A necessary evil? the farming view on glyphosate

August 8th, 2018 The license for glyphosate was renewed for five years last November by the European Commission. The active ingredient in the Glyphosate is the...

France set to become new watchdog in safety assessment of glyphosate

August 8th, 2018 The European Commission looks set to make France the new lead evaluator in an overhaul of the safety assessment of the controversial...

From Canada with love: Plastic pollution campaigner on his way to Skibbereen

August 8th, 2018 From Canada with love, environmentalist Bryan McNeil is on his way to Skibbereen to show his solidarity with local opponents of a...

Solutions to our Plastic Problem: Lessons from Lithuania

August 8th, 2018 A country with less than three million inhabitants, Lithuania is little known around the world apart from its breath-taking wilderness. And it is...

Ballyroe oil drilling the last thing the people of Cork need

August 8th, 2018 The oil company Providence Resources recently signed a deal with the Chinese energy consortium APEC to fund appraisal drilling 50km off the...

Climate change science comeback strategies

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk Credit: Image by Karin Kirk. Staircase wit. L’esprit de l’escalier. It’s the way the perfect response in an...

Climate Change: Time to tell the full story

August 7th, 2018 The data is sound.  The warnings are clear. And the evidence is mounting. The impacts of climate change are well and truly upon...

China restarts coal plant construction after two-year freeze

Satellite pictures show building work progressing as power demand picks up, but experts say there is still excess coal capacity The post China restarts coal...

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