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Kayle Crosson

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So long from our editor, Kayle Crosson

24 June 2022 As some of you may have seen on Twitter this week, today is my last official day as editor of The Green News. I first started as an intern here back in 2019 – just a couple of months into my journalism career. I knew I wanted Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 9 months ago
Feature

A closer look: climate & biodiversity in the 2022 Assembly election

5 May 2022  The polls are open today in Northern Ireland for Assembly elections, in case you haven’t heard.  It’s a 90-seat legislature and analysts are projecting there’s a real chance of a landmark victory for Sinn Fein if it wins the majority of seats.  We won’t know the outcome Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 11 months ago
Feature

A closer look at climate finance

28 April 2022  Just this week Ireland announced its latest climate finance figures for 2020 – and it clocked in at €5.3 million less than it gave in 2019.  Non-governmental organisations expressed their disappointment at the development, and Christian Aid Ireland noted that the revealed decrease comes just months after Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 11 monthsApril 28, 2022 ago
News

Why emissions need to come down immediately and how we can get there.

22 April 2022  The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) Working Group report plugged a line that we’ve become all-too-familiar with: in order to have a habitable planet, we need emissions to decline fast and that needs to happen now.  However, policymakers the worldover often push steep greenhouse gas Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 11 months ago
Feature

The importance of bees, explained

13 April 2022  When a lot of us think of biodiversity, we think of quiet forests or winding streams or a rainforest much further afield.  We may not think of something that’s much harder to spot but that’s just as important: bees.  And if an image of a bee hard Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 11 months ago
Feature

Have a story about nature? We’d love to hear it!

12 April 2022  Talk to me for more than ten minutes in a pub booth or cafe, and there’s a good chance I’m going to find a way to bring up foxes.  My obsession with them only grows stronger year-on-year and I may or may not have multiple browser tabs Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 12 months ago
Opinion

Opinion: The Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss starts this weekend. Here’s why that’s so important.

8 April 2022  Whether you’re working from home or an office, you’ve probably found yourself over recent weeks of spring taking a break or closing out the day with a walk. You might be in the countryside or in the heart of a city, but no matter where you are Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 12 months ago
Feature

Some key takeaways on Ireland’s energy challenges.

30 March 2022  The Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment and Climate Action has been holding hearings recently all around energy challenges we currently face.  Yesterday, the Committee heard from the Commission for the Regulations of Utilities (CRU), Friends of the Earth Ireland and Global Witness – and there were Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 12 months ago
Feature

Mothers on environmental activism: “you know you have to do it for your children’s sake”

Pictured above: Dr. Elaine McGoff and her two children following a climate protest.  26 March 2022  When Theresa O’Donohoe was pregnant with her first child, she developed epilepsy and had to spend a lot of time at home.  She watched a number of different documentaries to keep herself busy. One Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 12 months ago
Feature

A closer look: a landmark study in environmental justice in Ireland

24 March 2022  A new study of environmental justice in Ireland was published today – and there’s a lot in it. Researchers from Dublin City University (DCU) undertook the first effort of its kind to use available data to paint us a national picture of the state of environmental justice Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 12 months ago

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