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Thomas Murray from Ringsend, Dublin, pictured raising the flag on board the Liffey Ferry and Richie Saunders, also Ringsend, who was one of the original coxswains who preserved the boat. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times.

Liffey Ferry service will be back in business from next month

Water taxi across Liffey to take three minutes at €2 a trip

An iceberg floats in a fjord near the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland last year. File photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Greenland’s ice melting faster than scientists previously thought – study

Research provides fresh evidence of dangers posed to coastal areas such as Miami, Shanghai, Bangladesh

A construction worker on a Cairn Homes construction site in Dublin, 2016. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

Griffith Avenue apartments ‘in clear breach’ of height limits

Council had told developer the scheme was in contravention of its development plan

Prof Aviva Chomsky of Salem University in Massachusetts, who was speaking in Dublin on Monday at a seminar titled “Climate Change: the Whole Picture”. Photograph: Tom Honan

US academic criticises ESB’s use of coal from Colombia open-pit mines

Cerrejón mine damage amounted to ‘the fourth conquest of remote regions of South America’

Richard Bruton said that seeking to be a leader in responding to global warming was not ‘a statement of political bravado’. Photograph: Tom Honan

Hard choices face every part of society on climate change, Bruton says

Minister will be judged by his decisions not by his words, Friends of the Earth says

Photograph: Chris O’Malley

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Gyproc repeated its apology to locals for the disruption caused by the land collapse at the local community centre and Magheracloone Mitchells GAA pitch. Photograph: Pat Byrne

Monaghan sinkhole information forum established

Minister of State Seán Canney says no need for an independent inquiry into subsidence

Parteen Weir on Lough Derg is part of the Shannon water system. Irish Water plans to build a 170 km long pipe from the Parteen basin on the river Shannon to Dublin. Photograph: The Irish Times

Irish Water insists plan for €1.3bn pipeline to Dublin on track

Review of Shannon extraction proposal due to objections – but evaluation ready in 2019

A critically ill rare turtle that is being cared for at a Co Down seal sanctuary. Photograph: Exploris Aquarium/PA Wire

Rare turtle rescued off Co Donegal coast

Young loggerhead turtle critically ill in seal sanctuary in Co Down

Horses in high spirits during a frosty morning in Kilcullen in Co Kildare. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Wet snow and sleet is set to hit Ireland tonight

Met Éireann forecasts wintry conditions as temperatures could dip below 0 degrees

ESB Networks managing director said the upgrade to modern meters was an important enabler of Ireland’s climate action plan. Photograph: Aidan Crawley

Electricity smart meters: first phase of €1.1bn changeover announced

Smart meters will help customers make better choices about their consumption

RTÉ has been criticised repeatedly for its coverage of climate change, notably on flagship programmes. Photograph: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images

RTÉ to make climate-change programming ‘a priority’

Oireachtas committee criticises broadcaster for low level of environmental coverage

The average amount of meat consumed per person per year globally has nearly doubled in the past 50 years. File photograph: H Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty

The trouble with meat: Why climate scientists are targeting beef

Taoiseach’s comments on eating less meat draw ire from farming industry but he has science on his side

A file Nasa image released in December 22017 shows an iceberg floating in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound. Photograph: AFP

Antarctica ice melting six times faster than in 1980s, study finds

Ice losses surged to a net 252 billion tonnes a year between 2009-17, according to report

The Citizens’ Assembly ‘was crystal clear that people want to see the Government take the lead on climate action’

Friends of the Earth warns Government over carbon tax

Organisation says measure will not work if people feel climate-action responsibility is being pushed onto individuals

December moth

Does this moth’s furry coat keep it warm? Readers’ nature queries

Ethna Viney on December moths, albino pheasants, cormorants and great spotted woodpeckers

Marjan Minnesma, director of environmental group Urgenda, arrives at court in The Hague in May 2018 for the group’s case against the Dutch government. ,Photograph: Jerry Lampen/AFP/Getty Images

Government still not tackling climate change? So sue them

Citizens are increasingly taking the legal route to pressurise leaders into climate action

“There’s no accountability”: Geraldine Ward, a Drumgossett resident affected by the Gyproc subsidence, outside her home. Photograph: Pat Byrne

Monaghan sinkholes: ‘The mining is a cancer in our parish’

Families displaced from their Magheracloone homes by subsidence want solutions

A Painted Lady butterfly pictured on a headland west of Castletownbere, Co Cork by Patrick Lyne

Butterflies, daffs and grass-cutting in January: has nature gone haywire?

Temperatures for the winter to date have been well above normal

Minister for the Marine Micheal Creed launches Clean Oceans Initiative and sets target for 100 per cent of Irish trawlers to recover plastic waste from the oceans on every fishing trip .Photograph: Julien Behal.

Fishermen to bring plastic from ship to shore for marine litter project

Funding for on-board storage facilities for waste caught in nets and on-shore disposal

A daffodil in bloom. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Are your flowers in bloom? Send us your pictures

We are looking for reader pictures of Ireland’s mild winter

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