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Climate change
Our latest news coverage, analysis and comment on the global climate crisis
Food you can freeze: Eggs, milk, rice and potatoes
Freezing and defrosting takes planning – but Lent offers a chance to develop a habit that’s good for your pocket and for the planet
Climeaction launches app to track farm emissions
Consultancy expands into software with system aimed at global food business
Ireland’s weather has been like our tax regime – a nice little arrangement. Until now
Delusion that climate change might take the edge off Ireland’s rubbish weather has finally been laid to rest
Why are flood defences taking so long to build? Don’t blame the pearl mussel
Just 10 of 54 projects prioritised for development in 2018 are under construction
Is climate change responsible for this sighting of a butterfly in winter?
Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on a migrant insect, a native dipper, and a toothy-looking animal horn
The lichen test: what these colonies tell us about the health of a habitat
Lichens can survive nearly everything - even long periods in outer space - but pollution will kill them
Catherine Connolly’s first 100 days as President: ‘She’s careful, she’s considered, she’s steady’
Expectations that she would enter into open conflict with Government Buildings have not transpired, though some observers believe she is feeling her way into the role
Trump’s US cannot be trusted to lead a critical minerals coalition
A worthy goal of creating rare earths independence from China needs a more reliable anchor
Dublin water levels still elevated as temperatures could dip to minus 4
Fresh weather alerts for heavy rain and snow after major flooding in Dublin
Flood defence funding may have to be cut to pay for children’s science centre, OPW warns
Building for national facility, which could cost up to €70m, must be provided by end of 2029 under arbitrator’s finding
Minister for Climate announces end to airport passenger cap. Is nobody joining the dots?
Plan to scrap airport passenger cap denies the reality of climate emergency
Trump repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’
Barack Obama says move will leave Americans ‘less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change’
Lifting of Dublin Airport passenger cap is a dire policy failure
Move sends out a message that economic growth must be prioritised, regardless of climate and health impacts
I’m sorry Greta Thunberg, I have become a ‘kitchen roll’ house and it feels luxurious
Growing up where paper towel use had sanctity, I often wondered if it was merely decorative
Falling short of climate targets doesn’t mean they are unattainable
The cost of climate change on our health is already apparent
New form of sea defence set to save dozens of family homes on Dublin coast
‘I was here a few years ago with a woman who was crying because her house was gone,’ says Fingal Mayor
Good vibes payoff: Chase that helper’s high with a beach clean up
The #2MinuteBeachClean is a simple idea – take just two minutes to pick up litter when at the beach
Experts call for tighter air pollution rules as tougher standards loom
Ireland’s air quality meets existing requirements but falls short of new criteria
Thirty obstacles to meeting climate targets identified by all-party committee
Most are ascribed to shortfalls in Government planning, policies, action and communications
Are Paris Agreement targets unachievable?
Ireland is not alone in failing to meet climate goals, with even big EU countries well off target
Environmental breakdown isn’t a distant possibility – it’s a threat to world stability
The message is clear: climate change should be prioritised as a security crisis, not just an environmental one
Flood defence walls not the answer?
Our urban areas should also be adapted for the new climate regime
Keep your front garden intact and other nature-based solutions to urban flood risks
Slowing the runoff from heavy downpours into struggling Victorian drainage systems in urban areas protects property and water quality
Flooding is a battle between Mother Nature and government action. I know which my money’s on
Each winter, severe weather is framed as exceptional
Bangladesh’s health system cracks under weight of climate change and industrial pollution
Dhaka, the world’s second most populous city, faces healthcare crisis that is ‘impossible’ to cope with
Should Ireland introduce a legal ‘duty of care’ for rainwater?
In the Netherlands and Germany, nature-based solutions are the first step in flood prevention. In Ireland, they’re the last
Blaming Met Éireann for floods is wrong. Who rezoned the floodplains?
It is now over 20 years since I led the project to give the first scenario-based projections of Ireland’s future climate. We warned Ireland’s winters would become significantly wetter
Third of Ireland’s wintering waterbirds vanish in just 30 years
Some species increased numbers but others have declined by more than 50%
Storm Chandra: Does climate change make small streams and more frequent flooding new risks?
As Johan Keating dragged sodden possessions from his home this week, the little river that trickled uneventfully through his life had left scars previously unimaginable
Richard Nairn: How green are greenways?
The proposed Wicklow to Greystones Greenway route runs right along the edge of the ecologically sensitive coastal area known as the Murrough Wetlands
The Irish Times view on Storm Chandra: underlining failure to prepare for the ‘new normal’
The increasing frequency and ferocity of extreme weather is clearly linked to climate change
Our economic system relies on growth – an obsessive compulsion of neoliberal capitalism
Environmental deterioration evident all around us if we choose to look; and the alarms are flashing red
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