress report says
Irish Times
13 Jun 2022Fair seas: Campaigners identify 16 sites in Irish waters they say need Marine Protected Area...
Irish Independent
13 Jun 2022Just one ecologist on planning board to influence key zoning decisions
Irish Independent
13 Jun 2022Disabled people being ‘systematically ignored’ on climate crisis, says study
Guardian
13 Jun 2022Climate crisis is ‘battering our economy’ and driving inflation, new book says
Guardian
13 Jun 2022New York has a chance to generate all its electricity from clean energy by 2030
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13 Jun 2022Plastitar: mix of tar and microplastics is new form of pollution, say scientists
Guardian
13 Jun 2022Monday June 6th, 2022
If climate neutrality is a journey, what is our map? At a time of climate...
Irish Times
6 Jun 2022Agricultural sector not ‘walking the walk’ when it comes to reducing emissions – EPA
Irish Independent
6 Jun 2022Activists fear blow to climate action and human rights as ESB resumes buying coal from...
Irish Independent
6 Jun 2022Councils plead for 170 climate staff as crisis over emissions grows
Irish Independent
6 Jun 2022Carbon dioxide levels are now 50% higher than during the pre-industrial era
Guardian
6 Jun 2022Sunak’s tax breaks could lead to more than £8bn of North Sea energy projects
Guardian
6 Jun 2022‘We need something real’: the Russian climate activist taking on Putin’s war
Guardian
6 Jun 2022Tuesday May 31st, 2022
Mayo diaspora urged to join forces to address climate and biodiversity crises in ‘unique’ initiative
Irish Times
31 May 2022Majority want more cycling and walking supports even if it slows traffic and takes space...
Irish Independent
31 May 2022Solar ‘transformation’ on the way as 66 new solar farms approved to supply electricity
Irish Independent
31 May 2022‘It seems this heat will take our lives’: Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C
Guardian
31 May 2022Work begins to turn 99,000 hectares in England into ‘nature recovery’ projects
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31 May 2022People in US and UK face huge financial hit if fossil fuels lose value, study...
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31 May 2022Do wood burners add to air pollution in cities? Yes, say citizen scientists
Guardian
31 May 2022Species recovery targets in England damaging and illogical, scientists warn
Guardian
31 May 2022Tuesday May 17th, 2022
Revealed: How flooding could hit 8,500 buildings in Dublin by 2100 if climate crisis is...
Irish Independent
17 May 2022An Bord Pleanála won’t fight legal challenge to new Dursey Island cable car from environmentalist...
Irish Independent
17 May 2022Blanket bog conservation project unveiled for vast area from Galway to Donegal
Irish Times
17 May 2022Shut down fossil fuel production sites early to avoid climate chaos, says study
Guardian
17 May 2022Living costs in outer suburbs would be slashed under plan to ‘electrify everything’, analysis finds
Guardian
17 May 2022‘Fun in the sun’ photos are a dangerous distraction from the reality of climate breakdown
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17 May 2022South Africa’s April floods made twice as likely by climate crisis, scientists say
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17 May 2022US oil refineries spewing cancer-causing benzene into communities, report finds
Guardian
17 May 2022Climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead, warns IEA chief
Guardian
17 May 2022Monday May 2nd, 2022
Swallows and martins head back to the UK but a changing climate threatens their future
Guardian
2 May 2022Global heating risks most cataclysmic extinction of marine life in 250m years
Guardian
2 May 2022Climate crisis – not China – is biggest threat to Pacific, say former leaders
Guardian
2 May 2022Too many new coal-fired plants planned for 1.5C climate goal, report concludes
Guardian
2 May 2022‘If we interfere with nature, we’re in trouble’ — award-winning garden designer Diarmuid Gavin on...
Irish Independent
2 May 2022‘The peace project of our time’ – first solar farm to feed power into grid...
Irish Independent
2 May 2022Half of Irish households still burning solid fuels including 14pc who use turf, report reveals
Irish Independent
2 May 2022Tuesday April 26th, 2022
Northern Ireland faces loss of 1 million sheep and cattle to meet climate targets
Guardian
26 Apr 2022Assembly passes climate Bill committing Northern Ireland to net zero by 2050
Guardian
26 Apr 2022Orbital space around Earth must be protected amid rise in satellites, say scientists
Guardian
26 Apr 2022Breaches of English farm pollution laws rise as rules remain largely unenforced
Guardian
26 Apr 2022Monday April 18th, 2022
Bristol deprived community secures funding to build tallest wind turbine in England
Guardian
18 Apr 2022‘We’re trying to turn the magnet towards optimism’: Cate Blanchett on her new climate crisis...
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18 Apr 2022‘We’re running out of time’: Dan Saladino on why the loss of diversity in our...
