Tara Shine

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Revellers take part in a laughing session at the Gai Jatra festival in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2008. Photograph: Gopal Chitrakar/Reuters
Measuring happiness matters – it’s a graph people might actually want to see

Since 2013, the United Nations has celebrated International Day of Happiness on March 20th, as a way of highlighting the importance of happiness to pe(...)

Irish environmental scientist Tara Shine delivering the 2020 Royal Institution lecture.
‘I don’t want to tell them how broken the world is’

The Royal Institution lecture has been a Christmas tradition in Britain since 1825, when it was initiated by the renowned scientist Michael Faraday at(...)

Dr Tara Shine has worked as an international climate change negotiator and was special adviser to the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice group before setting up sustainability consultancy based in Co Cork. Photograph: John Allen
Irish climate scientist appointed to senior UN role

Irish climate expert Dr Tara Shine has been appointed to a senior UN role with a brief to improve co-ordination between climate scientists and policym(...)

The actions we take to stay at home, wash our hands and social distance have a national effect and enable government policy to produce an impact. Photograph: Getty
Earth Day 2020: A global movement with the individual at its core

Two newlyweds from Ireland travelled to the east coast of Canada to start a new life 50 years ago – unaware that next door in the US Senator Gaylord N(...)

Dr Tara Shine believes in the power of the individual in remodelling societies to ensure a sustainable way of living. Photograph: John Allen
How to make your life more sustainable, ‘one object at a time’

Like climate activist Greta Thunberg, environmental scientist Dr Tara Shine is besieged by people asking what they can do to address the climate crisi(...)

Gerald Fleming has been giving talks about climate disruption since the mid-1980s. Photograph: Midas Productions
Gerald Fleming: We need to give climate action ‘a right good go’

Scientists have failed to persuade the world on the case for radical action to address a warming planet. With some despondency, weather forecaster Ger(...)

Firms such as Mazars, Deloitte, KPMG and Ernest and Young appear repeatedly in the figures for Government spending on outside consultants. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
New figures reveal scale of consultancy for Government departments

Accountancy firms, public relations companies, management consultants and think tanks are among those who benefited from millions in Government spendi(...)

Speaking in the Dáil chamber, Mr Bruton had warned ‘everyone will have to make changes’. He noted sharp differences over who should pay carbon tax. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Ireland still needs to use fossil fuels despite climate emergency pledge

Continued use of fossil fuels, notably gas, will be necessary in Ireland in spite of the declaration of a climate emergency by unanimous approval of t(...)

A cluster of pots filled with culinary herbs. Photograph: Richard Johnston
How to grow herbs and keep them happy

Is there any group of culinary plants more useful than herbs? I can think of nothing else that has that near-magical ability to transform the most mun(...)

Dr Tara Shine with Irish scientists Dr Deirdre Collins and Dr Charlotte Conn during the 2018 Homeward Bound voyage to Antartica.
Could more women leaders bring a fresh approach to world’s problems?

“You can’t be what you can’t see” is a phrase used to explain in part why women are underrepresented in the Stem disciplines (science, technology, eng(...)

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