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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…