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…
5 April 2022 The third and final Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group report landed yesterday late afternoon – and we took some time last night to go through it. The report is the third of its kind – the first one back in November looked at the Read more…
31 March 2022 For this installment of our culture column, we’ve changed the format ever so slightly. Our editor Kayle Crosson and our regular contributor Chloé ten Brink discuss the 2017 film First Reformed – and their conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Quick thing before we get 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…
11 March 2022 If you ever find yourself amidst snowy mountains, keep your eyes on the white as much as you can. If you’re lucky, you might catch the silhouette of a golden eagle. With a two-metre wingspan, they’re one of the largest birds of prey. Put them wingtip-to-wingtip besides Read more…
9 March 2022 As devastating images and stories continue to emerge from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission has begun to rethink its energy policy and security. Currently, the bloc as a whole depends on Russia for 40 per cent of its gas supply, but just yesterday the Read more…
“Is the government a rock, a thing with neither brain nor heart?” These are the desperate words of a father rallying himself to go plead in the fictional African capital Bézam against a government bent on profit and extracting oil. Thula, his daughter and soon-to-be political activist and the rest Read more…
