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Monday April 22nd, 2024
‘There’s a sense of desperation’ – protecting Dublin’s soft coastline from the erosion of tides...
Irish Times
22 Apr 2024No climate ‘backlash’ in Irish public opinion, Friends of the Earth survey finds
Irish Times
22 Apr 2024‘We have to plan now’ – climate change expert’s warning over the battle for water
Irish Independent
22 Apr 2024‘No dividing line’: consultants advising private water companies also work for their regulator, Ofwat
Guardian
22 Apr 2024A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like...
Guardian
22 Apr 2024‘A win for all generations’ as Swiss grannies win landmark climate case while youth activists...
Irish Independent
22 Apr 2024‘It has had a big impact on everybody around here’: Concern over scale of wind...
Irish Times
22 Apr 2024Europe baked in ‘extreme heat stress’ pushing temperatures to record highs
Irish Times
22 Apr 2024Revealed: How much the State paid for iconic Conor Pass land – part of Ireland’s...
Irish Independent
22 Apr 2024Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights
Guardian
22 Apr 2024Monday April 15th, 2024
Why landmark climate case verdict from ECHR has big implications for Ireland
Irish Times
15 Apr 2024Leaked EU agenda triggers alarm as nature and climate fall down list of priorities
Irish Independent
15 Apr 2024Strasbourg court’s Swiss climate ruling could have global impact, say experts
Guardian
15 Apr 2024Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case
Guardian
15 Apr 2024Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record as footage shows damage 18...
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15 Apr 2024Network of ‘ghost roads’ paves the way for levelling Asia-Pacific rainforests
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15 Apr 2024Shell says it ‘lobbies for energy transition’ during climate ruling appeal
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15 Apr 2024‘We found 700 different species’: astonishing array of wildlife discovered in Cambodia mangroves
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15 Apr 2024‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief
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15 Apr 2024How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tactics
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15 Apr 2024Decline of hen harrier numbers in Northern Ireland by 26% prompts concern
Irish Times
15 Apr 2024Wednesday April 10th, 2024
‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
Guardian
10 Apr 2024‘Working with the landscape is a more sensible way of managing our rivers’: should we...
Guardian
10 Apr 2024Boom in mining for renewable energy minerals threatens Africa’s great apes
Guardian
10 Apr 2024New York is suing the world’s biggest meat company. It might be a tipping point...
Guardian
10 Apr 2024Revealed: Ireland’s biggest polluters and their failure to control emissions
Irish Independent
10 Apr 2024Scientists confirm record highs for three most important heat-trapping gases
Guardian
10 Apr 2024Monday April 1st, 2024
MetroLink stations will be short on toilets and bike parking – commuter group
Irish Independent
1 Apr 2024ExxonMobil accused of ‘greenwashing’ over carbon capture plan it failed to invest in
Guardian
1 Apr 2024Hospital admissions for waterborne diseases in England up 60%, report shows
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1 Apr 2024‘Enormously exciting’: farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England
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1 Apr 2024Monday March 25th, 2024
Land ownership in rural Scotland more concentrated despite reforms, study finds
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25 Mar 2024England won’t adopt EU river pollution rules for pharma and cosmetics firms
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25 Mar 2024Women and girls suffer first when droughts hit poor and rural areas, says UN
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25 Mar 2024World’s top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas
Guardian
25 Mar 2024Homeowners slow to swap from oil to heat pumps, even if grants covered costs, SEAI...
Irish Independent
25 Mar 2024‘The anti-livestock people are a pest’: how UN food body played down role of farming...
Guardian
25 Mar 2024‘If the sea rises we’ll have to leave’: plans to restart gas drilling threaten Italy’s...
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25 Mar 2024A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands
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25 Mar 2024Monday March 18th, 2024
Landmark wind turbine noise ruling from High Court referred to attorney general
Irish Independent
18 Mar 2024Environmental group threatens to sue EPA over failure to tell customers about water issues
Irish Independent
18 Mar 2024Melt rate of Greenland ice sheet can predict summer weather in Europe, scientist says
Guardian
18 Mar 2024Climate activists across Europe block access to North Sea oil infrastructure
Guardian
18 Mar 2024‘They’re at the forefront’: the women leading the way through Britain’s farming crisis
Guardian
18 Mar 2024France’s lower house votes to limit ‘excesses’ of fast fashion with environmental surcharge
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18 Mar 2024Australian Alps face world’s largest loss of snow by end of century, research shows
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18 Mar 2024Tuesday March 12th, 2024
Global carbon emissions near peak as use of clean-energy technology accelerates, says report
