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Tuesday December 27th, 2022
Monday December 19th, 2022
Car numbers and cattle herds could be cut in new Climate Action Plan
Irish Independent
19 Dec 2022Former peat workers and communities to get €169m in transition supports
Irish Independent
19 Dec 2022Energy emissions rise as heavy dependence on fossil fuels continues
Irish Independent
19 Dec 2022Despite the hype, we shouldn’t bank on nuclear fusion to save the world from climate...
Guardian
19 Dec 2022Power to the people: the neighbours turning their London street into a solar power station
Guardian
19 Dec 2022Boost for bogs as extra cash and expertise pledged to help save precious habitats
Irish Independent
19 Dec 2022Underwater ‘grand canyon’ gets protected status under marine conservation move
Irish Independent
19 Dec 2022Monday December 12th, 2022
Marine life hit by ‘perfect storm’ as red list reveals species close to extinction
Guardian
12 Dec 2022Blinded by the light: how skyglow pollution is separating us from the stars
Guardian
12 Dec 2022Keystone pipeline leaks 14,000 barrels of oil into creek in biggest spill yet
Guardian
12 Dec 2022George Monbiot: The US is a rogue state leading the world towards ecological collapse
Guardian
12 Dec 2022Radio and TV shows don’t have to give airtime to climate change deniers to provide...
Irish Independent
12 Dec 2022‘Ireland is going in the wrong direction’ – country is producing more rubbish than ever...
Irish Independent
12 Dec 2022An Bord Pleanála to be subject to fines and renamed under new bill
Irish Independent
12 Dec 2022Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’ In the...
Inside Climate News
12 Dec 2022Monday December 5th, 2022
President hosts Irish premiere of environmental film inspired by Pope Francis’s Laudato Si encyclical
Irish Times
5 Dec 2022An Indigenous reservation has a novel way to grow food – below the earth’s surface
Guardian
5 Dec 2022UN official ‘alarmed’ by jailing of climate activist who blocked traffic on Sydney Harbour Bridge
Guardian
5 Dec 2022Stop burning trees to make energy, say 650 scientists before Cop15 biodiversity summit
Guardian
5 Dec 2022Monday November 28th, 2022
Citizens’ Assembly seek referendum to give nature rights to be protected
Irish Independent
28 Nov 2022Risks to public health in private drinking water supplies not being tackled, EPA warns
Irish Times
28 Nov 2022Plans to decommission Moneypoint by 2025 delayed by Government over fears of power outages
Irish Times
28 Nov 2022‘We need a breakthrough deal on biodiversity’: can Montreal summit deliver for nature?
Guardian
28 Nov 2022Climate concern the main reason voters swung to independents at federal Australia election, study finds
Guardian
28 Nov 2022The Christmas show must go on: householders vow to keep the festive lights on
Guardian
28 Nov 2022Alarming manatee death toll in Florida prompts calls for endangered status
Guardian
28 Nov 2022Rich nations have promised to pay for the climate crisis – but will they? Gordon...
Guardian
28 Nov 2022Clive Palmer’s Queensland coalmine will harm future generations, court finds in landmark climate ruling
Guardian
28 Nov 2022Monday November 21st, 2022
Fund to assist countries affected by climate change is ‘landmark moment’, say Irish NGOs
