February 27th, 2018 Changes in water availability due to climate change will have a catastrophic impact on the world, a UN expert told a Climate Conference in Cork yesterday. Speaking at University College Cork’s Climate Conference 2018, Dr Debora Chapman, director of the UN Environment Water Capacity Development Centre, said Read more…
February 13th, 2018 For Sinéad Moran and Nathalie Markiefka, great food means one thing. Anything bought directly from a local eco-friendly farmer. That is why the Dublin-based duo has created Foodture – a“fair food finder” website to connect families across Ireland with their local organic farmer. “I grew up on a farm Read more…
February 1st, 2018 Higher temperatures as a result of climate change are decimating the population of male green sea turtles, according to a new report in Current Biology. The report published last month revealed that up to 99 per cent of green sea turtles born in certain Australian nesting beaches Read more…
December 20th, 2017 Electronic waste – commonly known as e-waste – is one of the world’s fastest growing waste streams. In 2016, we produced 44.7 million metric tonnes (MT) of e-waste – the equivalent of almost 4,500 Eiffel towers. This towering pile, made up of the likes of computers, printers, Read more…
November 8th, 2017 Governments across the world are now being held legally accountable for climate inaction, and all eyes will now be on what unfolds in Ireland, according to a leading international environmental lawyer. Speaking at the Litigation for the Climate talk in UCD this week, Dutch lawyer Dennis Van Read more…
November 7th, 2017 For seasoned environmental campaigner Tony Lowes, his colleagues at Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) and climate activists across Ireland 21 November 2017 will be remembered as a historic day for the climate movement. The Cork-based group’s tireless campaigning against the construction of a new runway in Read more…
