Smoky coal ban still on backburner over industry legal threat
July 4th, 2019
The
Minister for Climate Action has said that his Department will
not
roll out a nationwide ban on smoky coal amid threats of legal
challenge by...
Funds not available to repair crumbling Fermoy weir, Committee hears
July 3rd, 2019
Cork
County Council has said that it does not have sufficient funding to
repair a crumbling weir on Blackwater River in Fermoy, Co Cork....
Irish Water need to come clean and give total transparency on pollution into Dublin...
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Significant decline in wintering waterbird populations, report finds
July 3rd, 2019
A new report from the Irish Wetland Bird Survey has found that the numbers of wintering waterbirds in Ireland have declined by...
Climate Attribution: Learning the Lesson of June 2019
July 2nd, 2019
The ‘Spanish Plume’ which enveloped much of western Europe over the past week has now begun to dissipate with more seasonally normal...
Climate change made French heatwave ‘at least 5 times likelier’
July 2nd, 2019
The record-breaking heatwave in France that disrupted life across the European powerhouse was made five times more likely due to human-induced climate...
Latest heatwave causing major disruption across Europe
July 2nd, 2019
Last
week’s European heatwave set new temperature records and disrupted
life across the continent.
According
to the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO),
the “unusually early and exceptionally intensive” heatwave...
Irish bird populations ‘decimated’ over space of few decades
July 2nd, 2019
The populations of a host of birds, including iconic species such as the Barn Owl and Curlew, have been “decimated” over the...
Mining licence a cause for serious concern – Greens
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EU-Mercosur deal is deeply damaging for the environment and for Irish agriculture: Greens
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