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Heat-related mortality has increased by around 30 per cent in past 20 years, EU report found

Last year shattered global temperature record with the largest jump ever recorded

Eamon Ryan says State must speed up implementation of climate policies ‘like never before’

School grounds in Inistioge, Co Kilkenny, are flooded by ‘unbelievable’ volume of water from River Nore

The NUI Professor said if heavy flooding does occur in Waterford in the next while, it may well be due to rising sea temperatures off the Waterford coast...

Q&A: Carbon budgets, EPA projections and their implications explained

An Taisce analysis urges emergency actions due to gap between climate ambition and facts as excess emissions not being factored into subsequent carbon budgets

Sustainability is the buzzword of the Food Vision 2030 plan for agrifood export expansion

DeSmog May 4, 2020 @ 04:41 It is increasingly unlikely that Ireland will develop new infrastructure to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced from fracked wells in the US, after the plans suffered a series of potentially fatal legal and political setbacks. First, the European Court of Justice advocate general, Juliane Kokott, ruled that An Bord Pleanála, Ireland’s planning appeals body, erred in not requesting an up-to-date environmental impact study for the proposed Shannon LNG t...

In its recent publication, Wastewater Treatment in Galway, An Taisce reminded us that until the wastewater treatment plant on Mutton Island came into operation in 2004, this city had historically allowed 6,000,000 litres of untreated raw sewage a day to flow out into Galway Bay, a Special Area of Conservation.