August 21st, 2018 The motor giant Volkswagen (VW) has agreed to meet Greenpeace following a protest in its headquarters in the UK yesterday over air pollution concerns. Activists and medical professionals blocked the company’s office in Milton Keynes urging it to take action against air pollution caused by diesel cars. Read more…
August 21st, 2018 An environmental NGO has asked the European Commission to investigative the Irish Government’s decision to subsidise large-scale biomass burning at its peat-fired power stations. In letters to the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Miguel Arias Cañete, and Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, Friends of the Irish Environment claims that the subsidy undermines Ireland’s commitments to Read more…
August 17th, 2018 National heritage week is set to take place in Ireland between 18 – 26 August this year and the bogs of Meath and Kildare will be a highlight of the event. Funded by the Heritage Council, this week will host a series of events and will kick Read more…
August 17th, 2018 A new European survey has revealed that a long weekend visit to Dublin has the same impact on our health as smoking one cigarette due to air pollution. The Brussels-based NGO Transport and Environment ranked Europe’s most popular and most polluted cities to show people the potential Read more…
August 16th, 2018 Drugs going through wastewater treatment plants pollute the environment and could threat human health, warn scientists. A US study published last June shows that pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities are an important source of chemicals going into the environment even if they first pass through wastewater treatment plants. The Read more…
August 15th, 2018 Coastal flooding could cause over €900 billion in damages to European countries by the end of the century without further investments in coastal protection, a new study finds. The study carried out by the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) found that the annual damages caused by coastal Read more…
August 15th, 2018 The Green Party has criticised the Government of failing to connect transport and planning infrastructure following the publication of the Transport Trends 2018 Report. The report sets out developments within the transport sector using the latest available data as the number of people commuting to work grew to 1.88 million in 2016. Two-thirds of this Read more…
August 15th, 2018 A group of skilled international divers will arrive in Ireland next month to clear ghost fishing gear threatening marine life along Ireland’s coast. Arriving in September, a team of six volunteer divers from the Ghost Fishing Foundation and the Gesellschaft zur Rettung der Delphine (GRD) will be Read more…
August 14th, 2018 Over 30 conservation and environmental groups in the US have voiced concern that plans for large-scale biomass burning at Ireland’s peat-fired power stations are a serious threat to southern US forests. The findings of the groups, including the National Resources Defence Council and the Southern Environmental Law Read more…
August 13th, 2018 The plastic used in everyday items such as plastic bags emit greenhouse gases when exposed to sunlight, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of Hawaii discovered that our everyday plastic rubbish on land and in the oceans releases a variety of potent chemicals during Read more…
