Human-induced change could affect as much as half of the world’s oceans

18 August 2020  Human-induced change may have affected as much as half of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, a new study has revealed. A new...

Cork Councillor calls on Minister Coveney to bring Ringaskiddy incinerator issue to Cabinet

18 August 2020  Green Party Councillor Lorna Bogue has urged the Minister for Defence to bring the longstanding issue of the Ringaskiddy incinerator before cabinet...

Scientists remember ‘Koni’ Steffen, glaciologist who died after fall into crevasse in Greenland

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections If, as they say, passing on – aka dying – is best when it comes “doing the thing...

Open call for local rewetting schemes officially launches

17 August 2020  An open call was officially launched today for locally-led rewetting schemes of farmed peatland as part of the Department of Agriculture’s Rural...

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