Irish Times
21 Nov 2022The Guardian view on Cop27’s outcome: a real achievement, but too far to go –...
Guardian
21 Nov 2022‘We couldn’t fail them’: how Pakistan’s floods spurred fight at Cop for loss and damage...
Guardian
21 Nov 2022Cop27: Deal reached to set up fund for developing countries hit by climate crisis
Irish Times
21 Nov 2022High cost of installing electric car chargers at forecourts ‘puts emissions targets at risk’
Irish Independent
21 Nov 2022No ice rinks, fewer lights: Christmas markets across Europe scaled back as energy costs soar
Guardian
21 Nov 2022More than 110 experts raise alarm over WHO’s ‘weak’ PFAS limits for drinking water
Guardian
21 Nov 2022Tuesday November 15th, 2022
Increasing demand for oil and fuel threatens African nations’ economies, analysis finds
Guardian
15 Nov 2022Noise from rich countries drowns out the debate at COP27 summit in Egypt
Irish Independent
15 Nov 2022Raw deal: discontent is rising as water companies pump sewage into UK waters
Guardian
15 Nov 2022‘It’s like winning the lottery’: Lincolnshire rewilding plan welcomed by some… others not so happy
Guardian
15 Nov 2022Nineteen years after the ‘fart tax’, New Zealand’s farmers are fighting emissions
Guardian
15 Nov 2022Actor changes his name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Weather Wilson as climate protest
Guardian
15 Nov 2022Gas producers using Cop27 to rebrand gas as transitional fuel, experts warn
Guardian
15 Nov 2022There’s one big subject our leaders at Cop27 won’t touch: livestock farming George Monbiot
Guardian
15 Nov 2022Activists highlight Ireland’s famine history as they call for climate action
Irish Independent
15 Nov 2022Mary Robinson criticises US lack of leadership and says rich nations must ‘step up’ on...
Irish Independent
15 Nov 2022Monday November 14th, 2022
Revealed: secret courts that allow energy firms to sue for billions accused of ‘bias’ as...
Guardian
14 Nov 2022Monday November 7th, 2022
‘Things are becoming more chaotic’: Climate change starting to alter nature’s habits in west Cork
Irish Times
7 Nov 2022‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world
Guardian
7 Nov 2022World’s most notable glaciers may melt away by 2050, latest UN climate report warns
Irish Indepedent
7 Nov 2022Billionaires should not make up climate finance gaps, says Bezos Earth Fund head
Guardian
7 Nov 2022Temperatures in Europe rise at more than twice global average over past 30 years
Irish Times
7 Nov 2022Brexit promised to end the overfishing of UK waters. It hasn’t, and now it’s time...
Guardian
7 Nov 2022Britain arrives at Cop27 in disarray over the climate – and the world’s leaders know...
Guardian
7 Nov 2022Fossil fuel burning once caused a mass extinction – now we’re risking another: George Monbiot
Guardian
7 Nov 2022Scientists discover ‘world’s largest’ seagrass forest – by strapping cameras to sharks
Guardian
7 Nov 2022Monday October 31st, 2022
Reports shows six biggest fossil fuel firms could pay the cost of climate disasters and...
Irish Independent
31 Oct 2022Goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C ‘more fragile’ than ever, says Cop27 chair
Guardian
31 Oct 2022UK government delays clean water and nature targets, breaching Environment Act
Guardian
31 Oct 2022Irish politicians fear COP27 may greenwash Egypt’s human rights abuses
Irish Independent
31 Oct 2022‘We are still nowhere near the scale and pace of emission reductions required’ – climate...
Irish Independent
31 Oct 2022UK infrastructure at risk from climate crisis due to ‘extreme weakness’ in government
Guardian
31 Oct 2022Carbon emissions from energy to peak in 2025 in ‘historic turning point’, says IEA
Guardian
31 Oct 2022Climate crisis fuelling unseasonably warm October in UK and Europe, say experts
Guardian
31 Oct 2022Monday October 24th, 2022
500 million litres of potentially contaminated wastewater released into Irish waters every day
