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Monday 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 2022