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18 Apr 2022Labour split by leadership call for action against climate crisis blockades
Guardian
18 Apr 2022Burger King ends all-vegan London branch trial amid prediction trend will become norm
Guardian
18 Apr 2022Ireland third worst in Europe for wind farm developers, says study
Irish Independent
18 Apr 2022Turf-cutting may have a romanticised image but the reality is very different
Irish Times
18 Apr 2022Wintering waterbird species decline sharply as climate changes – survey
Irish Times
18 Apr 2022Monday April 11th, 2022
Methane in Earth’s atmosphere rose by record amount last year, US government data shows
Guardian
11 Apr 2022Three-quarters of Britons back expansion of wind power, poll reveals – Survey suggests even Tory...
Guardian
11 Apr 2022Animal crossing: world’s biggest wildlife bridge comes to California highway
Guardian
11 Apr 2022Why is the UK government backing nuclear power when onshore wind is so much better?
Guardian
11 Apr 2022UK to defy net zero targets with more oil and gas drilling – Pressured by...
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11 Apr 2022Charity (Renewable Energy Foundation) linked to UK anti-onshore wind campaigns active again
Guardian
11 Apr 2022The Guardian view on the latest IPCC report: a fast track to climate disaster –...
Guardian
11 Apr 2022Government departments sought no green criteria for €270m of spending
Irish Independent
11 Apr 2022Dáil approves legal limits on greenhouse gas emissions as new carbon budgets approved
Irish Independent
11 Apr 2022Water quality in majority of Irish rivers and lakes is unacceptably poor, committee hears
Irish Times
11 Apr 2022The carbon budget will test the Coalition’s mettle – so what happens next?
Irish Times
11 Apr 2022Electric car and retrofit could save family €270 per month– but it’ll take you 20...
Irish Independent
11 Apr 2022Monday April 4th, 2022
UN IPCC Climate change report: ‘It’s now or never if we want to limit global...
Irish Times
4 Apr 2022ESB to dismantle 70 turbines at landslide wind farm that cost state millions in fines
Irish Independent
4 Apr 2022War in Ukraine can not be excuse to neglect climate crisis, adviser to Government warns
Irish Independent
4 Apr 2022Counties ‘should be aware’ of their carbon emissions and make plans to cut them, planning...
Irish Independent
4 Apr 2022Many of New Zealand’s glaciers could disappear in a decade, scientists warn
Guardian
4 Apr 2022Seabed regulator accused of deciding deep sea’s future ‘behind closed doors’
Guardian
4 Apr 2022Protect Indigenous people’s rights or Paris climate goals will fail, says report
Guardian
4 Apr 2022Protesters continue to block UK oil terminals despite more than 100 arrests
Guardian
4 Apr 2022Dire warning on climate change ‘is being ignored’ amid war and economic turmoil
Guardian
4 Apr 2022Monday March 28th, 2022
Insurers could have been climate heroes. Instead, they have risked a crisis to dwarf 2008
Guardian
28 Mar 2022Ukraine war deals ‘massive blow’ to nature as Belarus’s largest wildlife NGO shut down
Guardian
28 Mar 2022Pollution back at illegal levels on former ‘zero-emissions street’ in London
Guardian
28 Mar 2022Push for new UK nuclear plants lacks facility for toxic waste, say experts
Guardian
28 Mar 2022Monday March 14th, 2022
How Amazon ‘dieback’ is turning the world’s largest rainforest into a savannah
Irish Times
14 Mar 2022Russian-owned Limerick plant suspended from EU emissions ‘cap and trade’ scheme
Irish Independent
14 Mar 2022Irish dairy and beef farmers urged to grow crops amid Ukraine shortage fears
Guardian
14 Mar 2022Ban Ki-moon warns UK against fracking as world stands at ‘dangerous’ point
Guardian
14 Mar 2022Monday March 7th, 2022
Illegal peat cutting, bad smells and noise among complaints to environment agency