Irish Independent
24 Oct 2022Business groups block action that could help tackle biodiversity crisis, report finds
Guardian
24 Oct 2022‘White gold’: the race to find lithium for batteries is closer to home than we...
Irish Independent
24 Oct 2022Landowners call for scrapping of plans to ban solar energy from England’s farmland
Guardian
24 Oct 2022France becomes latest country to leave controversial energy charter treaty
Guardian
24 Oct 2022Hopes cargo bikes can replace more family cars as Bike to Work limit increased to...
Irish Independent
24 Oct 2022Citizens Assembly on biodiversity hears age profile of farmers is ‘stark’
Irish Times
24 Oct 2022World’s largest ocean reserve off Hawaii has spillover benefits nearby, study finds
Guardian
24 Oct 2022Tuesday October 18th, 2022
Amount of ocean heat found to be accelerating and fuelling extreme weather events
Guardian
18 Oct 2022Calls on Government to scale up water pollution controls targeted at intensive dairy farms
Irish Times
18 Oct 2022Half of rivers, lakes and coastal waters polluted as quality of waterways falls
Irish Independent
18 Oct 2022Irish diplomacy could reverse UK’s Brexit departure from EU energy alliance
Irish Independent
18 Oct 2022Nobody told us: An Bord Pleanála says it didn’t know about Climate Plan when giving...
Irish Independent
18 Oct 2022East Antarctic glacier melting at 70.8bn tonnes a year due to warm sea water
Guardian
18 Oct 2022The supreme court is in session – and every case is potentially a climate one
Guardian
18 Oct 2022‘Hot air’: plans to crack down on UK water polluters dismissed as toothless
Guardian
18 Oct 2022New study reveals ‘staggering’ scale of lost fishing gear drifting in Earth’s oceans
Guardian
18 Oct 2022Monday October 10th, 2022
Irish Sea needs better protection from environmental threats, says new alliance of conservationists
Irish Times
10 Oct 2022OECD recommends major redesign of Irish transport to meet climate targets and improve wellbeing
Irish Times
10 Oct 2022Climate change made ‘summer drought 20 times more likely in Northern Hemisphere’
Irish Independent
10 Oct 2022Truck firm wins award for turning supermarket’s unwanted food into fuel
Irish Independent
10 Oct 2022The retrofit dilemma: what does it cost to make your home energy efficient?
Irish Independent
10 Oct 2022New York City kicks off borough-wide curbside composting for the first time
Guardian
10 Oct 2022European Commission aims to end secret system protecting fossil fuel holdings
Guardian
10 Oct 2022Monday October 3rd, 2022
Light displays around Irish coast highlight sea-level rise due to climate change
Irish Independent
3 Oct 2022Friends of the Earth hails energy security review as ‘death knell of Shannon LNG’
Irish Times
3 Oct 2022Arctic Ocean acidifying up to four times as fast as other oceans, study finds
Guardian
3 Oct 2022Environment Agency knew sewage was being dumped into rivers years ago, leak reveals
Guardian
3 Oct 2022Sectoral emissions ceilings published by Government for carbon budgets up to 2030
Irish Times
3 Oct 2022Monday September 26th, 2022
Flood gardens to combat drought and biodiversity loss, says Natural England
Guardian
26 Sep 2022Head of World Bank under pressure after White House condemns his ‘climate denial’ comments
Guardian
26 Sep 2022Buzz stops: bus shelter roofs turned into gardens for bees and butterflies
Guardian
26 Sep 2022‘A powerful solution’: activists push to make ecocide an international crime
Guardian
26 Sep 2022Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions third highest in EU per capita and still rising, despite carbon...
Irish Independent
26 Sep 2022Traffic fumes and open fires causing widespread air quality breaches
Irish Independent
26 Sep 2022Schools to be part of ‘rooftop revolution’ as new grants announced for solar panels
Irish Independent
26 Sep 2022Experts warn of ‘missing link’ between understanding wildlife decline and action to protect it
Irish Independent
26 Sep 2022Monday September 19th, 2022
Climate crisis: World faces ‘increasingly devastating’ effects without ambitious action
Irish Times
19 Sep 2022Five climate activists on why changing hearts and minds is the way to meet Ireland’s...
Irish Times
19 Sep 2022Higher emission cuts may be needed as new data shows land not locking away carbon
Irish Independent
19 Sep 2022Liz Truss to lift fracking ban ‘despite little progress on earthquake risk’
Guardian
19 Sep 2022Weather tracker: Typhoon Muifa wreaks havoc in China after summer of records
Guardian
19 Sep 2022Tiny solar backpacks could help save the plains wanderer – one of Australia’s most endangered...
Guardian
19 Sep 2022‘Africa is on the frontlines but not the front pages’: Vanessa Nakate on her climate...
Guardian
19 Sep 2022Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims
Guardian
19 Sep 2022Monday September 12th, 2022
Max Wakefield: The Tories spent a decade putting fossil fuel profits first. Now we’re all...
