September 17th, 2018 One of Ireland’s largest peat harvesting companies stands accused of the unlicensed stripping of peat from a bog at a site in Co Westmeath currently subject to court proceedings. According to Friends of the Irish Environment (FiE), Harte Peat has been excavating wet peat at an alarming Read more…
August 24th, 2018 Environmental, conservation and opposition groups have criticised Fine Gael’s environmental record following the announcement of their Green Week campaign. The campaign, introduced on Monday, saw the Tánaiste Simon Coveney TD and several of his party colleagues appear on social media to increase public awareness of climate change and suggest ways to go green. However, critics say that the Government is ignoring Read more…
August 24th, 2018 New Zealand has set a target to plant one billion trees over the next ten years in an effort to fight climate change, provide habitats for native species and enhance natural landscapes. The plan has been boosted by an additional $240 million in funding from the government – taking its cost to Read more…
August 22nd, 2018 A US study has revealed that climate change may lead to an increase in the risk of fatal car crashes and that food safety risks will increase in extreme heat as health inspections decline. The study, compiled by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examined data on police stops, food 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 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 1st, 2018 A new report suggests that the US media is reluctant to link the current global heatwave to climate change. The report from Public Citizen, a US non-profit, found that between 1 January and 8 July, just over 17 per cent of stories on extreme heat, heatwaves or record temperatures mentioned climate change. Between Read more…
July 30th, 2018 Summer 2018 has brought unprecedented heatwaves to Ireland and the UK, with Northern Ireland and Wales recording their hottest June on record. Things have been heating up at home up as the thermometer at Shannon Airport hit 32 degrees, the highest June temperature since 1976. However, this summer’s record-breaking temperatures are not exclusive to Ireland and the Read more…
July 27th, 2018 The Green Party has criticized a lack of Government action on climate change following the release of the Climate Change Advisory Council’s critical annual review. The CCAC is an independent body set up under the 2015 Climate Act to advise the government on climate change policy and assess Ireland’s Read more…
July 26th, 2018 A Sinn Féin councillor has called for greater enforcement of animal welfare laws after figures revealed that 90 per cent of horses seized in Limerick so far this year have been put to sleep. Séighin Ó Ceallaigh recently submitted an official question to the Council over the Read more…