Irish Times
12 Mar 2024Dublin eyes climate neutrality by 2030 in ‘very ambitious’ plan to slash emissions
Irish Independent
12 Mar 2024How did Norway become the electric car superpower? Oil money, civil disobedience – and Morten...
Guardian
12 Mar 2024No big North Sea fossil fuel country has plan to stop drilling in time for...
Guardian
12 Mar 2024Irish public increasingly worried by threat of extreme weather events
Irish Independent
12 Mar 2024State must rectify climate planning weaknesses, say NGOs, after failure to present adequate strategy
Irish Independent
12 Mar 2024Tracking the cuckoo’s arduous African journey, to the Congo and back
Irish Independent
12 Mar 2024Uisce Éireann warns water supply is so stretched it may have to refuse connections to...
Irish Independent
12 Mar 2024US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in ‘climate time bomb
Guardian
12 Mar 2024‘It’ll be a shortlist of one!’ Villagers in England fear nuclear dump proposal
Guardian
12 Mar 2024‘Stop insuring fossil fuel’: activists target London insurers in week of action
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12 Mar 2024‘She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist
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12 Mar 2024Monday February 26th, 2024
Collapse of Atlantic ocean current could turn Ireland’s climate into Iceland’s
Irish Times
26 Feb 2024Ireland will not meet 2030 emissions and energy targets, EU assessment warns
Irish Independent
26 Feb 2024Weather tracker: Contrasts in cold and heat break records in China – Matt Williams
Guardian
26 Feb 2024‘Our yields are going to be appalling’: one of wettest winters in decades hits England’s...
Guardian
26 Feb 2024Public transport workers join climate activists for week of strikes across Germany
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26 Feb 2024‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not...
Guardian
26 Feb 2024Farmers set fire to tyres in Brussels as EU officials meet to address concerns –...
Guardian
26 Feb 2024‘Every package carries a hidden cost’: is it better for the environment to shop online...
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26 Feb 2024British and Irish rivers in desperate state from pollution, report reveals
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26 Feb 2024Monday February 19th, 2024
‘Like the flip of a switch, it’s gone’: has the ecosystem of the UK’s largest...
Guardian
19 Feb 2024‘Total immersive obsession’: meet the man on a mission to record every bird in Ireland...
Guardian
19 Feb 2024Very cool: trees stalling effects of global heating in eastern US, study finds
Guardian
19 Feb 2024Farmers are in revolt and Europe’s climate policies are crumbling. Welcome to the age of...
Guardian
19 Feb 2024Country diary: Adding to Britain’s precious stock of hedgerows, one by one
Guardian
19 Feb 2024Owners of Taransay to return Scottish ‘Castaway’ island to its bronze age state
Guardian
19 Feb 2024Dublin Airport – global airlines threaten to pull flights in row over passenger cap
Irish Times
19 Feb 2024Wednesday February 14th, 2024
One in five migratory species under protection at risk of extinction, UN report finds
Irish Times
14 Feb 2024Re-election of Trump would not derail clean energy revolution, John Kerry says
Irish Independent
14 Feb 2024Vital ocean currents regulating Earth’s climate ‘on course to a tipping point’
Irish Independent
14 Feb 2024More all-Ireland investment needed to meet climate targets, report finds
Irish Independent
14 Feb 2024Atmospheric river storms are getting stronger, and deadlier. The race to understand them is on
Guardian
14 Feb 2024US oil companies to merge in $26bn deal as firms rush to buy up drilling...
Guardian
14 Feb 2024Are you ready for the collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation? No, you are...
Guardian
14 Feb 2024Polar bears risk starvation as they face longer ice-free periods in the Arctic
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14 Feb 2024Revealed: the 1,200 big methane leaks from waste dumps trashing the planet
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14 Feb 2024Climate experts sound alarm over thriving plant life at Greenland ice sheet
Guardian
14 Feb 2024Wood-burning stoves largely offset fall in particulate pollution from roads in UK
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14 Feb 2024Tuesday February 6th, 2024
