6 July 2022 Over recent months, local opposition has been building against possible mineral prospecting in east Clare. Resistance in East Clare Opposition was largely spurred on by the publication of a prospecting licence, granted to the mining company Minco Ltd. for the Tulla area of Co. Clare, as Read more…
6 July 2022 Comic book characters are at the height of popularity right now. The characters created by DC and Marvel in particular have been making their mark in the box office with Avengers: Endgame being the highest grossing movie of all time when it was released. These stories of Read more…
31 May 2022 A story set in a dystopian, post-apocalypse world tends to be a creative way to comment on the failures and fears of humanity in a way that is far-fetched enough to keep an audience from turning into a paranoid population of doomsday preppers. The 2013 science-fiction thriller Read more…
26 May 2022 There’s been no shortage of big storms landing in Ireland over the past few years. There’s been Ophelia, Emma and Ciara – to name a few. They’ve wreaked havoc on different parts of the country – and because of climate change they are set to be more Read more…
16 May 2022 Ireland’s first large scale solar farm opened in Wicklow just two weeks ago and is projected to be able to save up to 4,800 tonnes of carbon emissions. The Millvale solar farm can generate 8 megawatts of power and is already connected our national electricity grid – Read more…
6 May 2022 There’s a Hadith in Islam where the Prophet Muhammed taught that, “even if the sun has risen on the Day of Judgement, you still have the chance to plant a tree.” Shaykh Dr Umar Al-Qadri, founder of the Islamic Centre Ireland and climate activist, referred to it Read more…
29 April 2022 At COP26 I was handed a booklet with a bright yellow cover and the title “Future Anterior – COP(oety)26.” It was a little collection of eco-poetry, collected by the University of Warwick’s Centre for Ecopoetics. On one of the many train rides between Glasgow and Edinburgh, I Read more…
5 April 2022 The third and final Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group report landed yesterday late afternoon – and we took some time last night to go through it. The report is the third of its kind – the first one back in November looked at the Read more…
31 March 2022 For this installment of our culture column, we’ve changed the format ever so slightly. Our editor Kayle Crosson and our regular contributor Chloé ten Brink discuss the 2017 film First Reformed – and their conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Quick thing before we get Read more…
22 March 2022 Over the past quiet months for the natural world, Simon Berrow’s been in the throes of what he calls “shark fever”. “I dream about basking sharks all winter. I have shark fever, which is common amongst people who work with them. You become obsessed with them,” the Read more…