Green/Left alliance needed for a Just Transition in tackling waste

24 September 2020 As I travelled up the quays to Liberty Hall earlier this month (it was the first time I had been in Dublin...

US sees ‘alarming’ increase in combined heatwaves and droughts

Climate change has driven an “alarming” increase in the number of years with both heatwaves and droughts across the US over the past five...

International Partnership Aims to Find Buried Water in Earth’s Deserts

Earth's driest ecosystems are a study in extremes: They can be blazingly hot stretches of sand like the Sahara Desert or shatteringly cold expanses...

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #38, 2020

Highlighted article: Carbon pricing and planetary boundaries  Engström et al take what might be called a systems approach to evaluating carbon pricing, taking into a account...

Analysis: China’s Covid stimulus plans for fossil fuels three times larger than low-carbon

China’s main energy-consuming and producing provinces are directing the equivalent of hundreds of billions of dollars into fossil fuel projects, analysis of spending plans...

FIE: Current Forestry Bill doesn’t account for “social factors”

23 September 2020  The Forestry Bill approved by Cabinet today fails to take account of “social factors”, Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) has said.  The...

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