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Monday April 7th, 2025
Millions of Americans believe they’re safe from wildfires in their cities. New research shows they’re...
Guardian
7 Apr 2025Jury orders Chevron to pay more than $744m for destroying Louisiana wetlands
Guardian
7 Apr 2025The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should...
Guardian
7 Apr 2025What next for climate activism now Just Stop Oil is ‘hanging up the hi-vis’?
Guardian
7 Apr 2025Are rising lower respiratory infection hospital admissions linked to dirty air?
Guardian
7 Apr 2025Are rising lower respiratory infection hospital admissions linked to dirty air?
Guardian
7 Apr 2025US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive
Guardian
7 Apr 2025‘Challenging’ time ahead for power grid as electricity demand to soar by 45pc in next...
Irish Independent
7 Apr 2025Row over Shannon LNG plans back in High Court, with potential for wide-reaching implications
Irish Independent
7 Apr 2025Questions raised as Coillte quietly shuts down its non-profit Nature branch
Irish Independent
7 Apr 2025‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles
Guardian
7 Apr 2025Monday March 24th, 2025
What a $660 Million Verdict Means for Greenpeace and the Environmental Movement
Inside Climate News
24 Mar 2025Oystercatcher Recovery Campaign Offers a Rare Success Story about Shorebird Conservation
Inside Climate News
24 Mar 2025Scientists identify ‘tipping point’ that caused clumps of toxic Florida seaweed
Guardian
24 Mar 2025‘A place you remember for the rest of your life’: why Dutch architects are giving...
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24 Mar 2025Ditch the balloons and swap the plastic toys for cake: how to have a waste-free...
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24 Mar 2025What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste...
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24 Mar 2025New forest to be created in west of England, with 20m trees planted by 2050
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24 Mar 2025Earth sending ‘distress signals’ as warming climate inflicts chaos, UN chief Antonio Guterres warns
Irish Independent
24 Mar 2025Row over Shannon LNG plans back in High Court, with potential for wide-reaching implications
Irish Independent
24 Mar 2025Europe’s glaciers ‘will not survive the century’, report on growing melt warns
Irish Independent
24 Mar 2025Monday March 17th, 2025
Irish dairy and beef sectors have the tools to tackle methane emissions
Irish Times
17 Mar 2025Smart devices can stop €2.1bn wind energy waste and help give homes hot water, says...
Irish Times
17 Mar 2025Groups affected by fracking in US plea for meeting with Taoiseach before importing LNG
Irish Independent
17 Mar 2025‘Long-term prognosis is grim’ – sea ice area has melted to smallest size on record,...
Irish Independent
17 Mar 2025Explainer: Why is fracking back – and how was it held at bay for over...
Irish Independent
17 Mar 2025Line 5, a Trump donor, is profiting off a pipeline deal threatening pollution
Guardian
17 Mar 2025Environmental groups sound new alarm as fossil fuel lobby pushes for immunity
Guardian
17 Mar 2025Trump’s environmental rule-shredding will put lives at risk, ex-EPA heads say
Guardian
17 Mar 2025US-funded ‘social network’ attacking pesticide critics shuts down after Guardian investigation
Guardian
17 Mar 2025UK hoping to work with China to counteract Trump’s climate-hostile policies
Guardian
17 Mar 2025Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grants
Guardian
17 Mar 2025Atmospheric river to wallop California as study finds storms getting worse
Guardian
17 Mar 2025Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows
Guardian
17 Mar 2025The Guardian view on microplastics: harmful pollution must be curbed Editorial
Guardian
17 Mar 2025Tuesday March 4th, 2025
Onus is on Cork farmers to reduce leaching of nitrates & improve water quality –...
Irish Independent
4 Mar 2025Leading academics urge Taoiseach Micheál Martin to take step back from ‘dirty’ LNG
Irish Independent
4 Mar 2025‘Ireland is a stand-out laggard on climate action’ – taxpayers face bill of up to...
Irish Independent
4 Mar 2025US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies
Guardian
4 Mar 2025Earth’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050 in a high emissions...
Guardian
4 Mar 2025People see it as invasive’: did anti-green feeling fuel the right’s rise in Germany?
Guardian
4 Mar 2025First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters
Guardian
4 Mar 2025Trump purge raises extinction threat for endangered species, fired workers warn
Guardian
4 Mar 2025Federal layoffs hit the deep-red, rural US west: ‘Our public lands are under threat’
Guardian
4 Mar 2025Federal layoffs hit the deep-red, rural US west: ‘Our public lands are under threat’
Guardian
4 Mar 2025Monday February 17th, 2025
Campaigners say Taoiseach’s plans for gas storage facility are not based on latest analysis
Irish Independent
17 Feb 2025Storm Éowyn broke wind records at multiple locations amid hurricane-force speeds, Met Éireann confirms
Irish Times
17 Feb 2025Ireland’s climate and energy security must not be sacrificed to appease Trump with LNG deal...
Irish Times
17 Feb 2025World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study
Guardian
17 Feb 2025A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God...
Guardian
17 Feb 2025EVs and datacentres driving new global ‘age of electricity’, says watchdog
Guardian
17 Feb 2025DeSantis urged to declare emergency over toxic red tide algae off Florida coast
Guardian
17 Feb 2025‘It is going to be terrible’: a senior in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ prepares for Trump’s...
