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 of them focused on the […]
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 and launched it officially this […]
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 most people, and they’d be […]
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 Commission announced its intention to […]
“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 of the village know it […]
28 February 2022 The second in an installment of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is out today – and it’s all about our mounting environmental crises and how we’re adapting to them. The scientific body made a ton of material available upon its release – including the full report itself, which […]
Blue hydrogen is often touted as a low-carbon energy source, and has recently been flagged by some about as a potential fuel source in Northern Ireland. However, campaigners believe that it will result in an expansion of fracking and should not be included in the energy mix. Environmental activists, including Extinction Rebellion, Friends of the […]
15 February 2022 If you’re a climate news hawk, you probably saw the myriad of coverage last week around the announcement of the National Retrofitting Scheme. There were lots of great pieces on how the scheme itself is going to work and initial reactions – and with those bases covered, we wanted to dig a […]
28 January 2022 When Frank O’Connor and Jude Sherry moved back to Cork City from Amsterdam, they noticed some similarities between the two. In particular, there was the architecture and rich heritage of both cities. But there was one glaring difference they saw between them: the scale of dereliction. Amsterdam for the most part had […]
25 January 2022 Irish research is paying more and more attention to the social science side of the climate crisis these days. Late last year we had the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change in the Irish Mind report and now today we’ve got brand-new research out of the Economics and Social Research Institute (ESRI) to […]
