Analysis and opinion on environmental issues. Updated first of each month.
Impacts on environment and climate as result of change in use of single-use plastics during COVID-19 pandemic
In Europe, only 40 percent of EU rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands are healthy today, largely due to pressures from industrial agriculture and hydropower, as well as other sectors, such as mining.
1 Jun 2019Denis Hayes, a principal organizer of first Earth Day, predicts the 50th anniversary in 2020 will be “the largest, most diverse action in human history.”
1 May 2019Energy analysts used power demand data from the January deep freeze and wind and solar conditions to find the gaps in an all-renewable power grid
1 Apr 2019The historical disregard of environmental considerations in most areas of policy has been a catastrophic mistake
1 Mar 2019How “sub-national leaders” (local, regional and corporate decision makers) are taking concrete actions on climate change as national and international actors falter
1 Feb 2019And that means faster sea level rise, faster global warming, and more extreme weather for us.
1 Jan 2019The Union of Concerned Scientists’ assessment of the current status, and usefulness, of nuclear power in US
1 Dec 2018Challenges for Ireland to meet obligations under the EU’s Energy Union Flagship Project
27 Oct 2018The challenge: ensuring a reliable clean water supply, treating waste water and preparing for floods or scarcity
1 Oct 2018A focus on Northern Ireland where 5 companies currently hold 10 mineral prospecting licences for different locations
1 Sep 2018New study of methane leaks in the oil and gas industry is the final piece of evidence that natural gas is not part of the climate solution.
1 Aug 2018On effective community participation in environmental projects and policies at the local level in Ireland
1 Jul 2018Bringing back coal jobs is ‘about as practical as bringing back the buggy whip industry’, explains Krugman.
1 Jun 2018Carmakers complain they can’t meet their CO2 targets, blaming declining diesel sales, while pushing old, inefficient, high-performance SUVs to maximise their profits
1 May 2018Local access restrictions can succeed in removing polluting vehicles from city centers and encourage cleaner alternatives
1 Apr 2018On the folly of Trump’s infrastructure plans to spend billions of dollars on developing projects that will likely be ruined by the impacts of a rapidly changing climate
6 Mar 2018Why transport is EU’s biggest climate problem, and what needs to be done to change that
1 Feb 2018We are only beginning to learn where the climate damages will be, when they will occur and how catastrophic they will be
1 Jan 2018Ireland’s leading climatologist reflects on what has just happened during the UN global climate talks in Bonn, Germany
1 Dec 2017Electric cars are on the verge of solving the last challenge they face in competing with gasoline cars — speed of recharging
2 Nov 2017Executive Summary of T&E’s report on why diesel cars are not needed for EU economy, climate or environment Two years after the Dieselgate scandal …
1 Oct 2017Redesigning our food system to radically reduce all types of waste from farm to fork
1 Sep 2017Part of scientific basis for a lawsuit filed by 21 young people against the US government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property by failing to protect them against climate change.
1 Aug 2017The Alaskan tundra is warming so quickly it has become a net emitter of carbon dioxide ahead of schedule
1 Jul 2017