Guardian
12 Sep 2022‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan
Guardian
12 Sep 2022Too much plastic packaging waste incinerated rather than recycled, says EPA
Irish Times
12 Sep 2022Changes in Gulf Stream at ‘tipping point’ that could alter Ireland’s weather dramatically
Irish Independent
12 Sep 2022Community ‘charging hubs’ to help drive switch to EVs, ebikes and car-sharing
Irish Independent
12 Sep 2022Monday August 29th, 2022
Tiny Rockabill, the island off the Dublin coast turned into a refuge for threatened seabirds,...
Irish Independent
29 Aug 2022Campaigners dig in for fight after huge six-hall data centre gets go-ahead on 145-acre site
Irish Independent
29 Aug 2022Dealing with drought: how fog collectors are providing trees with water in Spain
Guardian
29 Aug 2022Washington state to ban sales of new gas cars by 2035, following California
Guardian
29 Aug 2022Time running out to protect world’s oceans, conservationists say as UN treaty talks stall
Guardian
29 Aug 2022Irish farmers say they will be forced to cull cows to meet climate targets
Guardian
29 Aug 2022Environment Agency tells staff to ignore pollution complaints, says ex-employee
Guardian
29 Aug 2022Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is ‘now inevitable’
Guardian
29 Aug 2022Monday August 22nd, 2022
How a top US business lobby promised climate action – but worked to block efforts
Guardian
22 Aug 2022Ireland’s highest ever August temperature of 31.7 degrees recorded in Co Carlow
Irish Times
22 Aug 2022Golden eagles face double threat as US wind turbines add to climate crisis peril
Guardian
22 Aug 2022Horn of Africa drought places 22 million people at risk of starvation, says UN
Guardian
22 Aug 2022The rise of vertical farms: could indoor plant factories be the norm in 10 years?
Guardian
22 Aug 2022Monday August 15th, 2022
Academics tell Government emissions ceilings are flawed and unlawful
Irish Independent
15 Aug 2022Traffic congestion charge would boost air quality in New York City, study finds
Guardian
15 Aug 2022‘It’s a human rights issue’: young adults take Portugal climate crisis to court
Guardian
15 Aug 2022Britain’s wetlands are the key to saving us from drought, wildfires and even floods Tony...
Guardian
15 Aug 2022Brexit threatening endangered species as red tape hits zoo breeding programmes
Guardian
15 Aug 2022Swiss mountain pass will lose all glacier ice ‘in a few weeks’ for first time...
Guardian
15 Aug 2022Europe’s rivers run dry as scientists warn drought could be worst in 500 years
Guardian
15 Aug 2022Monday August 8th, 2022
Fintan O’Toole: If we can’t create a system that allows people to plant trees, what...