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17 Feb 2025The LA fires burned down a thriving Black community. Residents are afraid of being ‘erased’
Guardian
17 Feb 2025Water chlorination levels in US and EU likely increase cancer risk, study finds
Guardian
17 Feb 2025Monday February 10th, 2025
Mary Robinson says Donald Trump is a liar and he and Elon Musk are a...
Irish Independent
10 Feb 2025Heathrow expansion puts the government on the flight path to years of trouble and strife
Guardian
10 Feb 2025Peace, permanence and affordable prices: six ways to solve Britain’s housing crisis
Guardian
10 Feb 2025Just Stop Oil protester, 78, released to home detention after fitting tag found
Guardian
10 Feb 2025‘Perfect rat storm’: urban rodent numbers soar as the climate heats, study finds
Guardian
10 Feb 2025‘Everyone has an impact’: how to start reducing your environmental footprint
Guardian
10 Feb 2025Prolonged Storm Éowyn power cuts highlight the dire need to build our electricity resilience
Irish Times
10 Feb 2025Trump to reverse Biden’s plan to phase out plastic straws across US government
Guardian
10 Feb 2025Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK
Guardian
10 Feb 2025‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears
Guardian
10 Feb 2025More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones
Guardian
10 Feb 2025Weather tracker: Japan’s record snowfall causes chaos as temperatures dive
Guardian
10 Feb 2025Monday January 27th, 2025
Ireland’s future weather will be even warmer and wetter than predicted, scientists warn
Irish Times
27 Jan 2025From showers to tiny fish to windmills, Trump’s climate policies are driven by fixations
Irish Times
27 Jan 2025Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at sewage plants that weren’t carried out
Guardian
27 Jan 2025‘The risk of extinction is accelerating’: world’s botanic gardens raise alarm with space to protect...
Guardian
27 Jan 2025The Kyoto climate treaty is hailed on stage but reality tells a different story
Guardian
27 Jan 2025Electric cars in UK last as long as petrol and diesel vehicles, study finds
Guardian
27 Jan 2025Cyclogenesis and sting jets: How Storm Éowyn turned out to be one of the most...
Irish Times
27 Jan 2025After the storm: how were different areas in Ireland impacted by Storm Éowyn?
Irish Times
27 Jan 2025Escaped fish farm salmon feared to be breeding weakness into wild cousins
Irish Independent
27 Jan 2025First of four High Court challenges to the Government’s climate action plans to be heard...
Irish Independent
27 Jan 2025‘Mind-blowing’ cuts in greenhouse gases needed for Ireland to meet climate pledges, scientist warns
Irish Independent
27 Jan 2025Tuesday January 21st, 2025
Climate experts fearful of more talk, less action as old targets repackaged as new ones...
Irish Independent
21 Jan 2025‘It’s going to be rough’: what Trump’s response to LA fires portends for future climate...
Guardian
21 Jan 2025‘Net zero hero’ myth unfairly shifts burden of solving climate crisis on to individuals, study...
Guardian
21 Jan 2025A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals
Guardian
21 Jan 2025Trump vows to ‘unleash’ oil and gas drilling as he rolls back climate rules
Guardian
21 Jan 2025Trump revokes Biden order that had set 50% electric vehicles target for 2030
Guardian
21 Jan 2025Wealth of US ‘oil-garchs’ went up 15% in nine months as industry figures plan Trump...
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21 Jan 2025Monday January 13th, 2025
Dublin is third most traffic-choked city in Europe, new report finds
Irish Independent
13 Jan 2025How the climate crisis fuels devastating wildfires: ‘We have tweaked nature and pissed it off’
Guardian
13 Jan 2025In utterly unsurprising news, Maga blames diversity for the Los Angeles wildfires
Guardian
13 Jan 2025Warmer homes and healthier people: what’s not to like about a low-carbon future?
Guardian
13 Jan 2025Early ‘forever chemicals’ exposure could affect economic success in adulthood – study
Guardian
13 Jan 2025The Guardian view on the LA fires: Donald Trump’s denial and division fuel climate inaction
Guardian
13 Jan 20252024 was hottest year on record for world’s land and oceans, US scientists confirm
Guardian
13 Jan 2025As the world burns, young Australians are feeling disbelief – and looking for answers
Guardian
13 Jan 2025Monday January 6th, 2025
Warming Ireland at increasing risk of climate events coming all at once, Met Éireann warns
Irish Times
6 Jan 2025Reliance on fossil fuels reducing too slowly, energy authority warns
Irish Independent
6 Jan 2025Ireland has 15 years to end use of fossil fuels or face ‘profound costs’, climate...
Irish Independent
6 Jan 2025Ireland faces EU fines as waste production rises while recycling rate stagnant over a decade
Irish Independent
6 Jan 2025Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the strange ways species are adapting to humans
Guardian
6 Jan 2025The Guardian view on a carbon-free economy: no just transition in sight – yet
Guardian
6 Jan 2025‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows
Guardian
6 Jan 2025Trump accused of attacking UK energy policies on behalf of fossil fuel industry
Guardian
6 Jan 2025