Irish Independent
7 Mar 2022€1m incentive will be a ‘Dragons’ Den for climate change’ to find solutions
Irish Independent
7 Mar 2022‘Unscientific’: Morrison government wanted IPCC to say Great Barrier Reef ‘not yet in crisis’
Guardian
7 Mar 2022Oil and gas lobbyists are using Ukraine to push for a drilling free-for-all in the...
Guardian
7 Mar 2022Our climate solutions are failing – and Big Oil’s fingerprints are all over them Amy...
Guardian
7 Mar 2022Tuesday March 1st, 2022
Ireland must step up support for vulnerable countries, say climate campaigners
Irish Times
1 Mar 2022Way cleared for Dáil to debate plans for severe cuts in carbon emissions
Irish Independent
1 Mar 2022War dominates agenda but we must not forget climate change is our common enemy
Irish Independent
1 Mar 2022Boris Johnson’s promise to build 4,000 zero-emission buses makes zero progress
Guardian
1 Mar 2022Poorest areas of England have less than third of garden space enjoyed by richest
Guardian
1 Mar 2022PFAS pollution led to contamination of US drinking water wells, study finds
Guardian
1 Mar 2022Revealed: leading climate research publisher helps fuel oil and gas drilling
Guardian
1 Mar 2022Monday February 21st, 2022
Degraded landscape is on course to release as much greenhouse gas as cars and lorries
Irish Independent
21 Feb 2022Need for emissions cuts in farming is clear but the targets and methods are less...
Irish Independent
21 Feb 2022Delaying carbon tax hike ‘won’t help anybody’, says Friends of the Earth
Irish Times
21 Feb 2022Yale, Stanford and MIT’s fossil fuel investments are illegal, students say
Guardian
21 Feb 2022World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment, study finds
Guardian
21 Feb 2022Dáil committee backs carbon budgets despite scientists warning they don’t go far enough
Irish Independent
21 Feb 2022Senators must speak out on climate change and bring the issue to the public, says...
Irish Independent
21 Feb 2022Monday February 7th, 2022
Americans exposed to toxic BPA at levels far above what EU considers safe – study
Guardian
7 Feb 2022Electric vehicles bring down CO2 emissions of new cars in UK to lowest level ever
Guardian
7 Feb 2022At least 7.5m tonnes of carbon protected by peatlands rehabilitated in 2021
Irish Times
7 Feb 2022Monday January 31st, 2022
Living near fracking sites raises risk of premature death for elderly, US study finds
Guardian
31 Jan 2022‘It is desperate’: how Environment Agency staff were silenced as pollution worsened
Guardian
31 Jan 2022Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse – it’s accelerating it George Monbiot
Guardian
31 Jan 2022Effective climate action requires more than just education, says Prof Pete Lunn
Irish Times
31 Jan 2022Public accept science of climate change but are confused about the role they play in...
Irish Independent
31 Jan 2022Low-carbon ambitions must not interfere with ‘normal life’, says Xi Jinping
Guardian
31 Jan 2022Rocketing demand for fossil fuels could deal blow to climate goals, report says
Guardian
31 Jan 2022US judge blocks sale of Gulf of Mexico drilling leases over climate concerns
Guardian
31 Jan 2022Monday January 24th, 2022
Overload of chemicals and plastics is beyond tipping point for human safety, scientists warn
Irish Independent
24 Jan 2022Climate action oversight group met just once in two years to review progress
Irish Independent
24 Jan 2022Data centre power use up 144pc since 2015 amid concern over electricity price hikes and...
Guardian
24 Jan 2022‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis is turning the Arctic green
Guardian
24 Jan 2022Britishvolt gets £100m boost to build UK’s first large-scale ‘gigafactory’
Guardian
24 Jan 2022Port in a storm: the trailblazing town welcoming climate refugees in Bangladesh
Guardian
24 Jan 2022£262bn investor says it will target bosses who fail on climate or human rights
Guardian
24 Jan 2022Monday January 17th, 2022
This is what ‘cutting red tape’ gets you: rivers polluted without consequence – John Vidal
Guardian
17 Jan 2022Global heating linked to early birth and damage to babies’ health, scientists find
Guardian
17 Jan 2022Climate plan has only a ‘coin toss’ chance of success, experts warn
Irish Independent
17 Jan 2022Dirty greenwashing: watchdog targets fashion brands over misleading claims
Guardian
17 Jan 2022‘Another hellish day’: South America sizzles in record summer temperatures as high as 113F
Guardian
17 Jan 2022Monday January 10th, 2022
Swallows stayed in Ireland this winter due to mild weather caused by climate change
Irish Independent
10 Jan 2022Dog fouling on Dublin beaches linked to majority of no-swimming notices
Irish Independent
10 Jan 2022Why the climate-wrecking craze for crypto art really is beyond satire: John Naughton
Guardian
10 Jan 2022Global heating could lead to an increase in kidney stone disease, study finds
Guardian
10 Jan 2022Tuesday January 4th, 2022
Sands of time are slipping away for England’s crumbling coasts amid climate crisis
Guardian
4 Jan 2022