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Climate Change

Extreme Wind
Storm warning: Extreme wind is now 'priority' climate risk for Ireland
51 mins ago
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This week
1st June 2025 - 4th June 2025
Temperature Check
Ireland's excessive emissions mean climate goals 'are increasingly out of reach'
1 Jun
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Last week
25th May 2025 - 31st May 2025
Climate Change
'We lost many lives': Flooding in Nigerian town leaves at least 151 people dead
31 May
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Bloom
President says corporations 'deliberately' working against climate action
29 May
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Switzerland
A man is missing after a glacier collapsed and destroyed a Swiss village
The mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lotschental valley, partially submerged homes and other buildings.
29 May
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2030 targets
Climate target failure: Ireland faces up to 11 National Children’s Hospitals worth of fines
28 May
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UN says 70% chance average global warming will exceed 1.5C benchmark in next five years
28 May
Plus ça change
UN says 70% chance average global warming will exceed 1.5C benchmark in next five years
28 May
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May 2025
national biodiversity week
Building a nature reserve: 'Wildacres has gone from a desert for wildlife to a haven'
Gilly Taylor
22 May
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SEAI Report
Transport emissions down slightly as ‘over-reliance’ on private vehicles ‘erodes progress’
21 May
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Met Éireann
Ireland’s sunny spell not over yet, say forecasters - but here’s when rain returns
17 May
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Global Warming
Thought April was warm? You were right - it was the second-hottest April globally of modern records
8 May
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bog standards
Healy-Rae's peatland forestry plan 'about the dumbest thing we can do', says climate scientist
7 May
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Fossil Fuels
Global methane emissions from energy are around 80% higher than what governments are reporting
7 May
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Loss of Culture
Ireland at risk of losing 'irreplaceable parts of our heritage' to climate change, says heritage expert
1 May
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April
April 2025
Savings
Government called on to ensure electricity suppliers offer customers dynamic energy price plans
30 Apr
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Climate Change
Union proposes maximum working temperature and four days of ‘climate leave’
28 Apr
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InvestigatesSeagrass
Robbing a bank when no one’s looking: The most important place on Earth you've never heard of
Saya de Malha Bank is among the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks.
27 Apr
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MOTHER EARTH
Opinion: Farewell to The Climate Pope, who died during Earth Week
Dr Catherine Conlon
25 Apr
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do look up
Just Stop Oil ends direct action: Being hated somehow worked for this climate campaign group
George Ferns
24 Apr
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keep it in the ground
Ban fossil fuel ads: Stop airlines, airports, cars and cruise liners from advertising
Dr Johnny Collins & Dr Ola Løkken Nordrum
18 Apr
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Green Party
Roderic O'Gorman to stand for re-election as leader of the Green Party
17 Apr
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time to act
Rules for car advertising, more energy-efficient buildings: What's in the new Climate Action Plan
A climate activist has said the plan “ignores” some of the biggest challenges to Ireland’s progress on climate action.
Updated 15 Apr
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RELATED
Over 330 people killed by flooding and extreme heat in Europe last year amid record temperatures
15 Apr
Farmers, rural dwellers and townies are equally worried about climate change, study says
9 Apr
Climate Change
Over 330 people killed by flooding and extreme heat in Europe last year amid record temperatures
15 Apr
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Biodiversity
Have you noticed a lot of bees around lately? This might be why
12 Apr
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Climate Change
At least 69 killed in thunderstorms in India and Nepal
12 Apr
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Nature
Forest fires in Ireland: Preparation requires proper enforcement and the end of old practices
Pádraic Fogarty
11 Apr
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Shared concerns
Farmers, rural dwellers and townies are equally worried about climate change, study says
9 Apr
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Climate Change
Last month was the warmest March on record in Europe
8 Apr
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Explainer
Why the potential €26bn of 'fines' for missed climate targets aren't technically fines
6 Apr
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March
March 2025
Energy Hungry
Data centres to account for almost one-third of Ireland's electricity demand by 2034
25 Mar
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shannon lng
From loss-making to lobbying: What we know about the company behind Kerry's planned gas plant
22 Mar
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climate warriors
Fighting for Justice: How Guatemala’s Indigenous communities recover from conflict
Alejandra Castillo
22 Mar
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Climate Change
‘Matter of survival’: All of Earth’s glacier regions shrank again in 2024, says UN
21 Mar
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state of the climate
Five key graphs that show 2024's spiralling climate change in Ireland and worldwide
Record levels of greenhouse gas concentrations, temperatures, rainfall and glacier loss were experienced last year.
Updated 19 Mar
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CLIMATE CRISIS
Climate council calls on government to 'radically improve preparedness' for extreme weather events
19 Mar
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vance and musk
Pronatalism on the rise: Collapsing birth rates do not threaten civilisation — the opposite is true
Dr Catherine Conlon
17 Mar
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Energy
Does Ireland need more data centres in the near future? Yes, says Taoiseach
14 Mar
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Climate Change
The world's sea ice cover hit a record low last month
6 Mar
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lng
Why is the government using a ship for emergency gas reserves - and why is it a climate problem?
Cabinet has approved a plan to develop an emergency gas storage facility.
Environmentalists fear it could hurt Ireland's climate efforts and lead to importing fracked gas from the US.
Updated 4 Mar
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Ireland could face bill of up to €26 billion if it doesn't get its climate act together
4 Mar
Government plans to create a new gas reserve in case of an 'emergency' disruption to supply
4 Mar
The Morning Lead
Ireland could face bill of up to €26 billion if it doesn't get its climate act together
Irish Fiscal Advisory Council chair Seamus Coffey described it as a “clear case of being able to reduce a massive fiscal risk”.
Lauren Boland
Updated 4 Mar
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