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‘It will cost billions’: Climate crisis poses ‘immediate’ threat to human life and economies, Dublin forum hears
Dublin conference hears countries and firms face mounting dangers from failure to protect natural world
Release of non-native skunks in Co Kildare being investigated
The last animal was humanely caught and culled in late April after video evidence showed one in bog near Newbr…
We need a plan to kick the fossil fuel habit hiding in our kitchen
At a time of climate crisis, will cooking with gas become as anachronistic as indoor smoking?
Investing in priorities on Achill Island
Tourist facilities are welcome, but investment in the village that supports them must surely come first
‘Fear and regret’ in the midlands in wake of Ireland’s move away from peat
A just transition must support people who have lost thousands of jobs and faced an energy transition, say loca…
Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost – UN
Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report
Delightful garden birds have gone for a summer holiday
Let’s hope this is just a temporary break for feathered friends
Dispatch from an Australian who’s feeling increasingly at home in Ireland
A country’s practices may be changing
Monday set to be dry and sunny but more autumnal weather on way
Met Éireann’s outlook is for ‘rather unsettled’ conditions with ‘rain, showers and breezes’
Did a rare pair of cranes visit a Co Waterford garden?
Éanna Ní Lamhna responds to your notes and queries on robins, spiders and rare moths
The floods will overwhelm Irish land. We can’t just sit back
Water is arriving in ways our infrastructure and modified landscape can no longer cope with
Why replace a perfectly good car with a new electric one?
We live in an age in which reduce, reuse, recycle is supposed to be a guiding environmental principle. Cars sh…
As wildfires ravage Irish uplands, has work even begun on the promised national plan?
Wildfire risk management strategies should be prioritised
Heavy rain warning in place for six counties
Dublin also faces chance of thunderstorms, intense downpours and surface flooding
Bit parts for climate in script and song could help war on fossil fuels
Clean technologies rarely feature in popular entertainment – with a few recent exceptions
Conservationists celebrate ‘bounty of barn owl chicks’ in Northern Ireland
Two pairs of barn owls have five chicks each in Co Fermanagh
Water restrictions should apply equally
We are wasting resource on car washing and sports fields