Jewels of the Irish bog on display during Biodiversity Week 2018

May 17th, 2018 The elaborate and colourful nature of Ireland’s bogs is set to feature at a series of public events during National Biodiversity Week...

SEAI award Donegal student project to tackle plastic pollution

May 17th, 2018 Twenty teams battled it out in the final of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland’s tenth annual One Good Idea competition this...

UK onshore wind energy potential could ‘rise by 10%’ with 1.5C warming

Wind energy in the UK could increase by 10% if the world warms to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures, a new study finds. The research is...

April 2018 was third warmest April on record

In spite of the low temperatures in parts of the United States last month, 2018 experienced globally the third warmest April in 138 years...

NASA satellites reveal major shifts in global freshwater

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have combined an array of NASA satellite observations of Earth with data on human activities to map locations where...

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