Rose Wall on environmental justice
We wanted to find out more about environmental justice in Ireland, so we called up Rose Wall, the Chief Executive Officer of Community Law...
Bord na Móna confirms it has ended peat extraction
15 January 2021
Bord na Móna has ended all peat extraction on its own land.
The semi-state company called the announcement a “key milestone in...
2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record, NASA Analysis Shows
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by NASA.
Continuing the planet’s...
Early next step: Add risk management to National Climate Assessment
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Gary Yohe, Henry Jacoby, Richard Richels, and Benjamin Santer
Imagine a major climate change law passing the...
State of the climate: 2020 ties as warmest year on record
With all the official climate data now in, the world’s surface temperatures in 2020 have been confirmed as effectively tied with 2016 as the...
Plans to import fracked gas through Port of Cork scrapped
14 January 2021
Plans to import fracked gas through the Port of Cork have been scrapped, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications confirmed...
New scheme will allow excess energy to be sold back to grid
14 January 2021
Individuals and communities will be able to sell their own renewable electricity into the national grid by July this year, the Department...
Climate change could have a ‘profound’ negative impact on child malnourishment
The negative impacts of climate change on child malnourishment could outweigh the positive effects of economic development in low- and middle-income countries, a new...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #2, 2021
Tide of tidal data rises
Having cast our own fate to include rising sea level, there's a degree of urgency in learning the history of mean...
Culture column: Weather by Jenny Offill
13 January 2021
We’re trying out something new here – a culture column. We want to take a look at how our films, tv shows,...
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