Guidelines for getting outdoors safely during COVID19
March 20th, 2020
Increasing
numbers of people are seeking the natural benefits of getting outdoors, taking
in fresh air, letting off pent up energy and enjoying our...
EU urged to rethink plan to bail out airlines
March 19th, 2020
Over 150 environmental
organisations have urged the EU not to bail out the aviation industry in the
wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a letter...
COVID19 – a manifestation of the biodiversity crisis
March 20th, 2020
Ecologists are blue in the face telling people that all life
depends upon biodiversity and that we depend upon the natural world for...
Insectageddon – a plague on our houses or a phantom menace?
March 20th, 2020
“Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile...
‘Radical economic reset’ needed to offset COVID-19 effects
March 19th, 2020
The Government must takes
rapid and concrete steps to stabilise the economy that puts protection of those
hit hardest by the impacts of COVID-19...
Short-term emissions drop nothing to celebrate
March 19th, 2020
For the past few days as the COVID-19 pandemic upends global routines, social media has been flooded with people sharing hopeful messages...
Trump resort refused permission for Doonbeg wall
March 18th, 2020
The Doonbeg golf resort owned by US President Donald Trump has been refused permission by An Bord Pleanála to build a controversial...
UCC environment society to cut ties with caterers over staff layoffs
March 16th, 2020
University College Cork (UCC) environmental society will cut all ties with the university’s catering provider over last week’s decision to lay off...
Covid-19 and the climate: key impacts so far
March 13th, 2020
Earlier this month, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said the recent decline in particulate matter (PM2.5) levels in China’s atmosphere was likely...
2019 was second warmest on record, WMO data
March 11th, 2020
2019 was the second warmest year
on record and finished up with an average global temperature of 1.1 C above
pre-industrial levels.
The year was...
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