There’s no vaccine for the greenhouse effect
The future is an Undiscovered Country. Things are done differently there. For those who follow the science of the climate and ecological crisis, it’s...
Natural-born killers wreak ecological havoc
According to the French Novelist, Victor Hugo, “God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.” It’s an apt description...
A 15-minute walk on the wild side
There is no idea too moderate or sensible that conspiracy theorists can’t tar as a Marxist plot to turn us all into slaves in...
Ozone recovery offers sliver of optimism on climate action
Good news stories on the climate beat are few and far between, and offer occasional relief from the quickening drumbeat of bad news...
Oil giants struggle to wash blood off their hands
It may be making more money than ever, but the fossil fuel industry is rapidly losing whatever semblance of social licence it could still...
Violent words beget violent actions
By and large, Ireland is a tolerant country, spared the worst excesses of polarisation that have blighted post-Brexit Britain and the US after Trump....
To save our world, we must fall in love with nature
“In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we...
Bringing airborne plastic pollution down to earth
What goes up, must eventually come down again, and so it is with helium balloons, a pernicious form of pollution that rarely receives the...
Best of times, worst of times
The annual ritual of seeing whether the famous Doomsday Clock moves closer to or further from midnight took a worrying turn this year, as...
Oh! What a Lovely War for fossil fuel profiteers
While 2022 may have been the year when full-scale war returned to Europe for the first time since 1945, with massive spikes in energy...