How do you stop a glacier from melting? Simple – put up an underwater curtain
Guardian
6 Feb 2024Why are farmers protesting across the EU and what can the bloc do about it?
Guardian
6 Feb 2024‘Less litter, less waste’: new deposit return scheme starts for recycling plastic bottles, aluminium cans
Irish Times
6 Feb 2024Landowners near planned pylons face compulsory purchase orders if they don’t sign voluntary agreement
Irish Independent
6 Feb 2024Delays in cleaning up EU air will cause thousands more early deaths, say health experts
Guardian
6 Feb 2024Make used electric cars cheaper and tackle battery fears, peers tell ministers
Guardian
6 Feb 2024After Paris’s coup against SUVs, the UK should slam the brakes on these polluting monsters...
Guardian
6 Feb 2024Stop looking for loopholes, UN warns, after Saudi hints end of fossil fuels ‘just one...
Guardian
6 Feb 2024Minister consulted BP over incentives to maximise oil production, FoI reveals
Guardian
6 Feb 2024UK’s emissions fell slightly in 2022 but transport and homes still biggest emitters
Guardian
6 Feb 2024Tuesday January 30th, 2024
Ireland’s big climate change challenge set out in stark detail in unprecedented assessment
Irish Times
30 Jan 2024Mobile phone masts to help gather data on greenhouse gas emissions in Dublin
Irish Independent
30 Jan 2024A wolf killed the EU president’s precious pony – then the fight to catch the...
Guardian
30 Jan 202483% of English rivers have evidence of high pollution from sewage and agriculture
Guardian
30 Jan 2024‘Unacceptable greenwashing’: Scottish farmed salmon should not be labelled organic, say charities
Guardian
30 Jan 2024Weather tracker: ‘atmospheric rivers’ of heavy rain set to hit western US and Canada
Guardian
30 Jan 2024A California town will vote on banning factory farms. What does that mean for the...
Guardian
30 Jan 2024How a Black Miami neighborhood became ‘ground zero for climate gentrification’
Guardian
30 Jan 2024Constant clouds over US Great Lakes area could hurt residents’ mental health
Guardian
30 Jan 2024Eirgrid disputes ‘alarmist’ prediction that power demand by Irish data centres is set to double...
Irish Independent
30 Jan 2024Tuesday January 23rd, 2024
Northern Ireland ‘dirty corner of Europe’ due to lack of governance, say experts
Guardian
23 Jan 2024Goodbye Mr Kerry, farewell Mr Xie: end of an era in global climate politics
Guardian
23 Jan 2024Nature in England at risk due to government failures, says environment watchdog
Guardian
23 Jan 2024Cop28 deal will fail unless rich countries quit fossil fuels, says climate negotiator
Guardian
23 Jan 2024Environment Agency told staff to delay inspections to stay on target last year
Guardian
23 Jan 2024Australia not prepared for how Antarctic ice changes will pummel economy, scientist warns
Guardian
23 Jan 2024Arctic zombie viruses in Siberia could spark terrifying new pandemic, scientists warn
Guardian
23 Jan 2024Homeowners in coldest houses drive fivefold rise in retrofit applications
Irish Independent
23 Jan 2024Deposit, drink, return, repeat – how the new plastic bottle and can recycling scheme will...
Irish Independent
23 Jan 2024Majority support energy infrastructure projects if they provide local jobs and support communities – survey
Irish Times
23 Jan 2024Peer who praised rising temperatures appointed to climate crisis committee
Guardian
23 Jan 2024Monday January 15th, 2024
Sunak ‘dodging scrutiny’ by failing to appoint chair of Climate Change Committee
Guardian
15 Jan 2024Environment Agency accused of ‘scandalous neglect’ over chicken excrement entering River Wye
Guardian
15 Jan 2024The world’s hottest year on record explained: How did Ireland fare in 2023 –and how...
Irish Independent
15 Jan 2024Ryan unveils National Cycle Network plan to create 3,500km of linked cycleways between towns and...
Irish Independent
15 Jan 2024‘Off the charts’: 2023 was hottest year ever recorded globally, US scientists confirm
Guardian
15 Jan 2024Monday January 8th, 2024
If world is to decarbonise, climate policy must be just and deploy new framework, researchers...
Irish Times
8 Jan 2024Budweiser reprimanded for breach of advertising code with claims it uses 100pc renewable electricity in...
Irish Independent
8 Jan 2024Warmer winters and more flooding will be the norm in the UK, scientists warn
Guardian
8 Jan 2024UK government admits Rosebank oil will not be kept in UK to boost energy security
Guardian
8 Jan 2024Cookies and candy are latest victims of climate crisis as sugar prices surge
Guardian
8 Jan 2024Chris Skidmore resigns Conservative whip over Sunak’s oil and gas licence plan
Guardian
8 Jan 2024It’s not just the total rainfall – why is eastern Australia experiencing such sudden, devastating...
Guardian
8 Jan 2024Tuesday January 2nd, 2024
Irish Climate Report 2023: This year to be the warmest on record, says Met Éireann
Irish Times
2 Jan 2024Era of peat-fired electricity ends as Edenderry power plant switches fully to burning biomass
Irish Independent
2 Jan 2024Weather tracker: rain batters Argentina and DRC as fog shrouds India and Pakistan
Guardian
2 Jan 2024Burial review – deep dive into underworld of nuclear power and its toxic legacy
Guardian
2 Jan 2024‘Electricity is fundamental to quality of life’: the man bringing off-grid, pay-as-you-go power to Africa
Guardian
2 Jan 2024Federal Labor under pressure to ‘stop idling’ on car fuel efficiency standards
Guardian
2 Jan 2024Sunak under fire for ‘inexplicable’ failure to appoint new climate committee chief
Guardian
2 Jan 2024Growing proportion of England’s flood defences in disrepair, analysis finds
Guardian
2 Jan 2024Great Ormond Street to look at home air pollution when diagnosing illnesses
Guardian
2 Jan 2024