Friends of the Earth’s Kate Ruddock appointed to the board of SEAI

10 March 2017 Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten T.D., appointed Kate Ruddock to the Board of the Sustainable Energy Authority of...

Prince Charles’ Ladybird book is a climate communications masterpiece

A recent Ladybird book on climate change achieved something few books on climate change do: it got read (or at least bought) by large numbers...

U.S. desert songbirds at risk in a warming climate

A Texas curve-bill thrasher sits on a cactus. Credit: copyright Seabamirum, via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). Projected increases in the frequency, intensity and duration of heatwaves...

Coal lobbyist Trump attorney seeks to bypass US kids’ climate lawsuit

The US administration is seeking a fast-track appeal against a climate change lawsuit brought by 21 young people.Jeffrey Wood, a temporary Trump appointee at the Justice Department and...

How Green is My EV?

Posted on 9 March 2017 by David Kirtley One of the largest sources of CO2 pollution from the average American consumer is the family car....

Gallery: Éire Fhiáin captures the beauty of Ireland’s north-west coast.

March 09 2017 CTL Wildlife’s, Éire Fhiáin returned last night with some encaptivating shots of Ireland’s biodiversity along the North-west coast of the country. Beginning...

China floats split with EU over carbon trading

China is moving closer to a carbon tax for cutting emissions and away from the EU’s emissions trading model, a senior Chinese official has...

SAGE III installed on its new home on the International Space Station

The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III is visible here on its new home on the International Space Station's ExPRESS Logistics Carrier platform. Credit:...

Trump’s ban: ‘I want to study in US to save my country from climate...

I am an 18-year-old Sudanese woman. I study chemical engineering at the University of Khartoum and I want to do a Masters in environmental...

Spring Budget 2017: key climate and energy announcements

Philip Hammond, the UK’s chancellor, has delivered his first – and last – spring budget, with a speech to parliament that was light on...

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