Environmental protection will not be harmed by new rules on legal fees, Minister says
An Taisce says Government’s ‘Trumpian move’ will ‘all but end’ public interest environmental litigation here
Climate change
Our latest news coverage, analysis and comment on the global climate crisis
Underfoot and overlooked: addressing our ‘broken relationship’ with soil
Dr Tancredi Caruso is associate professor in UCD’s School of Biology and Environmental Science and UCD’s Earth Institute
Climate change: Ireland is big enough to matter
Anyone reckoning with the climate crisis must look at per capita emissions, not at the absolute size of a country
Electricity prices halved on recent windy days
Electricity prices expected to rise in the weeks ahead due to Iran conflict but the roll-out of Irish wind and solar farms has slowed
Stop demonising one-off rural housing. Not everyone wants to be surrounded by neighbours
If town and village life is so much more sensible and attractive, why do so few people choose to live over the shop?
‘Military-industrial complex’ contributing to climate change, says President
‘Deafening silence’ around issue ‘must be called out’, says Catherine Connolly
$7 gas and a doomsday plane flies overhead - yet war feels oddly distant in San Francisco
Despite surging oil prices, other issues occupy the mind of this city by the bay
Renewed talk of nuclear power is a ‘distraction tactic’
Why are a number of centrist Irish politicians suddenly aligning their views on nuclear with the US and European far right?
Why Ireland needs to stop forcing parents to buy their children laptops for school
Ella McSweeney: Educational technology is now marketed aggressively to schools, which are treating individual laptops as an unquestioned educational good
‘Punished for being a good citizen’: The EV charging battle facing some Dublin homeowners
Tens of thousands of period homes in Dublin have no driveway where they can park their car off-street and charge on private property
Ireland is trying to fund environmental protection on the cheap
Nature restoration isn’t a luxury. It’s one of the highest-return investments available to the State
Hantavirus: Countries track passengers who disembarked cruise ship where five cases confirmed
Three people died in the outbreak on the MV Hondius as WHO says risk to general public remains ‘low’
Ireland could fund renewable projects elsewhere as part of EU deal to meet climate targets
State is already on track to miss its own renewable energy goal by 2030
Dismantling of climate law will reduce scrutiny of large infrastructure projects
If a State body is seriously proposing to impact on the environment, it should have overriding public interest stitched in from the outset
We are now experiencing the terrible cost of the feedback loops of climate change
A super-hot El Niño climate phenomenon in the Pacific suggests worse climate news this year
With range anxiety and cost concerns, what will it take to get electric HGVs trucking?
The Government claims to be making them affordable, but electric HGVs make up just 1% of Ireland’s fleet
Climate under attack from those who thrive on the division of identity politics
Social media amplifies the problem, giving a megaphone to people who are angry about everything
Ryanair emissions rise again as other large Irish carbon polluters show reductions
Airline’s rapid growth outstrips emission reductions per passenger
Why are we talking about building nuclear reactors?
Reactor construction was outlawed in 1999, but changing technology, and circumstances, have reopened the debate
‘We got it in neck over price-gouging’: Iran war another woe for Border filling stations
Taxes, competition from North, higher costs and red tape are pushing sector to the brink
Is there an Irish river I can drink from without vomiting?
In the 1980s about 500 Irish rivers were classed as the very best of the best but, today, there are about 20
Inspiring the next generation of innovators should be a national priority
The National Children’s Science Centre is needed more than ever
Easing planning rules for one-off housing makes no sense
Living in towns and villages brings economies of scale and reduces car usage
Rare fish with links to doomsday lore returned to sea after washing up in Co Clare
Group of Brazilian friends found 2.5m oarfish on Fanore beach on Tuesday
Are we willing to lead by example on fossil fuels?
Government policy continues to lock people into car dependence
Ireland to co-host next fossil fuel phase-out conference in South Pacific island Tuvalu
Announcement comes as 60 countries agree landmark move to phase out oil, gas and coal
Plastics and fossil fuels are two sides of the same disastrous coin
Big oil likes to think plastics can ‘future-proof’ the industry as world moves away from fossil fuels for energy
We must radically reduce dependence on the private car
Leaders must convey the harsh reality to the population
Europe’s air temperatures becoming ‘dangerously high’, amid record heatwaves in 2025
Temperatures exceeded 30 degrees inside Arctic Circle as entire continent suffered extreme weather
Dedicated nature fund needed to save Ireland’s remaining wildlife, advisory body says
Committee makes dozens of recommendations for new national Nature Restoration Plan
Environmental groups granted leave to challenge data centre policy
High Court told new rules allowing data centres to use fossil fuel power breach climate law
Legal or illegal, Ireland’s emissions failure will damage the world
Any additional emissions will cause additional climate harm: that’s the basic physical and moral challenge of climate change
‘Leaving Ireland is a rupture. Life splits into the before and the after’
Irishman in Tasmania: ‘I don’t want to fly back seeking something that no longer exists’
Pope Leo is the religious leader non-believers needed
His opposition to Donald Trump and the war on Iran is only a part of what makes Leo a unique and important figure in our time
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