May 16th, 2018 The High Court has granted leave to a Cork-based environmental group to challenge the Irish Government’s adoption of Project Ireland 2040 on grounds of climate change concerns. Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) argue that the environmental assessment in the plan is “inadequate” and might threaten “the Read more…
May 9th, 2018 A Sinn Féin MEP has called for further investigation into Irish Water’s breach of water discharge regulations after the body was found responsible for pumping untreated urban sewage into harbours in countries Cork and Clare. Liadh Ní Riada, a Cork native, said that the gravity of the Read more…
May 9th, 2018 An individual involved with a Cork-based citizens’ group has secured a judicial review into the granting of a licence for large-scale kelp harvesting in Bantry Bay. The Protect Our Native Kelp Forest group has been protesting against a controversial planning decision that would allow Tralee-based bioengineering firm Read more…
April 23rd, 2018 Hundreds of University College Cork students signed a Waste Reduction Bill to mark the national Sick of Plastic Day of Action on campus last Friday. UCC Green Campus teamed up with the campus’s Boole Library staff to organise the bill-signing event ahead of the ‘shop and drop’ Read more…
April 20th, 2018 An international team of scientists has accidentally engineered a more efficient version of naturally occurring plastic-munching bacteria. Researchers are hoping that the accidental discovery would provide a safe and quick solution to the world’s plastic pollution emergency. In 2016, Japanese researchers discovered a type of bacteria naturally Read more…
April 13th, 2018 Over 175,000 EU citizens have demanded an end to overfishing and protection of European waters as EU environment ministers gathered in Bulgaria this week. Environmental NGOs, Our Fish, Seas at Risk and WeMove.EU delivered the petition with over 175,000 signatures to Sweden’s Secretary for Environment Per Ängquist. Read more…
April 9th, 2018 A pan-European operation backed by Europol has seized 350 kg of live glass eels and disrupted an organised crime ring involved in trafficking the endangered species. Spanish and Portuguese detectives arrested ten suspected members of the gang during Operation Elvers carried out as part of Europol’s project Read more…
April 6th, 2018 Ryanair has been named as Europe’s most polluting airline in 2017 by a leading European NGO following an analysis of newly released EU data. New data published by the European Commission indicates that EU carbon emissions under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) increased for the first Read more…
March 21st, 2018 Seán Lynch is on a mission to map even the tiniest piece of litter on earth to highlight a worldwide ecological emergency: the litter crisis. To do so, the 29.year-old Cork-born entrepreneur has created a web app called Open Litter Map. “I want to educate and empower Read more…
March 21st, 2018 Simon Lockwood and his two children live in a blue-painted house in one of the greenest, most secluded parts of Poundlick, Skibbereen. Except for the occasional bark of a neighbour’s dog or the chirping of birds nothing interrupts the sound of silence that surrounds his home. Lockwood, Read more…
