Peter Sweetman, accustomed to anger in the face of his objections, has received bullets in the post three times. He says: “I like them because once I have them it means they can’t be used to shoot me.” 

The EU directive protecting the freshwater pearl mussel has left planning officials with no choice but to reject a number of applications for developments along the River Blackwater.

Christian Aid has formally lodged complaints with the OECD regarding the running of the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia, from which the ESB has sourced fuel.

The fresh water was intended to bathe diseased salmon in four licensed sites operated by the company in Kilkieran Bay to rid them of sea lice and Amoebic Gill Disease.

The key milestone under the company’s ‘Brown to Green’ strategy marks further progress for Bord na Móna in its attempts to become a leading climate solutions company.

The council wants the earliest possible hearing date for the challenges against the South Kerry Greenway

One has been brought on environmental grounds with the second centering around compulsory purchase orders for land to be used in the greenway

Claire Boylan owned lands next to the site which she claimed had been flooded as a result of the company dumping material from a road construction project.

Repak says shoppers are buying multiple items individually instead of bundling them together to avoid Vat and customs charges.

It is hard to believe that Greta Thunberg, one of the world’s best-known teenagers, has just turned 18.

Hedges have many biodiversity functions and are a wildlife habitat, but they also give a landscape its character and field pattern

New data shows that most Irish people want to live in a more environmentally sustainable way, but more than half draw the line at paying more for greener energy or products

Lobbyists say nuclear power could be key in reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

Some 81,000 tonnes of packaging waste expected to accumulate over the festive period, Repak says

The project connects sewage pipes from Cobh to Monkstown and involved two of the longest horizontal directional drills ever carried out in Ireland.

Rivers and lakes in Munster and the south-east are in particularly bad shape, the new report from the Environmental Protection Agency warned.

Focus on quality, organic trees that don’t damage the environment

It is highly debatable whether deep-sea minerals are needed to enable the renewable-energy transition and decarbonise the global economy. Instead of rushing to mine them, the world must first protect the biodiversity of the high seas and show that seabed mining can yield long-term net benefits for sustainable development

Over capacity at communal septic tank endangers protected Pearl Mussel

The Cork Environmental Forum will tonight honour a number of businesses for their passionate activism, care for the environment and deep commitment to the issue of sustainability.

The public is being urged to contribute to the development of the strategy which, Irish Water says, will ensure the country has a safe, reliable and sustainable water supply in the coming decades.

The Government has a window of just two years to put the necessary foundations in place for the country to meet its renewable energy targets, an energy group has warned.

From wrapping gifts in fabric to investing in a timer switch, here are some simple suggestions for an eco-friendly festive celebration

Dubliner Dr John Bell says Ireland is shooting into an open goal when it comes to transitioning into new, greener practices

One measurement in Dublin last weekend was 20 times higher than the daily average recommended by the WHO and EU

Ireland’s online paper, cardboard and plastic waste has risen by almost 3,000 tonnes this year 

An Bord Pleanála had granted permission for €15m facility

Repak says it costs €1m per year to collect and recycle the packaging waste of international online retailers, most of whom don’t pay a cent towards the recycling costs 

Environmental organisation Green Sod Ireland asking people to donate €25 towards preserving and nurturing land and species 

Yesterday's High Court ruling against planning permission for a badly needed €500m Irish Water wastewater treatment plant at Clonshaugh in Dublin is symptomatic of the many problems we face in trying to protect our environment.

Biodiversity, air quality, and rivers are under threat unless dramatic shifts occur in policy, warns a major new report

Plans for a €1m French-Irish electricity interconnector have finally been revealed and will not include construction on controversial War of Independence sites.

Major incentives are needed if 600,000 heat pumps  — a key component of retrofitting Irish homes — are be to installed by 2030, leading energy experts have said.

Council also highlights the health dangers of dog waste

Public subsidies for private endeavour are a commitment to one policy or another.

Air quality significantly improved in European cities such as Milan and Madrid because of lockdown restrictions imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus, European Union officials said.

The long-delayed Cork to Limerick motorway — the M20 — has been part of Munster’s mythology for almost as long as promises around draining the Shannon have resurfaced with each passing flood.

Irish Water has unveiled plans to upgrade sewerage treatment systems along the Blackwater Valley in Co Cork, once again facilitating property development which has been stalled due to safeguards introduced to protect the endangered Freshwater Pearl ...

Emissions from artificial light at night — which can negatively impact sleep, as well as skin and eye health — is seven times higher in Dublin than the rest of the country, but Ireland ranks far behind countries such as the UK, Portugal, and ...

It seems much easier to be sanctimonious about food waste and its immoral, climate-destroying consequences than it is to do anything real to curb what surely must be the very epitome of a first-world problem.

Government policy is to utilise wind as a major element of renewable energy, yet the State takes a hands-off approach to developments, leaving wind-farm developers and rural residents in a vacuum, writes Michael Clifford

Homeowners with leaking septic tanks can avail of new grants in certain areas of Co Cork where there is a likelihood they could pollute high-quality underground water sources.

So-called 'fatbergs' are becoming increasingly common in urban areas, usually in bigger cities, and can turn even the most hardened stomach.

Almost half a century ago, in 1975, a report from the American Army Corps of Engineers to Congress, warned that unless steps were taken to increase water supplies or reduce consumption, a new drought would cause shortages from the Virginia Tidewater ...

This is according to research from UCC

€10m plans by Irish Cement to burn waste materials instead of fossil fuels at its manufacturing plant in Co Limerick, are to be heard at an EPA oral hearing next month

The team hopes their research can overcome some of the challenges associated with measuring air pollution, a lead factor in the cause of over 400,000 premature deaths across the European Union each year

Almost 1,000 people have now signed a petition to save a walkway through a woodland in Crosshaven.

The relentless advance of the sea has become a truth of our time. Once-productive land is now, in so many places, below the highwater mark.  Homes and roads have been abandoned to waves or coastal erosion.

The ambiguity in some of the language of the Climate Bill means that it will be impossible to gauge whether commitments made on some targets will be met, a leading academic has warned.