Irish Times
8 Aug 2022‘The new normal’: how Europe is being hit by a climate-driven drought crisis
Guardian
8 Aug 2022Spain limits air conditioning and heating in public buildings to save energy
Irish Times
8 Aug 2022Stop letting climate targets slide – we should be reaching them even faster
Irish Independent
8 Aug 2022Unprecedented changes needed if climate targets are to be met, Cabinet warned
Irish Times
8 Aug 2022Caveat: Hydrocarbons may eventually kill us but the economy could die first
Irish Times
8 Aug 2022Feeding deer in Phoenix Park poses a threat to both humans and wildlife
Irish Independent
8 Aug 2022Victoria passes laws raising penalties for environmental protesters at logging sites
Guardian
8 Aug 2022‘They all knew’: textile company misled regulators about use of toxic PFAS, documents show
Guardian
8 Aug 2022Revealed: BP’s ‘greenwashing’ social media ads as anger over fuel costs rose
Guardian
8 Aug 2022‘Incredibly promising’: the bubble barrier extracting plastic from a Dutch river
Guardian
8 Aug 2022Monday August 1st, 2022
Tiny turtle pooed ‘pure plastic’ for six days after rescue from Sydney beach
Guardian
1 Aug 2022Energy regulator warns of ‘acute’ risk to security of power supply here
Irish Independent
1 Aug 2022EPA: game not over, says environmental agency leader after supreme court blow
Guardian
1 Aug 2022‘Wake-up call’ for climate-sceptic Czechs as blaze devastates national park
Guardian
1 Aug 2022Undersea nuclear waste dump off Cumbria would imperil marine life, experts warn
Guardian
1 Aug 2022As my son choked on bushfire smoke it was clear our most vulnerable are feeling...
Guardian
1 Aug 2022‘Soon it will be unrecognisable’: total climate meltdown cannot be stopped, says expert
Guardian
1 Aug 2022‘People are worried it will happen again’: the English village whose water ran out
Guardian
1 Aug 2022Monday July 25th, 2022
Greenhouse gas emissions rebound to above pre-Covid levels in Ireland, EPA warns
Irish Times
25 Jul 2022Row over agriculture emissions a throwback to 2007 Fianna Fáil-Green coalition
Irish Times
25 Jul 2022Each Irish household must make climate change a personal battle, says Mary Robinson
Irish Times
25 Jul 2022Multi-million euro package planned to reach 30pc farm carbon emissions reduction
Irish Independent
25 Jul 2022Farming is still fiddling with emissions reduction targets while Europe burns
Irish Independent
25 Jul 2022Climate body calls for Government campaign to cut public fossil fuel use
Irish Independent
25 Jul 2022‘Emotion and pain’ as Dutch farmers fight back against huge cuts to livestock
Guardian
25 Jul 2022Melting ‘snowflakes’? How climate change became a new front in the right’s culture war
Guardian
25 Jul 2022These soaring temperatures have given Britain a taste of the dystopia to come
Guardian
25 Jul 2022Monday July 11th, 2022
Focus on short-term profits fuelling global biodiversity crisis, says UN report
Irish Times
11 Jul 2022What’s worse for the planet than millions of vans delivering shopping? Millions of vans delivering...
Guardian
11 Jul 2022Humans need to value nature as well as profits to survive, UN report finds
Guardian
11 Jul 2022Risk of ‘conflict and strife’ in Europe over energy crisis, EU deputy warns
Guardian
11 Jul 2022Oral contraceptives could help reduce grey squirrel numbers, research finds
Guardian
11 Jul 2022Wednesday July 6th, 2022
Stronger grid and faster planning ‘critical to decarbonising power sector’
Irish Times
6 Jul 2022Decision to drop Wildlife Crime Unit described as ‘U-turn on clear promise’
Irish Independent
6 Jul 2022Lampposts could become electric car charging points in bid to boost uptake and cut emissions
Irish Independent
6 Jul 2022Midlands town unites on radical low-carbon plan in the race to turn tide against climate...
Irish Independent
6 Jul 2022School of rocks: UCD is mining for Earth’s future with special gathering of geologists and...
Irish Independent
6 Jul 2022Snow at one of world’s highest observatories melting earlier than ever before
Guardian
6 Jul 2022‘Every year it gets worse’: on the frontline of the climate crisis in Bangladesh
Guardian
6 Jul 2022Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – study
Guardian
6 Jul 2022Northern Ireland turning Republic into a ‘toilet’ for excess manure pollution
Guardian
6 Jul 2022Global dismay as supreme court ruling leaves Biden’s climate policy in tatters
Guardian
6 Jul 2022‘Putin rubbing hands with glee’ after EU votes to class gas and nuclear as green
Guardian
6 Jul 2022BP accused of dumping industrial waste in marine-protected area off Shetland
Guardian
6 Jul 2022Sunday 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
Guardian
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
Guardian
31 May 2022People in US and UK face huge financial hit if fossil fuels lose value, study...
Guardian
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
Guardian
17 May 2022South Africa’s April floods made twice as likely by climate crisis, scientists say
Guardian
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...
Guardian
18 Apr 2022‘We’re running out of time’: Dan Saladino on why the loss of diversity in our...
Guardian
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...
Guardian
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