One in three Irish people see climate as pressing issue
March 4th, 2019
One in three Irish adults believe that climate change is the most pressing environmental issue of our time, new research from the...
Irish group takes case to Europe over biomass burning
March 4th,
2019
A subsidy to encourage biomass burning alongside peat for electricity generation is allowing the “commercially unviable” industry to survive, environmentalists have warned.
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Burning wood for power breaches EU treaty, new lawsuit claims
Plaintiffs from six European countries and the US argue biomass does more harm than good and should be not be counted as a renewable...
Analysis: UK’s CO2 emissions fell for record sixth consecutive year in 2018
Carbon Brief analysis shows the UK’s CO2 emissions fell for the sixth consecutive year in 2018, the longest series of continuous reductions on record.
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2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #9
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2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #9
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Feb 24 through Sat, Mar...
Uncontrolled burning in Wicklow uplands condemned
March 1st, 2019
Gorse fires started in the Wicklow uplands during an exceptionally
dry February are damaging to the environment and a threat to public safety,...
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