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Mallow retained its ranking as cleaner than European norms, in second place on the overall list just behind Maynooth, Ireland’s tidiest community.

Tree-ring series offer considerable potential for the development of environment-sensitive proxy records. However, with traditional increment cores, only small amounts of wood are often available from annual tree-ring sequences. For this reason, it is important to understand the reliability (and reproducibility) of radiocarbon measurements obtained from small-sized samples. Here we report the F14C results from the Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility of modern tropical Australian tree samples over a range of four graphite target sizes from the same rings. Our study shows that similar precision can ...

Galway city needs to look at its litter management plan if it is to reverse the trend that has this week seen it lose its Clean City status in the latest IBAL anti-litter league.

Share But according to the team's findings, the most dramatic part was the lead-up to the reversal, when the poles were migrating across the Earth. 'Earth's magnetic field dropped to only 0 to 6 per cent strength during the Adams Event,' said Professor Turney. 'We essentially had no magnetic field at all – our cosmic radiation shield was totally gone.'  During the magnetic field breakdown, the Sun experienced several grand solar minima (GSM) – long-term periods of quiet solar activity. Even though a GSM means less activity on the Sun's surface, the weakening of its magnetic field can mea...

Two Co Kildare towns are the top ten cleanest in nationwide litter survey Reporter: Newbridge and Maynooth again Clean to European Norms and occupying 9th and 10th spots respectively in the ranking of 37 towns and cities. Kilkenny retained top spot, ahead of Killarney and Ennis. According to the report, litter levels continue to rise nationwide, with fewer than half of the towns surveyed deemed clean.    The An Taisce report for Newbridge stated: “Another excellent performance by Newbridge solidifies its place among our cleanest towns. Over half the sites surveyed got the top litte...