Tipping points, runaway warming, and the art of climate communication
August 10th, 2018
The fingerprints of climate change are clear this summer and public debate is catching up with climate science, bringing renewed opportunity to...
Fish oil supplements: debatable health benefits but clear environment impact
August 9th, 2018
For decades, fish oil supplements have been advertised as key to improved cardiovascular health, and the secret to dodge Alzheimer’s disease later...
Several dead Cuvier’s beaked whales found along Irish coast last weekend
August 9th, 2018
Three Cuvier’s beaked whales were found washed up at different locations along the coast in counties Donegal and Mayo last weekend.
The dead...
Mendocino Complex Fire is now largest in California’s history
August 8th, 2018
The Mendocino Complex Fire currently devastating an area almost the size of Los Angeles is the largest in California’s history, , has...
A necessary evil? the farming view on glyphosate
August 8th, 2018
The license for glyphosate was renewed for five years last November by the European Commission. The active ingredient in the
Glyphosate is the...
France set to become new watchdog in safety assessment of glyphosate
August 8th, 2018
The European Commission looks set to make France the new lead evaluator in an overhaul of the safety assessment of the controversial...
From Canada with love: Plastic pollution campaigner on his way to Skibbereen
August 8th, 2018
From Canada with love, environmentalist Bryan McNeil is on his way to Skibbereen to show his solidarity with local opponents of a...
Solutions to our Plastic Problem: Lessons from Lithuania
August 8th, 2018
A country with less than three million inhabitants, Lithuania is little known around the world apart from its breath-taking wilderness.
And it is...
Ballyroe oil drilling the last thing the people of Cork need
August 8th, 2018
The oil company Providence Resources recently signed a deal with the Chinese energy consortium APEC to fund appraisal drilling 50km off the...
Climate Change: Time to tell the full story
August 7th, 2018
The data is sound. The warnings are clear. And the evidence is mounting.
The impacts of climate change are well and truly upon...
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