Human activities causing ‘planetary scale changes’ to oceans, atmosphere and land

Sci-fi stories feel irrelevant to writer Kim Stanley Robinson now as his focus shifts to climate change

Critics point to commercial links as one reason for silence on Putin’s war in Ukraine

The Curragh was the largest British military barracks in Ireland in 1922

Abu Akleh was reporting on Israeli raids and, according to witnesses, was shot with a colleague as she approached a patrol

Residential respite facility in Loughlinstown shut to families in Dublin southeast area

Villager tells how her husband and adult son were gunned down as they drove to hospital

Leader will have to grapple with crises such as hunger, drought, inflation and climate

International surrogacy committee given three-month timeline for recommendations

Moscow says resolution passed by Human Rights Council ‘political rout to demonise’ it

Climate change, drought and war create food and water shortages, Save the Children says

Damaged areas would be concentrated in an area around the mouth of the river Liffey

UN body’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said policy not sustainable

US warns Moscow preparing for ‘prolonged conflict’ with western-allied neighbour

WMO warns of dangers linked to breaching long-term target set by Paris Agreement

Newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov is a rare voice speaking out against Putin’s ‘purpose-built, repressive system’

We lack, nationally and internationally, the political urgency proportionate to threats we face

Fresh effort to evacuate Mariupol civilians has begun as EU to amend oil embargo

Protests to highlight the ‘shambles’ of the reconfigured children’s disability services

Turkish president facing potential voter backlash over his refugee policy

Almost half of the deaths that were previously not counted were in India

Ukrainian defence of facility highlights Russia’s failure to take major cities in 10-week war

Economist Gernot Wagner on a radical solution that’s no longer science fiction

The war in Ukraine is a strong argument for – not against – making systemic changes now

More than 100 arrive in Zaporizhzhia after enduring hellish ordeal at Azovstal facility

McGrath says generation of revolutionary leaders wanted to create an inclusive Ireland

Evacuation of civilians from Mariupol stalls; hundreds still trapped in Azovstal steel works

UN co-ordinates with Ukraine, Russia and Red Cross for ‘safe passage operation’

Contours of a deal are already visible, but there’s likely to be a lot more bloodshed first

Reinventing ‘neutrality’, whatever we may mean by that, does not, however, have to mean joining Nato

People conceived through surrogacy have something important to say about its ethics

Call for powerful international response to attack while Russia takes ‘colossal losses’

An Irishman’s Diary

Russia kills Radio Liberty journalist in Kyiv; British aid workers detained by Russian forces

Six million people in the impoverished country are in need of food while 81,000 are already said to be experiencing famine

António Guterres tours Borodianka where Russian forces accused of massacring civilians

Case of Debanhi Escobar (18) triggers protests over gender violence in country where 24,000 women are missing

If the world is to have any chance of avoiding the ravages of climate disruption the most effective action is weaning off fossil fuels while scaling up renewables

Our energy sector’s momentum for decarbonisation could be modelled across other big emission sectors

From renewables to the changing nature of capital and moving beyond greenwashing